March 2012 Grocery Challenge

raphanius

spent £1.59 in l!dl on milk and creme fraiche - i used the creme fraiche to make leek, smoked bacon and blue cheese pasta (with castello) which was lush. i can highly recommend sainsbobs cooking bacon, its got plenty of huge bits of smoked bacon and only £1.09 for 650g.

spent £11.53 in Mr T on yellow sticker bread and some treats for DVD nights.

got an internet shop coming tonight from Mr T using my extra points and the latest price drop MOC's plus a conditional spend voucher that came through the post. I'll add it to my total later though when i know the amount it comes to.

went in b00ts yesterday and nearly bought shampoo and conditioner on offer at £7.50 for both and sanctuary face mask for the freebie....checked my card and only had 40 points left (thought i had more) so abandoned my basket when i realised i had nearly spent £20 on stuff i didnt need!!!!!

the good news....since doing the GC, even though i went over budget twice, i have saved £350 (what the heck was i buying caviar?!?!?!?!)

TheThriftyScrumpers

Morning,

Spiggle I have a raisin loaf in my panny, you made me really fancy it! We did a milk loaf at the weekend and that was reall nice.

Meals

Mon - prawn curry, rice and naan
Tues - tuna jacket pot and salad
Wed - pasta bake and salad
Thurs - freezer surprise
Fri - chicken Thai curry with veg spring rolls and rice
Sat - at friends house

I did a new freezer list so I can make a real effort to use up what we already have. Also listed some things to sell on fb selling site, I have made £57 so far! Just as well as my car is in the garage and the microwave blew up on sat

sheselectric_2

Hi All :wave:

Went to Mr A on way home from work on Friday £30.38 and then £3.87 in Mr T spent on a few bits that Mr A didn't have on Friday!

Bit more than I would've liked to have spent during the first week but did include a few things that we don't need every week such as icing sugar, kitchen roll and a few cleaning bits.

Bought own brand Mr A cat biscuits so we'll see whether the cats eat them or turn their noses up at them. To be honest the one cat could live off his own fat reserves for a few weeks :rotfl:

scotmumof3

Thankyou everyone for all your kind words and thoughts x
Funeral is all arranged now for Friday and we are starting to slowly get back to normality now (or as near as possible)
Have updated my sig and I have to say posting on here is keeping me sane you are all so very kind.
Going for some shopping today (first day DH has felt up to it) and am planning HM soup and bread for tea with rice pud and fruit to follow. Still using up the lentil mountain so it will be lentil and bacon soup:)

Naomim

Hi All,

I did a Mr. T shop on Saturday and it came it at £75.79 but I did buy 18 toilet rolls and dishwasher tablets for the 2nd week running as they are on special offer so I'm stocking up. If it was a normal week the shop would have been £63 :j

I have meal planned for the week although the joint I bought for last Sunday never got cooked as we ended up eating out so that needs to find a space in my freezer.

This weeks dinners were / are:

Sun - Beef joint - roast
Mon - HM Spag Bol
Tues - Chicken Fajitas
Weds - Fish & HM chips
Thurs - Gammon & Egg
Fri - Sausage & Mash


Naomi x

cattysmum

Hi there, Im thinking of changing my spending strategy, what I normally do is when I shop I put everything on my debit card but this month I have decided to take an amount each week out of the bank so yesterday I took out £50 for a shop at Tescos which after multibuys,coupon use and Mocs got my shop down from £68 down to £23, I will be buying OH fish and chips on Thursday which will take my spend up to £27.80 leaving me with £22.20 which I will spin out until next Monday and if I have any left am going to start a second purse, which Iv been wanting to do for a while. What does everyone else do and which works best Cash or debit card grocery shopping??

SAVVYJADE

Just popped to local m and s, they've got frozen turkeys reduced from£18/£20 to £5! They're a good size too so got a couple. Not sure if this is store specific

Still haven't updated any of signature for March! Oops!

lisakay_2

Not posted since my last shop on the 28th, so 7 days no spends and hopefully can last til sunday. feeling very sorry for myself as i'm full of the flu, and it's not just manflu. i've barely left the sofa since sunday and even my skin hurts! my youngest brought it home from nursery on friday and she's only just starting to feel better, she went to bed at 7 last night and got up at 2pm this afternoon.
even as i type this, i know i sound pathetic!!! lots of hugs to those in need x
feeling very mse despite being ill as i've managed to bags a free haircut at the toni& guy academy in manchester on friday, hopefully i'll be fully fit by then.

eta, arms length hugs only cos u dont want a share of this, lol
about to shove a pork joint in the oven for kids tea and itr will do for butties and meals for the rest of the week as well, otherwise i'd have to go to the co op for ham and i can never just buy ham bought it just after christmas half price and then half price again s shortdated. so £3.50 for a couple of kgs.

ragz_2

Approved foods order came yesterday and rather blew my budget. I tend to order a lot to make it worth the postage and then end up with a load of carp!

SEVEN (ok that was a mistake, I didn't order that many!) tins of creamed corn
9kg of pancake flour (lucky the boys are loving pancakes at the moment)
48 (another mistake) sachets of thai red curry paste...

the only truly useful thing I bought was loo roll as I stopped shopping at tesco so can't get thir springforce one any more.

bestill

Hello, could I ask a question? I saw ham shanks in a local butchers for £2.50 the other day & was wondering if this was good value and if it is what do I do with it? Would be greatful for any advice.