April 2012 Grocery Challenge

pixiechick99

Hi there,
Could you please put me down for £250 for April please?
Thank you:A

tessie_bear

hi...got a bit of baking planned for today...a crumble for starters then some sort of cake....going to have bbq chicken for tea....

im planning not to shop until good friday so we will be eating from the cupboards and freezer for a week....tbh we have a fair bit in so not a great hardship

take care tess

newroadahead

Morning all

Did a shop in Al** and Mr A yesterday total spend £77.93:o so far and have added up the spends since 21st, will update siggy accordingly.

To be fair this will be a strange month as I am not fully back to work yet and seem to "graze" more when I am at home during the day.

However onward and upwards need to get on and do some baking today.

NRA

CherryPie

S-I_am wrote: »

CherryPie how did you get on today? Really hope your boss had some good news for you on the job front.

He conveniently forget we had a meeting! :eek: So no news yet, maybe Monday. But thank you for asking. Will keep you posted.


Will finish off my shopping list later and make a trip to A$da over the weekend and post my first spend of the month.

:beer:

Gorgeestwo

Good morning,
Had my first spend of April yesterday of £36.64.
Think I'm going to go for a budget of £500 this month, have a feeling that as the kids are off school for the next two weeks and DH is hoping to take a few days holiday too its going to be an expensive one!
Good luck to everyone

njk1012

I'd like to join for this month please. My month will run from today to the 30th of April and we are going to try for £300. This is for 4 of us plus pets including everything, booze, toiletries, detergents, pet food, seeds for garden etc.

Off to do an inventory of the freezers and cupboards to see exactly what we don't need in an attempt to cut the spending.

Spiggle

Hi All,

Just a very quick post to thank zippy, rosieben and helen jelly for their fantastic efforts to keep us on the straight and narrow.

I'll be away until after the 8th on holiday in Spain so will catch up with you all then.

Take care,
Spigs

helen_jelly

Spiggle - have a lovely holiday - hope the weather is nice for you

Welcome and Hi to all our new people - please read the post by Spiggle on the first page - its really helpful and full of great info [post no1]

Thanks to Rosieben who does the collation of all the great recipes and thanks to Zippy [and welcome back] for setting up the thread

Happy no shopping everyone

Helen x

Budgets done to here and will update front page later

old_and_happy

Having just gone through my receipt I am feeling much happier now!

Realised my £54 spend (which made me cry a bit) actually included £13 of suncream and £7 of condoms (it's cheaper to buy the big pack! lol).

So thats £20 less, which is only about £34 shop this week (not that I want that to be included in the balance) but it makes me feel better! Lol

craigywv

old_and_happy wrote: »

Having just gone through my receipt I am feeling much happier now!

Realised my £54 spend (which made me cry a bit) actually included £13 of suncream and £7 of condoms (it's cheaper to buy the big pack! lol).

So thats £20 less, which is only about £34 shop this week (not that I want that to be included in the balance) but it makes me feel better! Lol

hi, just reading your notice and on ebay condoms are much cheaper i know thats where we get ours!! and they bags of 100 kitemarked and dated for long times . hope this helps.;)