March 2011 Grocery Challenge

Candy_Belle

Morning!

Yey! Friday at last!

DH nipped to sainsbugs last night and spent £4.09 on Rocket, Mushrooms, Lemonade & Ginger Beer.

Off to update signature. Have a good day everyone! x

tigerfeet2006

I thought this was going to be a NSD today but we are going to have to get a takeaway tonight so I will add it on when we get it tonight. Bit pee's off but never mind just means the new mealplan will start on Tues instead of Mon.

MRSMCAWBER

Annual 2011

2joanne £4680 £377.75
Angelatgraceland £5000
Baileysbabe £5200
Billie-Jo £3000
Carolt2 £1500
Cat04 £3650
Chloris £4200 £1169.92
elf06 £1400
EllieA £3000
GeorgiGirl2012 £2500/£150
Huxley £3000
JackieGlasgow £3000
Jintyb £2300
Jmf76 £4000
Julie Georgiana £2560 £526.75
Katenut £1500
Kezlou £2000
Laurent1369 £2400
Lifeintermoil £4680
Lola76 £2500
Moniker £4200
Mrsmcawber €1800 €175
Nickynoo08 £2000
Pavlovs-dog £1920
pepsi-kins £2400
Pip-Squeak £1200
Puss14 $3000
Rosieben £1200
Russetred £4300 £704.13
Sammyellen £4000
Savingforarainyday £2300
Seductivesmile £912.50
sharonej £3380
Skilly £3700
Snowy Owl £2600
Sueika £1000
Tazzyb £1500
The_Cat £3120 £375.69
youngmummy £2800

Monthly

01001011 €
123budget £500
2Joanne £
666Paw £250
ab7 £
Adelight £
Aldahbra £
Allie123 £200
AlwaysHappy £
Aril £
BADPENNY £
beemuzed £
Bexs.ua £
BillieJo £240
BlimusOreilly £
Bluecat £300
Boultdj $
boysma £300
BrownGun86 £
Burge23 £250
Candy Belle £235
Castri09 £
Catslovelycats £
Cat_Smith £
Cha97michelle £
Cheapskate £
CherryPie £90
Chloris £330
ChocClare £340
Chopper5 £300
Cleggie £
Cookiemum £300
Craftyscholar £
CRANKY40 £
Cup of Chai £
cutiepieabf £100
Dansmum £
debtfreewannabe321 £
destroyerofdebt2011 £50
Determined New Ms £250
Dilflower £
dingdongavon £
Dumpling £
ebsaver £
elfen £
Ellen75 £
Equilibrium £
esmer 120
eveie189 £
Failinghappily £
Fedupandskint £130
FindingMyFeet £
Fingersxed £
FlatEric £250
Fluffybunnykins £
Foreversaving £
funnyflipp £400
Franby64 £
Freakyogre £
Georgeestwo £
Gigglepig £250
Goldfinch68 £
Goodgirl80 £100
Gracie_1827 £140
greent £
GroinSexyPavement £350
Guccigoo £260
HelenJelly £350
Hex2 £
Highland fling £
Hilly123 £
Hippeechiq £
ieimimiai £130
ifonlyitwaseasier £

MRSMCAWBER

JackieGlasgow £
JackieO £
Jammydodger £
Janie-h £
JayJay14 £200
Jinky67 £
Jintyb £200
JoKay £
Jovi20 £
Jumblejack £
Jumps £
Kalojac £
Karmachilovething £
Katholicos £
KayJay1809 £
Kirsty822001 £
KitchenBunny £240
Kitschy £
KittyPimms £
kookgekje £
laineyC £500
Laundry Days £
Lauzellen £
Leeds1947 £
legowindow £120
Lemonie £
Life in Termoil £
Linda32 £
LindseyandMatthew £
Lindy-loo £
little miss happy £
LivingProof £50
Lizziebabe £
l.m.hart £
London Dreamer £
LongTallSally £450
Looie £
Lotti379 £
MaidInCornwall £
mandco £
Martafdz £
Maryarm £
Meanmarie €
MFwin2019 £200
Minnie2 £
MissCreditCrunch £
Missfit £
MissusAKA £
M0neysav3r £200
Mooloo £
moonpixiewitch £
Mothership £110
MotherShipton £
Mrs-Moneypenny £
Mrs Money Penny £
Muffinman7 £
Mummy2mygirls £
MummyJane £
MummyRoysof3 £
MumOf2Beasties £
Mumto5 £
Nat21luv £
Natzini £
newlyfrugalmumof3 £
Nessie216 £
NickJW £
Nimeth £230
nmlc £
Outdoorlass £
Patentgirl £
Pencakes £
PennyGrabber £150
Pernicious £
Perrywinkle £400
Philsmum £
Pink_Giraffe £
PinWheel £220
Pipersky £
Pixie1 $
Princesslauraliz £
Prophecy-grrl £180
PurpleJay £
Quintwins £250
Rachbc £
Rachelww1 £
Redkids1972 £
Rhealea £
Rosie383 £
Runnerbean17 £340
Saving Jane £
Savvyshe £
Sazzledazzle £
Scotsaver £250
Shineydriver £200
ShySarah £
Sillygirl73 £
Silverbird £
sistercas £
Slbhill £
SortingMyselfOut £
Sparklyfairy £
Spiggle £240
Stuckdebt £
Sue14 £
Sunflower1227 £
Sunnyday £
SuperSally01 £375
Sveika £
SylvieDee £
TheBees £
Theonlynuttytart £120
TheThriftyScrumpers £
TigerFeet2006 £500
Tink_04 £
TooMany4Legs £
TooToo £200
Tracey_h £
Trinny £
WannaBrich £
WillGetOrganised 150
Winchelsea £
Winged One €
WinningAngel £
wmf £
XshootingstartsX £
XSpender £
Zcrat41 £
Zend £

