May 2011 Grocery Challenge

Hi All,
I've had a very good week too in the No Spending dept, not as good as you Seductivesmile, but still pleased. I need to carry on in this vein to bring my annual spends back in line. I don't need to buy anything else for the coming week, apart from maybe some milk. I've got lots of apples that have gone past their best, so I've been searching the net for recipes, so tomorrow I am going to make maple syrup and pecan apple crumble (the recipe needs two egg yolks) so I thought with the left over whites I would have a go at apple charlotte later in the week. I haven't any cream or custard to have with it, so i'm going to make my own for the first time. Feeling very virtuous xx

Have a good week everyone xx

Did my groceries shopping for next two weeks...now i am up to £157.16 I hope to come in under budget this month so fingers crossed. Although there are 3 weeks left til payday again Spent far too much in the pet shop setting up for our first rabbits, which we collect tomorrow.

So far had a bit of a manic spendy few days but i have managed to get a supply of whoopsied dog worming tablets to last the year (only the boxes where damaged and still in date till the end of 2012). Also managed to get whoopsied cooked meat that will has so far done brekkie/lunch/ & dinner on 2 days and i still got the same again for a grand total of £2 will have to freeze some into portions so as to not let it go to waste. Also got £2 worth of button mushrooms for £0.40 and 8 snack sized sausage rolls for £0.55 the sausage rolls are in the freezer and should supplement with veg and potatoes to make 4 meals at least. the mushrooms i will be turning into cream of mushroom soup tomorrow as i also have cream to use up and will help me out for lunches during the month.

Spriggle... outcome was charity shops but highly dependant of the quality of goods people donate. Im lucky and in an area where its not unusual to find monsoon/next/oasis etc amongst the rails and even better they are normally in my size too! so far this year ive had a monsoon fusion summer tea dress £3.99, a pair of black trousers from the dearer stuff in mackays (cant remember the label now) £4.30 and a pair of faith purple court shoes never worn going by the soles for £6.99. Plus with charity shops you are always helping a good cause. In fact if the teal coloured handbag is still on the shelf next week i may be highly tempted to give the charity another £3 of my money(it still had the protective plastic coverings over the handles even).

Declaring total spend on gc as £29.43 to date

good morning,

just sent my email to tesco customer services asking why my £5 points voutcher wasn't credited. I'm on a computer most of the time but this is the first time since the 3rd I've not been doing a thousand other things so I hope they don't make a fuss it's been a couple of days.

I'm also not happy now I sat down and looked at it about a gammon they sub'd. I was assured by the driver that it wouldn't be more expensive than the gammon I ordered, and it's not- £7, not £13, but it's also much. much smaller.

the one I ordered was on offer at 3.99 a kg and I wanted a 3.3kg one - £13.16 if dead to weight.

I was under the impression that it worked the way it worked instore and if it was a lighter one then it would still be the same per kg.

they delivered a 1.5kg one for £7.60 rather than the pro rata rate of 5.80 - this to me means it's nearly £2 more expensive.

is that just me?

if they sub an item then it's a bit silly to say it's not more expensive when it's half the size and more than half the cost - shouldn't they have sent 2 at 1.5 to make up the weight to what I wanted then charged the cost of the 3kg one?

/annoyance

it's sunday - I'm going to have a pajama day!

Spent yesterday eve in the kitchen (in between watching britains got talent) used up all the bread crusts I had frozen and made a large tray of bread pudding and made 4 lots of shortcrust pastry to freeze for use at a later date.