March 2012 Grocery Challenge

abitofhelp

ohhh i'm a bit grouchy, we were going to have baked pots, salad & ham for tea tonight but i didnt fancy it. i wanted nachos with left over chilli from last night. came home and found we only had 1/4 bag of tortilla chips left, a quick trip to asd@ to restock and the price had gone up to 46p a pack, they were 25p when i bought them last month, so annoyed. i have adjusted sig to reflect a further spend of £8 consisting of ys bread and donuts, more milk couple of frozen things and two not four packs of those tortilla chips.

bunbun2

so how did we get to the middle of March and I haven't made one entry:( I was aiming for £240 but have lost track of shopping and spending. I haven't spent alot but not sure about OH. next month I must get him under control as well as the spending! even though I have lost track the GC has made me much more aware of my spending and shopping. thank you to you all!

lisakay_2

Just popping in to say hi really. I've not spent anything since 28th feb, and still no spends to report, so definitely coming in under budget so far this month:j. I've not time tonight to catch up with all the posts, but I will do...soon! in the meantime, hugs and happy vibes to those in need xx

Mrs_Addicted_to_Spending

Hi my spend for the week came to £89.62 (a bit expensive after 'accidental' wine purchasing incident ), which means month to date totals are £242.97/£450.00 with 2 weeks to go. I should easily manage it as I'm trying to stick to £50 for next week (a challenge as there's 4 of us including 2 DSs with massive appetites - we shall see!).

Had spag bol for tea made with 450g mince and bulked out with veg and I mixed the spaghetti into the sauce. Mince was on special offer and cost me £1.67 and so was spaghetti so it cost about £2.00 in total. There's enough left over for 2 of us to have with jacket potatoes tomorrow .

angelavdavis

Big shop at the weekend as we had run out of fresh veg, milk, bread, cheese, soft drinks, yoghurts, butter, etc.

Having said that, we had dinner from the freezer again - sausage, egg and chips (easy dinner) tonight. Last nights was a tuna pasta bake, salad and HM garlic bread.

Freezer and larder stocks are definitely getting lower. We have used up all instant custard and packet soup mixes Mum had bought, plus 2 of 4 monster packs of pasta and rice pudding tins!

PennyGrabber

tigerfeet2006 wrote: »

Rosspa delivery today Very happy with the quality again.

£1.99 for a 10kg sack of carrots and £1.99 for 5kg of humongous potatoes and 50p for 4kg of onions was rather a nice price. £1.25 for 2lbs of bacon pieces seemed a good price to miss as well. Also got 2 rather large cauli's and brocolli, the biggest sweet potatoes I have ever seen, banana's and apples.

The only thing is what do you do with the polystyrene boxes?? Answers on a postcard please

Dinner yesterday was chili done in the SC. I used 500g of mince rather than my usual 700-800g and chucked in a handful of lentils and 4 grated carrots. Ended up with more portions left over than normal for the freezer and the gannets didn't notice any different and I got extra veg in them. Served as usual with rice and creme fraiche.

Good work! That basically means you get three cookings' worth, for every old two! That's not to be sniffed at; quite a saving!

No idea about the polystyrene boxes, sorry.

lisakay wrote: »

Just popping in to say hi really. I've not spent anything since 28th feb, and still no spends to report, so definitely coming in under budget so far this month:j. I've not time tonight to catch up with all the posts, but I will do...soon! in the meantime, hugs and happy vibes to those in need xx

Wow! Well done for not spending anything this month so far! I'm so impressed (and completely in awe!).

I want to start the fiscal fast. Was going to have a nsd today, but that changed as we all went in for a pizza at work - £6. I'm ok with that though, as it's ofsted week, and I'm worth it!

Right, just done a 12 hour no-break day, now off to do another three hours' worth of marking! Catch you later!

PG x

mandco

spent far too much last wk & cant find the recipets to work out what non gc items I brought cost so gonna guess at £120

new wk new start with a Nsd sunday but spends of £25 since on not a lot really :mad: though did buy the the stuff to make the creamy lemon flan from the asda maga not exactly calorie friendly but lovely very lemony and enough for 2 days.

still gotta try and catch up as been soo busy but hope everyone had a good wk and not spent too much

lisakay_2

Ugh, pennygrabber, glad I'm not a teacher. Es[ecially glad I'm not my daughters school teacher, what with parents evening coming up and us not seeing eye to eye;).
My month starts on 25th, so I have had a spend out of this months budget, but only £50ish.
I've been trying the fiscal fast and it's easy...dont go to a shop and you cant spend money...what's not easy is finding meals out of whats in:p, cupboards and freezer looking a bit sparse and my big american style fridge contains 10 eggs, tub of marg, 3 1/2 pints milk, 6 bulbs of garlic, 1/2 swede and a red pepper. It might be omelettes for tea tomorrow:rotfl:. i still have a stock of pulses/rice/pasta/tins/frozen stuff so none of us are going to go hungry, but it's personal now. i really want to see how long i can go before i have to shop. 14nsd and counting!

tigerfeet2006

PennyGrabber wrote: »

Good work! That basically means you get three cookings' worth, for every old two! That's not to be sniffed at; quite a saving!

No idea about the polystyrene boxes, sorry.

Yeah! I am really chuffed about it I've done lentils before when I haven't done it in the SC and carrots as well and it hasn't been that well recieved but doing it in the SC really made a difference. I reckon I have about 3 portions in the freezer as well, possibly 4, which will go great on baked spuds.

I am going to email Rosspa and ask if they have any ideas.

Dinner tonight was sausages in herby gravy and cheesy mash. I ave enough mash left over to go on a cottage pie tomorrow.

DH is away tonight for his interview tomorrow. He has just heard that there is going to be a £350k cut in funding to his present school so there is going to be redundancies and cuts to rescources etc. and on top of hearing that his NQT has been signed off with stress.

Kylieminoag

Hello fellow challengers

Its getting a bit sqeaky on the budget round here.:o I could do with some NSDs... but DH txt me with his shopping list for tea cos he was making a batch of curries. He NEEDED cashews almonds coriander and I ended up buying YS bits of fish to a total of £18!:(

Thats it - I'm leaving my purse at home tomorrow!:rotfl:

on the upside my very first appr*ved f**ds delivery arrived today. One item was missing and they've kept the money for my next order:eek: and some things were a full 12 months out of date that I thought would be just in date (I had misread the dates on the website) but otherwise great value. Some of the items I would never normally buy but this was intentional to make me try new recipes. :rotfl:and for £1.20 I bought 7Kgs of chocolate blancmange powder so all ideas welcome!!!:D:D:D

At least we wont starve when the budget runs out:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: