June 2008 Grocery Challenge

ifonlyitwaseasier

morning all,

planning a nsd today, but might pop to MrS as i have some free UHT milk coupons (theres a freebie you can get from moveme.com that i saw on the freebies board, got mini cif cleaner, quilted velvet looroll, luxury!, double pack of bounty and money off coupons) so i'll stock up on it whilst i can, it will mean that i have 5 litres of UHT tho, along with the 17 or so pints in my freezer ( i think i'm obsessed )

i do also need carrots tho, have 1 left!!!!!

off to do some work and drink a lot of tea!

BigMummaF

Morning....s'posed to be dry around here today, so we'll see.

Many thanks for the advice re:bread rolls--duly noted & logged for further reference!

Yesterday was not too bad at all; £4-21 in Sumplace & £4-32 in MrT---but I forgot the nanananananananas:o & bought a hot chook cuz I was very late home......but still very reserved for me:D

Have a good'un & I'm off to plant me lettuce seeds.

nessquic80

Good morning everyone, what a lovely morning......so far, thank god the rain has stopped! Anyway the pasta went down a treat, i was a bit worried as dh doesnt really like cream stuff in pasta but he kept going on about it all nite how lovely it was so much so he had seconds about 10pm! and the crumble oooohhh the crumble,as i said in pre post never had ruhbarb b4 and i will defo make that again,never realised how easy it was to make a crumble,instead of the 200g of flour i did 100g of flour and 100g of oates, hubby said this is so lovely you should get it copy righted....dddhhhh it all ready exsits, overall a very good supper, really pleased with myself.Next plan is tp figure out what to have for tea tonight, gonna take ds school and come back with pen and paper and list everything in frezzer/fridge and cupboards, shouldnt be to hard theres loads..........update you later!!

Chuzzle

Morning everyone

Had Mr T deliver last night £130.01 :eek: but should only need f&v - well just fruit mostly as veggies will be ready on allotment I hope.

Mumzyof2 (and anyone else) i have 2 DS. DS1 (now 15) was dry during day from about 4 but not at night till he was 13ish :eek:. At age of 7 my HV advised me to take him to dr's as until that age they don't take a lot of notice round here. He was put on medication to help (can't remember the name but its an anti depressant for adults!!), started off in August on 1tsp at bedtime and by that Xmas he was up to 5 tsps at bedtime! It worked though. Unfortunatelty they stopped making it in liquid form and he had to go over to tablets at the age of 9 btu they were tiny tablets and when he was 12 he decided with the advise of the doctor to start weening himself off them. He doesn't have any major learning difficulties other than he's not the brightest button in the box (bit lazy to be honest), but the doctor told me that this is very common with boys, its something to do with a cromezone (sp??) but nothing to worry about.

Ooh sorry to have waffled there a bit off topic but felt I should share as it might help someone else.

Off to work now, bye bye. Oh should be a NSD for me today, spag bol for t me thinks. Weather is dull at the mo.

BigMummaF

Meant to say that the soda crystals were in Wilkos & priced up at 57p this week.

It would be really interesting to see if there are regional price differences for various things....perhaps we can choose three items & see how much they are in typical High Street stores:rolleyes:

Oh & the poster who needs party-ware [not got sensible head on this morning tho you'd never guess ], do you have access to something like Poundland or down here we've Right Price? M'be even a cash & carry? Just a thought.....

Naomim

Kaz2904 wrote: »

Wow- I've missed a lot just skimming. Good luck to those of you job hunting!
Naomim- when I saw you were going to Iceland for your son's birthday my first thought was about the extravagance for a childs birthday and thought it was probably a special one, then I wondered why Iceland and then it dawned on me that you meant the shop- D'oh! This night working lark is turning me insane (well can't really blame work but I can try!).

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Nope it's his 3rd birthday so just having a party tea in the garden. A bit OT but anyone know where I can get some cheap "safe" party bag bits? Don't want to spend a fortune obviously!!

Naomi x

mumzyof2

BigMummaF wrote: »

Meant to say that the soda crystals were in Wilkos & priced up at 57p this week.

It would be really interesting to see if there are regional price differences for various things....perhaps we can choose three items & see how much they are in typical High Street stores:rolleyes:

Oh & the poster who needs party-ware [not got sensible head on this morning tho you'd never guess ], do you have access to something like Poundland or down here we've Right Price? M'be even a cash & carry? Just a thought.....

Thats a fab idea..maybe each week MRSM or someone could give us 3 items to check prices of in different stores. Just an idea

Thankyou for everyone about the information on soda crystals.

Naomim

Ooh fab yes we have a poundshop. Will get down there next week.

Thanks

Naomi x

KITTY_2-2

Morning all. Daily round up of spends yesterday was £5.99 for tooth filling kit (temporary measure as can't see dentist until next week) and £4.85 on Paramol for pain from said tooth. Had a grocery no spend day though :T
Paid all my bills for month so spent enough there instead :eek: There was a time when my salary paid everything and left enough for a couple of treats but not anymore - my utilities have doubled in the last 2 years. It's no wonder so many people are doing the grocery challenge :rolleyes:

Any way see you all later, I'm off to eye clinic then w**k.
Have a good day K

mumzyof2

Ruthibe Thankyou for your post regarding the bedwetting im just suppose i will see how he gets on. He use to be dry around a year ago but then soemthing happened in my life and he started again which makes me feel a bit guilty when i think about it, as it HAS affected him. Its also 7 years old untill they do something about it here also.

Well Good Morning ladies and gents,
Should be a GC NSD today im sure i said that yesterday lol
Make shortbread yesterday got 15 small shortbread out of it. so going to make some hobnobs tonight.

Hope everyone has a nice day.

Mumzy