May 2010 Grocery Challenge

snowball2103

Evening. I've had 2 NSD out of 3 :T. Yesterday I spent £11.60 in Asda mainly on a wine box and a couple of cleaning bits. The wine was for medicinal purposes as my fridge freezer decided to pop it's clogs. I gave away some salvagable bits and pieces to a neighbour but it totally killed me to bin a whole pile of food :eek:. As of Wednesday I've got a whole new one to fill up and I'm determined it's not going to push me over budget.

Hope everyone else is doing well, I'm off to catch up.

dreamywings1

Done my 1st shop of May and spent £19.77 so 5% of budget spent. Determined this month that I WILL NOT go over budget

freakyogre

£1.00 spent today on a bottle of milk. I usually only get 2pt, but they had the bigger 3 litre ones (I wish they'd just stick to pints!) for £1 so got that instead.

I don't need anything for meals [STRIKE]next[/STRIKE] this week, but I am going to pop into Tesco at some point as they have Herbal Essences on offer (always seems to be on offer when I need it, hmm) and I want to get some fruit as only have apples at the moment, so a trip to Aldi might be needed.

longtermlurker_2

Had a NSD today. Thought I was going to have to go out for milk but found a 6 pint carton in the freezer so that will do us until wednesday:D

angela30

hi all, can you put me down for £170 thats for 2 adults and 3 children this should start to get somewhat easyer to do now as the whole family is behind this now.

so far i have got our weekly shopping list down to £37.67 ish per week.

breakfast for 5 comes to £4.67 a week
lurches for 5 £8.50 a week
main meals for 5 24.50

and we have not been cutting down on veg, fruit, meat or fruit juice in fact we have been buying more of those around 6-7 differnt veg and fruit a day, which even when we had exter money we wasnt doing. (hang my head in shame but its true lol)


so things are starting to look up.

good luck to everyone this month:j

CRANKY40

Grumpy the house elf (my son) and I planted some seeds yesterday. We have raspberries, strawberries and apples in the garden, but they just turn up, so I plant stuff with him every year to prove that food can be "achieved" and not just bought from Asda. We also have rhubarb in the garden, but Grumpy is only 5 and still thinks it's called Moobarb. He was totally put out last year when he found caterpillars on his moobarb.

The lettuce seeds are popping through already, and I've done a lot of cherry tomato plants, as last year I made green tomato chutney from a recipe in the OS index, and it's lovely.

I haven't spent anything from this month's money yet. I've liberated a loaf out of the freezer so we have fresh bread for sandwiches tomorrow. I do have a breadmaker, but the bread from it isn't to Grumpy's taste, and I can't eat the whole loaf, so I tend to only make bread when my friends are around to share it. Home made fruit bread is delicious.

ragz_2

Hia, I did declare and post new total on old thread but may have been missed, going for £400 for May. I know it's more than before but it's a long month and we're moving house which will inevitably involve more convenience food! Was about £20 over last month but only because I was unable to do a big shop because my car was out of action

scotsaver

Morning everyone - have to be quick as I need to get the BM on again - kids have eaten loads over the weekend.

looie, franby64 & huxley - thanks for the replies about allotments/growing in the Garden - I find it helps spur me on when I'm feeling like it's all too much, some of my seeds haven't yet germinated and some that hadn't I have resown and now I have them all coming through. It's all good fun.;)

CRANKY40 - thanks for mentioning about the Green Tomato chutney, I meant to give this a go last year and forgot but this year I'm going to be growing a bumper crop of tomatoes, partly because I now have an Allotment but partly due to what I mentioned above - seeds didn't germinate, I sowed some more and then they all started to come through so I now have 2 lots of 3 different varities of Tomatoes.:o

Tonight's Dinner will be a HM Mince pie, salad potatoes, carrots and green beans.;)

Have a good day everyone.:D

mrs-moneypenny

thanks mrsMAC and PINK for the new thread

did badly at weekend and blew the budget shopping - topping up on things we really didnt need and bulk buying:o didnt do a list (huge lesson learned there) and i NEED to start meal planning if im going to make this work properly.
tonight is rush tea split over 3 sittings ill bung a pizza base in the BM this afternoon and do the boys pizza for early tea, DD will taek care of her tea out of the freezer and me and DH will probally end up having toast as it will be to late to eat properly by the time we get done.
lunch will be jacket pots with cheese and beans for me DH and DD

need to bake a weetabix cake and some muffins

NJW69

Just had a delivery from Sainsburys and spent £36.51 on items that come from my grocery budget.

Will go to Farmfoods later for bread milk and banannas that will be £3.50 so I'll have spent £40.01.

Will update my total now.