September 2017 Grocery Challenge

hello all
can i be put in for £160 this month please.
my freezer is groaningly full but I'm working throo cupboard supplies quite nicely. now its turning nippy in the evenings i've been starting up soup night again, nice and cheap and comforting.
I did masses of overtime last month so went a bit missing, but I totted up and came in bang on £163 which amazed me, I was expecting it to be a fair bit more.

We are day one and we have already spent £54.76. Should still be doable.

£54.76/£150.
£95.24 left

Hi, the first day of the challenge for me. Last month I spent £199.24,:eek: I know, I know way too much! This month I’m going hard core to get it down to £100. I’ve done it before so I should be able to do it again. I’ve fallen into some very bad habits, just lazy really.
1. Buying lunch at work instead of taking a packed lunch
2. Not meal planning and shopping from a list
3. Linked to 2, going into shops for a couple of bits and pieces and ending up coming out with all sorts of unplanned purchases.

I’ve done a stocktake and I have plenty of food, probably because I’ve been buying on impulse rather than using a list.

Vegetable/salad – I have an allotment which is very productive at this time of year so I have loads of fresh and frozen veg plus salad. The only thing I need to buy is mushrooms.
Fruit – There are raspberries in the freezer which I will use to make jam I get the time. There is also stewed rhubarb (is that a fruit or veg?). The apples on my tree aren’t ready yet, so I will buy some together some bananas, I do like a banana, and possibly some oranges.
Meat/Fish – I probably eat meat or fish about 3 or sometimes 4 times a week. There is probably 2 or 3 weeks’ worth of meat and fish in the freezer so I have no need to buy any yet and possibly not until October.
Tins/Jars- the cupboards are very well stocked with tins and jars. I counted 5 tins of tomatoes (I’m currently eating my fresh toms), 2 tins each of kidney beans, tuna and baked beans, 1 tin of each of cannellini beans, borlotti beans, water chestnuts, sweetcorn, sardines in tomato sauce, and tomato soup. There is a jar of curry sauce and a jar of black olives. I have 10 jars of homemade strawberry jam safely stored away. So nothing needed here
Packets- I have sugar, flour (bread, plain and self-raising) tea, rice and a small amount of pasta.
Dairy – I have no eggs or yogurt, about 100g of mature cheddar and 2 pints of milk
Bakery – I have ½ a loaf but can make more using the bread flour and other things from the cupboard. I have no sweet stuff but may bake some biscuits and possibly a cake, if I buy some eggs.

Today I spent 49p on a pint of milk for work.
0.49/100

CB

Well first week went well on spends. £6.01 in sainsbobs, £8.33 b&m and £33.27 in ald!. Did take daughter out for a pub meal after my hospital chemo session as it was only us at home and I we were too tired to cook. this comes out of a separate eating out budget.

My freezer is jammed and when daughter returns to uni shortly we will be living out of the freezer which should bring the bills even lower...hopefully

A nice round £12 spent today between B&M and Asda. Mainly just bacon and veg to tide me over the weekend before I do a proper shop, but £3.98 of it was stocking up on cheap Options hot choc in B&M. It's a lovely low-fat treat for when I'm really doing my best with Slimming World which I am at the mo.