April 2010 Grocery Challenge

MRSMCAWBER

Jackie Glasgow £
JackieO £120
Jay20043 £
JayJay14 £150
Jintyb £210
Jollmummy£
Julie67 £
Kadeeae £
Kalojac £
Katenut £
Keiss21 £350
Kimmee £280
Kitchen Bunny £
Kitschy £
KITTY £
KittyNortEast £
Kornish Kat £320
Laurasavon £
Lel3636 £160
Linda32 £
Linkypie2009 £
Lisa26 £
LittleKel £
LizBob £180
Lizziebabe £
Lizzyshep £
LongTallSally £450
Looie £
Loopychriss £
Losingpatience £
LouLou0327 £
MaisieM £
Maitane £
MancMillyMolly £
Meanmarie €160
millieJo £
Millyscarlett £
Missydee £
Miss Saveapenny £
MoneyFritter £
MoneySavingDiva
Moniker £
Monks £275
MookiePook £
Moremoneythansense £
MotherShipton £
MrsBsBlog £400
Mrs McLaren £
Mrs-Moneypenny £
Mrssnowy £
Mum26 £
Mummy2Jack £
Mummygems £
MummyLeads £
mumto2monkeys £
Nakashima Miharu £
Natsing £150
Newlywed £
NJW69 £200
Nmlc £
Pammyj74 £120
patent girl £
Peetzil39 £
Penny Grabber £
Peskie Pixie £
Philsmum £
Poohbear59 £
Poppy-glos £220
PositivelyPurple £
Purpleclutterbuck £
Rachbc £300
Rachelmk £
Ragz £
Remmie £
Savvyshe £120
Saving for Oz £
ScotSaver £
Shopsalot £
Sistercas £
Skaps £
Skilly £
Skint-Catt £
Slowandsteady £250
SlowlyFading £
SnowAngel £
Souk08 £
Spendaholic £
Spiggle £
Spirit £
Sunaddict £
Sunnyday £170
SunnyDonny £
Sunnygirl £
S_Wales_Saver £
Tallullahbelle £500
TessaMum £
THE4WHINGERS £
TheBees £
Tiamai_d £
Topsyturphy £
Tranquil £
Triggles £
Trinny £
Turbo5019 £
Vodkawitch1 £180
WelshPoppy £
WinChelsea £
Winged one €450
Winterfrost £
Wssla00 £150
wmf £
Zend £
weekly
elly2 £
Nicifer noonoo £
shell73 £

highland_fling_2

Good morning everyone,

Mrs.Mc could you please put Highland Fling down for £160 for May please.

Cant believe it is May already just seems like yesterday I was preparing for Christmas.

Hope you all have a frugal day.

rachbc

Doing the receipts for April tonight but can you put me Rachbc down for £300 for may please

Sunnyday

I shall be posting my April total soon but could i please be put down on the list for £170 for May please MrsM.

Thankyou

SD

tessie_bear

good morning....i think it is free cones day at ben and jerrys today so thought we might pop along...free pudding thats very in keeping with the gc...check on the website to see if yours is doing it

we have curry for tea...4p sauce...we like it i add chicken peppers and onion...also off to farm foods to use the vouchers we got through the door

have a great day
tess

Winged_one

I spent:
€9 in butcher (800g lamb pieces and liver for lunch)
€26 in fruit and veg shop (VERY large bag of it)
€8 on bread, milk and papers on Sunday

Bringing me to €405 by Sunday lunchtime. Which would have been it except OH decided he needed to bring DD to "do the shopping". I have no idea how much he spent (or indeed how much he spent on fish on Sat morning - I reckon prob about €10) so I will hopefully get that from him tonight (been a bit hectic). I've also no idea what he actually bought as I was packing a suitcase for a work trip when he got home.

So I am probably over this month, but I have lots in so May should be low, I got a lot of alcohol this month which is for later drinking, and I DID have 2 unexpected houseguests for nearly a week which meant changing plans in a hurry.

Can you put me down for €450 again for May please? I have lots in and we will be away for at least one weekend. I'll update my sig in just a minute, and get final details from OH tonight on true situation.

Keiss_21

Mrs M can you put Keiss21 down for £350 for May please...will be trying really hard to hit this target, despite DS2's AS study-leave beginning 14th, and half term at the end of the month...there is always something isn't there!!!

Hope to scrape under this month, but we will see how the rest of the week goes.

guccigoo

another spend today in mr s of £6.69 and still forgot orange squash 2 days in a row:mad:

BigMummaF

hex2 wrote: »

Cookiemum - can I suggest 'upside down sheep' for your son and the one sausage? Cook your sausage, cut it in half lengthways, and then cut those bits in half again to make four short 'legs'. Mountain of mash for the sheeps body and head, sausage legs, and then green veg for grass. My pair like muddy sheep (gravy!) and don't realise they only get one sausage.

I am over again :cool:. Not beating myself up and I do now subscribe to the 'just don't go shopping' theory....

I used to do things like this when mine were little One of my ever-lasting memories was No2 Offspring running to the front door & shouting gleefully to the other two "Hey! We've got chicken bones for dinner!" & me hurriedly assuring the neighbours we were having chicken WINGS with salad :rotfl:We had hard meat [pork], hard bread [uncut & in the days before I made my own], round meat [luncheon meat] & cowboys breakfast--nothing more than a value version of a mixed grill
I think green trees was my biggest triumph, as they happily ate raw carrot & cauli but were suspicious of broccoli..ahhh..those were the days! I used to cut a face out from the top slice in their sandwich, or use pastry cutters to jazz up a meat paste sarnie, while those little bread rolls had slits cut into the top & bits of cheese & cucumber became the spines of a hedgehog. And d'ya know? I kinda miss doing things like that; don't think I'd get away with it now they're all grown

I have to agree with the 'Stay away from the shops!' way of doing things. It's not so much I am weak of spirit, but more of a 'take that while I'm here' shopper to save the effort of putting it on my list, so hardly surprising I never spend less than £20 in a visit A case in point this month; our favourite cheese has been on offer so I've bought some every time I've gone in--£32 on cheddar in three weeks is perhaps not good, but there's some left to go into next month & the offer supposedly ends tomorrow.

My £7:50 per day has to cover not only food, but the other basics that come with standard house budgeting like shampoo & sandwich bags. I'm going to give it another go--& keep my fingers X that the offers this month are for things I DON'T use --so my target for May will be £232:50 please. [BTW..good to see you MrsMc--hope your absence has been for good reasons & you're keeping well x]

gin

Forgot to get pork out of freezer last night so have been to Asda and bought stuff for the next few days, taking me over budget. Was going to go to Aldi for Super6 broc, pots and toms, but they were a similar price in Asda so bought them there.