May 2009 Grocery Challenge

Beki

I'm a terrible OS'er I got about 1 week into the April GC and i lost all track of where i was, how much i had spent etc, so i thought 'blow it', and didn't bother to tally up anything from then on in

May will be better!

Can you put me down for £200 may please.

This is for all food, toiletries, cleaning products, washing powder etc for -

2 adults
2 children (10 and 3)
1 ravenous labrador
7 chooks
2 pigs

(we also pay half of the bills for the pony, 2 geese and 2 goats, but the pony lives on mostly fresh air this time of year, and the goats don't eat a lot of food. the geese just get a scoop of grain twice per day so that doesn't cost to a lot either)

Essex-girl_2

Hello All

Can I please be put down for £280 this month.

grandmasam

Hi all,
lidl shop was 59p.plum toms
£1 00 marg for cake making

really pleased i'm doing this as i see that mentally i'm shopping to fill pantry and freezer as if there are still 6 adults in the house[4 males !]instead of just me
talk about a lightbulb moment

will try to update sig, good luck everyone!

SAVVYMUMMY_2

Hi all,

did a MrT shop today, came to £32.35 so will update siggy in a mo.

Using a value curry sauce which I usually water down a bit as I find it`s a bit thick and adding a block of coconut milk, much cheaper then the tinned stuff as there`s 4 blocks for 68p(I think). Going to add the lamb and veg left from sunday roast, yumm. Having this with whoopsied naan bread I brought last month and maybe some rice, so quite a cheap meal that could do us 2 meals each(for family of 4)easily.

I also received a cloche from freecycle today aswell, for my veggies, massive thing. So really chuffed with it.

Hoping everyones haven`t a great day. catch you all later.

lizzyshep

Spent £4 today that I didn't really need to - I went out last night and was very tired this morning, so got a bacon sarnie and coffee on the way to work, and because I hadn't got it together to take a packed lunch, I had to buy something from the canteen. Actually, the lunch thing worked out quite well, cos I got in to work to find someone who used to work in our department had reclaimed their microwave (fair enough but they could have warned us in advance!) so I wouldn't have been able to reheat my meal - and I got a special deal in the canteen, just under half a prawn baguette with extra filling for 50p!

I'm adding anything I eat/drink out (unless it's a pre-arranged proper meal out), including takeaways, to my total spend for the month. It really helps me see how it adds up so quickly, it's only the 5th and I've spent an eighth of the budget aleady!

angelnikki

Hi! Just had this week's MrT delivery, total came to £69.50

This included:
8 wild Alaskan salmon fillets half price £5
6 Linda McCartney sausages £1
6 Happy Eggs £1
Princes tuna in spring water 4pck half price £2.69
1kg Trattoria Verdi penne 99p
1kg Trattoria Verdi fusilli 99p

Off to update my siggy...

Nikki x

orchid-96

I was all over the place in April so have no idea the final toll on the grocery budget- I have been doing my best though to have plenty of no spend days but I would probably be shocked if I worked it out..I will call it a void month but I would love to come back for May with a budget of £250 from which I have spent £38.24 in Asda today (my new favourite shop am going there rather than MrT's at the moment as I seem to be spending less and I am impressed with them...

Off to update siggy, grab a cup of tea and scroll back to read all you lovely posts....

russetred

Still working our way down the freezer meats.I picked up the aldi super6 on sunday and got the new ones today.
All for 49p

mango
lemon and lime pack
courgettes
baby plum tomatoes
tangerines
butternut squash.

Should keep us ticking over for a bit.
I made hot and sour chinese soup for lunch with whoopsied noodles and oyster/shitake mushrooms.I buy them when they're 10p then dry them out in the boiler cupboard ,they keep for ages and reconstitute perfectly.
Dinner was pork chops,brocoli,green beans,carrots and HM potato dauphinoise.I virtuously stuck to the low cal soup though I did have 2 huuuge bowls.

Maisie_M

updated my spends today:

£6.33 in tesco on Saturday and £42.58 in Asda yesterday.

Total so far is £48.91 which is a third of my budget. Am okay with this as now have a pretty full freezer and cupboards so that should keep me going for a while. Will get some bread, milk and fruit on Friday but hoping that will be all until next week.

elizabunny

Evening all, just back from a lovely weekend away for my birthday. DH treated me to dinner out Saturday night which was fab. and it didn't come out of the GC budget:j. Back to reality now and had a little shop in Lidl tonight (sig. updated) Cupboards don't look too bad but we are very low on meat and fish at the moment. I'm going to have to be very inventive this month, but at least we now have a daily supply of homegrown lettuce, herbs, radish and rocket, Think I'll turn into a rabbit:rotfl: Hope everyone had a good bank holiday and that budgets are going well.