April 2012 Grocery Challenge

kittywight

hello everyone

£35 for the week beginning the 1st april .. ive spent £3.89 in lidls today

2 bags of red onions, milk, instant mash, cat food and the carrier bag (i really should stop buying bags in there)

£31.11 left until the 7th

tbh im having a really bad time with money at the moment, so im aiming to spend as little as i can on food, got plenty here that needs to be eaten

i do need washing powder/ conditioner, toilet roll and cleaning stuff though, that always adds up



xxx

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Kittywright, laughing at the instant mash, thought i was the only one that used that cheat, tesco value is great. Tesco are doing 3 x 9 packs of Andrex puppies for £10, so works out at £3.33 per 9 pack.

Cleggie I would like the link to the packed lunch thread you are talking about please.

cleggie

cleggie wrote: »

EDIT- here is the link: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/23424


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There you go! I have found it to be really useful when at uni. I saved a fortune!

Kylieminoag

Woohoo! I found you all! :j:j:j:j:j

I got left behind in March and was feeling all lonesome!:o

Thanks to everyone that gave me directions.:T:T:T:T

I cant believe you got to page 6 before I got here though.... it'll take me a week to plough through!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

NSD for me today - perhaps as well seeing as most of Aprils budget has already gone!:eek:

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thanks cleggie

looie

Hi all, sorry for the late starting this month. I am going to set my budget at £90 I went slightly over last month but I am determined to stick within budget

£23.03 of my budget gone already after today's shopping, I won't need anything now until next weekend

Florenceem

newroadahead wrote: »

Spent another 42p today, bought a baton in Mor*****

Since hospital visitor has decided I need to see a nutrionist I have decided to try to reduce food intake so only 2 sausages each in toad in the hole (yes I know we have been greedy having 3 each but I do enjoy them).:o

Going to try and do some more baking this week in preparation for Easter and also NSD days.

Lets see what happens


NRA xxx

Have you tried cutting up the sausages into chunks - looks more in the batter than whole ones. I make a Toad in the Hole with just four sausages - does Mr F and I three day's dinners.

lovelife79

Penny Grabber - i've started doing that, much easier to do on a nightshift for some reason, but then its only 1 meal + snacks i need to organise for nights instead of 3 for a dayshift. Been thinking of getting a box in my car for snacks +/- cans of juice as if its in the kitchen i eat it. whereas if i store it in my car i wont go out just for juice!

for daytime though, well i've been reading all the different threads and following links to some brilliant ideas - like freezing ready made sandwiches! :T

such a simple but brilliant idea! so going to try that this week and see how i fare.

Anyway spent £8.32 on bits n bobs over last 5 days which isnt too bad.
Need to do a meal plan that involves eating out of freezer for next couple of weeks as it badly needs defrosted but will head to aldi's for f&v in the morning.

hope everyone had a good weekend! :beer:

angelatgraceland

Just declared for march at 293.90/333.33 so learly £40 left to spend! NSD today so thats a good start to the month!
Ive been looking at the ebay deals mapper-http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/local-ebay-deals/ absolutely brilliant! Got myself a little footstool last week for £2 and this week some lampshades for 99p including some wall lights. Just have to break the news to DH now! Cooked a nice steak for DS tonight in one of the fancy sauces from AF-they always come in handy, it was a marinade one probably to serve 4 but I let him have it all to himself and he thought it was great! cooked another Ocado FR chicken today but again not greatly impressed for a FR one as its rather small and not the best Ive had-a bit tougher than some. still-hopefully it had a good life!
Got some raspberries out of the freezer and warmed them up with a little sugar and topped with costard for desert-I've had them since 2009 so they needed using. i've been delving into the botttom of it you see! we have eaten very little bread recently and I still have some of my reduced fresh bread from a couple of weeks ago. Still no room in there though as I replaced the spaces with a huge tub of ice cream and some yorkies.(no not the terrier type):rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

cuddlymarm

Hi everyone

I hope everyone is well and not letting the price of grocerys get them down. I don't know whether there will be a petrol shortage but I am going to make sure that I keep my cupboards full in case we end up with any problems ( I remember the miners strikes when I was young when the electric was turned off for hours at a time and there were 3 day weeks and shortages of food etc.) but I am not going to let this government upset and worry me cos I know we will cope.

However the last 2 months I have come in well under target so this month I am going to aim for £150 for April
Anyway enough of my ramblings
Have a good month everyone
Cuddles:)