May 2009 Grocery Challenge

cw18

Thanks Mrs M :T Sounds like the trip back to A!di for more milk will include a shop for a couple more B'nut Squash

Will stick to boiling them with my other veg I think - it's a one-pan soup, so roasting the squash would increase my electricty bill without justification (rarely have the oven on to put them in with something else). Not really sure about leaving the skin on either, as it seems horribly tough

Coxy11

Hi there,

Just on to declare for May £489.33 - overbudget by £69.33 BUT in my defence, it's the first month that all three children have had packed lunches instead of a school meal, so now I know roughly what that's costing me per week I should be okay.

MrsM - please put me down for £420 again for June. This time I will try my very bestest to stick to it!!

Congrats to Boodle on your new arrival :j

Good luck to all for the remainder of the May GC.

Coxy

EverTheOptimist

Evening all

Congrats to boodle on your new arrival.

I'm not quite declaring yet as bunny needs some food, and i may need some milk. Think i'm sitting at £91 ish at mo from a budget of £120.

Am sticking with a budget of £120 for June, as i have used almost everything in my freezer, so definite 'big shop' due. also h2b due back at end of june (has been away for 4 months with work) so thinking some 'treats' will be in order.

Thanks for the tips everyone, and thanks to MRSMC for organising the thread. :T

ETO

Julimk

Congrats Boodle!:beer:

Had a very successful batch cooking day & now have 84 individual dinner portions cooked up & haven’t even used up my stock pile of whoopsied meat & fish. Also have made up pates, soups & quiches.

Only thing is I haven’t actually been able to squeeze all of the yummy food into the freezer & some is in the fridge for now. :oWill have to have a bit of a rearrange, though a little bit will get used up over the next few days.

Had yummy HM onion soup for lunch & Delia’s sausage boulangere from frugal food for dinner. Basically layers of potatoes & onions with browned sausages on top; a mix of milk, water & herbs poured on top & cooked slowly for about an hour in the oven. I used Lincolnshire sausages, which are herby anyway, and absolutely delish!

AlwaysHappy

An eye watering overspend in May £339.92/£200, freezer full and dog food, toilet rolls and kitchen rolls to last a siege, so will try and gradually claw back the overspend, with this in mind, can you put me down for £183.87 for June.

Frugaldom

Here's the boring part - I've spent 55.5% of my annual grocery budget but we're only 40% of the way through the year :eek: I'm never going to empty the freezer because I keep picking up stuff to go it there and then adding all the leftovers. This week's contributions included butternut squash soup, which turned out really well. I took advantage of most of the Ald! offer and now wish I'd got the lemons & limes for freezing to have with summer drinks. (Sun's shining here.)

I have loads of eggs as I now have 5 hens laying and someone never turned up to collect theirs at the weekend, so I'm going to bake some meringues. That will help use up leftover whipped cream that I stuck in the freezer plus I'll make some more lemon curd, as it seems to keep quite well in the fridge.

Welcome to Boodle jr, hope mum & baby are both well.

Oops, almost forgot to say, May spend to date is £106.92, which includes the App F00d order. Must stop looking on their site when the newsletter arrives, I have enough cooking sauces to last a very long time. I don't think I've had to buy tinned tomatoes since my bulk stock-up in January as I no longer need them with everything already prepared in cartons, packets and jars.

