May 2010 Grocery Challenge

becky170

I had my big shop from MrS delivered tonight. £44.14 doesn't seem to go very far these days _pale_

jackieglasgow

gien wrote: »

just popped into the supermarket today for a handful of things and came out 120 F lighter .

Hi Gien are you in Switzerland?

I am on my third NSD of the month! yay for me! I am running down the stores as much as poss as my car broke down at the weekend after costing over £100 to get repaired, and OH had to hire a car for the week. We have been having some delicious interesting dinners, and will be doing lots of curries, chillies etc. over the next few days. X

MrsWoolfe

Hello all!

Well did the weekly shop today and spent £20.04...so not too far off my £20 target! lol if we can keep this up we'll have plenty let in the kitty for the birthday bash yay! for this week that's £32.46 towards birthday shenanigans woop woop! Mojitos here we come!

MrsWoolfe x

TheBees

3rd NSD and very proud of myself for staying away from MrW where I get staff discount while DD13 had her flute lesson. It's become a habit for me to run in there for "milk" and end up spending around £10 on odds and ends. So today I didn't take my purse! :T

Tonight's tea was a pasta dish with courgettes, bacon and creme fraiche. Quick, cheap and easy.
Tomorrow will be a new recipe I found in a slow cooker book. It basically involves pork chops and condensed soup with some potatoes in it so I will be switching it on at 8am and leaving on low all day. I will report back to let you know if it's a success or not.

No need to visit the shops tomorrow so should be another NSD here.

Good luck everyone

tessasmum

Please could you put us down for £400 for May? I'm afraid I completely lost track in April, so I'm going to take it gently for May, and try to take control again!!

franby64

Morning all

Spent £6.77 yesterday including milk, bread and a 70p bag of pears from T*sco which went down well...couldn't find any cheapish apples though, they were nearly £2 a bag in the C*op so I left them there!

So I'm 36% through the budget and have £9.75 a day left - so far so good!

Sunnyday

Hi everyone,

just updated my siggy with a spend yesterday in M&S for the stewing steak offer Very pleased with that.

I don`t plan to spend anything now until Saturday afternoon when the weekly shop is done. Fingers crossed

SD

tessie_bear

good morning...nsd planned but i might pop out...depends if it stops raining
tea is chilli and lunch is hummous and pitta bread ...i made blueerry muffins and cakes yesterday so they will keep us going for a few days
take care
tess

greent

Morning all!

Have successfully stayed away from the shops since Sunday DH bought a cup of tea the other day at the station when his train was cancelled and he was stuck there for over an hour, but I think I'll let him off - I'll include it though.

Need to get some bread today - have got through more than expected this week. ONly DD is at school today - I have 3 boys at home. I have a £4 off £40 spend at Mr S and also need to go there to return some clothes - but I don't need £40 of food. I might have a look on the website and look for offers for storecupboard stuff, make a list for £40 of stuff - and stick to it!!D

Miserable weather - had planned a day planting in the garden with the boys. Looks like baking with them instead

longtermlurker_2

Expensive day for me yesterday. Spent £4.50 in Costa which was really nice:D Sent DH to MrT for a bag of oven chips and he spent £14.96:eek:
I then did an online Ocado shop, wow they are expensive. I spent almost £90 but I had a voucher for £30 off so it was £59.59.

Trying for a NSD today.