April 2011 Grocery Challenge

Hippeechiq

Mrs M could you please put Hippeechiq down for £240 for April.

Many thanks to yourself, Pink & Rosie for the time and effort you all put in in starting the thread and keeping it in order

CRANKY40

A$da have the offer of 2 packs of Lurpak with a loaf tin for £2 again. Bought one today when I went shopping with my friend, but it was all that I bought as we went for her shopping and I wasn't supposed to be getting anything.....

NickJW

Flat_Eric wrote: »

These coupons are very very dangerous things. Mr T do the same to me - spend over £50 with us and we will give you 200 extra points. Spend another £50 with us within ? time period, and we will give another 200 extra points oh and do one final shop within ? time period and thats an extra 200 points JUST FOR YOU plus a further 400 points..... now thats all well and good but immediately I'm looking to spend £50 as I do my shopping and I always ensure I go way over the £50 mark so that any offers/discounts applied don't take me under my £50 and thus mean I don't qualify. The supermarkets have us hook line and sinker.

I would be inclined to scrap the voucher because if you have sorted your weekly shop then what exactly do you need ? I went to Mr S tonight and was rewarded with a spend £60 next time and get triple points and I doubt that will get used. £60 is a lot of shopping to buy particularly as my local store is a metro one.

If Mr S have offers that you use for example on loo roll, toiletries etc then yes use the voucher but save room in your freezer for whoopsies and don't forget that £7.50 saved from your pocket also means £42.50 in their coffers. If you don't spend the voucher then that means £42.50 in your pocket !

Oh I TOTALLY emphasize with this! I went to Mr T tonight and had a £2 off a £20 spend voucher. The till racked up at £19.11, so, just so I could use the voucher I picked up some packs of chewing gum to make up the balance! The shame!

Total spend was £18.71 in the end
oh - and 55p on a can of Diet Coke today from the corner shop

I DID actually have a shopping list, but that depended on me going to the big Mr T. Because I had such a rubbish day at work and finished late I ended up going to the little Mr T. Trying to get decent bargains in a Mr T Metro, then carrying it home, through Piccadilly Circus is NOT something I want to do for a LONG time!!! :eek:

Anyway - I did get a pizza to go with some leftover salad which needed using up, but I wasn't hungry enough for it in the end. Dinner tonight ended up being rocket, cherry tomatoes, a couple of rashers of fried bacon and a few pieces of cheddar - with french dressing. Not exactly a healthy salad, but, at least it gets some of my 5 a day! :rotfl:

cleggie

£190 for me please!!

hamish222

Did a large shop in Mr T for a change, had a £4 off voucher. Stupidly took dh who by his own admission has an air freshner fettish (suppose could be worse). He got 2 airfreshner that were £10 but bogof and a half price candle that was £3.06. Also got large bag iams for cats for £10 (£5 off) and needed cheese so cathedrel city light was 3 large packs for £4.50. Also spent a fortune on fruit and veg and needed get specific cereal/cereal bars/yoghurts that needed for slimming world. End result was £78.54.

prophecy_grrl

Updating to £4.61 for April so far - had to get milk and weekly shop not till Monday, and ended up buying huge bag of sultanas, 10 eggs and a tub of stork - guess what me and DS are doing tomorrow?

I'll post on the cheap cake thread too, but is there a cheaper alternative to using stork for cakes please?

eveie189

Hi,

after what can only be described as a disasterous end to March where I lost track of all spends but have managed to spend about £100 on takeaways in just one week, can someone please put me down for £330 for April, I must try harder!!!

huxley

Hi been reading for inspiration I must go shopping today as stocks are really low would shop online but not been well enough to get to bank to pay money in so am now trying to decide where to shop think it will have to be MrS although price wise this wont be the best for me it is only a small shop so less walking to get round it, must try and keep an emergency shop money in the bank so I can do online :mad:

Flat_Eric

I think I must have been having nightmares last night about my shopping trip yesterday ! Must meal plan this weekend (when I have woken up )

Out of interest, what is the smallest home shopping bill fellow posters have had and the highest ?

Sometimes, I think I only need a few things but by the time I have gone through by favourites, my bill always seems to top £100 :eek:

I think my smallest home shopping bill was £80-£90 odd and my highest topped almost £190 :eek::eek::eek:

I know one xmas, I decided to do little hampers for family (mini bottle of wine / chocolates / crackers etc) and the bill reached near on £250 before I abandoned the idea !!

Does anyone have any tips on how to get your home delivery shopping "just right"?

barneydee_2

Hi well here is my first shop for April £51.57 not to bad . With regard to money of shops(60.00 what ever) the super makets are trying to get you to part with your money I know I work for one of them. I only use them if i'm doing a big shop that week, because when you use them and go through the till, they then generate anouther coupon for the next week and know I am doing the grocery challange I don't want to spend that amount every week so I just bin them.
Barneydee

i'll update my signiture later