April 2011 Grocery Challenge

Missus_Aka

QUINTWINS Just to let you know if you buy tescos strong bread flour 1.5kg at tescos for £1.24 you can put it in tescos double the difference price check and get £1.12 back in a voucher from the price checker......just dont mix it with other items that are cheaper at tesco than asda

WelshWoofer

Just back from Mr T and after CC vouchers were taken off (£6.50) the total bill was £29.50. I had originally budgeted £45 so am well pleased with the result.
I have even (very hopefully) put the receipt into the price checker thing - got 18p back last time!

Mothership

Billie-jo wrote: »

Am liking the idea of hanging baskets with cherry tomatoes in so probably get some of these next. .

I've done that for the past few years, got hundreds of tomatoes from each plant, it works really well, strawberries work well too.
Thompson & morgan have flower pouches , but you can grow herbs in them all you need is a nail in the wall or a railing to hang them from, even tied onto a balcony. Good luck with the growing

My sis went to say goodby in private to my mum yesterday, my other sis told them not to let her in so... She said she was ME, mischief managed LOL.

Don't have a scoobie what to cook for dinner tonight, not in the mood for fancy cooking, might make macaroni cheese & roast potatoes garlic bread and salad.

highland_fling_2

hello everyone,
beautiful morning here. Just wish I was well enough to work in the garden. My mind is making plans my body can't carry through.

Visited tesco for the first time in ages this week and spent nearly £50, a lot of juice and fruit, about all I am able to eat at the moment.

Bought yellow plums and they are awful, but it too far to return them. They look lovely but taste disgusting. :mad:That's why I like the market where any good greengrocer will let you try before you buy. But when they are already sealed in punnets it is impossible.

Oh well, will just have to put it down to bitter experience.

CherryPie

Popping in to report a spend of 8p!! :rotfl:

Used one of my DTD vouchers, and I hadn't bought enough so had to go back and pick something else up!!

Bought loads of fresh fruit and veg, amazing what afew days of nice weather does for the diet!!

Hugs to all that need them, and hope everyone has a lovely weekend

:beer:

crazybeautiful

loving the sunshine today :j

i've realised i spent too much on breakfast cereals. now buying oatibix/ weetabix. 24 biscuits in a box. 2 a day. so my box of cereal will last 12 days. my box of rice krispies never lasted that long

ebayqueen_2

hi crazybeautiful
You are getting into the GC. Well done. Good luck with it and keep going. Ask plenty of questions here and check out on recipe threads and you will get some great ideas for stretching your budget.
Take care

muffin_man_7

well a small spendy day yesterday and no problem at the till either so that was good i did check balance before i left house just to be on safe side only spent £9 that puts me on £24.98 spent £65.02 left to last to end of April

Why is it when you got no money you always see lots of bargains but no bargains when you got the cash can't win eh

We need milk, bread ,more cheese and juice but no money till monday so will just have to wait it's not long luckily then i will have to be a bit more carefull so we don't end up without next weekend

01001011

I discovered a Lidl 2.5km form my home a few weeks ago and visited the store the first time yesterday. They were reducing everything fresh by 30% :j. It remains to see how cheap they are.

The new GC total is 25.17 / 100 Eur.

Long_tall_sally

Hi everyone.

I've finally managed to catch up,phew!

Hippeechiq - still thinking of you & really hope you find the strength to complete the appeal regarding your daughter & she gets the decision that should clearly have been made originally.

Spiggle - thinking of you also Spiggle & hope you are recovering ok.

Mothership - I agree - the flowers to your sister sounds like a lovely idea.

Well, I have been doing lots of bits of shopping here & there. No planning as per usual! I have just added up the receipts and I am up to £250.58 so far and have until the 26th before my May can begin. That doesn't actually seem too bad tbh for me so with a bit of luck I might even repeat my one & only success of last month! Actually thinking about it, that total does include a sleeping bag & some clothes from Mr T which I haven't deducted so even better! Oooh, quite excited now at how much I can "legally" deduct from that total!

muffin man - I agree - I always seem to see "bargains" the last week of my month, never the first!