April 2011 Grocery Challenge

fedupandskint

£1.94 on 4 pack of napolina toms, 20p on paracetomol caplets and 99p on free range eggs

Total stands at £55.12/£130 = £74.88 left = £24.96 per week

This week just need fruit, veg, milk and salad - let me see if I can stick to it!

destroyerofdebt2011

2 Lil shops to report 1 on DTD bits hoping for about £8.50 back in a voucher. plus £1.40 ish on whoopsies and bargin 9p pasta.

Total spend £11.30 in Mr T

Does anyone know how long Hm Meringues last in an air tight container? as i have loads of eggs to use up... or does anyone have a nice egg custard receipe they want to share? .o0(Must go and check rosiebens post at the start there is normally so many great receipes there too)

:grouphug:to all those who need or want one there free so we may as well share!

Billie-jo

Hope everyone is enjoying this lovely weather we are having.

Have spent quite a lot of money since last post - £51.71 most of it was in Te$co but also got milk and a large sack of potatoes that cost £7.99 however the last sack was brought in early December and we only had two in the whole bag that we threw away plus about 8 which had sprouted so are now in the garden hopefully going to give us a few spuds later on. :money:
have also got some radishes growing and they are looking very healthy at the moment, some garlic, lettuce leaves and have brought some carrot seeds which will go in very soon. Havent got a lot of garden but will do what we can in the bit we have plus a few pots here and there. Am liking the idea of hanging baskets with cherry tomatoes in so probably get some of these next. Mum has a green house and I have got some peppers and chillies in there at the moment.

PennyGrabber

NSD today, thank goodness. Was tempted to go and get bbq stuff; like someone else said, this weather puts out your meal plan! Managed to have what I'd planned, though, as it had been taken out of the freezer and would have to be binned after today. NOOOO!!!!! So, we had roast pork (sliced and reheated) with carrot and potato mash. One day closer to hitting target!

On a non-gc note, I now have enough money to dec both children's bedrooms, and half the money for my daughter's new bed (gone up from £270 to £292 in the new arg@s catalogue), so budgetting and targets are good! And even if I don't make it this month, I am still saving more than I ever have, and overpaying my mortgage, so I won't be too harsh on myself. Go me!

Mum is coming up on Sunday to help me plant up my garden - not been able to get the motivation/feel guilty for not doing son's room, so Sunday is the day assigned for gardening! Will feel loads better about the summer gcs after that, I think.

Night all,
PG x

farmers-marketeer

First week over 38.10 Gbp so feel I'm close to target and that's allowing for organic dairy. Buy of the week 440 grammes of Barnsley lamb chops only 49p closely followed by 2 chocolate steamed puddings 1 kilo 1 quid

38.10 of 160 pounds

JIL

quintwins wrote: »

tesco bread flour has went up to £1.24 :eek: this means i'm going to have to start buying loafs again because it's just to dear and my lidl never has any in

spent £18 odd last night in te$co (will check receit in abit) mil wanted me to go help her with her dtd, i shud be getting most of mine bk, tea is pork casarole (with pork and gravy leftovers from the freezer) and some free dtd roasties and a wee bit of mash and veg shud be a nice cheap tea, kids are off today so will have to find something for there lunch aswell not that were short of food

oh and i had a £4 spend of coffee yesterday :eek::eek: my mums having a crisis so i went to talk to her and since she's being evicted i firgured i shud pay for the coffee, then the twins were grumpy so we stopped for ice cream in thorntons which was another £4 :eek: and then £1 on a loaf of bread aswell :eek:then there was £6 on buns from the bakery for oh to take into work (and 1 for me) was def not a good day yesterday :eek:

i think i need a good slap on the wrists and to make it worse i'm gonna ahve to help my mum pack and move cause she's working so my desil bills are gonna skyrocket aswell

Just a thought but can you do a DTD on the Breadflour?? I am sure I read on the Tesc/Asd@ board that it worked???
£1.24 -£1 (asd price) =24p x2 = 76p net cost per bag?_

farmers-marketeer

666paw wrote: »

Sorry to just jump straight in with a question but i'm currently planning my shopping list. Does anyone know how much bread flour is in ald* or Li£l?

Thanks in advance.

666

50p in:A:A Mr as asta be worth a look

farmers-marketeer

fedupandskint wrote: »

£1.94 on 4 pack of napolina toms, 20p on paracetomol caplets and 99p on free range eggs

Total stands at £55.12/£130 = £74.88 left = £24.96 per week

This week just need fruit, veg, milk and salad - let me see if I can stick to it!

Napolina tomatoes 25p a tin in home bargains

Janae

Hi - update for the last week:
Total spend of £93.92 so far, helped by 2 £5 off vouchers and OH buying his lunches on expenses, so a good start to the month . Now need to plan for next week.

ebayqueen_2

Morning all.
Hi Mothership...thinking about you and i would have done the same as you and give the lad some food. What sort of world are we living in. So many people addicted to drugs ... heart wrenching isn't it. I hope you will be able to help your little sister as she has her hands full with all the kids. All you can do is be kind and she will love you for that.

Congrats Rosieben on your wee new addition...I so look forward to being a granny but it will be a while yet!!!!

Well had a nsd on thursday and today should be one as well. Went to town yesterday and spent £42.35 in Mr Ts. There was not one item that I did not need but very few reductions ... got some avocados reduced by 20p!!!
Beautiful day here and I'm off to have me porridge!!!
God bless all.