December 2009 Grocery Challenge

elizabunny wrote: »

Thank you so much x_raphael_xx, SunnyGirl & prettypaula for your links and help. I still can't seem to get the price down below around £152 per month yet -but will keep looking.

helen jelly So sorry to be a pain but can you increase my annual total to £1610 and my December month to £200. DH has been saving £1 coins in a pot which I was unaware of and has given me the proceeds towards my Xmas shopping, an extra £50 Yippee. I am thrilled and cooked him his favourite dinner.

What a pain about the cost of the pet food but what a lovely suprise from DH

Helen

nearly got away with a NSD, but have to confess - just done a late shop needed some bread and eggs and some fruit so £5.21 at Mr T. total spend £10/£500

have pre booked my christmas food delivery for 20th from Mr S (bit of a treat as we dont usually shop at the bury!)

it totalled approx £44.91 but i wont add it in until im certain of amount when delivered

but thats everything from christmas day and no doubt leftovers lol with a few bits like milk etc thrown in.

so it looks like i may come under budget this month :T

i'm new, hence not getting this right first time,please put me down for £230.

i have been looking online at the deals this week, if i drive by

lidl i'll buy 7 snack bananas for 59p and 3 tins of rice pudding for £1.25,
or
morrisons i'll get clemintines 90p for 700g and a litre of kellys cornish icecream for £1.49.

elizabunny wrote: »

Afternoon All!

OMG:eek: One of our doggies is quite poorly and has to go on a special prescription diet. She is a GSD and this will work out at around £5.35p per day :eek: It gets worse, she may have to stay on it for 6 months:eek:

Now by my reckoning that equates to about £150+ per month which is more than our usual GC Budget:eek::eek::eek: and the insurance will only pay possibly up to 25%

It looks like DH and me will be grazing on the lawn for the next 6 months.

On a brighter note, a NSD for me so far today, if I get to midnight that will be 2 in a row..........................could do with around 180 in a row:rolleyes:

Comforting myself with HM Beef Stew and Dumplings for Dinner tonight and the leftover Banana Pud from yesterday.

Eliza bunny i`m not sure if this will help or not, it does depend on the exact situation.
There is more info here http://www.b-naturals.com/newsletter/bladder-stones-crystals/

Our GSD cross suffered from struvites when she was younger. She seemed to have a spate of bladder infections quite close together and our vet was a bit baffled by it. We had all the usual tests done etc and the vet told us we could either try the food or alter her diet or a bit of both.
In the end we changed her diet and now she is fine. The only time she has a problem is when she has really exerted herself and she passes a tiny amount or urine without noticing in her sleep but this happens once or twice a year.
This may not be suitable for your doggie but have a word with your vet.
Our hound is a huge eater so either way was going to be very expensive but we managed to cut the cost a bit.
The vet did do checks after she had been on a different diet for a while and she was fine.

She now has a more or less normal diet and is very healthy. We gradually altered her diet so that it wasn`t too much of a change for her and then over several weeks we altered it back.
She still has chicken and brown rice etc added to her food sometimes too as well as other bits and bobs.
Hope this is of some help for you.

Well i`ve done two shops, one at MrA and one at MrM so as soon as i`ve taken the extra bits and bobs off the bills that i`ve bought for other people i shall post my total spends for the week.:D
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