March 2013 Grocery Challenge

tessie_bear

hi...awful weather here in the mids we went to swimming lesson and managed to go over to small sainsbobs and get dome extra milk and a loaf of bread (and a chocolate bar for ds and a big bag of mini eggs he wanted) spag bol in the sc for tea and dh has made garlic bread which he is very good at

i have a piece of roast beef to have for lunch tomorrow which the kids are cross about as the plan was to go to costco for a pizza...weather stops play

take care in the snow
tessa

Frogletina

I'm going to find it hard to keep to my budget this month even though I have had a few days away and bought food out of my 'eating out' budget.

I've got my granddaughter and her boyfriend here for a couple of days. I gave them some money to get what wanted to eat today. They have bought some bacon for their breakfast this morning, some microwavable burgers for lunch and some scampi for their tea. I don't eat meat or fish - this food will come out of a different budget - they spent almost £9! I think they have enough bacon for another day, at least I hope so. My purse is closed now. My budget is £60 for this month and I have less than £5 left if I don't want to go over!

I don't usually give my granddaughter money to buy her own food, usually we go out together to buy food that she likes or she has to have what I have in.

How do others deal with visitors when they have budgeted for themselves only? A family I suspect would find it easy to stretch the food for one other person but as I'm on my own having two extra people to feed means I cannot do it on my budget this month. Boyfriend brought a stack of cans of coke, they've already gone through 5 of them. I've no idea how they would manage if they were running a household themselves. Both still living at home normally and go to college, he has a part time job.

K9sandFelines

NickJW wrote: »

Oooo! More room for thought - the cabbage leaf idea sounds so different! Would you cook them first, or eat raw?

Steam slightly

NSD here ......hurrrah:T

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Of all the days to have 4 tonnes of stone chippings delivered, we had to choose a snow day! To make matters worse, they couldn't put them on our driveway, so they are on palletts on the road and not lit. So today DH and I have shifted two tonnes by wheelbarrow to the back garden. This is a project we started three years ago but time and money wise it's been a long slog to get to this point. The other two tonnes we need to shift tomorrow, come rain, hail or snow. We are therefore having a much needed chippie tea this evening as I have neither the energy or inclination to cook! This will come from our 'entertainment' budget - we are easily pleased obviously.

Small spent in S's this morning getting rolls and yoghurts for packed lunches this week. £4.54 to add to total.

Sorry for going off topic (above) but had to get that off my chest :rotfl:

Coxy

Nicky_Noo_Na

Spent £3.56 last night on some nibbles to take to my friends and then weekly shop today in Mr A for £23.30 - what a palava this shop was! They have recently replaced half the checkouts with the long conveyor belt self serve tills so we gave one a go - it couldn't weigh stuff properly if you tried to scan and pack simultaneously so we were advised to scan everything and then pack at the end - very frustrating for the people waiting behind us I'm sure! and at least 3 items wouldn't price up so the store helper person ended up helping us about 7 times in total - ridiculous!! I've used the basket self serve till loads of times so I know what I'm doing but this was just silly - never again! Hubby has decided we should try a different store from now on but the next nearest one is a fair drive so we're stuck with this or the Mr T's which is always heaving on a Sat which is when we do our weekly shop usually. Oh and also £6.29 in MrS on some good YS goodies (always lovely and quiet in here but too expensive for full shop, boo) so a total of £33.15 to add to sig....need to be really tight next week to make budget!

MrsCautious

Just shows how being thrifty can bring out invention, I made sausages into casserole with carrots, mushrooms and cabbage and my daughter declared: "This is the best." In days gone by I'm not even sure I would have considered sausage and hm wedges a 'proper' meal, am very pleased.

minicooper272

Picked up some bits and bobs for lunches next week, and picked up a few (too many) treats while I was at it. Still have about £4 left, and hope to keep that in tact until pay day!

Florenceem

Frogletina wrote: »

I'm going to find it hard to keep to my budget this month even though I have had a few days away and bought food out of my 'eating out' budget.

I've got my granddaughter and her boyfriend here for a couple of days. I gave them some money to get what wanted to eat today. They have bought some bacon for their breakfast this morning, some microwavable burgers for lunch and some scampi for their tea. I don't eat meat or fish - this food will come out of a different budget - they spent almost £9! I think they have enough bacon for another day, at least I hope so. My purse is closed now. My budget is £60 for this month and I have less than £5 left if I don't want to go over!

I don't usually give my granddaughter money to buy her own food, usually we go out together to buy food that she likes or she has to have what I have in.

How do others deal with visitors when they have budgeted for themselves only? A family I suspect would find it easy to stretch the food for one other person but as I'm on my own having two extra people to feed means I cannot do it on my budget this month. Boyfriend brought a stack of cans of coke, they've already gone through 5 of them. I've no idea how they would manage if they were running a household themselves. Both still living at home normally and go to college, he has a part time job.

I would have bought a small pack of bacon - then made pancakes for breakfast with a little bit of bacon on top - fill them up with pancakes. Then the bacon will last more days. Just a small bit of bacon again the next day with scrambled egg and toast. If they are still there for the third morning - HM potato cakes with bacon and tinned tomatoes. All hearty filling breakfasts at low cost. I used to have foreign students and they had a hot breakfast at the weekends.
Lunchtime would be something on toast or toasted sandwiches or HM soup with HM bread. Evening meal - something that is cheaper than scampi and filling. So yes - feeding visitors would come out of my usual budget.

meg72

Coxy11 wrote: »

Hi everyone,

Of all the days to have 4 tonnes of stone chippings delivered, we had to choose a snow day! To make matters worse, they couldn't put them on our driveway, so they are on palletts on the road and not lit. So today DH and I have shifted two tonnes by wheelbarrow to the back garden. This is a project we started three years ago but time and money wise it's been a long slog to get to this point. The other two tonnes we need to shift tomorrow, come rain, hail or snow. We are therefore having a much needed chippie tea this evening as I have neither the energy or inclination to cook! This will come from our 'entertainment' budget - we are easily pleased obviously.

Small spent in S's this morning getting rolls and yoghurts for packed lunches this week. £4.54 to add to total.

Sorry for going off topic (above) but had to get that off my chest :rotfl:

Coxy

Thats a very well deserved chippie tea.

Florenceem

Spent just the £1 on milk today - NSD tomorrow - that is the end of my week.
Dinner was TITH with roast potatoes, roast parsnip, asparagus, leeks, onions, cabbage and gravy.
Used 3 sausages and enough left for 2 meals for us two.
While dinner was cooking - made an Apple/Plum Crumble.