April 2012 Grocery Challenge

helen_jelly

Hi everyone

Hope you all had a lovely Easter and got some choccy :]

Jarvo28 - Welcome and hi, I'll pop your budget on the first page in a mo - please feel free to ask lots of questions and there'll be someone on here far cleverer than me who will help out - we're a very friendly bunch. Also check out post no1 which has Spiggles excellent bit on it - really helpful

Spiggle - hope you had a great holiday, nice to see you back

FrugalLina - well done on paying that CC off

Helen x

PS My DH does all the cooking for me and him [we eat a lot later than the kiddies] he works full time and does shifts but he is an excellent batch cook and I'm not - I do everything else. He makes up meals for me for the freezer that I just have to defrost and reheat when he's working late and yes, I do know how lucky I am but . . . he gets lucky in other ways lol!!

supersally01

Hi,
My Mr T's shopping arrived, and it was £52.66, as no rib of beef available, and no innocent OJ. This put me under £50 spend, so I never got my £10 off! GRRR.
However, they did subsitute my cheapo ham joint for a finest one that was £8 dearer, and much heavier, so not too bad. Gonna roast it and slice it for sandwiches, meals etc.
Will update siggi now, and catch up on the posts.
Sally.

DundeeDoll

Congrats frugalina

4 nanas bought today. Trying to shift 20 pounds by olympic opening ceremony (and i dont mean pounds sterling lol). Tempted by chinese but saved by the rain

rising_from_the_ashes

FrugalLina:j:j congrats - that's a huge achievement in such a short time! :T

Overall annual figure correct in sig but need to sort out the figure for April - have got slightly confused as I need to add £30ish from March (spent at month end but for April's budget):o - will do that tomorrow as need a "fresh head" to look at it!

Winchelsea

Spent £4.50 today on a few more bits and pieces, needed as I will be cooking for family tomorrow. Otherwise would have managed with what I have in.

Tonight I ate the second half of a lentil shepherd's pie that I made yesterday, and have to say it was absolutely delicious. I think it must have been the celery that I included in the mix that made it so specially nice. Served it with steamed carrots and spring greens tossed in butter.

So my purse has £27.03 left in it for the rest of April. I can do this!

Mrs_Addicted_to_Spending

Well done on paying off your credit cards FrugaLina!

This week's spend is £97.02 :eek: so that's £178.24/£320 for the month. Need to tighten our belts for the rest of the month to be within budget .

Becks81

Whoops, I haven't been updating this thread as much as I would like and have spent more than I should on things I didn't really need. :mad:

Have got a total of £18.28 to add to my total and the only thing that really stands out was a packet of mince. (that is still sitting in my fridge) Was planning on making a chilli then I realised I didn't have any kidney beans! So will need to get those in the next few days.

I'm currently within my budget at the moment, but still have my big shop to do before the end of the week, so that will be at least another £35.

I'm away from the Saturday to the Monday of this week so hopefully this will help bring the budget down, but then the girls are back at school. I think some planning will be in order if I am stay within budget for this month, I really don't want to fail at my first months attempt!

Florenceem

Had a spend today - £13.91.
Dinner today - I used up a small amount of brown rice with some basmati rice then added garden peas. Served this with pizza and roasted mushrooms - done in balsamic vinegar/sugar/olive oil.



Tomorrow is rump steak - think I will do some HM wedges, baked onion and roast mushrooms - yes - got a few mushrooms to use!
Plan no spending day.

tessie_bear

hi...off shopping today as have been eaten out of house and home....combination of kids holidays and guests its been a lovely easter so cant complain....need to get some bread as reduced stash has nearly gonealso some pack up bits but might leave them until the weekend

going to use up the roast beef for tea tonite...might make some coleslaw to have with it

have a nice day tess

blackandwhitebunny

Had two little spends yesterday £1.57 in B*M for two jars of the pizza express sauce and a multibag of crisps and then £1.30 in Asd*. I had two natur*l selection vouchers to use but realised they would result in a 10p underspend so bought a £1 bag of organic flour and then spotted the cheap lemon juice so had two bottles of that. Off to update signature now.