April 2012 Grocery Challenge

hm71_2

just dropping in to report a shop of £52 out of my £80 and still have eggs/marg to get but will be under budget thank goodness.

sallybunny

Just updated my signature for today's spends. £4.28 in grocers for all the fruit and veg until payday including a £1 bag on almost past it veg with onions, carrots, cauliflower, green beans and courgettes! £40.40 in Mr T. Only £12 was on food though, the rest was on special offer laundry liquid. There's a lot of eczema in our house. So once we find a detergent that works we don't change! But we have 5 months worth now (more if I go easy with it!)! I love having a cellar! But we're still under the £100 mark ad nothing is needed until payday! Couldn't have done it without you.

In other news I have a job interview next week! It'll mean a lot less commuting and so more in our pockets and more importantly more time at home! Fingers crossed...

fozziebeartoo

Spent £2 at Coop on 2 packs of YS back bacon which I will attempt to cram into the freezer....I had to leave the £1.99 YS chickens, definitely no room in freezer. £10.14 in Sainsbugs, mainly on baking stuff as have been asked to help raise some money for a charity bake-in (would have been cheaper if I just gave them the tenner ), taxi to DD at 6am was £5.60 and bus fare home was £1.10. I am also including £23.20 for a D*nald R*ssell meat order that I have ordered for next month (when hopefully there WILL be some freezer space). Signature updated.

I had a HM LO beef casserole and dumpling meal out of the freezer for tea.

Hope everyone has a good weekend ahead!

I have flowers on the coffee table and lighted Yankee candles and a cup of tea on the go......so the weekend has started for me! :T

rising_from_the_ashes

Hi everyone ... had no internet access since Monday (suffering SERIOUS withdrawal symptoms!) - probably won't be able to catch up but will try.

Have a few spends to report but the spreadsheets need updating (couldn't face turning on the lappy when I knew I couldn't get online!)

Hope everyone is well & (((hugs))) if needed

Mrs_Addicted_to_Spending

craigywv wrote: »

ok, i in on this one!!! dont know what signatures etc mean not that computer literate, so would be grateful if someone told me what to do. I will be hopefully spending 120 this month , thats for me oh and 8yr old son.thanks.

To write your signature, you have to go into User CP in the green box at the top of the thread and then choose 'change signature' from left hand box. When you've written your signature in the box that appears, you must press the save button at the bottom otherwise nothing you've written will appear :eek:.

I'm a kind of sahm, of two boys, and also a part time student at university but that only involves 6 hours of lectures a week and then all the other work can be done at home while my DS x2 are at school. I love being able to spend time with my children and am very grateful that I can do that .

lovelife79

hello everyone

well i have lost the plot with keeping hold of reciepts and tracking spends for last week or so.

BUT i only took £20 out for last weeks shopping and still had £5 from that yesterday, so added £15 to my total.

today i spent £10 in aldi and £5 in home bargs (lost reciepts between there and car - not doing well at all this week am i! )

so another £15 to add.
not bad going, got another week left til payday but can live out of cupboards and freezers if i so choose as not back to work til next fri!

also managed to finally acquire some stardrops, so im off to find a thread that tells me all about its various uses!!

have a good weekend everyone!

tigerfeet2006

sallybunny wrote: »

Just updated my signature for today's spends. £4.28 in grocers for all the fruit and veg until payday including a £1 bag on almost past it veg with onions, carrots, cauliflower, green beans and courgettes! £40.40 in Mr T. Only £12 was on food though, the rest was on special offer laundry liquid. There's a lot of eczema in our house. So once we find a detergent that works we don't change! But we have 5 months worth now (more if I go easy with it!)! I love having a cellar! But we're still under the £100 mark ad nothing is needed until payday! Couldn't have done it without you.

In other news I have a job interview next week! It'll mean a lot less commuting and so more in our pockets and more importantly more time at home! Fingers crossed...

Very jealous of your cellar <green with jealousy emoticon>

Fingers crossed for the job, hope you get it.

DH has had an email that says that they will contact him Sunday/Monday about the job. We are both feeling really sick at the moment with knotted stomachs.

I have had a disaster today. I put the inner pot from my SC in the fridge yesterday with the chicken and juice in it. Went to lift it out today to make a curry and a pie and dropped the lot. Smashed the crock and the glass lid (all that was left was the metal hoop that goes round the edge and the handle from the top.) Absolutly trashed the chicken . I am so pee'd off, 2 whole meals and the bones for stock, gone! WAAAAHHH!!! Now I have to buy a new SC and I have to try and find 2 more meals to get me to the end of the month.

franby64

Hi
Just bought skimmed and semi-skimmed milk and 10 eggs for a total of £4.45 from the Co*p. My total is now £369.22/£400.

I reckon I will only need white sliced bread tomorrow and I'll bake some brown and a fruit loaf. Now left with £3.07 per day :eek:

Helen, please could you put me down for £400 again for May. Many thanks.

ETA - Oh tigerfeet - I would have wept!

tigerfeet2006

lovelife79 wrote: »

hello everyone

well i have lost the plot with keeping hold of reciepts and tracking spends for last week or so.

BUT i only took £20 out for last weeks shopping and still had £5 from that yesterday, so added £15 to my total.

today i spent £10 in aldi and £5 in home bargs (lost reciepts between there and car - not doing well at all this week am i! )

so another £15 to add.
not bad going, got another week left til payday but can live out of cupboards and freezers if i so choose as not back to work til next fri!

also managed to finally acquire some stardrops, so im off to find a thread that tells me all about its various uses!!

have a good weekend everyone!

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/354039

hex2

hugehugs tigerfeet