April 2009 Grocery Challenge

MRSMCAWBER

Sorry Kippers :rotfl:

I have this problem with my brain and quite often scramble numbers when I see them was great fun when I worked on a checkout :eek: :rotfl: ..will change it for you

GC81

Did my first shop of my April GC, come in at £25.85 for what didnt seem much but I'm trying to get freezer/stock sorted for 4 weeks of menus and then its just top ups needed. Well thats my plan anyway.

Hope everyone has a good weekend and we all fid our way back when the forum re-opens.

sadsadjenjen

Hi to all
I have overspent in MrT was good all week so today I fell of the wagon big style :rotfl:(£18.31)buying tableware stuff for DD & home. however cupboards are full and should apart from fruit & bread last the 2week holiday.
drat I forgot to add the milk bill to my total so even more spent. £15.31
I resolve to be good for the next 2weeks.
Be good everyone and I shall check in later but Eastenders is on:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

kdalwayskint

Well I have lost my way and its only the first week!

Blaming it on the move, and gonna have to knock a £10 of my budget as I know I have spent a couple quid here and there! and I only had £10 in my purse but nothing in it now!

After Sunday when I get my fidge & freezer in the new flat it will be ok, gonna stock the freezer on Monday!

kd

Julimk

NSD on GC today.

Taking DD down to her Dad’s tomorrow, until after Easter. He has just called to say if I take her to the bar/restaurant where he works I will probably get some (free) lunch!

I have been keeping a rolling inventory of the larder & freezers, crossing things off as used & adding things as bought. So I have a fairly good idea of what is in. But once DD has gone I will double check it & then spend an enjoyable weekend working out a meal plan of some sort (this will be for May! :rolleyes: ) in the company of my 100s of cookbooks, from the whoopsied meat & fish already in.

Next week I will be working at home on Wednesday (for a change) which is market day, so I will have a look around. Good Friday, Saturday & Easter Sunday I will be home alone so plenty of time to batch cook.

ifonlyitwaseasier

evening, quick post before we lose this for 2 days :O

have spent about £35 so far but that started off on the 25th,

have plenty of food just need to wean OH off energy drinks.

GL all

ioiwe x

MRSMCAWBER

oooohhh we are back online :j

Time for an update for me...

Spent €15.44 on:-

1. 2.5kg potatoes
2. 2kg carrots
3. 2kg onions
4. 4 cartons milk
5. tin sweetcorn
6. tin tuna
7. fresh yeast
8. box gyros meat
9. 2 cucumbers
10. 2kg apples
11. 2kk oranges
12. and 24 yoghurts

That should be all we need until at least the weekend :j


Hubby did manage to pick me some stuff up in the uk....

• 10 bags bread flour
• 3kg extra strong cheddar
• 3 blocks cheshire
• 3 blocks lancashire
• 3 blocks derby
• 3 blocks wensleydale
• 3 blocks caerphilly
• 3 blocks red leicester
• 2 large colemans mustard

That little lot came to £51.06 out here as its stuff I can only get fom the NAAFI it would have cost €158.40 :eek:-so a "saving" of £107.36 :j
oh and he picked up 6 jars of nescafe -which @ £3 is the same as we pay for cheap stuff here -nescafe is €6 ....
so a total spen there or £69.06 + €15.44 = €84.50 to add to my total but that stuff will last ages

Hope everyone has coped with the site being closed :rotfl:

fletch3163

Well, thank Goodness for that! I was at risk of doing some housework:p

I've been to Asda, M&S and Aldi and spent the grand total of £76.97 but am expecting to spend more because DS is off this week and next so the chap will eat me out of house and home methinks.

Am away now to figure out what to do with this pot of soaking chickpeas. Didn't realise how badly they smell so I think they might go in the bin:o

ifonlyitwaseasier

fletch no throwing out chickpeas!!! just cook them and then use them!!!!!!!

well managed a nsd yesterday, only went out to go to dinner and i took hm choc cake for dessert!

ioiwe x

ali_at_achnamara

Did a supermarket run and a trip to the butcher, so I've spent £93.41 of my £250 budget. Wasted £5 on a newjewellery making magazine to see if it was better than Art Jewellery, but it wasn't much good. I've yet to master that bloke thing of standing in the magazine aisle and reading rather than buying. Did "save" £4.86 on multibuys, so that sort of covered it.

Pretty much sorted for April now, except for weekly supplies of fresh fruit, veg, stuff for packed lunches and pet food.

Glad to see other people have problems with soaking pulses. My own "things I buy but never use" leans towards tofu. I've been veggie for more than twenty years and every now and again I buy a pack of tofu and leave it in the fridge for weeks, then chuck it out. Every time I've eaten it in a restaurant, it's like eating a little bag filled with eggy pus. Yuck.

Wheatgrass juice is another. Absolutely vile stuff.

Anyone else buy stuff because it's healthy or good for you and then never use it because it tastes revolting?