March 2010 Grocery Challenge

Long_tall_sally

Scotdebs - just noticed that your target is £450pm, the same as mine (well my normal one). do you mind me asking you how many that is for in your household and whether it includes any pets or alcohol? Thanks Long tall sally

SunnyGirl

Hi all.

Just quickly updating my signature with this weeks shopping £92.06. It feels like a lot but I have stocked up on breakfast cereals and we're having a tea party with sandwiches, cakes and fizzy pop for DD on Thursday as she's finishing a horrible college work placement in a primary school where the staffr haven't really made her welcome at all. She's doing the Diploma in Childcare level 3 and will be qualified in June so it's just a little cheer up excercise :T

Scotdebs & Long Tall Sally My budgets the same as you both as well :rotfl: I must admit I've been watching our spends to see where we're all up to Before Rosieben comes along & tells me off and that it's not a competition I'll apologise profusely now :)

hex2

SunnyGirl, Long Tall Sally and Scotdebs - Mine is the same too £450 - three adults, one part time 15yo, 6yo, 5yo, two dogs, four cats and two hens. Food, household, toiletries - not alcohol.

I now have 16 chickens in the freezer . DH thinks I have gone mad. I have more enough in the freezer to deliver my meal plan and am well stocked for household and pet stuff, so in theory just bread, milk, F and V to buy. Then DH went and invited 6 more people for Sunday lunch......:eek:

scotdebs

Long_tall_sally wrote: »

Scotdebs - just noticed that your target is £450pm, the same as mine (well my normal one). do you mind me asking you how many that is for in your household and whether it includes any pets or alcohol? Thanks Long tall sally

Hey LTS this is the first time that I have done a GC so at the moment the budget includes groceries/cleaning product/ pet food and treats/ alcohol/ and baby stuff. There are 2 adults a 4yr old, 7 month old and a dog in the house.
I am also including takeaways but not meals out as the takeaways normally end up getting bought when I cant be @r*d to cook something - even though we always have loads in. Although once I have my GC spending down to a decent level I think I will allow us 2 takeaways a month from a separate entertaining budget and anything additional will come out of the GC.
HTH

alipops1986

Spent another £5.28 on Whoopsies from Sainsburys:

Chicken Goujons
Four fish cakes
Two garlic chicken Kievs
Stickey toffee puds

Quite impressed with that, at least 6 meals there as i live alone!

aliadds

NSD for me....the cupboards and freezer are fairly well stocked. :j

sistercas

spent £72 in Tesco yesterday , i always look at the whoopsies in mr T but the discounts are rubbish and not worth buying, does anyone else find this ?

think I might do smothered chicken tomorrow for tea, (chicken with bbq sauce bacon and cheese on top , its delish ) though not very mse

Moniker

mrssnowy wrote: »

Does anyone know of cheap sugar anywhere? Only got 1 bag left as I made 15 large pots of Misers Marmalade yesterday,for coffee morning next w/e.All labelled and got pretty frilly hats on,and nice green string-adds 2p to asking price.

mrss

Hi Mrs S - what's Miser's Marmelade? I make my own using MaMade Prepared Seville Oranges - and very nice it is too - but the tins are getting more expensive so any recipes which are cheaper are more than welcome. I reckon that the MaMade, sugar and fuel means my marmelade costs about 75p a jar so if you can do it for less than that I want to know about it!

Had a lovely day out on Sunday as DH took me and his mum out for lunch. Am off to my swimming lesson shortly - first time in an adult improvers class. I can only do breast stroke and it is killing my back and neck, so I figured I should try and learn to do another stroke (plus how to put my face underwater!) I am a bit nervous so wish me luck!

Had an early tea of sliced beef in gravy and mash, carrots, and broccoli. The beef was left over from a joint a fortnight ago and frozen sliced. Tasted almost as good as fresh and took only twenty minutes to prepare.

Well off to get my cozzy ready!

Moniker

Spiggle

Good luck and I hope the swimming was great Moniker.

I just popped in to update sig as another 3 NSD to add. :j

Tomorrow I have to go shopping at lunchtime to get the bits and bobs we need to top up - milk, cheese, butter, etc. - but will have a list so no aimless wandering and picking up things I don't need even if they're on offer! I have to confess to having so much clothes washing liquid I don't think I need to buy any for a few months as I've previously been so tempted by the specials various stores have offered.

Anyway, goodnight all and keep up the good work. :A

S_Wales_Saver

Hi all

just back from my trip to Dublin for the rugby . As one of my girlies says 'the game was pants, but the craic was mighty' :beer: :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Some spends before I went and left OH to do a bit at the weekend :eek: He of course bought things we didn't need til next month, but still on target at present. Hope you are all doing well, I'll catch up on the thread bit by bit.