May 2010 Grocery Challenge

Winged_one

I spent €81 at the weekend:
Fishmongers €13.50 on Cod (enough for 2 dinners for DD), prawns, and 2 fillets of seabass for DH and I (for Saturday Datenight dinner)
Fruit and Veg shop - €28.50 on lots, including a large bag of salad potatoes for €5, but also lots of citrus to help me get over a chest infection ( drinking large glasses of OJ or grapefruit juice).
Mr D €39 - needed meat for Sunday dinner (got lamb leg steaks and sausages for BBQ), milk, soap, cheese, apple juice and a few other bits. DH said to get buttermilk - and he'll make pancakes next weekend (no point buying on Sat as not worth making for 1 morning, and we'd forget midweek - but it lasts!).

This week, we are still working our way through stores. So the €83 left for next weekend should be loads. The menuplan for the week is:

Sat: Lunch - salads
Dinner: Fish, new pots, HG leeks (DD had mushrooms)
Sun: Lunch - tuna melts
Dinner: BBQ lamb, new pots, frozen peas, slow BBQ'd in foil HG onions (divine!!)
Mon: Chorizo potato bake
Tues: Sweet'n'sour pork (meat in freezer)
Wed: Nasi goreng (using leftover rice from Tues, leftover sweetcorn from Sun, and few other bits and scraps)
Thurs: I am away so DH and DD will share a spag bol from freezer
Fri - I'll be home very late, so they'll share something else from freezer (Chicken tikka masala or rogan josh) or DD will persuade DH to get a takeaway (well, Friday's it's allowed).
Sat: Probably fish risotto for us, from freezer, and cod for DD
Sun: Family event where we'll be fed so no dinner required

Spiggle

Hi All,

Just a quick update while I await the return from work of OH ready to go to hospital for his knee op.

Winchelsea sorry to hear about your DH, my thoughts are with you.

We went to the butchers on Saturday and got some other bits in town too. I can't remember the totals individually (sig is updated) but suffice to say we have £10.29 to last until Friday. :eek: It's going to be tight but I don't think I'll have time to do much shopping this week and we are quite well stocked up anyway so fingers crossed.

We've had a manic couple of days in the garden - yesterday in particular - so that we could get any heavy jobs done before the op. So my hedges are cut, all the veg we wanted to plant in pots are done, the other stuff planted over the last month are either up or progressing really well, and my sweet peppers got put in their final pots and places yesterday.

Just for the record, we have potatoes in two black bins (surplus to requirements so decided drilling holes in the bottom was better than paying for the potato growing sacks :money:) planted three weeks apart, courgettes, sugar snap, runner beans, dwarf french beans, beetroot, carrot, onions (used our GDs old padding pool!), three sweet peppers, three different cherry toms, a blackcurrant (that we just ended up potting up into a larger pot as we couldn't agree where to plant it!) and some runner beans that we are going to grow into bush beans (the packet says the variety is ideal for that) when I can discover how we make them into bushes! EDIT: And salad leaves on the kitchen windowsill and mixed leaves (rocket, etc.) in a pot on the patio.

Another NSD yesterday and will be the same today so have added that in case I don't get back on later.

It's a stunning day again here, shame I'm about to spend many hours of it inside a hospital!

Anyway, enough waffling trying to disguise my slight nerves - it's never nice when the one you love is undergoing treatment. Both OH and I hate going under GA and it unsettles us. But I know he'll be fine really.

Have a great day all and good luck with the down hill of the final week. :A

See ya,
Spigs

dobs

Hi all was too chicken to join this month but have decided to give next month a go!

I have been doing the challenge at home, set ua budget of £200 for the month, there are 5 of us, plus dog rabbit and guinea pig food as well to include. Bit annoyed as have just done the list to hopefully last us until end of month and will be £4 over the budget! Will still need more fruit and milk before end of month but will use our nectar points we've had for yrs from sainsburys (don't shop there anymore, usually asda but have tesco points to use so going there today).
Plus i worked out the budget as £200 for 4 wks and of course there's not 28 days in the month. Hubby thinks i should up it to £250 a month because of nappies etc but i think £225 should be plenty!

Anyway just wanted to say have been reading all your posts and they have really helped me this month, usually we'd spend more like £300 - £350 so have done well for us, though some strange meals some days!

Look forward to joining you all next month! (if that's ok!)

Dobsx

PS hugs to you Winchelsea, hope your'e doing ok x

longtermlurker_2

Well I have completely lost it this month. I wasn't too well last week so had to send DS out if we needed anything. I would send him to MrT for milk, bread and eggs and he would come back with a DVD, PS3 game and a bottle of wine:mad:
He didn't keep the receipts for anything either. Will really try again next month.

greent

Ooh - new look - all light and summery

Anyway, spends are £384.43 + a receipt that DH has from the weekend. Still a week to go and it will be tight - eek! But have enough nappies/ pullups and food (inc f&V and possibly milk) excluding bread to get us there...... I do, however, have a Sainsburys voucher to use which expires at the weekend . I might buy JUST storecupboard stuff with it on Sat and take the total from next month.

Post has also come and brought a batch of vouchers from Mr T (doing work in our local store) so I have those, too.... I don't really like Mr T at the best of times, but hate it at the mo, but as they are offering £7 off a £50 shop 3x and £6 off a £30 shop once, I feel that I *should* use them over the month in June... hmm... need to think about this...

Anyway, folks, the month end is drawing in - hopefully you're doing ok and if you overspent on budget, take heart in the fact that it would probably have been even more without this challenge to keep you on the straight and narrow!!

greent x

sadsadjenjen

Hello All
I have been following everyone's progress and taking heart in that. This was my first month back to controlled shopping and I failed:( spent £420.00 insted of £300.00. o well lesson learned.

For the June Grocery challange please put me down for £350.00 (I will come back once the board is up and running). From now on the bulk of my shopping will be done online using the supermarket comparsion site I was really surprised to find my perfered MR S was cheaper.
Happy shopping all

Lindy_-_Loo

have had tesco shop delivered, £68.71. Month ends on friday - hope we do it!

guccigoo

hi i will be re joining in June can you please put me down for £220 thankyou.

dobs

well hubby came back from Tescos and instead of what i worked it out to be (about £29 for the wk) he only spent £15 for all of it!Mind u he did get non free range eggs grr. I even did him breakfast before he left so he wouldn't spend a fiver on one there lol. So still have £9 for the rest of month so won't go too much over my £200 budget hopefully now!

savingforoz

I like the new look as well!

I'm declaring £59.70 for May - a whole 30p under budget!