March 2011 Grocery Challenge

jammy_dodger

just updated sig My first Big shop of the month for me ,got lots of meat from local butcher , after writing my meal plan for the month so have a few days off for lots of batch cooking . shouldnt need to go out till weekend thats if loo roll holds out
havent the prices in supermarkets shot up :eek: I REFUSE to pay some of those hikes but i mat have No choice Grrrrr..but when i see the so called "offers" there is NO WAY I would pay the alledged original price making us believe we are getting a bargain ( Rant over )

hope folks are managing to hold on tight to purse strings
JD xx

minnie2

needing some money right now!!!! hoping to get paid some this friday!!!!! fingers crossed!!! hoping also we can live on what weve got for a while but have got to get lunch stuff such as bread etc.need to be be very frugal this month!!!

seductivesmile

Hi All,

Just a quick q, mr t accepts vouchers issued by other SMs, do asda accept clubcard vouchers? i have ~£35 of these, but asda is so much cheaper!

SS x

P.S - Angel, thoughts prayers and best wishes for u both 2m!

roger_ramjet

Oh my!

Just made some soup - had some fruit and veg on the turn - and had a chicken carcass because I was making a curry.

Into my soup went:

chicken stock
celery
spring onions
broccoli
carrots
grapes
coriander
:eek:
The surprising thing was it doesn't taste too bad, which is handy because I've got over 2 litres of the stuff! None of the fruit and veg was in the flush of youth. So, just remember, soup is a better alternative to throwing stuff away... Anybody want to come round for lunch?

roger_ramjet

Oh, and it is a loverlee shade of green! Gawd only knows what it will do to my, ahem, plumbing!

Aldahbra

M0neysav3r wrote: »

Another weeks shopping done today for £30.19 :j So chuffed with that as thats LOADS of meals worth
My HUGE expense was a Pork joint for £6 but it is almost 2.5kgs :T and will feed us many meals.

:A

I'm not doubting your word but I just don't see how it is possible to live on £30.19 for a whole week. Do you do top up shops in between? Presumably this is for one person? How many meals is that for? I mean is it evening meals only?

:eek::eek:Even so I must be doing something seriously wrong

MumOf2Beasties

hi everyone,

been lurking for a while and decided i needed to join and get some support!!

I'd like to set £215 for March, spent £246 in feb (plus little bits paid for with cash £30 ish), just going to ease myself in as i felt i was doing well throughout feb!!!am now keeping all receipts!!the budget includes all food, toiletries, nappies, wipes and pet food this is for me, dd age2 and ds age4, 2cats and 1bunny.

£45.19 spent in m'sons today good luck x

rosieben

Kitchenbunny, just added your Pizza Toastie to the index

Welcome Aldahbra and Mumof2Beasties and any other newbies I may have missed (sorry )

Aldahbra, don't worry too much about what others are spending, we all have different circumstances and different ways of managing our budget. Because I keep a good store cupboard, I can often manage with one online shop a month, just topping up once for milk and veg at the local shop; others are able to shop around all the sm's for the best bargains or are really good at chasing down the whoopsies (yellow stickered reductions)

scotsaver

Just updated my total, getting scary now as only £60 left and 19 days to go.:eek: Some serious meal planning will have to be done around what we have in to keep it under control.

Dinner tonight will be a Tuna pasta bake type thing, not had it for ages and got 6 tins of Tuna in the Cupboard - bought when they were on special aaaaagggeees ago - this is why it pays to check cupboards regularly, you never know what you have hiding in there, also got 12 tins of Baked Beans, bought when on special.

Got loads of Seeds sown both in the Greenhouse and up at the Allotment which will save us money in the Summer months. Planning to sow some Kale up at the Allotment today, never grown it before but need to put some Veg in that will see us over the Winter months too. I've also put in another 2 Blackcurrant bushes, we love soft Fruit so want to make the most of the space as they are so cheap to buy and you get loads of Fruit from them.

Off to check out recipe pages as I've been given a 500g bag of Cashews and don't want to just sit and munch our way through them, wondered if there was anything exciting I could do with them.;)

Have a good day everyone - thinking of you and your OH angelatgraceland.

jumblejack

Hi guys. Just read on the lidl site that amongst this weekend's specials are a huge box of non bio powder for £3 odd. You could easily make this last 120 washes if you halved the amounts. Also there are packs of pork loin for £1.39.

Hope it helps some to meet their budgets a little.

I am really pleased with myself as I am way on target with so much shopping in too!!

A little planning seems to go a veeeeeery long way.

Missus aka:
Thanks for mentioning frozen sliced mushrooms! I have 2 packs of whoopsied mushrooms and I am struggling to use them. I can now slice and pop in freezer bags!
I LOVE this site. So very useful!!!!