March 2012 Grocery Challenge

angelavdavis

Pink jam sandwiches sound great!

We are still eating out of the freezer and larder so had another NSD today.

We will need to do some shopping again this weekend but we are hoping to keep it light.

XSpender

Small shop in Mr S tonight as DH wanted a couple of beers as he has a day off tomorrow. Also bought some oven chips, 2 ys choux buns and some cheese and value fromager frais but I am counting the last 2 as April spends as my April starts next Thursday and they won't be used until then. Didn't want to miss out on the BOGOF cath city cheese as it is my fave:)

I am £1.66 over budget but am feeling rather pleased about my budget overall as my average weekly spend is going down month on month. This month I think I dropped the budget a little bit too far to £90/week when in Jan I spent £117/wk including my Christmas food and £96/wk in Feb. If I can come in at under £390 this month I will have equalled last month's weekly spend. April I am going for £380 as big drops are just not working for me.

Not much needed for the last week of my budget, bit of milk and as little else as I can get away with.

My plan for next month is to put all the gluten containing foods in one drawer in the freezer and shelf in the cupboard and eat them up just in case coeliac disease is confirmed in my biopsy next month.:(

MunniMuncha

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

1. If you portion some up and dip it in egg then breadcrumbs you can freeze these, ready to bake and serve with a condiment like cranberry jelly/jam as a starter.
2. You could melt some with gruyere to be a cheese fondue with veg sticks and croutons
3. DS's preferred sandwich is slices of brie with crispy smoked bacon, iceberg lettuce and cranberry jelly
4. Ask neighbours/ family if they would like to swap some now for something back later (maybe fruit or veg when they have a glut)
HTH
SL

Thanks SL, will defintely try the brie in breadcrumbs, sounds really yummy! but having just discovered since my post that I actually LOVE brie, don't think it'll get to the freezer now anyhow - 1/2 gone already:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Allypops

Note to self: do not enter SM without a list when have PMT. You know you will come out (like today) with 3x chocolate bars, large bag of doritos and a large multipack of crisps and a job lot of mint aero bubbles! - oh and several magazines. Total: £13.50 :eek:(at least some were on special offer :rotfl:

And.. I didn't buy anything for dinner. Result takeaway for DH and kids (bad mummy) and nothing for me as I felt sick from all that chocolate Another £10


Must try harder, must try harder......

Mrs_Addicted_to_Spending

LavenderBees - there is always French Onion soup - not sure if there's a recipe on here but you could always google one. Also onion gravy tastes really yum with things like sausages and mash.

tessie_bear

hi....up early today...got a lot to do and need to go shopping...we are out and about over the weekend so really shopping based on packups for the start of the week...we have meat balls for tea and im not sure what we are having tomorrow...need to sort that out

have a nice day tess

TheThriftyScrumpers

Morning!

I hope you are all well. Spends so far are just under £150/£350 I went shopping last night to mr t and hit whoopsie time. Got a posh fruit salad for kiddies b fast for 60p and some finest raspberries for 70p, a big punnet of plums for 40p. The man reducing was really nice telling me he was about to mark down the plums. I also got a Thai curry meal and A reggae reggae chicken dish both marked down to 60p each, some finest salmon fish cakes for 60p and some ken hom special fried rice for 35p so I have lots of lovely things stashed in the freezer.

It's been a funny week as DS has been poorly so 3 bad nights out of 5 but he is slowly getting better. I have been tempting him with various food to get him to eat so hope he likes the fruit salad.

Rosieben I hope you are ok xxx

Tiger feet I hope your OH is ok and hs interview went well xxx

OrkneyStar

Spent approx £43 in Tesco last night. Hoping not to shop, at all, for food, for at least 7 days, but ideally more. Got some stocks replenished, more veggie things for me (not a veggie but eating less meat), more milk to save extra trips (normally get Lidl milk but got two Tesco 'pure' which will last longer and the extra cost of them saves me money not willy nilly shopping!), bread, bread mix etc. Up here it is Tesco, Lidl, Coop, or local shops (live in Orkney), no Asda, Sainsbugs, Home Bargains etc etc .
Never mind it is a nice place to live, despite no shops and expensive fuel!

Barbeduk

Allypops wrote: »

Note to self: do not enter SM without a list when have PMT. You know you will come out (like today) with 3x chocolate bars, large bag of doritos and a large multipack of crisps and a job lot of mint aero bubbles! - oh and several magazines. Total: £13.50 :eek:(at least some were on special offer :rotfl:

And.. I didn't buy anything for dinner. Result takeaway for DH and kids (bad mummy) and nothing for me as I felt sick from all that chocolate Another £10


Must try harder, must try harder......

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Went to Mr M this morning, in just before 9am, it was awful, not enough checkouts open :eek::eek:

Spent £5.09 on noodles on offer, 8 rolls, cooking choc, some mushrooms and a plant for my mum:).

Could I just say how lovely it is now that the cupboards are getting emptier? I can see what's in them for the first time in ages! And tins don't keep falling out!

Made the weetabix cake again yesterday and it's nearly all gone. BIG hit with the whole family (apart from ds who didn't even like my choc chip cookies).

Have a lovely friday everyone.:D

debbiedeejay

Forgot to add on a midweek shop of £8.76 plus going to declare a extra spend of £7 ish due to buying DD's tea at McD Tues night - both very upset & subdued as a mutual friend(aged 17) of theirs passed away due to complications after a kidney transplant -very sad,and neither they or myself was in a state to be thinking about cooking that night.

Off to update sig-will be back later after weekly trudge round Mr M's.