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April 2010 Grocery Challenge

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  • Sunny_Donny
    Sunny_Donny Posts: 300 Forumite
    edited 28 March 2010 at 4:51PM
    Hi All

    £150 for April Mrs M please.
    Have done the big shop at Mr T, Netty's, just the honey from Mr S on Friday to get then £45 left for the rest of the month for milk, bread and F & V. (but have lots of bread in the freezer and milk reduced in the supermarket.) Hopefully should therefore be under on 27th April, but I'll still keep my fingers crossed OH has 4 x boxes of 10 Guinness cans in the fridge in the garage which will keep him going for weeks (only has 2 per week on a Friday evening)!!
    Mortgage free as at 1/9/13 :j
    To start work on the credit cards now!!
  • sistercas
    sistercas Posts: 4,803 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    £400 for me please Mrs M - thankyou :D

    just kept under last month so thats an improvement :) hope to keep under again but as my tribe will be at home for 2 weeks it may cost a bit more
  • rosieben
    rosieben Posts: 5,010 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Thanks for the new thread Pink :A

    Good luck everyone!

    scuttles off to do some meal planning :p
    ... don't throw the string away. You always need string! :D

    C.R.A.P.R.O.L.L.Z Head Sharpener
  • earthmother
    earthmother Posts: 2,563 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    Cor - it's not often I get on the first page :D

    It's a five week month for me, so a budget of £350.

    The freezers are well stocked, so I don't need to buy for main meals until week three with a bit of luck, but a lot of irregular buys, like tomato sauce, honey and marmite, are running out, the fruit bowls are currently occupied by 2 lonely black bananas, and it's the school holidays, when all these things get used faster anyway.

    I've placed my first Approved Food order, so expect that sometime next week, and am just about to sit down and sort out my Asda order, and hopefully they'll take care of all that.
    DFW Nerd no. 884 - Proud to [strike]be dealing with[/strike] have dealt with my debts
  • Spiggle
    Spiggle Posts: 1,787 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    edited 30 March 2010 at 4:41PM
    Thanks Pink winged for the new thread, MrsMc for listing me and rosieben for the great list of recipes. :T

    Good luck all for April,
    Spigs
    Mortgage Free October 2013 :T
  • banwa
    banwa Posts: 952 Forumite
    Thank you for the new thread again. :T

    April is a 5 week month for me too, and we also have my stepchildren here twice this month.
    So quite a big budget of £380 for April for me please. :o

    However am secretly hoping it will be under that seeing as I have overspent in my first two GCs. Would be nice to bring overall annual spend back in line. We'll see.

    Good luck everyone
    Debt £26k 18/10/14
  • mum26
    mum26 Posts: 1,485 Forumite
    £400 For me too please (2 adults, 1 teen and 5 children - 3 packed lunches a day) and hopefully i'll actually stick to it for a change,lol!
  • guccigoo
    guccigoo Posts: 483 Forumite
    really enjoyed doing the march challenge even if i went over but am going to really try harder this month:j thankyou to pink, mrs C and rosieben for doing this thread:T
    I will lose 2 stone by this summer!!!!!!
  • JayJay14
    JayJay14 Posts: 1,918 Forumite
    Shiny new thread. Thanks to the usual suspects.

    No spend so far today but have to pop to MrS local in a few minutes as we have run out of loo roll (how did that happen!!!)

    Will try to spend as little as pos.
  • gin
    gin Posts: 260 Forumite
    Hello everyone and thanks for sorting it all. I am a lurker who has decided to go for it this month! £300 for two adults and three children, although I am cheating slightly as the first week my oldest two will be on holiday with their dad, so only myself and toddler to feed (baby doesnt count as only 8 weeks old).

    Good luck everyone!
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