April 2012 Grocery Challenge

FrugalLina

Oh dear, I turn my back for a day and there are now far too many messages for me to catch up on - my apols if I miss anything important.

My first spend of the month was a wapping £12.78, just basics, but plenty there for several days. I still need to get my veggies though!

166million

Heelooo all, going to aim for £80 this month (£20 per week). Must be strong!

NickJW

First spend of the month - £8 in Mr S on lunch things.

fozziebeartoo

I feel very OS since joining this thread and making a point of reading everyones posts!

I have 2 lines of washing in the garden.

Picked over the roast meat left from Sunday lunch and got it ready to use and/or freeze.

Cooked the last of the store cupboard rice (and cooled it ultra quickly) for use tonight and freeze the rest.

My resolve to stay away from the shops lasted.....ooooo.....a whole 24 hours

I spent £2.32 in Mr C on YS 500g chicken breasts and 750g carrots, so was happy with that - will prepare all the carrots, use some tomorrow and freeze the rest. The chicken is in the freezer for another day.

Then I spent £9.90 in Lidl but 1/2 of that was store cupboard stuff from my Second Purse.

I toasted stale LO homemade bread for brekkie, have enough LO chicken and stuffing from yesterday to make a roll for lunch (will defrost one from freezer) and then will stir fry the rest of the chicken with rice, LO peas and maybe mushrooms for tea for DGS and me.

Then I have LO pork (also from yesterday) to freeze for sweet and sour pork another night with the LO rice.

Yesterdays big family meal was a 1/2 price YS chicken (£1.99) and pork joint f(£2.50) from Mr C a while back.

Tomorrow I am making lasagne (some to eat and some to freeze).

Of course all these good plans depend on 2 year old having a morning nap and sleeping through the night, in order for me to have the time (and energy) to keep to my plans :rotfl:

Cheapskate

Hello again

Made a good start today - spent £0.98 in HB (stock cubes & tinned tomatoes) and £11.53 in Mr S (bits for lunches over the week). Freezer surprise for tea, got odds and ends for lunch tomorrow, need to buy cheese and meat for lasagne for Tues tea and bread soon.

As the kids are on holiday from school now, I was hoping to bake but my main oven is broken now, so can only use the little non-fan one with one shelf! :mad: Will have to do with making a load of SC meals to eat/freeze to use up bendy veg.

Hoping to pop to L!dl tomorrow to see what their 39p things are this week. School hols tend to be cheaper, foodwise, here than term time, I think mainly because we use up odds and ends that are hard to put in lunchboxes.

fozziebeartoo - our 2.5 year old has been waking us up for the last few weeks (different illnesses) so I know exactly what you mean!

A xo

jumblejack

Florence.... Loving the pics. Gives us all moneysaving inspiration for meals!

Fozziebear.... Loving the use of leftovers!! We throw far too much useful stuff away!

We are having leftover spicy rice tonight with home made Bombay potatoes as I have to use up the sprouting spuds that are left !

OH was hoping for a meaty meal tonight after several veggie options I have
served up but I'm afraid not! I'm using up what's fresh n needs to be used before I go defrosting stuff just for a whim!!!!

Back to the painting now!!! In the past week I've done 3 bedrooms, the living room, cleaned out the shed and painted the exterior and now it is the turn of the kitchen!!! I'm always amazed by how mucky cupboard tops get with that greasy buildup from constant cooking. :eek: So chuffed that everything is having a good spring spruce. Feel so much better for it!!!

Winchelsea

Spent £3.62 in Sa*nsb*rys this morning on basics - fruit and veg, rice and yoghurt. Total for the month so far therefore £4.62, as bought milk yesterday in Icel*nd.

Am determined to stay within budget this month, as have not yet achieved the £40. (It can be done, with all the stores I've got!)

mandco

why do things never go as planned? shopped fri so i wouldnt need to go today with the kids only ended up having to pick something up for the direct desk at mr T for someone and came out £35 lighter :mad: that said I did get 2 wks worth of cat food as that was on offer and 2 of the £5 meal deals:
pork loins roughly 6 per pack
sweet heart cabbage
4 tomatoes
3 pk onions
chantenay carrots 500g
4pk cooking chorizo sausages (any ideas what to do with that??)
saving at mr t inflated prices £5.72 on each deal
so prob not as bad as it seems but more that I'd intended to spend and taking me overbudget for this wk so must stay out of the shops and get back on track

off to replan the meal plan to use up what I brought

mummyyof5

NSD yesterday..need more of them lol.
Today I spent £1 in W**sons on the sleep easy bubble bath..on offer and does help me sleep.
£1 on sugar and £5.10 in MrTs..2 x Pepsi Max..bacon and 2 jars of salmon spread..only 32p each and I love it with cucumber..cheap lunch.
£1.60 on market for cauli and broccoli
HB and Al**i tomorrow..we need crisps and theirs seem to be the cheapest for me...will also see what they have on offer veg wise..

kittywight

Save_Dosh wrote: »

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.

dont buy it often, i used the lidls one it wasnt too bad, cheaper than potatoes in this case so i had to have it lol

spent £2.30 today

2 packets of ready rolled puff pastry, £1 each co-*p reduced
and a scotch egg for ds,