May 2011 Grocery Challenge

SOT2011

Thank you all for getting us started again.

Slightly over again last month, £253/£240, and that is the second time I have been a bit over, so please can you put me down for £240 again, third time lucky - not that luck has much to do with it, more like good planning and plenty of self restraint

Fisyear

Hi I would love to join this challenge, can you put me down for £250 for May. Thanks

jovi20

Hi again,

Can you please put me down for £350 for May,

Thanks,

jovi20

Spiggle

Hello All, :wave:

Thanks Pink, :A MrsMcCawber :A and Rosieben :A for our lovely new May GC thread.

Welcome to any newbies joining us :hello: and please try to quote your budget amount in red text preferably enlarged too. (Use the drop down menu under the A immediately above the text box to change colour and the drop down menu next to the 2 immediately above to change the size. )

susan946 wrote: »

... May I join in please? I should like to aim for £350 for May.

One of my problems is that, ..., 'im indoors' sometimes escapes and takes himself off to Mr T without asking permission. He then comes home with bargains (genuine ones) he has found but that I hadn't budgeted for. Don't mind this toooo much - it's the occasional 'I just fancied somes' that I find it harder to deal with......need to get him more involved I guess!! ...

Welcome Susan, this made me laugh out loud!!! Although we're not retired my "'im indoors" has a distinct tendency to act in the same manner as yours! :rotfl: You've come to the right place to get support, inspiration and great ideas. And getting the OH involved is certainly a very good point to start with too. Good luck and please ask any and as many questions as you like, someone will have an answer.

CRANKY40 wrote: »

... We were supposedly attending a wedding party yesterday, except that when we got there at 2pm with our plates of cakes, nobody else had made any food..... The upshot was that at 7pm I ended up going home and raiding the (never empty) freezer for enough junk to feed 7 children while there parents sat around. One lady (who said she was having a BBQ at home then turned up without bringing any food) asked me when the next door neighbour was bringing the BBQ food over. My reply was that as we hadn't paid for any of it, sharing it was unlikely - the reply "oh I thought you'd gone halves with the food". ...

I wouldn't be cross Cranky, I'd be apoplectic! :mad::eek::mad: What a very rude and ungrateful lot. I hope they eventually value the fantastic person you obviously are :Ato make sure their kids get some food inside them. Oooooh, it makes me really mad :mad: but good on you for not letting emotion get the better of you.

Good luck everyone with the new Challenge - may your resolve be strong, your lists be thorough and your purse jammed shut!

We're off up to town shortly so I'll update the sig with the first spends of May then.

Take care all
Spigs

Long_tall_sally

cranky40 - some people are very strange is all I can say! Fancy going to a party empty handed & then not even thanking you for feeding THEIR kids!

Well I spent more than what I thought I would today! (Nothing new there really!) I have been to Mr T, Sainsburys, Home Bargains, Farm Foods & the market. However I do now feel "exceeeedingly" well stocked & in theory should only need to get f & v, milk, bread & maybe some cakes or biscuits for the rest of the month. Of course, the "in theory" has never mattered one jot before so not getting too cocky yet. We are after all, still in the month of April!

Sue14

Can I please be put down for £130 for May?

Spiggle

Ok, we've just got back in and we spent £19.04 between the butcher, grocer and s*perdr*g. Sig is now fully up to date.

I got myself a nice bottle of zinfandel wine so after watering the garden I'm gonna sit down with that and Dr Who before my friends arrive for the evening.

Have a great Satuday night and enjoy the rest of the bank holiday weekend. If this weather holds I may not get back on here until Tuesday! :cool:

Take care,
Spigs

Gintotmelinda

Evening all

Just popped in to say that Lidl by me have Branston Baked beans for £1 for a pack of 4 tins. I noticed the advert in our evening paper and OH dashed off to get some. The offer is only on today and tomorrow!

May need to make a return visit......

Have a good evening.

Gintot

crockpot

Added up my receipts from last week when my May started and spent £85.77 already.

Went into lidal today for picnic stuff and spent £12.88.

Not been in lidal for ages, as an Aldi has opened nearer to home, think it has got expensive
. Plan is to keep out of shops and have as many NSD as poss!

sparkle76

Hi all,
I would like to join for May please, can we be put down for £160 for the 2 of us plus our hungry cat...

I find it hard to shop less in hotter months though as there's less chance to batch cook - any suggestions?