MRSMCAWBER

annual
Allegra £2800
Angelatgraceland £6000
Cheerfulness4 £1400 £187.74
gillst £2400
JennyBee £1440
Mags50 £3000
mama67 £1820
Mrsmcawber €1680- €381.21
Mrs Money Penny £2700 £799.18
Mummy2mygirls £3000
Mummzyof2 £1200
Nykmedia -£1200 £559.31
Penny2myName £1080
Perrywinkle £3600 - £104.28
Prudence41 £1400-£417.85
SAAVYMUMMY £5300 £1660.61
Savvystudent £1500
Sylvan £3000
Taka £1320
Toonie £2040 -£689.80
Turbo5019 £2000
X Spender £2650
Yummymummy05 -£2800
Monthly
01001011
Always Happy £183.87
Angelnikki
Anitaj73
Annie123
Aplaceinthesun
AuntiH
BabyMother
Baileys Babe £300
BarneysMom
Beki
belfastgirl23
BlimusOreilly
Boo800
Boodle
Brighter Future £350
Brummiebabe
Buddiebabe
Carolt2 £150
Changing me £260
Cheapskate
Chivers1977 £300
Clayremonkey
Cleosmum
Clutterydrawer
Coolmum66 £220
Cornishpixie £300
Coxy11 £420
Cranbornekat
Credit_Crunch £250
Crockpot
CW18
Dazzle21
Dink1
DisDisbiff
Doelani
DreamingofMoney
Earthmother
Eliza bunny
Ellemm £100
Essex-girl
Ess-Six
Eveie189 £400
Evertheoptomist £120
Fallen Angel Shelly £160
Fayjmck
Findingmyfeet
Flapjack
Fletch3163
Flying_Freesian
Focus888
Frogger2008 £240
Frogletina
Forgetting
Frugal Swan
GC81
Glamazon £100
Got it spend it £160
GrandmaSam
Guns n Banjos
Highland fling £150
Hollysan
HowlinWolf
Huxley £200
Ifonlyitwaseasier
Intergalacticfloozie
jackiegibbo
Jayne C £200
Jaycee1972
JayJay14 £175
Jedilibrarian £100
*jellie*
Jess444
Jessie18
Jinky67
Jintyb £160
JulieMK £120
Kalojac
Katiecoodle
KayJay1809
Keys
KezLou
Kim1478 £300
Kiwiblue
KjSam

MRSMCAWBER

Lainz
Little_Miss_moneysaver
LizzieShep
MaisieM
Meanmarie €290
Merzal £75
miecherox
millieJo
Millyscarlett
Miss Liquorice
Miss-Spent £250
Money Saving Diva
MoneyQueen
Moniker £300
Moonflower
MotherShipton
Mouche £100
MountainAsh
MrsGibbs1503 £275
Mrs Irwin
Mrs-MoneyPenny
MrsPoor £225
Mrssnowy
Mummygems
Natty68
Newlywed
Nickynoo08
Ninno820 £200
Nmlc £350
NualaBuala €90
Orchid96
Ocemeer £125
patent girl £300
Philsmum
PinknFluffy
Pipkin71
Pip-Squeak
Pixie1
Poohbear59 £200
PoppyJoe
princess leia
Procrastinator
Prophecy-grrl
Purpleclutterbuck
Rach
rachelmk £175
Rockie4 £180
Rocks fan Debbie £300
Russet red
Sabs10
SadsadJenJen
Sashanut
Saving for Oz £
SAV3R £375
SAVVYMUMMY £400
ScotSaver
Searching Me £200
Sharon-1970
Sharonej
Shortie
Sillyinthepast
Sistercas £500
Sun Addict
SunnyDay
Sunny Donny
Sunny girl
Sunshinegirl
SuzyBloo £350
S_Wales_Saver
TattyCath £200
Taye £150
TheBees
TheSkintFamily £130
Thriftlady
Urg123
Vixstar
Wmf £130
WigWam
zend
ZippyChick

Weekly

Flylady_Flower
Penny Pincher
WannabeSybil

princess_leia_3

Hello, been awol again got some things going on so I will bow out of next month, I can't declare for this month as I have lost track but its somewhere around target
I will be back in a few months so good luck to all x

tattycath

Hi all. Things got out of hand this month-Hangs head in shame
£280 declared
for this month.
Please put me down for £200 in june-Must try harder, I have got washpowder, loo rolls, d/w tabs and alot of food in -fingers crossed.
Got some rice from asda yesterday- 2 x 2kg bags for £3