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Another £30 gone from our budget today, on meat & veg at the county town market and a couple of small items from our local supermarket. Meals are planned for a week, and I shouldn't need too much on Friday, just fruit, fish & cheese.Angie - GC April 24 £432.06/£480: 2024 Fashion on the Ration Challenge: 10/68: (Money's just a substitute for time & talent...)0
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Spent £18.05 since last post (Monday
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Thankfully although this seems high for just 9 days in, we have a habit of spending more near the beginning of the month and balancing it out later. We should be fine.
£86.15/£155.
£68.85 left.I am a vegan woman. My OH is a lovely omni guy
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Asda delivery arrived today with lots of goodies and a very respectable £46.60 total
Spent a couple of quid at the local tesco on crisps and a 9 pack of kitkats.
Will be a minor miracle to make under £80 last two more weeks, but its just the two of us for one week and I have another £40 in my personal account, so we might just make it. Its certainly going to be a challenge.
Current Totals: £222.36/300OSWL (start 13st) by 30Jun20 6/10
£1/day Xmas'20-62 £214/£366 saved
Grocery Challenge Jun £742/£320 spentHomeowner wannabe by July 2020 - WooHoo!!
Starter Emergency Fund £1000/£1000 saved0 -
2 out of 3 new cards arrived yesterday, very well done Nationwide and Capital 1, reported lost Saturday a.m. and a Bank Holiday.Do I need it or just want it.0
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Spent 7.85 at M&S last Monday. Almost forgot to record it as I paid cash and didn't keep the receipt. Usually I spend using my card as it shows through the bank and so I can keep track of it.
Someone on here mentioned posting every day. I think I'll have to do the same every time I spend. However, I should be OK for a few days if I manage to keep away from the shops. One thing that has helped this month is that my car has been in at the garage having a gear cable replaced so we're down to one car at the moment which makes it more awkward to get out. (unless I get desperate and use the tractor) 0 -
Hello all. On Monday I collected the package of deodorants and laundry freshener from the supermarket. While there I spent €24.90 on the following: more 2 for 1 cooked cocktail shrimp that I'll use for lunches; more 2 for 1 tubs of blueberries; Lebanese bread; an avocado, 2x carrots, an apple, more lamb's lettuce, etc; a couple lamb chops for my dinner that night.
I also had 2 NSDs on Tuesday and Wednesday.
TOTALS SO FAR:
€94.08 / €400.00
4 / 10 NSD
Just a note to say that I'm quite proud of myself for taking my lunch yesterday when I went out for work meetings and client on site meetings. I originally thought to take a 4pm snack wrap with me and to just buy lunch at a cafe where my first meeting would be (ending around 11:00am). Yesterday morning at the last minute I said, "No, I'll make a wrap for lunch as well."
Well, I'm so glad I did because the cost for the salad I was going to buy after my meeting actually costs €15.80! By taking the lunch wrap I literally saved myself approximately €14 which is the exact cost of a 10-ride metro pass in my city. Couching it that way, it really brought home the price of eating out to me once again. I used to rationalize a lot of my abstention from spending this way about 10 years ago but it's slipped a lot in the past few years. I haven't started a debt free diary yet, but I probably will later this summer. In the meantime I've started slowly reframing money for myself and how I can return to spending it meaningfully again.
* mutters * 10 whole metro rides could've gone down my throat with nothing left to show for it except for later in the toilet... :rotfl:0 -
First update for May!
- £3.89 Graze Box
- £110.07 Tesco Shop - I usually do click and collect but didn't have time to sort it last week so went into the shop! Spent more than usual but I did stick to my list in general, topped up on a lot of things that were on offer and will last a few months (like toiletries and cleaning stuff), also includes a spend £10 on a freezing spray to try and get rid of my son's verrucas! Been trying with the gel for months but he hates it and screams like crazy when I try and get near his feet! So I went for something that will hopefully only need the one treatment to get rid of it!!
- £3.16 Top Up shop for bread and ham for kids sandwiches at beginning on the week!
- £73.57 Meat Delivery, it was a bit more than this but used up the small credit in my paypal account first and then this part went on my credit card so I am only counting this part!
So total spend to date is: £190.69! Grocery Challenge 2019 YTD-£820.46/£7200(11%)
Grocery Challenge Feb - £93.10/£600(16%)
£12k in 2019 #: Monthly Saving Accounts £500, Cashback & Competition Sites £2.59, Shopping Saving £152.09,Selling £121.26, Interest & Dividends £43.93, Surveys £0, 365 Day Penny Challenge # £103.44
Total Saved - £923.31/£12000(8%)0 -
Hi, hope everyone is well. Went to the market and got 2 huge cauliflowers & a large bowl of tomatoes for £1, then went B&M (first time ever), wowsers, seriously cheap, got a ton of stuff, including tinned mixed beans @ 29p, garlic puree 39p, 3 jars of Pataks Balti sauce @ 10p each, dated 5/2019, priced in Waitrose @ £1.89 each (go figure), 12 x flapjacks @ 19p each, some stuff from bulk fund, toilet rolls and Lavazza coffee. Freebies from work - 2 cartons of plant milk, some rolled pastry and a 1kg bag of pine nut kernels, priced @ £36 - I don't have a clue what to do with them, a colleague said pesto, any suggestions greatly received - will have a Google. I still have loads left in the freezer and am eating out of stores, but space is appearing at long last. Going to try and meal plan - probably will have to be the w/e now. Anywho, came to the grand total of £7.98, so my May total is now £9.66. Have updated sig.0
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Today has been a NSD, so I'm up to 5 now. I need to meal plan what I'm taking to the office tomorrow so I don't end up spending money on lunch at the cafe downstairs. (A different cafe this time!)
TOTALS SO FAR:
5 / 10 NSD
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... and a 1kg bag of pine nut kernels, priced @ £36 - I don't have a clue what to do with them, a colleague said pesto, any suggestions greatly received - will have a Google.
Yes, pesto is one thing.
I add PNK to my jar of ready-mixed nuts and seeds that I have for breakfasts - a handful each of ready-mix nuts and seeds, frozen berries, raw (organic, jumbo) oats and a dollop of thick, full-fat greek yogurt. Mixed and eaten when I get to work this keeps me going until about two!
I also substitute PNK for some of the dried mixed fruit when I make tea-bread (also called pound cake or Kim's cake) - just 1lb of fruit and nuts, soaked in hot black tea, mixed with two mugs of flour, half a mug of sugar and 1 egg, then into a paper case in a 1lb loaf tin for an hour on 180c - great for lunch-boxes (sure it is in the recipes already, back 6-8 years). I add pumpkin seeds and broken cashews to my nut-mix.
PNK also go great in flapjacks and Twinks' Hobnobs... and in curries and chilli...Save £12k in 2024 - #2 target is £5000 only £798.34 so far
OS Grocery Challenge 2024 25.04% spent or £754.10/£3,000 annual
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
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