May 2009 Grocery Challenge

Changingme

First shop of the month for me today spent £70.10 shouldn't need to go into a shop till next saturday.

clutterydrawer

echh. Can you put me down for £60 lets see if i can do better than last month :rolleyes:

mooomin

My parents have arrived - and they have brought food :j

I now have lamb shoulder, chops and some venison. My dad also took me to Makro and only allowed me to pay for the cat litter I bought, so I now have no more room at all in the freezer for meat

Will update later once I have been to Asda...

mrspoor

Just had my first May spend, a grand sum of £5.93. Didn't need much, just bought a bag of quorn sausages from iceland (I saw someone mention these on a previous post but can't remember who, so thanks!), some half-price quorn, salad leaves and asparagus. Shouldn't need a big shop for at least the next week, but we always seem to need something!

It's a lovely sunny day here, and I applied for 2 jobs this morning, so I'm feeling quite cheerful! Have a great weekend everyone! :j

poohbear59

Please can I join again. I have had a few daft spending months with wedding and loads of visitors but I need reining in again. I am setting my budget at £200

We have lots of random things in the freezer to be used up, including half a brie cheese.:o

cw18

katiecoodle wrote: »

Do you all reckon up your spending daily? Surely that would make you obsessed with it!

Just catching up with today's posts as I've been busy, so apologies for such a late reply

I find it easier to do daily - if I leave it more than a couple of days I find I can lose receipts or forget things I didn't get a receipt for! I don't think of it as an obsession - more a means to meeting a challenge

sillyinthepast

Please can I join this thread and as of tomorrow my shopping budget is £250 for the 5 of us.

Thank you

sistercas

just spent £94 at Costco and Co-op and still need to go to mr T's :eek:
at least the costco stuff should last the month.

Frogger2008

I would like to go in for £240 again for May. I will do better than April and stick to the budget.

Julimk

I know I said that I wanted to stay out of the shops this weekend, but I popped into Mr T on the way home from dropping DD at her Dad’s & picked up a few bits.:rolleyes:

Got some whoopsied potatoes, as I am down to my last few & these last ages anyway. Some whoopsied stewing steak & ham, which I don’t currently have in my frozen stash of YS meat & fish . Mr T has the Princes OJ on BOGOF, so works out cheaper than the Value stuff. And some of the Happy Chicken Co eggs at £1 for ½ dozen, which they didn’t have when I was in there last.

I have the remains of a roast chicken in the fridge, have already had a dinner & a light meal from it but there is a tiny bit of meat left (and the carcass of course!). Also have half a butternut squash, a few tomatoes & probably some other veg bits knocking around the bottom of the fridge, so will make some chicken & veg soup tomorrow.

Huxley – I got a whole sea bass in Mr S earlier in the week, though I paid £2.50 for mine. And I found this: HTH.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=437665