March 2011 Grocery Challenge

quintwins

afternoon everyone, just popping on quickly to add another £10.38 to my sig that was for some muffins for one of the twins this morning (we were off to the hospital so a treat was in order) and 2 packs of the £3 chicken breasts these will go into a casarole for tea, one will be cooked for sandwicks and the other 3 will go in the freezer for next month, also i got 2packets of cooking bacon because they've been out of stock for quite awhile, will put some in tomorrows pasta bake and some in the freezer and some on toast and 6 b1g2f potnoodles for quick lunchs

laineyc_2

My meat and my T**co shop arrived. I put my receipt on pricechecker so will see what happens. I am popping to Lidl later to get some chips and other bits. Will also pick up a soda bread loaf from th ebakery. Feeling too blah to bake today.

Kitchenbunny

That's hopefully the weekly shop for me done, another £19.90 to add to the grocery challenge total. Which means that, for this month, I've blown it. Whoops. But there's always next month and I'll set my goal a little higher so I can get a bit closer to achieving it. Never mind! At least it is making me think more! I'll go update my sig now.

KB xx

goodgirl80

Have rollocksed up the grocery budget challenge again! Will report in when I have added it up. Pah!

muffin_man_7

good girl 80 that makes 2 of us i can'tfind half of my receipts will have to check bottom of my bag when i get back we need milk again will update later

helen_jelly

Evening all

Popping on to update my siggy - went to MrA today, had no intention of visiting there but DH was having some work done on his car and I popped into MrA to use the loo - £35 later!! out I come, expensive loo trip

Helen x

CherryPie

Another spend!!!:eek:

I only needed milk & bread, but picked up a pack of whoopsied pancakes for brekkie. Oh, and a bottle of wine seems to have found it's way into my fridge too???:rotfl:

Had a Mr T DTD voucher for £2 so really the shop should have costs me nowt, if it weren't for that pesky bottle of wine (which is delish!!)

My GC runs til Monday (payday) I'm on hols from work for 2 weeks after Friday :j I'm gonna be super geeky & spend monday doing a shopping list so I can get the most from Mr T's DTD. Then use my voucher to bulk buy basics.

Spiggle

Well, hello everyone! :hello:

I'm still reading your excellent work on keeping the grocery costs down and you're doing fantastically well. :T Not long now to April and another challenge. :j

We've been getting things here and there and keeping the reciepts though I have been slow to update my siggy, smack my wrists! :doh: Anyway we're now on £155.38 with just over a week to go. I'm hoping that a lot of the stocking up I've done on butter and cheese particularly (I got more yesterday beforethe offers finished) will keep costs down for a little while. The NSD count is going ok at 13 days so far.

Right I'm off now, do take care and enjoy the challenge you've set yourself. And if you're over no probs another month is just around the corner!

Take care,
Spigs

quintwins

another 38p to top up my dtd voucher, i really must stop spending

Billie-jo

We have had two of the grandchildren all weekend due to illness etc so the meals have been altered a little to suit them, although tbh they do eat most things. They are back home now so meal plan back on track with chilli tonight which was lovely and there is some left to freeze tomorrow.

Went to B&M today and brought toilet rolls, kitchen rolls and 2 tins of the tomatoes at 29p that someone mentioned. Only brought 2 until I try them and if they ok will get some more as I usually pay 33p for them. (not a huge saving but.....)Then nipped into the green grocers and brought clementines, 3 ruby grapefruits, celeriac, beetroot, pears, bananas and a cauliflower at 59p where as Te$co's were £1.27 :eek:Total spent today was £14.03 Made some mushroom soup yesterday which we had for lunch both yesterday and today with some crusty rolls and cheese and also put two lots of chicken stock into freezer. Hoping to make some soup with the celeriac sometime this week - will do same recipe as for celery soup unless anyone has any other ideas to use it?

Cant believe that March is nearly over - a quarter of the year gone already
Am going to reduce Aprils budget a little but dont know by how much yet. I still have £128 of this months left so have been checking to see if missed a receipt and I really dont think I have which is amazing for us.
With money that is left I am undecided if I ought to just bank it or if it would be wise to buy some things that we use often and stock up a bit more. Any ideas on this greatly appreciated.

Good luck everyone to the end of this month then its time to start it all over again. :rotfl: