April 2011 Grocery Challenge

hamish222

Can you put me down for £300 please. Do have lots in freezer so hope that might come in lower. But started SW today so will need buy lots of fruit and veg.

Mothership

GC April M*******'s
Fish Pie @ £3
Onions @ 99p
Spend £3.99

2nd Purse
S********'s
6 Bottles Innocent Orange and Apple Juice @ 99p each £5.98
6 Tins Red Kidney Beans @ 19p each £1.14
2 packs of 3 Green giant sweet corn @ 99p each £1.98
Spend £9.10

I took browned mince out of the freezer yesterday to make bolognaise, DD2 wanted to go to Morrisons after work, and insisted on buying us dinner (Fish and Chips). It was yummy. DGD had great fun trying to eat a burger and chips most of the meal ended up on the floor @ 7 months she doesn't have any table manners Lol. The staff were lovely and didn't mind the mess.

Anyway the mince can I use it today or will I have to toss it?

roger_ramjet

Another month begins. I'll go for £150 this month...

Winchelsea

April's purse contains £65.81 which is £60 plus my surplus from March carried over.

Good luck everyone!

Spiggle

helen_jelly wrote: »

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

Hi Helen,

I feel for you, I really do. :grouphug: OH's beer was a huge impact on our out of control spending in the days before the gc. :doh: Because it always got 'disguised' with other expensive carp we also didn't need, it was largely invisible for a long time. :whistle: The way I dealt with it was to take all alcohol out of the gc (with the exception of party provision for visitors very rarely) and make it personal spending. :think: OH (and I) now has £15 per week pocket money and he can spend it all on beer if he wants but that's it. _pale_ No subs, no borrowing, he gets by on that alone.

You could of course set any amount you like (I'm a meanie apparently :rotfl:) but always make it fair to you as well. I have my £15 going by standing order into my own bank account every Friday where it gets stashed until I want to buy something for me. It works really well. Anyway, I hope that might help a little.

I have to get going in to the office now so hope to be back on later but if not, have a great weekend all.

All the best,
Spigs

mambury

another newbie joining in.....

My freezers, and cupboards (including under the beds!!) are rammed full at the moment due to finding app foods and bargain foods so the budget is the same as ever this month £300 but I am aiming for a LOT lower as we are v.v.v.v.v.v. skint!:eek: Forgot to say this is for 2 adults (one builder iwht big appetite!), two littlies (but with big appetites!!), one dog, two cats, a rat and soon to be some chickens......

Off to make some bread....

Mambury

failinghappily

Hi Many thanks for the thread. Please can I put down for £200 for April. This is for 4 adults but doesn't include bathroom stuff, laundry, cleaning or petfood.

goodgirl80

Hi everyone,

due to the ridiculous overspend last month, I'll be keeping a close eye on things for April. Already spent £4.08 on some cheese and ham for my loved one's lunches. Need to be better if I'm going to stick to the budget. good luck everyone x

Chloris

helen_jelly wrote: »

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

Like Spiggle our alcohol is budgeted for separately. It is hidden in with the food.

£4 in the c0-0p, had to buy lettuce for the tadpoles.:o

quintwins

morning all, i spent just under £40 this morning i left with £34 odd and got £10 off and i have £5 left so just gonan say £40 instead oh adding it all up, however i'm hoping to get £13 back in a dtd voucher, this also included 3 tubes of toothpaste and a some seed taties aswell as 3 packets of waffles, 3 packets of chicken dippers and 2 packets of sausages for the freezer which won't be eaten til next month, it cost me £6.78 on the market for 11 banana a punnet of oranges and a bag of grapes i know the grapes did it but the wee man hadn't eaten much the last few days (teething) so i knew he'd eat them i'm def sticking to the farm shop in future tho

got some reduced leeks and parsley so gonna make taties and leek soup, does anyone know if i can freeze fresh parsley? if so do i dice it first?


oh and i paid the kids snack money aswell so thats £4 to the nursery