March 2013 Grocery Challenge

GreenFairy

€14.33 to add to my total. WM pasta, cornflour, compost bags, caster sugar and more veg.
Monday: leftover pasta bake and salad for me, burger and salad for him
Tuesday: Roasted tofu fajitas
Wednesday: Chickpea cutlets and veg/salad
Thursday: Veggie bolognaise, salad.
Friday: Something new from the cookbook collection

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Shopped today and spent half of my food budget for March but managed to get around £9.00's worth of meat which will do me around 15 + dinners this month so lots of NSD for me for at least 10 days, hopefully I have nothing at all to buy as I have stocked up on fresh fruit and veg as well, so although I spent £30.68 I have virtually nothing to get for awhile and then it will only be probably milk and maybe some bread.Very pleased with what I bought as it was quite a bit of meat, and I can streetch it out for this month easily.

lovelife79

First spend of £12.52 in asders today. Probably coukd have been less if id done a list. But not bad considering! Enough to get me to end of week n next "pay day" :-)

NickJW

Urrrgh! Another spend of £8.22 in Mr T today - would have been £12.22 but I had vouchers.

For that I got 3 packs of chicken thighs reduced (but was annoyed when I noticed that 2 packs went through on a 2 for £3 offer so I overpaid!), a 4 pack of tuna and a can of sweetcorn for sandwiches for lunches, a ready made reduced from £3.98 to 97p - gone in the freezer and will have for lunch one day in the future, and um...4 packs of chewing gum so I met the £12 total to get a discount (only realized I was under at the checkout).

I think I'm becoming rather spendy at the moment, but at least everything will be used....

JellyBox

A spend of between £22 and £23 today, will update sig when I can be bothered to get up and get the receipt! That was the rest of our weekly shop, a few things I didn't need, and £3 on peanuts for OH, but the rest was all important! Puts us slightly over where we should be for the month, but I don't think we'll be needing much for a couple of weeks, expecting around £20 each for them

brighteyes1987

Hello all,

Not exactly a NSD but no spends on groceries so I'm still on track with this challenge :j I know it's only the 4th but usually I've spent a fortune on food by now so I'm really happy.

We had sweet & sour chicken for dinner. I used an ancient jar from the back of the cupboard & tbh I though it was awful! Reminded me why I'm not a fan of sauce from a jar.
Dd loved it though & demolished the lot :eek: she's only 7 but that girl can eat although you wouldn't think it looking at her.

Still hopeful that I won't need anything else this week.
Hope everyone is well.

BE x

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Budgets done to here

Spent £20.16 in T's just now. Needed drinks for DS1 to take to school (to avoid him paying double from the canteen ), rolls for packed lunches, milk, and various other bits to compliment this weeks mealplan. Hate going there in the evening - numpty staff who would rather chat about their lovelife than provide anything remotely resembling customer service. Gives me such the hump!

Off to update my sig.
Coxy

p-pincher

.Hi Everyone

£124 pent out of my £240 budget. Just finished my meal plan and theres enough meat and stuff to cover the full month. Will need to buy a few bits and pieces to make dinners up (Philli, a couple of jacket potatoes etc) but not doing to bad at the minute. The freezer is also full of veg. Will need to get more bread, milk fruit and yoghurts.

Had a £12 spend today but this was for dd1s birthday tomorrow, birthday cake making ingrediants and pizzas for the birthday tea tomorrow, hope every ones doing ok x

CherryPie

First shop of the month at £40.93.

My budget includes everything for just me. All breakfasts/packed lunches/dinners and snacks. There is a canteen at work which is quite reasonable, £1.90 for soup n sandwich, but I only use it if I've been too lazy to make my lunch the night before!!

Hoping to have a very frugal month so currently being inventive with freezer/store cupboard ingredients. There is a concoction in the SC just now which includes pork mince, tinned tomatoes chillies, some bendy veg amongst other things. Not sure how it'll turn out, but food = fuel, so it'll get eaten!

Made sweet chilli jam last night for the first time, not bad if I do say so myself! Also I was looking for a low fat salad dressing as I'm also on a diet (20 years and counting!!:rotfl:) but decided to be very GC and made my own Honey & Mustard balsamic one. How did we manage before google!!

Good luck to newbies / oldies / returners / lurkers!!

:beer:

Michelle63x

Is it only the 4th!!!! - well I spent £2.68 on bread and t bags then had to go back for bananas and jelly so another £1.59 gone which is £4.27 gone from my budget so I have £342.01 left. BUT Im going to struggle on regardless of how I do this month. I need some NSD's :mad: