April 2011 Grocery Challenge

WelshWoofer

Afternoon all!
As I was shopping near a Mr A I popped in to get a few bits and promptly spent £38:eek:
I usually use Mr T but thought they may have different SW friendly vegetarian stuff at Mr A.
I have actually done most of the weekly shop I was going to do on Saturday apart from some F&V that I'll need for next week (too early to buy today).

I'll hopefully only spend about £15 on the weekend to keep me somewhere near budget but we'll see!

helen_jelly

Just popped on to say

Spiggle - hope you are ok
Hippiechiq - hope you and DD are ok
Sistercas - hope the back is better

Need to update siggy but have to get a receipt from DH first

Helen

prophecy_grrl

I've just updated my sig - £101.44 so far this month of £180 budget. I've spent £58.85 this week, I was aiming for £45, so next week I'm aiming for £31.15 to make up for my £13.85 overspend. Should be doable - POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE (and loads of 9p pasta!)

freakyogre

£6.05 spent in Tesco today on cheese slices, bread rolls, onions, body spray and potato wedges. I usually make my own wedges, but the frozen ones were only 52p a bag and will last for ages, so i'll see what they're like and maybe carry on buying them.

I'll be popping to Lidl at the weekend to get some of the cheese that's on offer as it's a bargain!

GroinSexyPavement

Had a big spend of £70 today, but stocked up on washing powder and loo roll, and had one 'treat' meal because it's been a looong month for various reasons.

Should hopefully still be able to come in under budget tho, fingers crossed! :S

tootoo

Hi all,
Well my first month isn't looking good! And we have Easter around the corner.....I have £30.00 left until the end of the month (although I do have a freezer full and lots in the cupboard!). I suppose I really have to try and make everything last at bit longer....!!
tootoo

tessie_bear

hi...went to lid1 today and purchased a salad spinner and have been playing with it this afternoon...spent a further tenner in there...on lamb chops and a gammon joint i really like lid1 it opened in our town quite recently and i have purchased quite a few things in there

we had reduced chicken drumstix for tea which were nice....going out for tea tomorrow so will have to sort something nice for saturday

tata tess

karmachilovething

OK so it's been a pretty crazy month and so this is my first proper post. I have just caught up with everybody's news, and am now thinking that I am not the having the craziest month in comparison to most!

So (((hugs))) to Mothership, spiggle and hippychiq and anybody else that needs them.

So . . . this month I decided to work in cash only. Somebody (sorry, can't remember who!) said that they do this and it makes them more aware of spending. It's really helped me. Plus I am running down the freezer so I am feeling quite OK about my level of spends.

Current total is £63.29, which covers:
2 veg boxes (one of which will be coming tomorrow)
A "main shop" at co-0p
A whoopsies shop at S@insbuy's (I've learnt that when I leave the gym after work co-incides with final mark downs at the branch next door- there's a reason to exercise more!)
A L!dl top up shop.

Talking of veg boxes, somebody (again, sorry can't remember who, brain like a sieve at the moment) was asking how to find one. I have a local one, I think I just googled "veg box oxfordshire" or something. It's also the company my parents use (they're about 9 miles away). There are nationwide companies - Riverford organics and Able and Cole are the two big ones. I'm not sure how wide their distribution is, but people I know who us them say they're good. Also being bigger they have fancy ordering systems where you can say if you don't want some kinds of veg and they'll swap it etc.

Hope everybody has nice things planned for the weekend - eant to be getting sunny again

CherryPie

karmachilovething wrote: »

Talking of veg boxes, somebody (again, sorry can't remember who, brain like a sieve at the moment) was asking how to find one. I have a local one, I think I just googled "veg box oxfordshire" or something. It's also the company my parents use (they're about 9 miles away). There are nationwide companies - Riverford organics and Able and Cole are the two big ones. I'm not sure how wide their distribution is, but people I know who us them say they're good. Also being bigger they have fancy ordering systems where you can say if you don't want some kinds of veg and they'll swap it etc.

Hope everybody has nice things planned for the weekend - eant to be getting sunny again

Twas me!

Thanks for this. I'm fairly PC savvy, so you'd think I would've thought of this. Sadly not I'm doing my research now. I think It'd make me be more healthy so I'll give it a go.

Love this thread, don't feel daft asking daft questions IFKWIM

:beer:

quintwins

my local farm shop offeres fruit and veg boxes, altho tbh it's on the way home and they do diferent offers everyweek i'd rather just call in

well i didn't go to the farm shop or tesco infact i had a nsd not intentionally i'm just not feeling great, i didn't make tea either oh had beans on toast,and made the kids toast and ravioli :rotfl: i had a potnoodle cause i needed something soft

new sofa's are coming tomorrow so it's gonna be another nsd cause i have to wait in , thinking about to my totals looking pretty good considering we have loads of food in and i still have about £80 left