April 2011 Grocery Challenge

sistercas

just popped into the local shop for some ryvit@, they didnt have any so i picked up a pack of cream crackers . £1.09 i have just checked on my supermarket and t3scos own cream crackers are 25p! how can there be such a mark up just because its a local shop :eek:.
serves me right , i wont be going there ever again

GroinSexyPavement

I feel like I’m haemorrhaging money at the moment.. hope it settles down a bit as the month goes on

lauzellen

Declaring a spend of £9.86 last friday.. shall be doing a food shop tomorrow at Mr A. I've loads of tesco vouchers... trying to decide whether to double them up for clothes for my DD for nursery.. to get her bday presents already (isn't her bday until aug) or to use for a big shop. Economically speaking it is probably better to at least double them up for clothes/presents or see if any of the tesco deals catch my eye.. hmmm decisions!

misscreditcrunch

Just updated my sig with my weekend grocery spend and have also included my one no spend day!!! I am determined to do well this month and am starting as I mean to go on!!!! The fridge and the freezer are pretty full so I'm hoping not to spend too much more this week on food. Take care everybody speak with you all soonxxx

mrspauper

I'm doing my meal plans for this week and am completely uninspired. I usually insist on two veggie days a week (my builder husband would eat meat at every meal if allowed). But, we slaughter our own animals so meat is really cheap for us, it doesn't come out of my grocery budget. Any ideas for veggie meals which will be filling for someone who's worked in the cold rain for 10 hours, but also won't break my grocery challenge? (BTW, my husband refuses to eat risotto). We will have spaghetti with tomato/black olives/anchovy/chilli sauce on one day but I can't think of anything else.
Also, reading other posts, what is DTD, in regards to supermarket shopping? This is all very new to me so I don't understand shorthand!

quintwins

i'm gonna spend my tesco vouchers on a 2 for 1 diner card then keep whats left for the next clubcard exchange i think (i have £4.50 and £2.50 left after my card so i don't think i can double them up)

spent £1.09 on milk this morning so will add that i might nip to te$co later to spend my dtd voucher i havent decided yet was suppose to go this morning but didn't and now i'm not sure if i want to go on an extra trip to spend it or just to wait til the morning

slight change of plan for tea burgers and chips for the kids and chicken keiv for me because they didn't get burgers last night and i promised so our gammons in the freezer for another night

ebayqueen_2

Afternoon all
Just updated my signature and have had 2 Nsds this weekend. Really pleased about this as I was really spending ridiculously last month. I think that I was so strict with myself over the jan and feb that I rebelled !!!! Ah well, back on track big time. Had to go to into main town for a message so decided to pop to Sainsbugs and stocked up on what I would have needed later in the week. Spent £36.25 but I did buy a bottle of red wine for best friend who I am going to visit in a couple of days. We are really trying to eat healthy here and we are buying alot of fruit and chicken so I doubt very much that I will be able to save much out of my £400 budget this month. We have cut back on bread drastically so we are spending more money on nuts etc.
Will do my best to keep on track but I think we all would agree that food is certainly increasing week by week.

I also would love to know what a DTD is...sorry its probably really obvious but it hasn't clicked with me yet!

Good luck to all this week

E

Billie-jo

First spends of April over the weekend and it came to £14.50 NSD today and am hoping for a good month as have quite a lot in already but we will see.
We are having liver & onions for tea tonight with some mashed potatoes.

DTD = Double The Difference. (refers to the price war Te$co and A$da have)

tigerfeet2006

it's the Tesc0 Double the Difference challenge

https://www.tescopricecheck.com/PriceCheck/Pages/Default.aspx

angelatgraceland

Ive done a lot of shopping this week BUT Ive bought a lot of bargains too!
The other day I went to Coop and got reduced chicken breasts which were already "supposedly" on a half price offer and I paid £1.90 per pack-about 4 breasts on av per pack. I bought 5 of those. Also got some spreadable butter(cant remember the brand)at just 44p as short dated-normaly about £2.38. Got 7 of those!
Went to Mr T today and got value curry sauce at 4p per tin!!!!!!!!!!!! Valu spag bol sauce at 18p per jar, straight spaghetti at 20p per pack and long grain rice at 49p per pack. We rather like Mr Ts low fat crackers at 26p per pack so got 4 packs. BARGAINS! Also went to Li*l and Mr M and got a few bargains there. Mr M is always good on sliced bread so I got 6 loaves. Lots of cold meats in Li*l-their 100g bavarian ham is only 88p. Now you see why Im a bit of a shopaholic! Now to find room in the cupboards! Ooh just remembered-got a turkey- 4kg in Li*l for £6.99. Perfect for Easter.