May 2009 Grocery Challenge

WelshWoofer

Hello all!

Just a quickie to report a £2.50 spend yesterday on milk and pasta bake sauce.

Will finalise the shopping list tonight and go to Mr Ts tomorrow or Sunday morning.

Good luck to everyone else.

MRSMCAWBER

Afternoon all

Reporting in my spends from wednesday


I spent quite a bit (well by my standards :rotfl:) but all the stuff in blue won't get used this month -or next probably

1. salad cream
2. plain flour
3. 4 bags frozen mushrooms on offer at €1.11 for 750g -the other places have gone up to €2.79 for 1kg :eek:
4. 2 extra lean minced steak
5. 2 bags frozen peas
6. 12 cottage cheese
7. 6lt iced tea
8. 4 fresh milk
9. 2 fresh yeast
10. 24x 1.5lt fizzy water
11. fresh chicken
12. 2 cumbers
13. 2 huge red peppers
14. 2 bunches spring onions
15. huge bunch raddishes
16. 2kg apples
17. 2kg oranges
18. 1kg black grapes
19. 1kg plum tomatoes on the vine
20. 1/2kg cherry toms
21. big broccoli
22. 4 kg potatoes

So I spent a total of €32.17 ... we only have 10 days left of this month so Im still well under what I allow and can only see us needing a bit more milk and possibly YET MORE salad stuff.. although Im now subsidising the lettuce with my own salad leaves :j... Im sure it looks like Im feeding a gorilla at home with the fruit n veg we get through
and hubby doesn't even eat the fruit -thats me
Im going to stick the chicken in the remoska later and do steamed potatoes in their skins and steamed broccoli, carrots, peas and sweetcorn -ooohh and a yorkshire pudding nomnomnom
The bread is proving in the other remoska at the moment so I think thats is me done for today

ohhh of topic slightly but one of my courgettes I planted out earlier this week has its first flower on :T...and one of the others is in bud too ...oooohhhh roll on courgette tea bread time
hope everyone is doing well so far...

MadamMim2013

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Im going to stick the chicken in the remoska later and do steamed potatoes in their skins and steamed broccoli, carrots, peas and sweetcorn -ooohh and a yorkshire pudding nomnomnom

ooohhh, that sounds sooo much nicer than my boring old roast chicken!!:D

OrkneyStar

Well as we start on the 15th (hubby pay day) now that is our housekeeping fund (food, diesel etc) replenished. I have cut it by £50 as I am trying to put some money back into the pot that I spent when we were away, but it should be ok. I really need to get organised and use up some of the stuff in the freezer, but have really been on a fresh fruit and veg drive recently (in fact might need to pop out later for some more carrots etc). Still not counting shopping exaclty but managing to stay within the overall budget. Tesco FV seems so expensive though so have been using Coop and Lidl more, and also local shops.
Ok, hope everyone is doing ok.
OSx

clutterydrawer

Well I am a little over budget now...but that's cos I found loads of bargains in tesco today and stocked up! got a big stash of herbal tea, tuna, chestnut puree and other stuff all for pennies

so if anyone is off to daventry tescos, check their whoopsies section, cos there's lots left

sistercas

spent £52.30 in tesco and I know I will have to stock up on fruit and bread during the week and I've got £67 to last 15 days, I am sure i can do it if I am careful

going to make a ratouille pasta melt for tea with peas and crusty bread

scotsaver

Have updated my spends for today as I paid a visit to the Butcher's - got a bit carried away, wanted Lamb for this Sunday and ended up buying a Whole Leg of Spring Lamb for £24:eek: On the positive side it's huge, it weighs almost 6lb and so it will do us on Sunday, Curry on Monday and the remainder will be sliced and frozen for other meals. I also picked up 3lb of their homemade sausages (you get a discount when you buy 3lb) and some lovely English Bacon. Will need to keep a tight watch on the remainder of the budget as I've still got 11 days to go but should only need F&V and milk now as meal planned for everything else.

Dinner tonight is Fish, HM chips and Mushy peas.;)

Have a good evening everyone.:D

EverTheOptimist

Hey all

Another £14.37 spent today, needed toiletries, cleaning bits and bunny needed some treats and sawdust.

Leaves me £55.21 until 29th May, should be do-able, have plenty of dinners but i need snacks and some munchies and milk.

carolt2

Afternoon all just logged in to update spends and catch up on thread....

Everything going well at the moment a few spends last night in Mr M including some nice bread rolls reduced to 9p.
Signature updated.

Not sure if this has been mentioned on this thread already but from Mon 18th to Sat 23rd THE SUN newspaper will be printing a voucher everyday for £5 off a £30 spend for Morrisons. The 6 daily vouchers can be used over the next 6 weeks( 1 per week)
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=21570447

There is talk that Mr T will honour these vouchers too, they did last year and my local mr T had advertising outside the store saying they accept them.

HTH

cw18

Oooooo......

We have a store opening around us - but not until mid-July. But I discovered yesterday they're running a courtesy bus down to what is currently our closest until then. I was planning on giving it a try next Friday, and if it works out I thought I might do it on a weekly basis just to get used to their pricing as much as anything.

I didn't get them last time around -- but I would have if I'd known Mr T were accepting them :mad:

I'm not sure that I could actually manage to spend £30/week though - but I might suggest to DD that we split the cost of the paper and the saving, and I pick up some of her shopping alongside mine so the combined total comes to £30