March 2012 Grocery Challenge

sistercas

spent £7.50 on guinea pig food and bedding and £5.74 on posh cheese and chicken pieces from a farm shop yesterday .

NSD today and should be tomorrow too

will update my sig

DundeeDoll

Mince padded with oats and lentils has got the thumbs up :T made it with 1/2lb YS steak mince. Plenty left for chilli tomoz and cottage pie wed with some beans added. another NSD so totally exceeded target :beer:

xxlouisexx56

£15 is morrisons on Friday

£16 between morrisons and Iceland today on milk Alpen tea bags pepsi apples and ice lollies


I have an asda shop coming on Thursday

Lovethenight

Spent another £7 today in MrT on cheese, humous, ys mushrooms and a bottle of wine.

Well over budget with 2 weeks to go but plenty of food in and at least I'm being more mindful of what I spend this month!

166million

Ninno820 wrote: »

Adding a NSD here - I need to be strong until pay day (11 days!)

You get paid the same day as me. I have well overspent my budget for the first couple of weeks. I am hoping it means I'll spend hardly anything for the remainder of March!

coldcazzie

I need to update my sig but my month seems to have started out alright. £140.15 on stocks from Tesco. Made the mistake of sending hubby to shop on Saturday for supplies for having some friends round for dinner. Specifically asked him to go to Morrison's to get own brand bread as our local sm is especially good and the one in town is *awful* :eek: what does he come back with? Kingsmill.

Anywho we were well over budget last month, don't really know what happened, but need to get back in the groove this month so have created myself a freezer stock list (and surprised myself by just how much we have in the freezer!) and have written myself out my shopping lists for the next couple of weeks.

Was planning on getting on the bus about now to go to the sm, but the 2yo fell asleep in my lap 15 minutes ago, so I've put her to bed and will send him a very specifically worded list of can't-wait-until-tomorrows for him to pick up on his way home from work, and then get the rest tomorrow when I'm out anyway.

M0neysav3r

Just logging my spends so far at £143.82 for March.... not too bad and expecting a low spend next week

bikelesschick

Quick post to update my spending: £162.11 so far. I'm still hopeful we'll come under budget with the view of decreasing it next month. Bring it on!

tessie_bear

hi..popped to the coop and got some more bargains however the freezer is full up now so there must be no more sneaky trips for reduced bread or rolls or muffins or cookies orcrumpets or croissants or chocolate pastries or pork chops or haddock ...for a few days at least

made cornish pasties this afternoon after being inspired by frugal queens blog...they smell nice but havent eaten one yet...cooking 4 lots of left overs for tea so using upa lot which is always helpful

take care tess

FrugalLina

I had an appointment in a town that has a huge Asd@, so made my list last night and spent £24.24 on groceries (that also included some toiletries), it seemed a lot for what I came out with, although that did include a ginormous bag of pasta and a huge chunk of cheese which will last me ages. I didn't get any veggies in that lot either as it is farmers market this weekend and I will get them then (I still have plenty in from last Friday's shop.

So apart from fruit and veg, I think I have all I need now until the end of the month (fingers crossed)!