July 2012 Grocery Challenge

My 5 year old son thinks his world has ended..we have ran out of L**ls strawberry jam ..but mummy its just the best ...what will I do ??? lol x

Wow! What a lot of newbies! Hello, and hope you're enjoying it here :wave::wave:

Happy birthday Fozzie..You're only one day older than you were yesterday Glad you've found a nice new man - hope it works out for you Pleased your DD isn't letting the waiting stop her doing nice stuff.

froogefraggle - Aaaarrrgggghhh!!!! Will grannie help to replace anything? That's awful, you must be so annoyed and upset.
Sending hugs to you if it helps :grouphug:

In_it...Well done on the soup making :T Sorry can't help with pitta bread, but someone else has posted a recipe for you to try.

PG - Well done making all the jam :T Even when it's not much difference in the cost of SM jam, it just tastes so much better when you've made it yourself.

meg73 - the picture is beautiful - thanks for that :T

Well, at last I have finished my June GC, and come in under budget :T This month I'm going to count my NSDs as well.

That’s it, count me in! Have been stalking this grocery challenge for a couple of weeks now andhave resolved to reduce my £300 monthly bill to £150. It’s just me and my two little angels (DD& DS) who live with me half the week so really like one adult and one childall week. There’s also a Monday-Friday lodgerdipping into the non-perishables and the BF who eats with us about once a week. Budget includes all toiletries but no booze.

Have already blown £94 on a big SM shop (delivered by Mr Tand cost reduced by use of Mysupermarket.com – thanks for the tips guys) buthoping this will last the whole month although reality is setting in that it's only day 1 and it's a 31 day month....
Have a dinner party on the 15th (oh what to cook?) and mybirthday on the 26th.

Moneysaver meals tried this weekend – Homemade pizza went downbeautifully and salmon pasta. Delicious - even the fussy eater kids agreed. :beer:

BTW – if you use your pre-paid oyster card on a NSD doesthis mean you’ve spent money or not? Ifnot then today was a NSD!

jumblejack wrote: »

In an ideal world, wouldn't it be nice if we could 'trade' our goodies for those of others!!! I'd love to trade for a pot of HM raspberry jam.

We have this in place with a neighbour. DH shoves things over the fence and every few weeks a carrier bag is left hanging over the fence with beer :beer:

Could have kicked myself today. Thought I would make some more hob nobs so that we could have a treat in. DH decided she wanted to help (eat). It turned out to be a stressfull baking session and then I realised just as I put them in the oven I had forgotten to put the flippin sugar in , Even with sugar sprinkled on the top they are just eurgh. anyhow DD is still troughing them as we dont tend to put sugar and thingson many things so her tastebuds arent as 'trained' as ours - at least she was happy. I was looking forward to that with a cuppa will have to wait now til shopping day on Wednesday as I dont have enough ingredients to make any more.

Also a question is anyone can help. DH eats tons of Tuna (even tho I have told him it is recommended that he should only eat a couple of tins a week), I'm talking 8+ tins. So far the cheapest I have found it for is 54p. Obviously with so many tins it works out quite a lot, even more if we were to buy bigger tins. Anyone seen them any cheaper?

Another Q, do they only reduced stuff in sm in the evening. I'm usually sorting the children out and not able to venture out into the big wide world after dark (ok exaggeration 4pm), do they ever reduce stuff during the morning/lunch etc.

p.s. re :jam making. when making jam in you are using a fruit that contains low pectin levels (i.e. wont set on it's own) add another fruit that adds it own high pectin levels, then you wont need to add any sugar. I cant wait for my plums and goosberries. I usually make Plum and apple, or goosberry and apple. Comes out scrumptiously (if thats a word lol)

Re, nsd. Everyone has different meanings.

For me my GC is all about my weekly food purchases, things for the children (formula, uniform, entertainment) come out of the child benefit money I get and keep withdraw it and keep in seperate purse. Anything else non food related or beer for dh still comes out of our current account but not included in the GC.

However for me to say I have had a NSD, means just that, I have not spent a penny no matter what budget or account it's come from