May 2009 Grocery Challenge

frugalswan

Ok, as I started from May 1st, I'm going to post my first spend (yesterday) and sadly spent £2.72 on a meal deal (as I had forgotten my sandwiches for lunch ) and on jacket potatoes for tea. I'll update my signature accordingly. I keep thinking all of the things I'm putting into my mealplans and I'm finding I'm getting a bit bored with them. I must have a look through the recipe index and see if I can't find something a bit more exciting one night. Mind you, we had posh sausage and chips for tea last night, and it went down rather well! (It was sausage sandwiches with jacket potato wedges )

Slight change to my mealplan too (thankfully) We were going to try and go out for a meal tonight, but the lure of a steak sandwich in a freshly baked baguette (thankfully got both of those ingredients already in the freezer ) means that I get another no spend day, all being well. We do need milk and a loaf of bread though, so we might have to pop into Mr M's on the way back from a birthday party this afternoon.

Off to update my sig, have a good day everyone!

x Frugalswan x

MRSMCAWBER

Morning all

Back from shopping :T..it consisted of :-


LIDL:-

1. large chicken €3.44
2. sesame crispbreads 89c
3. 500g sunflower marge 69c
4. 600g pork loin steaks €1.74 x 2
5. cucumber 39c

A total of €8.89 -but I returned €11 worth of bottles -so they "paid" me €2.11 to take my shopping away :rotfl:.I had allready counted the cost of the bottles into a previous month so that put me in credit


Then In ALDI

1. 2.5kg potatoes 99c
2. 500g broccoli 49c
3. box of gyros meat for the freezer €2.49
4. plain flour 39c
5. huge red pepper 90c
6. 500g cherry tomatoes €1.49
7. feta €1.09
8. salt 19c
9. whole almonds 79c for the red squirrel who has decided to play in our garden
10. sesame crispbreads 49c
11. iceberg 69c
12. 2kg oranges €1.09
13. 2kg apples €.49

a total of €12.58 minus €3.25 of refunds on their bottles -so thats €9.33 and when I take away the €2.11 LIDL gave me it means I have spent a total of €7.22 :j I like that kind of shopping
I can't see us needing anything before next weekend unless its a bit more salad... roll on my own being ready


I have some bread dough rising ..
Lunch is jacket potatoes with cottage cheese and salad
dinner is going to be some of the pork loin steaks I have just got with steamed potatoes, carrots, broccoli, sweetcorn and peas

Probably going to get out in the garden and get some more bits sorted...
Have a great weekend everyone :Doff to update my signature

katiecoodle

Hello I'd like to join you guys if I may. I have just totted up how much I spent in supermarkets in April and am horrified that it was £566. This includes petrol, food, presents & cleaning stuff. My housekeeping is only £300 so DH is going to be horrified too.
My goal is to bring it down to £300. Today's a no spend day. So is tomorrow and so is Monday.
I've decided to keep receipts for EVERYTHING so I can't fool myself. Do you all reckon up your spending daily? Surely that would make you obsessed with it!

dink1

Hi Guys!
today is d day for sorting through the freezer! also am off out later to buy my seeds for veg for the summer, feel like a kid going to a sweety shop!!!! lol will update siggy when come back. Have a good weekend everyone. Dink1

KATYCOODLE - welcome, you will notice that we have signatures under the posts. I just update it every day or when I spend something this helps me keep a tally. hope this helps Dink1

buddiebabe

Hey

Please can i join? Can you put me down for £150 please. This is for 2 people. It's the first month im doing this so im not really sure how much we actually spend i do know its more than we can actually afford tho!

I did a shop on the 30th April and it was £54.88 and there wasn't too much to show for it. Im trying to eat healthier and am finding that im spending alot more money trying to do this but i need to lose some weight so will see how i get on.

Nothing spent so far but it is only the 2nd

Buddiebabe x

doelani

Spend £2 on swimming pool for one of the kids last night and £3.57 this morning on bread and rolls for over weeked. I have also lost .81p !!!!! , well not really lost forgot I was doing challange and put teh change in saving pot lol

Not bad I guess only spent £13.53 in 2 days :j

Intergalactic_Floozie

Wow, a new month's thread already....this is my first full month. I joined halfway through April and on 15th when I joined I had hoped I could limit myself to £160 to last until 30th April.

Well, on 21st April my husband was made redundant and it's completely shocked me, so I've used up the contents of my freezer and cupboard over the past two weeks resulting in my budget for those two weeks being £87.90!

I set May's budget for £220, which is £7.19 per day and spent £3.17 yesterday. I need to do one 'medium' sized shop per week to get the bread and school lunch stuff in, and heavy stuff like pop and milk etc...but as I live so close to a Morrisons, I'm going there daily or every other day (if I need something) and just getting what I need. As you can see from the above figures it worked for me the last couple of weeks. We've been eating alright too...no complaints from anyone

SunnyGirl

Just updating my signature with yesterdays spends in Aldi. 2 x 6 pack of kiwi fruit - 49p each, 1 celery - 49p, plum cherry tomatoes - 89p and more lettuce seeds - 35p. My first major shop will be next week as I shopped on the last day of April.

Today I've spent £7.28 on bread, milk & an extra chicken for tomorrow's lunch as my Mum will be joining us.

Hope everyone else's month is going well so far & enjoy the weekend

Miss_Liquorice

Ok, my target for this month is going to be... £31.00.

Now, before I really sound insane, I have a logic about this! In June, I am moving home till I can find graduate work, so I want to eat through the stockpiles of food I have developed over the last few years. This will mean a lot of inventive dining, and a lot of straight-to-wok noodles, as I seem to have developed an obsession with buying them.

As well as that, I have a £50 giftcard for Tescos because I bought car insurance with them, which I am planning on using for groceries, taking a drive to the big Tescos about 2 miles from work.

I will need cash for getting last minute veg/that needed pint of milk, as I don't have a Mr Ts near my flat. So £1 a day for the whole of May should be completely do-able. In theory.

procrastinator

Hi
Please put me down for 200.00 in May Mrs M. I won't be able to post often but it helps me knowing I am working to a budget. Spent 62.00 yesterday this included 1K of cashews and 1k of pistashio's. Also got a lot of YS treats for the weekend. Wish DS would eat salads, it would make my life easier, seem to always be looking for alternatives for him. He eats cooked veg OK but wont touch raw stuff.