May 2010 Grocery Challenge

franby64

Morning all

Best wishes to Winchelsea and your OH.

Spent £3.95 in the C*op yesterday on T-bags and rolls and £4.50 in T*sco on cheese and milk. Not much for £8.45 is it?

I was going to buy a chicken for today but am making a shepherd's pie with reduced lamb mince from the feezer instead. Not very Summery but I will get some salad to go with it. Just thinking that lettuce, tomatoes, spring onions and cucumber will cost nearly as much as a chicken!!. Though this sort of stuff is often reduced in the C*op in the morning so fingers crossed. And it should last a few days.

Can you tell I'm feeling skint!

Anyway I'm going to enjoy this beautiful weather. I've even started a book - I love sitting in the garden reading...much more relaxing than indoors. And it takes my mind off the fact that I have only £7.33 to last 'til next Tuesday!!

Changingme

Morning all I have £16.97 left of budget this will be spent on freezer stuff as I defrosted it yesterday have enough of everything else so am pleased this is the nearest I've got to , I'm usaual over by now will update on the 28th as last day of month for me.:D

looie

morning all, just updated my sig with a small spend of £1.41 at Mr T's yesterday. I still have £18.65 left til the end of the month so should do it.

Going to go to our allotment now as it is another sunny and warm day here

becky170

Oops done very badly this month I had another spend in Somerfields on my way home from work on friday (reduced to clear steak pie and garlic bread, as well as snacks/juice for a friend's house party) and then another spend in M&S (went in for milk and then came out with salads!). I've lost my self control this month. Hopefully that will be my last spend for the rest of the month as I now have tonnes of food in. Maybe I should do a storecupboard challange next month!

cookie9

Not too bad spent 17.58 and shouldn't need to do another shop so will have made my target. ( Have treated myself to two magazines and not included them in my food shop so ma recalcuate with them but still hope to be under budget.)

Have quite a bit in the freezer but more cold weather food eg sausage casserole, chili, curry etc. Store cupboard will need top up soon as low on tuna, sweetcorn, passata etc

Lindy_-_Loo

Hiya, braved the heat and walked to farmfoods and spent £5.00 on milk, bread and fresh juice. Got tesco shop coming tomorrow so will know the if made it for this month.

booskyeboo

Hi
I had a question a while ago about bread making and Keiss21 said about using dough improver from Lakeland, well I decided to see if I could by it from the Claybrooke Mill direct and I can its £5.95 plus p&p I think that is a bit cheaper than Lakeland. I am trying to cut the amount that I spend on food so every little helps

Long_tall_sally

Spent ANOTHER £15, this time on beer for our family party plus flowers for my sister. I will be so glad when this month finally ends & I can start afresh next month!

Winchelsea

Thank you all for your good wishes. DH was apparently unsettled overnight (wandering around the ward looking for me, quite agitated), but was given meds at 1am, which sent him to sleep. I visited for nearly 3hrs today, and he was quite calm when I saw him.

Have just got the milk bill, £11.80, a little cheaper than I expected, so that leaves me £13.11 to last 8 days = £1.63 a day. And, of course, I only have myself (and the cat) to feed for a while, so should come out OK.

NSD today, and I made myself a cheap dinner this evening (which I've just typed a screed about and promptly hit the wrong key and lost!) In brief, I had a veggie toad in the hole, tasty, and with enough left for tomorrow.

pipersky

Hiya - a week left to go and only about £8 left!!! Oh well, it's my first month and we're all learning... I might still squeak it, cos I have a £5 farmfoods voucher that I can use too

Winchelsea, sorry to hear about your OH, that must be really tough but good to hear that he seemed calmer when you went to see him