April 2011 Grocery Challenge

boultdj

And my first spend of the month is $54.34, seeing as I got a few of the buy 1 get 2 free, at T's, seeing as it's stuff we use a lot of.

debtfreewannabe321

£63.71 on the first shop of the month, on track so far.....

adelight

I'm about to embark on totalling up my spends so far this month... £2 at market, £2.40 at the butcher, £1 here... wish me luck

seductivesmile

Hi All,
Off to a gentle start - spent £3.75 in Mr M's, got a huge bag of banana's, bag of apples and bag of pears and loaf of bread... all on offer - should see me thru until next weekend, got plently of milk and determined to use up some of my stocks... and put some pennies in the ISA.
Have a lovely week.
SS

freakyogre

£7.70 spent so far.

£1.91 in Coop on milk and hot chocolate.
£2.55 in Lidl on crisps and crackers.
£2.00 in Farmfoods on toilet rolls.
£1.24 in Tesco on sinus tablets, bananas (reduced to 45p) and carrots (reduced to 19p) Bargains!

Zend

First spend of the month, £135.50 :eek:. It was a good stock up as the freezer and pantry were bare. Got two pork hocks for 49p each:). Bought a little extras such as cake as a friend is coming over and we are going to have a girlie night in as DH goes to the pub.

PennyGrabber

Thanks for putting my recipe in the list rosieben! That's one of my new year's resolutions - to have one of my recipes in there!! (SO sad, I know!)

NSD today GCwise, but I did buy 3 fruit trees, one plum as the old one died, one apple and one pear, all for £17.97. That was from instore/poundstretcher type place. Really must get on with some planting, but feel guilty for doing that when I should be doing my son's bedroom...

Off to have dinner, corned beef and potato pie with steamfesh veg which are on offer in @sda at 3 for £3.

PG x

CupOfChai

Please put me down for £70 again for April.

I'm doing things a bit differently this month. As I've moved house I'm no longer within easy reach (for me) of one of the big cheaper supermarkets. So I've decided I'm going to try doing one big online shop each month, then supplement that with smaller top-ups for things like fresh fruit and milk. Hoping I can still keep to my budget doing this!

So far, I've done my monthly shop for April, and that came to an eye-watering £57.32 :eek:. Though I think I strictly have a bit more than one month's worth of things there, so next month should (fingers crossed) be quite a bit less. I've also already been for a couple of small top-ups as well, so that means so far my total is £60.04. It's not looking good...

quintwins

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Ive blown it already. Just got back from asda, as i had to get some flowers for my step mum. I ended up buying an extra special pizza, reduced to £1.30 (I couldn't resist, in the freezer for tomorrow night), double stuff oreos for 80p and some milk, 45p. Bad start.

you havent blown it i always think it's good to be ahead and stocking up your freezer is always a good thing (unless it breaks :eek:)


anyhoo just popping on cause i've managed my first nsd for april got my dtd voucher from yesterdays shop threw and it's £19.50 gonna use it to stock up on a few more bits to hopefully get a new one then i'll use it for a proper shop next week

fizzy702

Hi All

Newbie here and just wondered if I could join the challenge ???? Any tips would be great including how to get OH to get recipes for every thing !!!!!!!!

If so Can you put me down for £450 for the month thats every thing for 2 adults, 2 kids, 2 cats, 2 dogs & 1 Guniea Pig