March 2013 Grocery Challenge

Guineapigsqueaks

Evening All

Couple of small spends:

Home B*rgains - Aquafresh toothpaste, new toothbrushes for DS and DD (although few weeks left in old ones yet) and 8 x AAA batteries = £3.37

Mr T - 8pts of milk, margarine for baking and Dairylea on half price = £3.89

Have updated signature. Still on target, but noticing stocks are dwindling, so anticipate this week's shop will be bit more than usual as need to end month (24th) as well stocked as I started, so we'll see if I come in under budget or not .

Not included in grocery budget, but had to spend £4 on some T-Cut to polish out bit of a scratch on car where I misjudged a gate . Looks better now, but calling it scratch is probably a bit of an understatement. Never mind, worse things happen. Last time I took the whole wing mirror off!

Love to all x

lizalloareds

spends today
£2.58 Mr A
sig updated over this week but had some money left over from last week so happy over all x

Florenceem

NSD here again.
Quick soft meal - been to the Dentist again.
The tooth he worked on is throbbing.
For dinner we had cottage pie with carrots, leeks, onions and spinach.
Also made some muffins.

Bluegreen143

Another small spend today at a new Mr T (opened up in town, where I wouldn't normally shop, but I was meeting a friend for coffee):

YS cabbage & leek - 35p
Cheddar - £1.98
Value mozzarella 44p
Pepperoni - 99p

The three bottom things were for pizzas tonight - pepperoni, spinach and onion for OH, spinach, onion and sweetcorn for me, with a nice side salad.

MrsCautious

Nipped to the Co-op for bread, which I've managed to avoid for a while. Bought Buy one, get one free Hob Nobs and 12 packets of Wotsits for £2. Will be shopping at Aldi and Sainsbury's later to top up on milk/fruit and veg. Have meal planned for next week and am very much hoping to spend less than £15 altogether. I set my target for £200 this month as a first go, but would really like to come in under £150, don't see any reason why I shouldn't, fingers crossed, we'll see.

tessie_bear

hi...we went into sainsbobs after scout run last night to buy a cake....we have taken to getting a reduced danosh pastry and there were a few bargains...lamb joints £8 reduced to under £2...some lamb chops 99p a gammon joint £1.99 and some staff oat cakes 24p....best bargain of all a biggish pack lambs liver reduced to 24p i shall be eating that on my own but still a bargain

so im skint freezer is full and i need to think up some meal plans around what we have...today we are having reduced pies from waitrose and liver for me

have a nice day tessa

sheeppappar

just spent £20 in aldi on fruit + veg, t roll etc. that takes me to £85 but that should see us through to next thur and then there's only a week to payday after that so hoping to be under budget!
Maybe there will be some money left for the wedding fund this month...

have a fab weekend everyone x

Coxy11

Morning all,

Just checking in before I go to work. 3 NSDs this week (Tue, Wed, Thur) but will need veg and milk today. Will pick these up from C**p when doing the school run this afternoon.

Dinner tonight is mini t-i-h with wedges and veg.

£29.60 going into 2nd purse for items used this week. Better in my purse than the SMs

Keep going everyone !!!

Coxy

medusasmummy

morning all,
well its the end of week 2 for us, half way through the month and 22%of the budget left. not good

this week we had 2 shops
a$da £36.35 (stocked up on i cant believe its not butter £1.50 for 1KG)
ald! £9.73

total spent so far..... £195.73

£54.27 remaining with 2 weeks to go. its an ald! shop next week so i'm trying to put it off as long as possible, might have to re-jig the meal planner as our tuesday meal has a few missing ingredients. at the mo it looks like i'm gonna be over by about £30 so i'm gonna have to be even stricter with myself.

have a good weekend all

jkelly90

Morning everyone!

I was really hoping to have a couple of NSDs this week but I haven't even had one it's only been small spends each day, but it's taken me up to £59.46/£80, although my freezer is fully stocked for the rest of the month, and I've already done a Mr A online shop for delivery on payday. With delivery it's £37 and after a day of batch cooking I should be mostly stocked up for next month, or that's the plan anyway!

I also got my first fortnightly veg box on Wednesday, very pleased with it although I'm not sure if that's just because of the novelty of having lovely gnarly muddy veggies awaiting me on my doorstep after a long day!

Have a great weekend everyone!