March 2013 Grocery Challenge

pinkypig

Hi everyone. NSD at last:j.
Another bit of good news was a refund from AF to compensate for the delivery left out in the rain resulting in soggy boxes. Might(!) make it on budget now.

PP xxx

Smoosh

Getting a little bit too close to the target for the month now! Although I'm positive we won't need anything else apart from bread, milk, cat things and drinks for the rest of the month now, so we should make it fine.

debtmess

Well... By tomorrow evening I will have a not so big £14.33 left to spend for march, worrying but possible.

Brought some bits over weekend, and online shop coming tomorrow is £133.

Will pretty much have everything we need in, may only be milk and apples we need to get.

Florenceem

Spend of £6 today.
For dinner we had chicken kiev with roast potatoes, carrots, purple sprouting, swede and spinach.

bbq_lady

hi....going quite well but am enjoying reading peoples ups and downs....off to the market later in the week to get some bargain fruit...might give aldi a whirl too

keep warm its freezing here

Debtbusterintraining

Spent £82.17 for weekly shop at Mr Ts

Michelle63x

Evening all, not checked in for a few days - probably because I dont want to know the awful truth but I need to face facts so here goes with mt spends since my last visit:
£17.61 at the Co-op today
£10.15 at the Co-op on 09/03
£53.34 on my meat & veg box
£1.59 at co-op on 04/03
and then £2.68 at the co-op cos I forgot the T bags and bananas
£15.93 at co-op on 07/03
£32.60 at the Deli
£20.57 at the Wine shop
Told you it was bad.....
Leaves me £187.54 for the rest of the month...
Im rubbish at saving money BUT at least Im trying......
Tomorrow its going to be an NSD if it kills me!!!!:mad:

Nicky_Noo_Na

I forgot that I used a £3.20 gift card yesterday so can take that off the sig but spent £5.55 tonight so £2.25 to add. Really need to stay away from the shops now!

Bluegreen143

Very busy couple of days for me!!

Made roasted chicken legs with mustard mash, chestnut, sage & onion stuffing and veg on Saturday:



Haven't got any meal pics since Saturday since I haven't had dinner since then :eek: (most unlike me :rotfl:). Sis and I took mum out for lunch on Sunday (separate budget) and it was three courses and so massive I didn't need to eat anything except a couple of crackers and peanut butter later on! OH had a frozen pizza as a treat lol. Then today at work we had a big bring and share lunch and I stuffed myself way too much and actually had a sore stomach so didn't want dinner AGAIN. OH had some leftover lasagne from the freezer with a salad, I had a jam sandwich once I'd recovered later on :rotfl:

Not like me at all I hasten to say as I usually have a much healthier attitude to eating! I did make it to the gym this evening in a vain attempt to burn off some of my lunch calories :rotfl:

Anyway, a couple of spends to report - we haven't done a big shop this week, I'm just buying as little as possible and only when we need it.

OH went to local small Mr T last night and for £5.09 got: YS seeded bread (15p); YS lamb steaks (40p); lettuce (£1); crisps (54p on one bag :eek:); pizza (£2); bananas (£1).

Today I nipped into Mr M and spent £9.02 on: cat food (£1.05); savers baked beans (an experiment at 25p); savers feta (75p); double cream (60p); ham (£1); sirloin steak (£3.08); salad (£1); spinach (£1.39).

K9sandFelines

ImDoingItForMe wrote: »

Just another update, quite pleased today, i managed to use lots of coupons and spent £1.51. Got 6packs of ladies things reduced with coupons, and a malt loaf and 2packs of almonds.

Where do you get your coupons from IDIFM? I need to sort my printer out so i can be even more thrifty longterm.