March 2013 Grocery Challenge

brighteyes1987

Evening all,

Spent £9 yesterday on McDonald's for me, dd & her friend.
No grocery spends today but plenty in the m&s sale :rotfl:

Will update sig shortly.

Dd was out for dinner so I had omelette with a few fridge items thrown in that needed using & was very nice

Hoping for 2 more nsd's this week, time will tell.

Hope everyone is well, I love this thread :j

BE x

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Another small spend of £5.57. Bought YS turkey joint, YS Hot x buns, 3 packets of large crisps using coupons and 3 washing up liquids using coupons and a fabric conditioner, again using another coupon.

Fredula

£5.18 at aldi on bread, hot cross buns and two packs of chocolate buttons

mrs-moneypenny

nipped in Ts last night as DS2 needed icing and decorations for a cake he was making for maths homework (dont ask - it confused me)
got some RTC chocolate bread and pain au chocolates and beer for easter so spent £35.22

did leek and potato soup last night and doing veggie burgers tonight.
dont have to make cakes for a while as got some for mothers day and 6 left over from the homework.

Hollygym

Spent £3.87 in lid*l on milk and chocolate (to make my own sweets!).

DH managed a spend of £25.19 at Ald*i mainly on cereal. I shouldn't need anything til Saturday so hoping for a quiet couple of days.

Will update siggy xx

CupOfChai

Wish my maths lessons had involved cake.

Spent too much on things we didn't strictly need yesterday, but there were bargains too good to leave alone. £1.84 on things we strictly needed, and then £7.47 on the things we didn't, but they're being used and very much enjoyed so stuff it. So I'm now up to £128.96 out of £160, still possible but I'll have to be careful after that blowout.

Florenceem

NSD.
For dinner we had HM wedges with honey glazed gammon and carrots, leeks and spinach.

she_who_can_not_cook

tessie_bear wrote: »

hi...been out shopping to coop hb and aldi...seemed to get quite a lot which will hopefully last us the week and a little bit of next.....aldi has in a leaflet with their meat offers over easter which could be useful for planning

i am making a stew and a curry at the moment which we will eat our way through over the next couple of days....will do a bit of meal planning later in the week and have a think about what we are going to need for the holiday

take care in the snow tessa

Did you also see what the supersix will be in leaflet .i can not wait lol

Guineapigsqueaks

Evening All

Small spend today at Home B*rgains: Some Galaxy hot chocolate for work (having one of those some work mornings instead of treating myself to £1.39 cappuccino), work outs about 18p a mug so very MSE , also some tissues for desk at work and some crisps and cereal bars for packed lunches. Total £4.84 and have updated signature.

Still hoping to come in under budget.

Made flapjacks and iced fairy cakes for school snacks/lunchboxes on day off yesterday, nearly all gone, DS and DD have hollow legs at moment, although I have helped a bit with eating .

Using Mr M Savers biological washing powder and Mr S Basics fabric conditioner at the moment. Absolutely fine and loads cheaper than branded.

Guineapigsqueaks x

SpendingSensible

jkelly90 wrote: »

I keep thinking the same, although I've never made hot cross buns so not sure if I'm being overly ambitious! I might give them a go this week.

Hot X buns succesfully made! Quite easy, found a recipe that chucks everything in the breadmaker, only had to shape the rolls before baking. And of course putting a cross on them. They were really good, although probably not very MSE. Have not worked out the costs, but recipe had egg, milk and butter in it, plus of course mixed peel and currants. Still, had all the ingredients in the cupboards and have now lots of buns in freezer for this week

Good luck, will try to post recipe if I can find it again