August 2012 Grocery Challenge

Soworried wrote: »

Hi JJ, you make this offer work even better if you use JTD.
I'll try explain.
If I go now and bought 1x Nestle shreddies 500g for £2.29. This is only £1 at Asda.
If I buy 1x Kelloggs coco pops 295g for £2.09. This is only £1 at Asda.
If I then buy Weetabix chocolate spoonsize in the same sale for £2.25. These are £1.50 at Asda.
Total amount at Mrt is £6.63 so you will get a 10p voucher. But if you use the JTD offer "Just the difference" for people who don't know you can get £3.63 refunded because Asda was cheaper.
You need 8 items to get the JTD so I would buy 3x different flavour basic stock for 10p and a loose gala apple, and loose carrot.
This makes the cereal effectivley free. Do this 5 times to get the maxium discount but in 5 seperate sales.
I did this last week and got 5x 300g nescafe for free.
I hope this helps x

Oh no, I tried to do this yesterday and mucked it up! Just got back my email from tesco's and I had 8 items but 2 were the same, so it invalidated it! Email sounded very smug from tesco's! Oh well I got my petrol voucher and nice cereal for our holiday at the end of the month (a house swap!).

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=4087245

Here is a link to the thread about how to make the 50p petrol promotion work. They explain it better than I did, hopefully that will help people more. x

Had a NSD yesterday, YAY, also cooked up 4 portions of sausage and bacon casserole, each portion is enough to feed all 5 kids, WOO.

I had hm chicken casserole from the freezer and the younger 3 had spag bol from the freezer as the older 2 are at their mums this week. Ice cream and squeezy sauce with sprinkles for pudding.

Not sure what to do for dinner today, might have a root in the freezer to see what i've got. Know i have 2 packs of YS mince in there, any idea on some bulk cooking ideas i could make with that? Must be dairy free and not spicy.

Katy, X

Well 13 days until my holiday and I have £16.30 left from my July budget of £100.00 food purse.I am hoping that what I have left will buy just the basic bits until I go away and as I don't come home until 1st September I will have saved my August budget of £100.00 which I will transfer to my holiday account towards the food on holiday We have £115.00 in Tesco vouchers to take with us which will also help out with the food.I was saying to my DD about how much less we are actually spending on food now to what we used to
Every year we go away in August for a fortnight her,her OH myself and the 'tribe' of kids This year it will be just the four boys as her DD has moved out and gone to live with her BF.Usually we have around £200-250 in Tesco vouchers to take with us This year because we have pared things down to the bone we have £115.00.Just shows how much we used to buy that was really unnecessary.The cost of living rising this year has made us both far more careful about what we buy.I have always been a fairly good shopper but now even more so.She used to have an online delivery but no longer does that, and has a list stuck to the fridge that gets added to as things are needed, and rarely now will she buy on impulse.
I have my list by my kettle in the kitchen and if its not on the list then it doesn't get bought.I am pleased with the past few weeks as I have been using up stuff from the cupboards more and also stuff from the freezer that had almost been forgotten. In my house now if its edible it gets eaten.Nothing gets binned, and if its veg thats starting to be past its best, it gets used up in soup, or I will adjust my menu to make sure it gets used .Yesterday I made a quiche with onions,peppers,bacon bits and some grated cheese all from the freezer (apart from the cheese)I had some last night whilst watching the Olympics and some more will be used today for lunch and the rest tomorrow night for dinner.I am going to dig out a couple of chicken quarters this morning to cook and they will be eaten over the next few days either in a salad or maybe I can get a wrap from the freezer and use a bit up in one of those for lunch.Anything left over (apart from the bones will be made into a small curry and bulked out with any veg to hand and some lentils.Enough to make a couple of small portions for the freezer.I streeetch my food until it squeeks I think :) but as food is becoming even more expensive its a case of having to.We are very lucky living in this country with the choice of stuff we have and I love finding recipes that I can use to 'extend' food a bit.
The £7.00 a wekk challenge is a great site to keep an eye on, as it does give you ideas for things maybe forgotten and ways to help you make your food go that bit further.Well done to all who are doing their best in these straightened times It must be a nightmare with the children on holiday as children seem to be permanantly at the cupboards don't they.I do a big bake every four or so days for my four grandsons, and it does help my DD .The boys prefer home baked stuff to shop bought cake anyway
Well time to get a wriggle on well done every one and good luck for the August GC
JackieOxx

Happy birthday craigy, and sorry about your fight jasmin, what a nightmare, still, it's all a learning journey for us.

I'm still in the midst of a planned run of nsd's. Hopefully won't spend until Wednesday or even Thursday, having said that, I think perhaps the green milk won't last that long... I don't know where it all goes, but then I do have two toddlers.

At home painting today whilst kiddies are out with granny, no need to go anywhere and spend. Have lots of decorating supplies, just having a cuppa and off I go...