March 2013 Grocery Challenge

polkadot90

Doing £250 again this month - from the 21st of February to the 23rd March. Hopefully I can manage to get under budget by a lot more than £9!

mossy

Next Thursday - Breaking news a lady has been shot as she reached for her purse whilst shopping in a supermarket. :eek: One eyewitness said they heard someone mumbling about March's Grocery Challenge just before they took out a water pistol and shot the lady!!

Staff were shocked until they realised it was WelshWoofer who had told everyone on MSE to shoot her if they saw her in a shop before the weekend!! lol :rotfl: I think perhaps I've been inside for too long, or maybe feeling poorly is making me slightly delusional!! :rotfl:

Tiny spend in Sainsbugs (on tuna and banana's....yeah I know how to live!!). £5.51

meg72

Florenceem wrote: »

My March GC does not start until Monday - Pension day.
I am having lots of work done on the house so need to save every penny. Mr F says - we will have a nice kitchen but no money for food to cook in it. :eek:

This made me giggle Flo, thinking of you and MR f sitting in a posh new kitchen sharing a bowl of soup, HM of course.

It got me to thinking of the news I have had over the years, my first own kitchen was in an upstairs flat, we had virtually nothing when we moved in and my Auntie, bless her, gave us an old electric cooker which had sat in her garage for years, the first time I put the oven on, huge great spiders shot out and I ran screaming out of the flat and down the stairs, I sat on the bottom step and refused to budge until the then OH sorted out the spiders.

I didnt have a single cupboard or unit so got a few orange boxes.
they were wooden then and bought some curtain wire and fabric
to make them look pretty.

Florenceem

meg72 wrote: »

This made me giggle Flo, thinking of you and MR f sitting in a posh new kitchen sharing a bowl of soup, HM of course.

It got me to thinking of the news I have had over the years, my first own kitchen was in an upstairs flat, we had virtually nothing when we moved in and my Auntie, bless her, gave us an old electric cooker which had sat in her garage for years, the first time I put the oven on, huge great spiders shot out and I ran screaming out of the flat and down the stairs, I sat on the bottom step and refused to budge until the then OH sorted out the spiders.

I didnt have a single cupboard or unit so got a few orange boxes.
they were wooden then and bought some curtain wire and fabric
to make them look pretty.

That would have scared me out of there as well. Mice and rats - I can take but spiders - NO!

helen_jelly

Hi Ladies [and Gents]
I'm returning to the fold
Thank you to Zippy, Rosieben and Coxy for the thread:T

I need to be ultra mega tight with spends in March as DH was off work for 2 weeks in Feb and didn't get paid for the time off :mad: so we are exeptionally skintarooney this forthcoming month, thank goodness its only for 4 weeks:eek:

My budget will have to be for £200

Hopefully do-able, well it will have to be as we won't have any money from anywhere else to up the budget!!

Payday is Monday so I'll be visiting Aldi, Lidl and MrA [given up on MrT as we were spending too much in there:mad:]
I'll be trying to get as much as poss for as little as poss and in 1 go so avoiding several expensive small trips!

Anyway, thats enough waffle for now, lovely to be back on here :T

Helen

tessie_bear

hi...got some crisps from lidl today to help out with the packups in march...am still on my mission to empty the freezer and i can now see the bottom...we are now entering the wierd combo phase...i have warned the kids but in fairness they havent moaned yet

take care tess

WelshWoofer

mossy wrote: »

Next Thursday - Breaking news a lady has been shot as she reached for her purse whilst shopping in a supermarket. :eek: One eyewitness said they heard someone mumbling about March's Grocery Challenge just before they took out a water pistol and shot the lady!!

Staff were shocked until they realised it was WelshWoofer who had told everyone on MSE to shoot her if they saw her in a shop before the weekend!! lol :rotfl: I think perhaps I've been inside for too long, or maybe feeling poorly is making me slightly delusional!! :rotfl:

Tiny spend in Sainsbugs (on tuna and banana's....yeah I know how to live!!). £5.51

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

More Night Nurse Mossy???:D

meg72

helen_jelly wrote: »

Hi Ladies [and Gents]
I'm returning to the fold
Thank you to Zippy, Rosieben and Coxy for the thread:T

I need to be ultra mega tight with spends in March as DH was off work for 2 weeks in Feb and didn't get paid for the time off :mad: so we are exeptionally skintarooney this forthcoming month, thank goodness its only for 4 weeks:eek:

My budget will have to be for £200

Hopefully do-able, well it will have to be as we won't have any money from anywhere else to up the budget!!

Payday is Monday so I'll be visiting Aldi, Lidl and MrA [given up on MrT as we were spending too much in there:mad:]
I'll be trying to get as much as poss for as little as poss and in 1 go so avoiding several expensive small trips!

Anyway, thats enough waffle for now, lovely to be back on here :T

Helen

Nice to see you back Helen good luck with the challenge.

JCD_Capulet

Just wondering, has anyone tried the website 'foodbargains'? It looks similar to approved foods for BBE stock. Thought I'd ask here first before putting it on my list of sited to shop pasta and packets from.

craigywv

small spendon 6 liters ofmilk 3.00 this will do a week, maybe more as its now frozen. got 18 t. rolls in h.bargains out of different purse so bar a bit of f&v i should be ok for over a week i refuse to buy anything as its a must that i empty 1 of my freezers for defrosting goodluck all with your challenges xxx