May 2011 Grocery Challenge

Sue14

First spend of the month, £1.85 for milk yesterday.

Gintotmelinda

Morning all

My month started 27April when OH got paid. I have just worked out my spend so far and it is £138.76. Definitely need to do better although some items will last me the month but was pleased as I have been meal planning this week. Did seem to do lots of small shops this week though. And we are eating way too much cheese :eek: Ahem or rather me....although we seem to use it grated over pasta dishes and in sauces. I like to eat it on pumpkin Ryvita :rotfl:

I am not spending much on snacks as OH and DS have been "eating healthily" and have both lost about a stone. Not me though.......

Tea tonight is fish and chips from the freezer with mushy peas.

Have a moneysaving day all.

Gintot

Nimeth

I've been so busy and stressed that I forgot to update!:o

I've had 3 NSDs so far this month. I spent £13.78 in Morrison$ on Sunday, £17.02 in Te$co's on Tuesday and did my weekly shop today in A!di and Morrison$. Spent a total of £53.18.

So far spent £83.98 this month:eek:

At least I don't need to get a weekly shop next week, so I might still on track to come in under budget. (I better come in under budget as my flaming car cost me a bloomin fortune last month:mad:).

quintwins

morning all i got my 2 for 1 diningcard this morning :j so since oh is on a half day were off for a drive and to primark to get him a few t's and the twins underwear to put away for starting school, then were off to pizza hut for tea with our card will update spends later

dibblersan

nessie216 wrote: »

9p???

Looked online and it is showing up 18p - so not fair! :mad:

is there regional variation?

it's 500g tesco value penne pasta

EDIT: yes, it's now 18p where I am as well :eek:

Less guiltly I bought so much of it now!

How can it double in price over a week?

It's still cheap - 36p a kg... but still

nessie216

dibblersan wrote: »

is there regional variation?

it's 500g tesco value penne pasta

EDIT: yes, it's now 18p where I am as well :eek:

Less guiltly I bought so much of it now!

How can it double in price over a week?

It's still cheap - 36p a kg... but still

And A$da do the same for 9p a bag! What is the point in doubling it when their leading competitor does it for half price? Would this work on the price promise? (i don't know how it works!)

Edit: A$da only let you have 12 per order for online deliveries - does this mean you cannot buy more than 12 if you go in store?

sistercas

Billie-jo wrote: »

Have looked both in store and on My $upermarket but cant find pasta for 9p. Cheapest I can find is 100% dearer :rotfl: Te$co value pasta quills.

i got mine last week from sainsbugs but i think they have put them up again

off to t3esco in a mo i have a £6 off a £40 spend and if the lurpak is on offer i will pick up a few

gien

Another Aldl shop today 64.39 euros. I got a lot of fruit and veg but very little meat. I do the taste radar scheme and get 30 euros worth of fruit and veg reimbursed per month, so when that's credited to my account I'll take it off my total.

So that's 121.19 euros already and it's only the 6th May - not good really.

I will have to do some cheaper stuff in the future. What are the most obvious things to cut back though?

GroinSexyPavement

OH is such a bad influence on me when GC shopping.. I don't drive so he has to come, and I would never trust him to do it on his own

Last night we spent £10, yes TEN POUNDS on treats for the dog!!! OH said he was buying them from his own money but I forgot when we got to the checkout and let it all go through together. We have family coming tomorrow for a BBQ which is costing us maybe £15, and then we spent £10 on toiletries (my mouthwash alone was £5! eek).

So total is already up to a scary £114 with three weekly shops left to go. I foresee plenty of beans on toast next week! And hopefully some BBQ leftovers...

cutiepieabf

slbhill wrote: »

Had a mixed evening yesterday! Went to MrT for weekly shop and stocked up on some things, should only need fresh stuff for the rest of the month I hope.

Got home and decided to do a bit of cooking. Knocked the cookbooks over which sent my card index of recipes flying across the kitchen, cards everywhere. The box didn't break & nothing landed in the pan soaking in the sink, so I picked it all up and put it back, only to knock it off again, this time the box did break. (Who, me clumsy??) Thought I would make carrot cake to use up some of last week's whoopsied bag of carrots, reached into the bag & found that two of them had gone liquid in the bottom of the bag :eek: and of course they had "bled" all over the others. Somehow I hadn't even noticed but once they were out they STANK, yeuch . In a way it was lucky that the goo had got onto the bag of potatoes (also whoopsied) I had just put in the veg drawer - I emptied the potatoes from the bag & found two were already brown and squishy on one side which I hadn't noticed in the shop. It looked like the bag had been dropped from a huge height :mad: and several of the spuds were bashed or split.

I also realised a slight problem with my planning - I had bought a big bag of mince, some onions and other oddments to try my hand at batch cooking. But there I estimate the available space in the freezer at 3 cubic inches :rotfl:

On the plus side I did make the cake without further incident and iced it using some Philly I'd had for ages (just within date). The cake was undercooked so it disintegrates rather easily but as long as you don't mind eating it with a spoon it's lovely

Just off to update my signature, let's hope i don't have any more traumas in the kitchen tonight!

:rotfl:oh i am sorry but this post did make me chuckle. these are the exact kinds of things i do. trying so hard to be organised and efficient and then bullsing it up somehow. :cool: Like when i make something for tea, and then put extra in the oven while i eat so it can go in the freezer for another day, and then forgetting its in the oven until a couple of hours later when the cat smells smoke from under the door.... or when i put a chicken carcass in a pan to boil for chicken stock, forgot it was on the stove and went to the garden centre with my folks, popped into town on the way back, and 3 hours later came home to a house full of smoke. the smell took about 4 weeks to go away.... all the best laid plans eh?!:A