weekly

Esmer £
lost-mum £100
Welshwoofer £45

jintyb

Good morning all!

I've been reading but not posted on here for ages.

Mrs M - can you put me down for £200 for April please?

It's a 5 weeker for me! Finished March 10.90 over:o BUT my I was £46.90 UNDER budget for my first quarter!:j
I have a new strategy which seems to be working. The first shop of the month I do a bit of a bulk buy ( usually at C0$tco) then I just buy fresh stuff on a weekly basis. I've found Li£ to be the cheapest for the F&V I buy ( I know Aldi is good too, but the super 6 isnt always what i need IFYSWIM)

123budget

tigerfeet2006 wrote: »

Yep! I have just done my first monthly meal plan Took some work to set up but it looks as if it may work.

Hiya Tigerfeet, after 3 days on and off planning I think I may have done my first MONTHLY meal plan!! Found in quite hard - I have enought trouble trying to think what to cook for a week. Have done weekly menus for lunches and main meals, have put a list on cupboard door, and made a chart of all main meat/fish ingredients and tinned fish/meat ingredients with a column to say how many meals I need this ingredient for so can buy meat etc in bulk at beginning of month. It will be interesting to see if it works out but will probably have to tweak as I go along. Still the basic template is there so should be less time consuming next month.:)
My April budget will be £500

skilly

Morning all,annual budget going ok so far I have spent £846.58 in 13weeks should not need to spend any more this month will see :rotfl:

slbhill

Just added up my spends to update my sig :eek:

I hadn't realised I hadn't added on some of my top-up shops from the last week or 2, my budget is well and truly blown . Could easily have been a lot worse though, I think all I still need to buy for the budget-blowing house warming is a bag of mini sausage rolls and some fresh bread. And pay day is Monday so new month starts then!

On the plus side we have quite a lot of frozen & cupboard stuff in stock so I might try to only buy fruit, veg and fridge stuff next month to balance it out a bit. Will ponder that after the party!


The GC is definitely having an impact though - in the old days I would have filled the freezer to overflowing with ready-made party food and spent £££££, but I was actually over careful and didn't spend the full value of the voucher I was using up! Seems wasteful but by that stage I couldn't face leaving the checkout queue to get more stuff! Thanks so much for all the hints :T :T :T :T - got some good party food ideas from here especially cat_smith and tigerfeet2006. There is also a fresh plum cake waiting for me after work thanks Hippeechiq for the recipe link and also destroyerofdebt2011 for the other ideas to use up my plums. I never thought I liked plums but it turns out I do :rotfl:

Tonight and tomorrow daytime I will mostly be cooking

prophecy_grrl

Mrs M

I'm not starting my April GC till 4th April but can you put me down for £180 for April please - am aiming for £45 per week reducing from the £50 per week budget that I've done so far. I'll declare my March actual spend on 3rd April.

Thanks

prophecy x

Spiggle

Oh Hippeechiq, they are bathbungs! :mad: You must be so stressed with it all. :wall: I hope DD is coping and the decision hasn't triggered a deep episode. You keep up the fight girl, I know you can and will do it. :kisses3: Keep strong and don't forget we're here for you when you need us. :grouphug:

Op probably in a fortnight or so btw.

Brilliant news for you sistercas, :T although I know what you mean about feeling for the other person. The powers that be are doing their level best to take us into a dog eat dog world again. :mad:

Thanks for the nudge MrsMcCawber, please put Spiggle down for £240 for Apirl, thank you. :A

Got to run as need to go into the office for a few hours. See you all later.

Take care,
Spigs