April 2011 Grocery Challenge

chocolateteddy

Spiggle wrote: »

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:)

£15 :eek: mine gets £10 a week for beer:D - thats for his darts match night though. He is good really we buy supermarket beer when it is on offer -usually around bank holiday time, and he has a couple of those each week before he goes out to darts so it costs him less when he is out. I do include all beer in food bill as we don't buy that much really.

Was just popping in to update signature with spends. Having a bad month already spent £32.47 is a*da and £32.26 in a*di. I find I am buying more and more from a*di as it is closer and cheaper. I have a Mr T credit card as I am trying to save enough clubcard vouchers to get merlin passes next year but aldi don't take c/cards and I find I am using Mr T less and less so don't seem to be collecting points very quickly.
I am impressed with all the recipe ideas in the first few posts, I will have to try some of them, although need to be careful as I am a target SW member having lost 2 1/2 stone - don't want to put it all on again:D So pleased to see some SW ones. I want to meal plan and cook more from scatch - that will hopefully bring my food bills down. Just got to find the time to do it though.

NickJW

First spend of the day - £4.29 in Mr S.

I'll go to Mr T tonight for a big weekly shop, and stock up on storecupboard stuff, and things for meals for next week. I also need to get some more shower gel, mouthwash etc, because I've finally ran out of Xmas present shower gels now!

Chloris

quintwins wrote: »

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

Pretty sure you can freeze any herbs in ice cube trays. I would chop first then freeze in a little water. HTH

misscreditcrunch

Ok, count me in again, was a complete disaster last month, haven't a clue how much I spent and don't think I want to know either!!!!! So please can you put me down for £600.00 please again this month. A new month, a brand new start, spring has sprung, time to get on with it and do everything properly:) I will keep each receipt I spend on food items in an envelope and try and be more orgainised (not actually I will not try and be more organised I WILL BE MORE ORGANISED!!!!!) I WILL come on here regurlarly and update. Speak to you all soon, (wish me luck I'm going to need it!!!)

misscreditcrunch

Whoops I forgot to update sig.

Nimeth

Off the mark on my first GC! I spent £6.47 in $avers on toiletries and things and then spent another £42.07 in A!di, so £48.54 in total. Probably should not have bought that whole frozen leg of lamb or I would have spent less.:p

sistercas

more spending

£30 in t3sco
£14 ish in sainsbugs

that should be it for a week at least

highland_fling_2

hi everyone
Mrs. Mc could you please put Highland Fling down for £120 for April GC.

quintwins: I freeze parsley all the time in ice cube trays. Just wash herbs then squash into cube compartments. Then when making soup etc just through a couple of cubes in.

Trinny

Hi Pink

£60 target for me this month please

I went over by a bit last month - ( damn those reduced to clear bargains!!!)

Hopefully will do better this month

Trin

cat_smith

MrsM can you put me down for £200 please. Thanks for all the sterling work.