April 2011 Grocery Challenge

Sue14

Can I please be put down for £140 this month, adding a little more as Easter coming up.

I've started already with a spend of £14.90 in Mr M's on Saturday (full bill was £54.90 but £14 was for alcohol, which I don't count in the grocery budget and the rest was for flowers), and £7.46 in Mr A's yesterday, which I'm annoyed about as I only went in there to take something back and get some cheese!

Winged_one

Overall spend of €125 this weekend. DH went to Li*l on Sat to get a cycling t-shirt, and some bits we needed (including getting some beers and some wine). Grocery spend (incl alcohol) was €33 on 2 bags.

Then I went to Superqui*n on Sat evening. We wanted some steak for ourselves and the only nice frying one was fillet (the sirloin and striploin were both very gristly) - but I got the smaller of the 2 so that was €9. I got 6 chicken breasts too, as I had wanted some for during the week and the large pack was good value (will chop 2 into pieces and freeze, and leave 2 whole for freezer). The pork steak was on special so I got a large 1 - will use two thirds tomorrow as a stuffed joint, and freeze the rest chopped. And 12 sausages, of which I froze 10, as DD is gone mad for them recently for dinners. We needed eggs, veg (mushrooms, peppers, carrots), cereal, coffee (for work), and a few other bits.

We had the steak saturday night, with roast potatoes, the last of the vine tomatoes, and the last 3 breakfast flat mushrooms which I had stuffed (I now keep a box of stuffing in the freezer to lob into things like this) and DH put the last of the blue cheese on top too.

Yesterday, we had a freezer meal. Crab cakes which I had made about 3 weeks ago, followed by spaghetti with some tomato sauce from our own tomatoes last summer, frozen prawns, and mussels which we'd cooked and frozen after the last trip to the fishmongers (DH got a HUGE bag of mussels).Tasty!!

Tonight, is a shepherd's pie - the meat mix was already made and frozen a few weeks ago too so I only had to make the mash yesterday. That's in the oven on the timer so should be hot when we get in from this miserable weather.

Tomorrow - stuffed pork, roast potatoes, and HG baby leeks wrapped in Lidl parma ham and covered in cheese sauce (a Tom Doorley recipe).

Wed: Chick fajitas
Thurs: Meatballs and oven chips
Fri: Pasta bake

looie

First spend for April yesterday in a's of £12.20.

Got some yoghurts, freezer stuff and some reduced bread. Still need milk today but then should be ok until the weekend.

Nice and sunny here so we are going to spend the day on allotment

tigerfeet2006

scotsaver wrote: »

I've just updated my total:eek:, it's not my fault, the Family went shopping to treat me for Mother's Day, they spent almost £75:eek:, they have given me cooked breakfast Saturday and Sunday, and a 3 course meal cooked from scratch Saturday night, Roast beef dinner yesterday and wine for me both nights and Lager for OH. I feel totally pampered but I'm going to have a hard job on my hands for the rest of the month now, especially as the kids break up from School on Friday.

On a more positive note my DR delivery came last week so both Freezers are full and cupboards are well stocked so will do some serious meal-planning today for the next couple of weeks.

Dinner tonight is a HM Beef curry using leftovers from last night's Roast.

Just looked over at the Fruit bowls and they are almost empty so I will have to top those up today, can't bear not having enough fresh fruit in the house. Promise that's all I'll be buying.:)

I have noticed several people say DR delivery, and wondered who DR were.

tigerfeet2006

rosieben wrote: »

PennyGrabber, have added your Chocolate Pots to the recipe index :T

sorry I've not been around much but my dgs was born on Friday 1st :happyhear so not been able to concentrate on much else

hope you're all having a lie-in and having some nice Mother's Day treats

Rosie, only just spotted this. Congratulations to the parents and to his Grandparents

rosieben

thanks tigerfeet

aussiemum wrote: »

I would love to give this a go again. (Lost track last time due to very bad morning sickness)
Groceries over here seem to being going up and up ...

Welcome back aussiemum <<wave>> my dd in Sydney tells me how prices are rocketing; she really misses the cheapy shops we have over here

Winged one, you're so organised! :T

I'm off to get a haircut and do my errands, have mags to collect but nothing else needed except milk

have a good day all

4weeladdies

Hi, I'm a newbie and would love to join & give this challenge a try! I'm feeding myself, dh and as my username suggests, 4 wee laddies (5, 7, 9 & 11). At the moment I seem to be spending well over £100 per week so I think my initial budget will be £400

I'm going shopping this morning but have a wee dilemma - I work for a supermarket and have a 10% discount card but am wondering if I would be even cheaper going to A1di? Might do half and half, I begrudge paying the big shops prices for fruit & veg but you don't get much in the way of whoopsies from the budget supermarkets

Any hints and tips would be welcomed with thanks

aussiemum

Ooops spent $2.95 on pregnancy craving snack instead of waiting till I got home

Mothership

tigerfeet2006 wrote: »

I have noticed several people say DR delivery, and wondered who DR were.

They are an online butcher with a royal warrant. If you stick to their offers it works out about the same as M&S, only the quality of the meat is FAR superior.

http://www.donaldrussell.com

tigerfeet2006

4weeladdies wrote: »

Hi, I'm a newbie and would love to join & give this challenge a try! I'm feeding myself, dh and as my username suggests, 4 wee laddies (5, 7, 9 & 11). At the moment I seem to be spending well over £100 per week so I think my initial budget will be £400

I'm going shopping this morning but have a wee dilemma - I work for a supermarket and have a 10% discount card but am wondering if I would be even cheaper going to A1di? Might do half and half, I begrudge paying the big shops prices for fruit & veg but you don't get much in the way of whoopsies from the budget supermarkets

Any hints and tips would be welcomed with thanks

Put your shopping list into Mysupermarket.com and have a see which is the cheapest.

Thanks Mothership will have a look.