August this yr was undoubtedly an ‘simple’ month for us in that I didn’t should do an entire lot of grocery procuring! I’m glad that I’m underneath the price range for the month and we needs to be greater than alright for the month forward so far as groceries are involved.
One of many greatest causes I’m underneath price range this time is that I didn’t have to purchase any cleansing or toiletry objects – no shampoo, no washing powder, no Useful Andy, no dishwasher tablets, nothing. My stockpile of this stuff, though small, is stocked effectively sufficient as I’ve been making the most of some actually good gross sales over the previous couple of months. I in all probability solely wanted to fill up on some cleaning soap however that’s about it. And the groceries I purchased had been from Decide ‘n’ Pay, Checkers, Meat World and Apple Tree Alberton. It was, altogether, a extremely fast journey.
The largest grocery discover for the month was Pedigree canine chunks (7kg bag) for under R100.00 at Makro. This model of pet food usually retails about R250.00 per bag in order that was fairly a giant saving. I purchased 3 luggage which ought to final some time, or let me rephrase that – I finished myself at 3 luggage. This was a extremely good purchase, and in reality it’s even cheaper than what I usually pay for different varieties of pet food on ‘particular’ every month i.e. it was R14.00 per kg versus R19.00 or R21.00! This was a ‘Supervisor’s particular’ although and solely legitimate for the one weekend. I heard about it on Fb – somebody had seen the particular at one of many shops, took a photograph and was merely spreading the phrase to associates. So, ethical of that story to self is: be careful for specials on my associates’ newsfeed!
A number of the specials on the Apple Tree Alberton included 4 pineapples for R20.00 and I purchased 2 of these specials. So pineapple, with fairly a number of naartjies which we had at house already, will probably be our go-to fruits for the month forward. A 2kg bag of candy potatoes was nonetheless on particular for R9.99 so as an alternative of plain outdated potatoes as considered one of our starches for the month forward, we’re going to be having some candy potatoes whereas they’re nonetheless obtainable at that worth. Lettuce was additionally on particular in addition to carrots, beetroot, inexperienced beans, tomatoes, spinach and bell peppers. I’ve spent simply over R200.00 and we now have greater than sufficient greens and fruit for the complete month forward.
I purchased a few of our staples at Decide ‘n’ Pay. That they had, for instance, 5 Maggi noodles packets for R18.50 and Fattis & Monis pasta 3 packets of 500 gr. for R30.00. There was one other model of pasta for lower than that, I take into consideration R8.00 every, however we’ll attempt that another time. I wanted to fill up on pasta as we had been all out, so it simply made extra sense to not fill up on a product that we’d by no means tried earlier than. Sasko cake flour was nonetheless at R19.99 and so was the two litre bottle of oil for R29.00 which was on my procuring listing. I observed that the Husky tinned pet food was on particular for R19.99 which is barely greater than the specials we used to get on that model simply a few months in the past. And up till a number of weeks in the past we may get a tray of eggs for simply over R35.00 at Decide ‘n’ Pay however the identical tray now prices R47.90. That was fairly a rise, nevertheless it’s nonetheless cheaper than paying effectively over R65.00 for a tray of eggs at different shops!
I additionally selected to not fill up on lengthy life milk this month as a result of even on particular it was nonetheless costlier than the Douglasdale 2-litre bottle of milk which was on particular at Checkers for R19.99. I’m going to maintain a watch out for specials on lengthy life milk and see if it comes up for lower than R11.50 or R12.00 per litre. Sugar has additionally elevated in worth fairly a bit during the last couple of months and now it’s fairly uncommon to discover a packet of two,5 kg for lower than R35.00 however I have to bear in mind to fill up when it does come up on particular for lower than that.
And eventually, as a bonus, fairly a number of of the groceries that had been on my procuring listing for the month weren’t solely on particular in-store, however they had been listed on the Snap n Save app on the identical time, so I’ve saved ‘double’ so to talk. I’ve since loaded my until slips, and have obtained the cashback in my e-wallet already. I’m truly wanting ahead to spending my Snap n Save financial savings on the finish of the yr. I’m additionally wanting ahead to utilizing the app a bit extra because the very fundamental grocery objects which I often purchase resembling oil, milk, eggs, and so forth. appear to be getting listed an increasing number of typically.
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