March 2011 Grocery Challenge

barneydee_2

Hi I have tried to do the grocery challenge in the past and have not always completed the month I have got a lot of things to pay out for this month and to be trueful I don't know how I am going to do it,so i have realy got to cut back on the shopping which will be hard as I work for Mr S and temptation is all arounld:mad:I'm going to leave my Debit card at home and only use cash. I added up all my till recipts from March and they came to £724.60:eek:so my fridge freezer and cupboads are full I am putting down for April £250.00. I know this can be done with a little bit of planning so on my next day off on saturday I will go through my stock pile and do a menu plan this will also help me stick to my SW diet plan which is not going to well at the moment :mad:
Barneydee

prophecy_grrl

I'm updating with a £1.05 spend on milk this morning - I was due to do my last weekly shop of March yesterday but my fridge was warm yesterday morning :mad: so I had to decant everything to my neighbour's. The freezer was fine, and there was very little in the fridge thankfully, so I just knocked it off by the wall and am hoping by defrosting it it will be ok. I really can't afford a new one at the minute.

On the plus side, I can't do the weekly shop yet, am thinking I'll knock it back on once it's been off for 24 hours, then fill it 24 hours after that - is that ok?

rachbc

declaring on target at 209.43 for march.

Blew all the other budgets though - petrol is killing us and I had to get the kids a few new clothes - you reckon if I feed them less they'll stop growing - cutting 2 budgets in one??

I need to re stock the cupboards a bit so aiming for £250 for april

Purpleclutterbuck

Please can you re-include me again because I can only keep on track with a grocery challenge target mindset!

So here goes - please put me in for April £260
and let the challenge begin
(sleeves rolled up, purse tight shut and store cupboard open for menu planning!)

quintwins

i've spent even more of aprils budget, we got takeaway last night, plus a big bag of spuds this morning, means i need to add another £19.50 to my spends, taties will last a few weeks tho and i'm completely out so had no choice, really i only need about £30 for top-ups and last few bits of my meal plan so can sqeeze in a wee takeaway will be doings some dtd shops again this month if i can aswell

tbh everyone keeps saying for expensive desil is, but i havne't been putting anymore than normal in my car (which is £30 a week so not a small amount but it's been the same for 6 months) and it's been lasting just aslong

jumblejack

Declaring at 194.72/£200 March

A great first challenge and my freezer is chocca full of prime meat too!!!!

Please can I be included for April at £200
?

Cheers x

greent

Morning all

Haven't been keeping up with the thread, but have been keeping tracks of spends. Almost at month end and I've spent £388.46. Should hopefully manage to stay within this month. I came in late to the T DTD promotion, but have been using it for the past few days Will finalise spends at month end.


Will keep budget at £400 for April. That includes all those BHols, 2 weeks off school and some resulting day trips... Hopefully I can do it. We are low-ish on meat though. It's also DS1's birthday...

Hopefully f&v spends will improve later in the year. Have planted spinach, salad leaves, timatoes, chillis, peppers, runner beans, french beans, courgettes, squash, cucumber, carrots. Still have potatoes & onions to plant, and more tomatoes & salad leaves . Mint, basil, sage & coriander growing. Will plant more basil, chives and parsley. Have plug plant of aubergine and have ordered some plants from school (pumpkins) @ 50p each.

Winged_one

I am declaring for March - overall failure from the target, but not too bad on the annual allowance so far (and the veg beds should start to ease the monthly spend soon).

Can you please put me down for €400 for April, Mrs MaCawber? Thank you.

Pink.

Hi everyone,

Just to let you know that the Grocery Challenge for April is now up and running so I'll unstick this thread in the next couple of days.

Spring has sprung here and I'm feeling optimistic that it will be a good month! I hope, despite the recent price rises that we can all make the best of what we have to spend on our grocery budgets.

April 2011 Grocery Challenge

Thanks as always to MRSMCAWBER and rosieben for all their hard work and good luck to everyone taking part. I hope it's a good month for us all.

Pink

rosieben

Thanks Pink

cutiepie, I've added your Tortellini recipe to the list on the April thread