March 2012 Grocery Challenge

nicknack

Small spend for me today of £4.23 in Lid!, as needed milk, bread, tomatoes and some strawberry jam for OH. Planning my next weekly shop on Saturday at the Ald! near work - it will be my first weekly shop there so will be interesting to see the difference between there and Mr T.

angelavdavis

Hi all,

I got Mum and Dad to 'fess up on their receipts and have discovered they spent £50 over the weekend in L!dl and A$da, so it looks like my total was actually up to £64 already :mad:

Tonights dinner will be pork strips with mash and peas - all storecupboard or freezer sourced.

DH and I have been using up the packet soup mixes that Mum has been buying (but not using), so the gaps are growing in the vast larder in the kitchen.

The total above also includes the milk, bread, butter, a cucumber, coca-cola for DH, cheese and mushrooms bought today.

DH is currently making a chocolate cake from a mix we had in the larder to use up the double cream leftover from the weekend (added to some cherry jam). We also had some in our packet mushroom soup which made it far richer in taste (and probably doubled the calories!).

Tomorrow DH, kids and I are going to have a tuna pasta bake with salad, whilst Mum and Dad (who won't eat tuna) will have shepherds pie from the freezer. I'm aiming for a NSD tomorrow hopefully.

bestill

hex2 wrote: »

Hi, there is a thread here on it:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/256992

Never seen them to buy myself, but I think they could be very useful if you like past bakes/quiche/soup and so on.

HTH

Thanks Hex2, a whole thread, that's great!

sheselectric_2

Another £1.88 on milk and sugar.

I don't know where all this milk goes in our house! Might trade one of the cats in for a cow I reckon I'd be better off :rotfl:

ixia

I went to Ald! during my lunch break today as I needed bread and milk and I picked up another few bits. £4.14 spent will update totals at weekend.

mumwithamission

Just spotted these on the Rainforest - 6 pks of 10 sachets just £9 - free del . HTH

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nescaf%C3%83%C2%A9-Cappuccino-Decaffeinated-Unsweetened-Sachets/dp/B003U72XUA/ref=sr_1_9?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1331136621&sr=1-9

bestill

Updated siggy & I'm about £8 over where I'd like to, however it's early in the month, so plenty of time yet.
Today was a good day, popped to c*-*p to get some butter for friends coming to lunch (it was their first visit & I didn't want to bring out the big tub of chepo marg) and I managed to get 2 blocks of nice cheese reduced to £1.05, from £4 & half price sausage rolls. Before starting this challenge I would have just gone straight to the buuter & not looked at the reduces section. Served my friends hm leek & pot soup with hm bread (from 5 min bread book) followed by hm cake (jam from AF, vegan so no eggs to buy) & hm biscuits for kids to decorate . Plenty of cake/biscuits for tea & hopefully lunches tomorrow. I am loving this challenge.

cattysmum

meg72 wrote: »

Cattysmum,Asda have a couple of scales that i was looking at,both £10 I think I am going to get the
one with its own bowl.

Thanks I will have a look:j

FlacosFloozie

Spent £45.36 in Mr T on weekly shop today. Really quite pleased as this included 310 on 2 packs of nappies for SIL as I'm making a baby hamper for her at the mo. Checked bank account and Mr FF spent £3.19 earlier this week bringing us to £48.55 altogether so far. I'm sure we could do better but it's so much less than we used to spend

Ninno820

well - its time for a confession. As you wills ee from my signature I have blwon this months budget - I was tempted into waitflower and spent just over £30. I could try to excuse myself - I have £45 left of the petrol budget this month, for example, and the car has more than enough in it. To be truthful, though, I just wanted to treat myself (hangs head in shame). Sorry folks!!

ON the plus side I would normally have spent double that nd have some things - like skimmed milk and bin liners that will last a few weeks.