May 2010 Grocery Challenge

cookie9

Just back from Mr T - £7.88. Wanted wholemeal pitta bread but much more expensive than white so compromised and got the seeded ones.

Spending looks good - mostly because parents gave me chicken, lamb and eggs. (Handy when your folks live next to a farm!)

greent

Long_tall_sally wrote: »

Sorry, me again. Decided to pop to the co op after all & spent about another tenner.

Greent & Hex2 - was just reading your posts thinking I was not doing as well as you & you have the same budget as me. What date does your month end on? My ends on the 26th.

Hi

I, too, work on a calendar month (although OH is paid around the 20th) because I find it easier, so you are ahead of me also regarding the number of days. I would perhaps have spent less than this normally, but made use of money off vouchers which Mr S sent me. I still have another to use next week, so will have to watch spends after that I theoretically try to spend roughly £100/ week, with the extra £50 just disappearing And I must add in the newspaper bill, as the DD has gone through...

Todays spends are planned as a newspaper and some pull ups (I think they're still on offer) (and a quick trip to the reduced cabinet) from Mr T. I'm also off to the Garden Centre for a mooch, but spends there are not GC related

becky170

Just been to MrT and spent another £14.53. Going to do a big online MrT shop next week as they've sent me a spend £50 get £10 off code, but that may push me overbudget Will probably stock up on storecupboard stuff and washing powder which won't actually be used until next month, but the code runs out at the end of the month.

pipersky

Hi everyone

Looks like most people are on track...:j:j:j

I spent £6.35 on a few bits from Co*op today but still well on the way to being under. Have not stuck to my meal planning AT ALL so that's something else I think I might have to try to get under control, as well as NSDs

Hope eveyone is having a great weekend

Botany

Ok, so during the last 9 days I went shopping 4 times and spent a total of 107.85 (this includes 3 trips to Mrs W * and one to Mr T)

*I'm not sure why but Waitrose is a Mrs as far as I'm concerned!:p

natlie

big shop this weekend £111 eeek total for May now, £164

franby64

Spent £9.71 today so total is now £177.19.

highland fling - I was in Tesco this morning and I was going to buy their 3 for £5 pizzas. I'd noticed before that they'd repackaged them but when I picked them up I realised they were smaller - but the same price. I didn't buy them!

This really annoys me - I would rather they kept the product the same and charged a bit more for it than shrink it and charge the same - it's more honest. Shrinking it is sneaky :mad: I know there are lots of posts and threads about this sort of thing but I just needed to vent!

Hope everybody is having a good weekend. I'm off to look up HM pizza recipes!

Billie-jo

Small spend this morning as had run out of cheese and also picked up a bottle of lucozade which we keep in just in case as DH is diabetic - so expensive IMO :mad: So today’s spend was £5.99 bringing total to £75.17 Not to bad as allowing £75 per week and almost two weeks in. :T
Today we having Turkey steak, veg and roasties then either stewed apples or a baked stuffed apple and custard, tomorrow will be pork chops and leeks in cheese sauce with rice and sweet corn.

Hope everyone is doing ok.

Sunny_Donny

Hi All
Found the reduced freezer in Iceland yesterday - so freezer chocablock.
2 x Roast Lamb joints £3.50 each (half price)
1 x McCain wedges 75p
1 x pack of 6 salmon fillets £2.50
Just had one of the lamb joints for lunch - beautiful and still some left for sandwiches.
Rest of shop was from Mr S and lidl
Total for weekend £ £29.31

[Deleted User]

Hi I messed up last month and lost track of receipts so haven't got a clue what I spent...am going to try again this month and get back on track. Please can you put me down for £200.00 for May!!

Thanks