April 2010 Grocery Challenge

Long_tall_sally

Spent just over £9 tonight in the co op. that included a bag of carrots for 16p & a whoopsied chocolate sponge with fresh cream for 60p plus another chicken to add to the freezer for £2.18.

lizziebabe

Hi everyone - haven't been on for a while so have updated my signature.

Needed cat food so bought 2 x 5kg bags of their special diet - cost just over £60 :eek: Need it as one of the cats is diabetic - should last about 3 months so will be able to reduce next months GC spend

Also had a shop in Mr M - £30.85, spent more than I wanted but got some great whoopsies. Then went to our local market and spent £10.44 on veggies and a huge pack of chicken breasts. The meat man was practically giving it away :j
Have got loads in now so looking forward to lots of NSD and cooking. Made a WW Moussaka today - delish. Have plenty to freeze too

Tomorrow will make a chicken curry and soup.

I don't really make meal plans but plan around what I have got - make more, eat some and freeze the rest.

Keep up the good work everyone - it is great to hear all your tips :T

freakyogre

£2.55 spent in Coop this evening. I needed milk and decided that I fancy fajitas tomorrow, so got a packet of wraps, a bag of onions and a sachet of mix. I have everything else for them. The rest of the onions will also be used to make a big batch of tomato/pasta sauce either this weekend or the following one to go in the freezer.

vodkawitch1

NSD for me x

katenut

Small spend of £9.21 in Co-op yesterday, a half price leg of pork which made a lovely roast for tea and should do our lunches for the rest of the week, and milk, bread and veg. Happily still well on target

Welsh_Poppy

Morning

Updated sig with a spend of 15.00 which was good at weekend, do need to get out and buy hubby sugar and coffee today.
So budget going well and got some farmF vouchers for this month and next month woo hoo.
Must see where fruit is on offer as running low and i adore fruit.

dreamywings1

Morning,
Ive decided im really rubbish at this im over budget already and still got over half the month left!!!!! I really didnt know how much I was spending each month and im getting quite a shock £429.12 all ready!!! I just want to cry!! I got a chest freezer off a lovely lady on freecycle at the beginning of the month and i just cant stop buying things to "put in it" I suppose on the plus side I shouldnt have to buy any meat, bread or veggies next month so im hoping next month should be less traumatic!!!

wssla00

2.10 spend yesterday for some chips and 2.12 for an ice cream. Will update sig

Sunnyday

dreamywings1 wrote: »

Morning,
Ive decided im really rubbish at this im over budget already and still got over half the month left!!!!!

I could have written this myself

I`m doing really badly atm, i had all my reciepts from last week in a little pile and i have been putting off adding them all up

I`ve also tidied up and have shoved them into a huge envelope with all the other stuff that i`ve been putting off doing so now they will need to be sorted out from the zillions of others that are in there.

I could scream this month and whats worse is that i don`t feel like i`ve got anything really to account for how much i`ve spent :mad:

*Stamps off in a bad mood*

SD

spendaholic

Week 3 and I spent £41.47. :sad: Not as bad as last week, but still an overspend of £1.47. Still, I suppose it's better than the £75 - £80 per week I was regularly spending before.

Am now running at £9.17 over budget into the final week. Let's see if I can bring this one in at £30 or less.