April 2011 Grocery Challenge

Spiggle

Hello,

I just wanted to say hi :wave:and good luck to everyone for the new Challenge. And of course thanks to Pink-winged, :A MrsMcCawber :A and rosieben :Afor the brilliant voluntary hours they put in to keep us in line, inspired and in the mood :eek: (to save money of course!). :rotfl:

See you soon,
Spigs

NickJW

Hello everyone.

After my disastrous month in March I'm here to try and do better in April.

Can I please have my usual £135 for April MrsM?

cat_smith

DR Lamb Valentine steaks - delish. Very quick to cook and so very tender. Bay tree redcurrant and rosemary sauce is brilliant. Has anyone got a recipe for something similar as its quite expensive.

Chicken fajitas tomorrow night with sorry looking peppers.

Menu planning this weekend - catering for 7 hungry divers for 10 days in South of France (well 6 plus me) I'm quite good at catering on a grand scale for 1 meal, but this could be a challenge. Particularly as 2 are 'reformed' vegetarians so meat needs to be kept to a minimum and my french isn't great.

rachel_t

Hi! I've never done this before, but I really need to cut down on my food spending. I'm going to start just a little lower than before and hopefully work myself down more so could I be put down for £85 for this month please?

sistercas

just been to a local discount shop and spent £55.65 :eek::o managed to get quite a bit (DH bought 6 M+S keylime pies :cool:) got plenty of chicken , sausage , pop, yoghurts, which should last a month that said i still need to go to the supermarkets tomorrow for fresh stuff
hoping it will even out over the month

Kitchenbunny

Well, it begins tomorrow. I intend to stick to this budget this time. Luckily, I don't need anything from the shops, but might have to go over the weekend to the supermarket to get some orange juice for DH. So far, I've planned a mealplan to try and use up some stuff from the freezer, and am thinking that a cupboard inventory wouldn't be a bad thing either. I'm thinking of doing some baking this weekend. I have most things in but want to try something different (and fruity). I have to say I'm really looking forward to this month. Here's hoping I can finish under budget this time!

Best of luck, everyone.

KB xx

GroinSexyPavement

£64 on my first weekly shop, seems like quite a lot! A £5 pack of chicken and a £4.50 toothpaste were the main culptits- time for more veggie meals and fewer teeth lol!

helen_jelly

Right - got some receipts from DH so need to add them up and sort out siggy, need to put them in the spending diary I am trying to do this month so that I can show him what we spend money on and how much of that is for beer!!!!!!! Grrrrrr

Helen x

Zend

Hi, could you please put me down for £150 again. Thanks.

jammy_dodger

here we are again .. cant believe April already

could you put me down for £120 again for this month please my store cupboards have elastic in them yet so hope to come in under budget

thank you for keeeping me motivated

Good luck everyone
jd xx