March 2012 Grocery Challenge

Barbeduk

Hello all, just starting on the March budget, am aiming for £260 again. Just scraped in for Feb but was really pleased as it was my first challenge.

Have spent £45.86 so far but the cupboards, fridge and freezer are now full. Got to pop to horrorsons on fri for mushrooms (we have a really big breakfast on a sunday and garlic mushrooms are an essential part!) and think I might stock up on their basics pasta as the price seems to go up and down all the time (currently 30p for 500g).

I have bought some things ahead as they're on offer, have never really done that before (duh!). Am also thinking what we'll need over the course of a month, rather than week to week, if that makes sense!

Good luck everyone

scotmumof3

Small spend for me today in asd@ got two packs of YS spicy ratatouille veg and sauce reduced from £2 to 74p each and a sour cream dip for with the veg chilli tonight so £2.41:)

superraven

Just logging a(nother) spend of £11.95, on absolute carp that I could have done without!! I really think that writing it down is going to make me realise how much I could save.

I also had never clicked about buying deals that could do us later in the month. My head seems to be fixed at buying for the week, Those 3 for £10 meat deals suddenly could work to my favour. Duurrrrr!!!

Hopefully a no spend day tomorrow, unless I cave and get a bottle of wine! :beer:

lisakay_2

been a bit of a fool today. let my mum convince me to go shopping with her. All I needed was a birthday card for my lil bro.
spent £3.20 in quality save on mostly rubbish, well 99p on seed spuds, 29p on part of a kids b'day pressi, the rest i didn't need
99p in greggs on pasties for me and mum..
...and £3 on olives from the speciality stall,:eek: really extravagant for me, yummy but feel a bit bad because you dont get much for your money and i could've bought a cheap jar of olives and tarted them up:o

oh and £1.80 on bogof utterly butterly. total to add to the grocery bill £7 (rounded up). I'm now aiming for 10 nsd on the run:cool:
at least i remembered to buy the card:rotfl:

lynn2302

Well after my slight over spend for feb could you please put me down for £250 for March

Thanks, good luck everyone x

rumblytum

Please count me in, I'll work out what the aim should be Friday.

rumbly x

Florenceem

Had a spend today - £1.38!

Dinner was roast potatoes/swede/carrot/onion and pizza.

elsiepac

I'm not caught up yet but have to go to bed so will sort tmw.......

£.14.98 on stock shop
and
£4.60 on Week1 shop

We'll see how it goes from here on in...!

LC

Mar GC: £19.58/£70
Week 1: £4.60/£9
Week 2: £0/£9
Week 3: £0/£9
Week 4: £0/£9
Week 5: £0/£9
Stores: £14.98/£25

skilly

Morning all, going to go for £250 this month :-)

helen_jelly

Morning everyone

Just a reminder - if you want to go on the front page please post your budget in red if you are happy to update your siggy only please post your budget in black
All new joiners will automatically go on the list until they are in the full swing of GC unless I'm told otherwise :]

Have a good day and happy no shopping

Big, huge thanks to Rosieben for doing the fab menus on the front page - it takes alot of hard work to keep them going and thanks to Zippy/Squeaky for starting the thread

Helen x