March 2013 Grocery Challenge

Bluegreen143

NickJW, your za'atar recipes are in the index.

Also, thanks for sharing as I have a tub I don't know what to do with!

Determined_diva

Hi all checking in with a spend of £15 in Tesco on friday
DDx

15/70

Rachel021967

Spent £109.68 in the last few days. Leaving £415.32 to spend wisely.

MissE001

Stopping by to report my first grocery spend of the month:
Mr T- £5.41 (packed lunch stuff, milk & TV OJ which DD swears is tastier than the expensive stuff)
L!dl - £6.16 (prawns & lemons for Friday's girl's night in - I'm cooking so saving money on takeaway and garlic bread...we're all in agreement in this house that it's the best gb money can buy).
Working away for the next few days and no planned grocery spends now till next week....watch this space!

So £12.02 / £180

lucylollipop

£19.39 in Morri's today, topping up fruit, veg, and bits from around the kitchen.

Menu planning tomorrow, hopefully for the rest of the month!

norabatty_2

Hi everyone,

Many thanks for all your suggestions re the cereal bars. I really appreciate you all taking the time to respond.

medsdemon wrote: »

Poundland has Nature Valley Bars atm and also stocks lots of others. I always buy my cereal bars from here.

Good to know and there's one near me so I'll check it out. Thanks medsdemon!

MrsCautious wrote: »

Hi, I'm another one who has the 99p Store to thank for cheaper cereal bars, same brands but available there -- I forget too often though, also Medleys are on offer in Waitrose, they seem to be quite often on offer in Sainsbury's and Co-op as well, £1 for a box.

Thanks MrsCautious, never bought Medleys before because I thought they were biscuits!!??:o Will have to take a second look!

Islandmaid wrote: »

Norabatty - I make flapjacks for OH and kids to take to school/work as they love cereal bars and I can,t afford to keep up with them eating so many. 500g of oats makes about 24 large ones

They sound lovely Islandmaid - do you have a recipe??:D

norabatty_2

JIL wrote: »

Just a totally off the wall suggestion but the cereal bars you talk about are all half price at 0cado, for a first time shopper theres a £20 off a first shop, You could stock up??

http://www.hotukdeals.com/vouchers/ocado.com

http://www.ocado.com/webshop/getSearchProducts.do?clearTabs=yes&isFreshSearch=true&entry=nutri+grain

Thanks JIL, Ocado looks great but they don't deliver to my area (boo! hiss!), which is a real pity cos I could have saved myself a fortune! :mad:

Hopefully somebody else will see your post though and reap the benefits!

Hollygym

The month has got off to quite a start. I had book club on Friday and spent £44.56 in sainsbugs buying wine and food for it. Sat DH went to Ald* for cereal and spent £24 there. Sunday i managed £11.00 at Lidl for packed lunch stuff and today £1.45 for potatoes. Wow!! Lots of shopping and I don't feel I have lots in.

I need to buy fruit and veg yet, but hope for a NSD tomorrow and we have enough to last til Wednesday.

dodgy maths on my siggy :eek: but will amend next!!

Hollygym

just updated siggy - thats better. robbed myself of almost £20!!:huh:

MadamMim2013

Have been stuck in due to lurgy (son's got it too)
Have bit the bullet and ordered my main groceries from S'burys, should be around £50 inc delivery but I'll not update my sig until it's delivered tomorrow in case of price change etc.
Need to do a freezer check list so I can get meal planning and use up some of the older bits!