April 2011 Grocery Challenge

Craftyscholar

First spend of the new month £7.18 at local MrT

Stood staring at the price markers on the mince packs - price per pack and price per Kg - till I believed what I was reading :rotfl:


The cheapest pack was the only one not on 'special offer'

prophecy_grrl

Thanks sistercas - sorry I don't know how to 'quote' people. Do you use red or white wine? I will look into buying just for cooking if it's cheap, thanks :-)

tigerfeet2006

prophecy_grrl if you look along the bottom of SisterCas's post, there are various buttons. One of those buttons says 'QUOTE' . If you click on that button it will open up a reply window with SC's post in. You just type your reply in there as normal and click the 'submit reply' button as normal.

prophecy_grrl

tigerfeet2006 wrote: »

prophecy_grrl if you look along the bottom of SisterCas's post, there are various buttons. One of those buttons says 'QUOTE' . If you click on that button it will open up a reply window with SC's post in. You just type your reply in there as normal and click the 'submit reply' button as normal.

Thanks - I am practicing

DansMum_2

Hey everyone still have to declare for March, but think I've done OK!

Can I put down for £130 for April please? For Me, Him, The Dawg and 4 cats

sistercas

fedupandskint wrote: »

Hi sistercas

Can you tell me the costco loo roll offer as I buy their big packs and it would be good to now if its worth calling in on Monday to get another massive pack if its on offer?

certainly
the offer is for quilted velvet £10.79 for 10 x 4 pack - works out at £1.08 for 1 pack of 4 ( in t3sco they are £2.33)

prophecy_grrl wrote: »

Thanks sistercas - sorry I don't know how to 'quote' people. Do you use red or white wine? I will look into buying just for cooking if it's cheap, thanks :-)

i used white as its what i had in , but im sure either would do chocClare may be able to tell you


spent £59.87 in c0stco on:

12 x chopped toms ( valfruta really good quality) £2.99
24 cans f0sters for DH £13.78 ( should last the month)
2 x robinsons double concentrate squash £2.10 each
len0r fushia 5l £5.98
12 croissants ( for DH) £2.99
1 pack of 26 w@lkers crisps £2.98
lurp@k 1kg £2.79
12 xd0ve soap £3.48
twin pack whole chicken £5.75
quilted velvet toilet roll £10.79
plus one or two baking items

i really am going to stop spending now ( for a week anyway)

destroyerofdebt2011

Thanks to everyone who sets up and runs this thread it is really making me watch every penny and is allowing me to snowball where as before i was treading water and getting no where! :j

I would just like to declare £0.84 on a 2l bottle of squash from the co0p as i was just passing. Used the last bottle up yesterday and didnt fancy just plain water untill i could get to mr T for their faithful 22p bottle this coming monday. Still have change from this weeks food allowance which i think is a first but all spare is going in a pot for snowballing or for putting into the emergancy fund.. both of which the last 2 mnths have gone in the right direction!:money:still cant believe i walked round the whole store and just came out with squash:rotfl:

Is any one else finding their waste bins are not filling up as much with all the frugality?.... i used a bag of past their best peppers and 1/2 punnet of mushrooms and some other wrinkly veg in a pot of hm soup yesterday that made 6 portions of stuff that normally i would have thrown out the following day!

Catslovelycats

Hiya
Please put me down for £200 again for April.
Thanks

cat_smith

destroyer I know what you mean about the bins. I didn't even put my bin out this week, and its on a 2 week rotation. There was nothing in it. The food peelings box went out but that was it. Its amazing the difference this thread has made. Tonight is fairly limp peppers and onion into fajitas.

Kitchenbunny

Afternoon, everyone. So far have managed two NSDs in a row (I feel really good about myself!) I've managed to find work-arounds for meals with ingredients I didn't have, so I feel pretty good about myself (although I've just caved in and had a big chunk of cheese as a snack - bad me... ) Anyway, hopefully going to have another NSD tomorrow, so fingers crossed!

Piri Piri Prawn stir fry for tea tonight, and meatballs with tomato sauce and pasta tomorrow. DMiL is over, so I wanted to do something special (that I know I won't get wrong!) Have a good evening, everyone.

KB xx