March 2012 Grocery Challenge

Long_tall_sally

New thread! Thanks as usual to everyone who runs it.

Took OH's Mum & her neighbour to Aldi today & also popped into Lidl next door. I like both shops but Lidl was empty & Aldi was pretty busy.
Some of the prices are so much cheaper than the big 4 but hope I didn't go overboard with the fruit & veg. Between the two shops I got a bag of salad 55p, a punnet of red grapes £1.29, a punnet of green grapes 89p, 2 small punnets of strawberries £1.38, a bag of kurly kale (for the rabbit & guinea pig) 79p, a bag of Gala apples 99p, 3 large onions 39p, 3 peppers £1.19, a Galia melon 99p, a bag of spinach 55p, a large cucumber 49p, a bag of oranges 69p, a broccoli 35p, 6 pears 69p, small apples 69p, 6 pears 69p and some mushrooms 59p! Some of these were Aldi's super 6 and some had 30% off their original price. Just got to eat it all now!

Dex

Can you put me down for £250 this month please, thats for me, OH and two cats - have no real idea what it'll come in at but am meal planning and trying to be good at work etc - need to stop the top up shops where I can easily spend £30 on one meal and a few bits!

Gigglepig

Please put me down for 200 for March. Grocery budget is not my strong point and I'm looking forward to a fresh start in March.

tjak

happy to report NSD today, as well as Sat and Sun, hoping to manage not to spend anything on food now until Thursday, which will really help keep me on track for this month's GC.
on the down side, DH has just had a surprise tax bill related to a deferred student loan - will be speaking to HMRC tonight when he gets home from work, but if it does need to be paid it will wipe out the savings we have built up which is frustrating. but, at least we had managed to save thanks to this website, so won't need to take on debt for it.

Need to menu plan properly for this week, but my chickens have started laying again, so we have an egg mountain!

Good luck everyone with this month's challenge, and thanks to those who run the thread

Lovethenight

Ooh - New Thread!:j

Masses of thanks to everyone who runs/updates the thread and for all the advice and help! This is my first proper GC month - running from 23rd Feb to 22nd March.

Hoping that £220 will be easy to do and any money that is left at the end of each month will go towards paying for a new bathroom

Good Luck Everyone!

greent

Afternoon all - having bust my £400 Feb budget, I'm going for a £450 budget for March - I shall keep tally in my signature, so ne need for me to be on the front page

Thanks to all who keep the thread going!

elsiepac

Hi everyone

Just wanted to pop on and set up my little record of spends ready for March! Quite excited as just over £21 under budget for February so lowest spend on Groceries EVER! :j

This is the plan for March (I won't be shopping until Wednesday as that's payday and when I officially start, also have plenty in till then!)

Good luck everyone, and thanks in particular to helenjelly, zippychick and rosieben for this thread, and everyone else who has kept me so inspired and entertained this month. I'm so pleased I joined up

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

sistercas

i cant believe its the 3rd GC already

im upping my budget this month as im pretty sure its a 5 week month for us

wont go shopping till thurs though so need to make a list

good luck to everybody

and thanks to all who run and maintain this thread :T:T

quintwins

oh pretty new thread thanks everyone.

i've been mia for awhile and my spending as went abit ott, we spent £102 last week where as we normally spend £40, i was so shocked til i counted up what we'd eaten and 7 punnets of strawberrys 5 punnets of grapes, 40 bananas and 40 eggs soon and a shocking amount of yogurt (atleast £30 worth) add up lol we only eat one loaf of bread all week tho and that was the kids.

i have a £4 off £40 tesco voucher ready for friday i also got a £3 off £20 spend til spit whats the chances of them letting me use both?

Ninno820

elsiepac wrote: »

Good luck everyone, and thanks in particular to helenjelly, zippychick and rosieben for this thread, and everyone else who has kept me so inspired and entertained this month. I'm so pleased I joined up

Seconded and thirded!

Just popping in to record a spend of £1.20 on much needed toffees (dont ask) and £10.70 on dog food. Its a large bag that should hopefully last the month.