April 2012 Grocery Challenge

daisy_butterfly

I think that I REALLY need to join in with this!

Please can I be added for £150 (this is only for 2 of us, me and BF)

Time to look at all of the recipes!!

WelshWoofer

I'm in again this month - its a 4 shop month for me but I do have mum visiting for three nights over the Easter school hols (I'm a teacher).

I'm going to go for £120 for all food, toiletries and household items. No need to put me on the list - I'll pop it in my signature thanks:)

I'm back on the SW diet and so forward planning, lists and lots of F&V are the order for the day.

Thank you to all that keep the thread going:T

LavenderBees

FrugalLina wrote: »

I still don't know if I have a job after the end of this week???

Really sorry to hear this, FrugalLina. This must be an awfully anxious time for you. Hope everything works out ok for you

LB xx

S-I_am

I know it's early in the month but by reading everyone else's posts I'm already inspired by the little some people spend on food. I know it's not a competition, and I'm really looking forward to learning how to further reduce my monthly spend. Until last sept we used to spend over £400 a month :eek: Now by cooking from scratch and meal planning we've managed to reduce that to £250 :j
But since we're frantically saving to extend the house, every pound saved off my food bill is another brick

meg72

saim wrote: »

I know it's early in the month but by reading everyone else's posts I'm already inspired by the little some people spend on food. I know it's not a competition, and I'm really looking forward to learning how to further reduce my monthly spend. Until last sept we used to spend over £400 a month :eek: Now by cooking from scratch and meal planning we've managed to reduce that to £250 :j
But since we're frantically saving to extend the house, every pound saved off my food bill is another brick

Well done thats almost halved your spending,Good luck hope you get enough bricks.

freakyogre

Please can you put me down for £55.00 for April.

Thank you!

Sazdaz

Well I have done the first big shop of the months target, and spent total of £53.69 which apart from milk, bread, fresh fruit that should last us two weeks according to my meal planner. From there I am then going to plan the next two weeks shopping from what is left in the Cupboard, Fridge, Freezer etc. Bearing in mind I have increased the budget this month by £40 as have an extra mouth to feed for three meals a day, we could be under if I can keep up the NSD now.

mysticshaz

hi everyone

i am new to the site and this sort of challenge! after reading what some spend on food i feel ashamed to say my spend for two adults is usually around £260.00 on average but can be anywhere from £180.00 to £320.00 based on this should i base my budget anually?

payday today and already spent £27.90 on just a bit of salad and fruit! any ideas how to make some cheap lunch time salads? i read the recepies and couldnt really see any salads?

thanks

mystic

FrugalLina

LavenderBees wrote: »

Really sorry to hear this, FrugalLina. This must be an awfully anxious time for you. Hope everything works out ok for you

LB xx

Aw thanks, yes it is horrible, but I work for a charity and that is how it is these days - funding is so tight for everyone. I am reasonably sure I will have another 6 mths contract (I do the bookkeeping so I know the figures) - fingers crossed.

supersally01

Hi all,
Need to report a £10 spend in m&s on Saturday, got some nice bits for lunch, and had my mum round, sat in the garden.
Also spent £17 tonight in Iceland on sausages, burgers, coke, ice lollies for a BBQ. Nice treat for the kids, but had already took meatballs out of the freezer, so was an unneccesarry spend really. Will use the meatballs for tea on wednesday.
£4.29 on rolls and milk from asda, darn kermit milk!!!
Aiming to spend nothing now, then going away Friday. Hope all are well and enjoying the nice weather!!
Sally.
Hi Roseben, happy to keep my total to my siggi, so no need to be on front page, thanx for all u do.