April 2012 Grocery Challenge

mrs-moneypenny

forgot i bought 12 tins of chopped tomatoes at the carboot on sunday for £2.50. a school teacher said she over bought for a class cookery lesson and wont use them at home.
nipped in co*p on way back from dentist this morning got 2 packs of reduced thorntons brownies (38p a pack) and a pack of fresh green beans (34p) better start my sig for the month

got to nip out and pick bananas up in a bit (got bananas so another £1 added)

LavenderBees

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

forgot i bought 12 tins of chopped tomatoes at the carboot on sunday for £2.50. a school teacher said she over bought for a class cookery lesson and wont use them at home.

Eh? How strange is that? Obviously not a member of MSE OS board...well done you on your bargain, though

mummyyof5

A few spends to add after my weekly day out with mum

£12 in HB..very pleased with this as can easily spend £30 plus in here

£8.00 in Ice**nd

and £5.50 in Al**is

Made a nice toad in the hole with mash,peas and sweetcorn for tea last night.
Need to do a freezer dive shortly for tonights tea...have lots of chickeny things...just need to decide what to do with it .

MunniMuncha

PennyGrabber wrote: »

loo rolls £2 for eight from farmf00ds

PG x

Hi PG the loo rolls in my FF has NINE - so better check your packet as it might be that you have an extra roll for your money:T:T

Nick - Get well soon - what a brilliant excuse to 'rest' and do nothing:D

Fiasco55

I managed another NSD yesterday. Brown bag lunch today as well. I am off out for dinner and to the theatre tonight but that is from another budget. Staying at a hotel too (only travelodge ) but have prepaid for breakfast tomorrow as I am heading straight up the road and into work.

MrsDoubleEwe

What a lovely day considering it's supposed to be raining!

I've spent a total of £87.72 so far in Ald!'s and Mr S. This is more than my weekly budget but have a freezer full of meat and cupboard full of staples.


Hoping not to get drawn too much into getting "treats" over the Easter hols.


Hope everyone is enjoying the sunshine

coldcazzie

Hello all so I've been struggling recently with keeping track of where I'm up to with my grocery spending - can't remember which bits I've accounted for and which I haven't and as I do some via cash at the market (so no receipt) and some via my CC it's difficult to just look online and work it out again.

So, today I've created myself a spreadsheet onto which I'll put all my spends and divide them into food, toiletries, household/cleaning, cats etc, as these are all part of my budget but currently I've no idea what they are individually. I've a sheet for the monthly spends, then another into which the totals go so I can keep track quickly of the changes in spending on a month by month or annual basis. I've also got a third which I'm kind of using as a rollover/store cupboard, where I'm logging the spends which I've made in advance because it was a good deal.

For example, today I bought a huge gammon joint because it was half price, but I won't be using it until May so I'm going to include it in May's spend not March's.

Hopefully it will work! Am excited about it (well, as excited as you can get about a spreadsheet.... which, worryingly, is quite a lot...!! :rotfl:)

I'm going to set myself a budget for 9th April - 9th May of £450 to include everything, and then I'll go from there

meg72

MunniMuncha wrote: »

Sounds lush - will definitely be having a go at that one - is it okay to use baked beans?



Meg, if you have a F*armfoods near you they have frozen rhubarb at £1 a bag and is lovely too. Might satisfy your craving before you can start to pyo. Fresh rhubarb is sooooo expensive tho isn't it?

Thank you for that i will ask my daughter to get me some if she is going.Wonder why fresh is so expensive it grows so easy, when mine gets going i usually give loads away.I think its the same with runner beans, they grow like weeds but the price is always high in the SM.

I love my home grown as its free, the Rhubarb, raspberrys strawberyys and gooseberrys came from a disused allotment years ago and my beans are from seeds given to me and I save seeds every year.It gives me a real buzz to think that I have free food.

PennyGrabber

MunniMuncha wrote: »

Hi PG the loo rolls in my FF has NINE - so better check your packet as it might be that you have an extra roll for your money:T:T

Nick - Get well soon - what a brilliant excuse to 'rest' and do nothing:D

Hi - I buy the two 4-packs for £2. Don't think I saw a nine-pack! I'll have to have a closer look.

I'm still feeling awful. My nose won't stop running, and my throat feels like the devil is doing a jig inside it!

Going to go and have a shower, and see if that makes me feel better.

PG x

thriftwizard

Reporting a miserable failure for March; overspent by about £100 in the end, having drastically "misunderestimated" the lodger's hollow legs! Upping my estimate/target for April as I have two more mouths to feed for half of it (actually 5 more for several days) so will go for £450 (that's for 7 most of the time, 9 some of it & 12 for a few days) before trying to whittle it back down again in May.