April 2011 Grocery Challenge

sistercas

working today, but will need to pop into l!dl on my way home
then tomorrow it will be ald!, sainsbugs , t3sco and HB , its exhausting shopping in so many places but it saves me loads

janae we have 4 adults too ( well 2 adults and a 17 and 15 yr old) and they eat sooo much its hard to keep the budget down isnt it? i am lucky that they will eat practically anything though

Tesco-shopper

Hi, I haven't done this for a while, but need to now as am being made redundant soon. Please put me down for £430 this month (a realistic figure for me) and then I will hope to reduce the figure for May. It will be a step in the right direction for me if I actually RECORD what I spend. It will certainly make me think twice about buying things! Thanks.

Curlytop40

Hello!!
Could I rejoin please? My groceries include food, petrol, cat food and cat litter-basically my monthly cash spends for myself, DD 6, and two siamese cats. Please could I be put down for £280 please? More than it should be but its a 5 week month for me-25th march to 29th april which seems to be mainly school holidays so we'll be going out and about a fair bit.
Thankyou. I'm looking forward to being kept on the straight and narrow!!!!

Mothership

I popped into T****s for a few bits.

Bought 2 Pizzas @ £1.35 each. I added a few bits and bobs to them and we had them for dinner , yummy a wee break from cooking for me don't get many of those.
Also got a huge bag of carrots for 69p and 6 x 250g packs of mushrooms for 11p each 1.5kg of perfect mushrooms for 66p BARGAIN! Mushroom soup for lunch today LOL. SPENT £4.05

2nd PURSE
Cathedral City Cheese B1G2F 6 for £9 Paid for that from 2nd purse, its all portioned up and in the freezer.

Spaghetti Bolognese for dinner tonight.

Candy_Belle

Morning!

Hmmm, managed to spend again yesterday and again on cat food!!!:mad:

A**a - £2.00 5xSheba
W****s - £3.24 6xTinned Food

Have updated signature and not liking the total! Its crazy how much food is going up by!!!

Have a good day everyone x:)

Craftyscholar

Many thanks to all those who run this thread

Can you put me down for £85 again for April please?
I know other singles spend much less than this, but happy to just not spend more and keeping a close watch has made a difference.

CherryPie

Craftyscholar wrote: »

Can you put me down for £85 again for April please?
I know other singles spend much less than this, but happy to just not spend more and keeping a close watch has made a difference.

I'm a singleton too and my budget is roughly the same. I find it quite difficult to vary my dinners etc, cos if I make a big pot of something in the SC it lasts me for weeks! I do portion things up and freeze them, but it takes me ages to work my way through it.

I will have a spend day today. Got 3 x £20 ish vouchers from T£scos DTD. But it'll be a storecupboard shop. Have done really well at running down the cupboards over the last couple of weeks, so it's time to feed them again!

So although my spends v budget looks really high, shouldn't need to spend any actual cash til the end of the month.

:beer:

slbhill

I'm not ready to declare for March yet - still got some receipts to add up, but I know I went way over my £150 budget, I spent at least £200.:o At least we had a good housewarming party, and my freezer is a bit like Mr Creosote (just a wafer thin mint, Sir??) so this month I will mainly be eating from the freezer. Going shopping tonight but my list is bread, milk, fruit, veg, maybe some meat for sandwiches - and that's it. Now I just need to keep to it! :cool:

So... could you put slbhill down for £100 for April please. This month I will make it! :A

bexs.ua

Having just totalled my March Shop which amazingly came in UNDER budget, I am going to try for a reduced on this month. Last month I spend £60 on dog food :eek: and still came in under budget so after some random calculations I am going to try for.....

£250 this month for bexs.ua please!!!


Will be interesting to see whether I make this!! But I'll have a good go :rotfl::rotfl:

rachelww1

Hi. Could you put me down for £300 for April please Mrs M. Didn't do too well in March as I forgot it was a 5 week month . Upping the budget to £300, as that seems more reasonable especially with the easter holidays and also joining SW tonight.