April 2011 Grocery Challenge

Billie-jo

CRANKY40 wrote: »

You know how sometimes you wonder if all this fiddling round is worth it, or if making things yourself is appreciated? Well today my son told me my cookies were better than the shop ones. Result!

Praise indeed. :T it makes all the effort very worthwhile.
Went slightly crazy in Te$co and green grocers today and all together spent £32.87 apart from what was on my list I got some extra bits as tomorrow we have the grand children and are taking them on a picnic. They all love fruit so brought loads of it - grapes, apples, strawberries, oranges and kiwi. Also got some chicken thighs and some sausage rolls and cooked them while tea was in the oven (used my brain for once there)

Had about 1/4 of a loaf in the cupboard that had gone rather stale so whizzed that up in the processor and its now in the freezer for use in something later. I doubt very much I could get anything bigger than an ice cube in there at the moment.

Candy_Belle

A few more spends from yesterday to report

B/Care - £1.05 2xHandwash
W***o's - £3.96 5xFelix 4xTinned Cat Food
A**a - £3.40 50 Green Tea Teabags & Alpen Bars

Off to update siggy. Enjoy the sunshine!! x

quintwins

£1.50 spend on a loaf of bread yeasterday :eek::eek: i could make 8 loafs for that atleast, i'm never sending my bro to the shop for me again :rotfl: i said cheap but soft and he spends £1.50 lol i did need it tho as i had him and my sister for lunch, if i'd ahve bought us stuff it would have been alot dearer so we had cheesy beans on toast

kids are still off school, so lunch is soup, tea is chilli made from lastnights spag bol

my kids call cherryade cherrycoke cause it's fizzy, i have to admit i love it aswell and have passed that onto them, iceland do 3 for £1 btw i havent been to iceland in ages tho

i still have a few dtd vouchers to spend before the end of the end of the month so i should stay well under budget, however hubby is off on mon and tue so we will prob go to the beach if it's warm or the zoo which will add to the spends

*Twizzle*

Morning

Finally found my shopping reciept, so much for being organised :cool:

Shopping on Saturday was £28.01p

Still on target for the month...i think!!!!

Made some bagel (reduced to 35p) pizzas for tea yesterday ...scrummy x

Enjoy the sunshine

Spike x

Winged_one

Spent €2.92 last night on a half loaf of bread and creme fraiche. MR T was just closing, but there was a woman causing havoc with her "few bits" so the till was still open and they let me in. No point in getting a whole loaf as we are away for the weekend and no room to freeze spare.

We used the leftover chicken for a pasta dish on Monday with gooats cheese, leftover peas, onion and garlic, a few mangetout (only slightly past their best), lots of mushrooms, some pepper and some courgette. I had a pack of fresh lasagne sheets but no meat sauce (and no inclination to make it), so cut that into tagliatelle strips. With a few juices from the chicken the previous night (not much as it was quite a sweet sauce), and the melting goats cheese, it was very tasty!

Last night, we used up the pack of spare ribs in the fridge, with some oven chips. And DD had home fried potatoes using the leftover roasties from Sunday.

DH used the last of the chicken in his sambos for today (and yesterday), while we both had leftover lamb in our salads Monday and I finished it in another yesterday.

Tonight, I have fresh chicken to cook and will think about something inspiring when I get home (may even redo Monday's efforts, or else a jar of sauce and rice or pasta - depends on energy levels). Tomorrow is chorizo potatoes.

I am higher than I wanted to be recently, but trying to use up things in the cupboards had resulted in strange gaps (like no tins of tuna recently!!, and no crisps for DH lunches) so have had to spend more on a few things. But the garden will give me a lot this summer, I am determined on that!! So I should pull back some of that lost ground then.

sistercas

defo over budget this month , but hopefully we wont need to spend anymore this month .
with me incapacitated DH has taken dd.s for school shoes which i had budgeted for but he also bought pork sandwiches , took his car through the car wash and bought more beer :eek:
he just doesnt 'get it'

still my back is improving so hopefully i will be fighting fit for next months challenge

01001011

Just update my GC. Did many small shopping and spent € 50.01 / 100. Also spent €8.97 on a new wok due to impulse buy

prophecy_grrl

Have totalled up all grocery reciepts so far this month and have spent £140 dead on so far! One shop left of April budget, so £40. I need nappies wipes and cat food, as well as fresh stuff - should manage it I reckon :-)

tootoo

cutiepieabf wrote: »

hey guys,


does anyone have any tips on cheap cat food ideas? our cat WONT eat actual fresh meat?! and she doesnt like tins. she will only eat felix or whiskas pouches!! must spend atleast £30 on cat food a month!

I would like to know the answer to this too! He will eat tinned tuna, but then refuse anything for the next few days thinking if he protests he will live on tuna forever!.....I bought felix tins (surely the same as pouches!?) and he is refusing to eat them, just munching his biscuits instead....guess I'll be going shopping tomorrow!

I've only got £20 left for the rest of April (10 days of food) so I may pick you lovely peoples brains for recipes next week if thats ok?!
As already said, if it wasn't for this challenge, I can only imagine how much I could've spent!
Tootoo

sparkle76

I *need* to rejoin this thread as we have been terrible lately...

In our flat in town we used to spend around £30 a week for 2 of us...

Now we are out of town in a house, and have a hungry cat and a car... average spend is £60 per week! Food & cat food alone is £50 of that prob.

We have a baby on the way, so I really have to get on with this, any help much appreciated!

I'm thinking that motivation techniques will be to stop buying bad food and expensive fresh food (pregnancy's fault, not mine)... keep receipts on the coffee table for that particular month rather than all in a stack I never look at... Maybe start shopping online too again as this was good before, now we have the space though x