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April 2013 Grocery Challenge

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  • xxlouisexx56
    xxlouisexx56 Posts: 2,267 Forumite
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    Another report of £8 in morrisons yesterday on curry sauce and naans, deo for DP and ice lollies for the kids.

    Then £3 in tesco today on reduced bacon :)
  • K9sandFelines
    K9sandFelines Posts: 2,816 Forumite
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    2.17 in HB on eggs and sandwich bags, £3.52 in Mr Ts on spices, pack lunch juice and some much needed chocolate, £1.86 on spec wipes and sponges in Wilk*s and £0.40p on two four packs of foccacia rolls ( bargain!!) in C*-*p

    Total of £7.95. Definitely going to be over this month .... again *sigh*.

    Thai fishcakes with asparagus and corn on the cob for tea. Would have salad but none left except for lettuce!
    GC Jan £101.91/£150 Feb £70.96/150 Mar £100.43/150 Apr £108.45 app/150 May £149.70/150 Jun £155.15/150 Jul £134.25/£150 Aug £119.37/£150 £92.09/£150‼️Sep £/£160 Oct (includes food, toiletries and cleaning from 13th to 12th of each month. Soon to be, two person vegan household, with occasional visitors)
    Forever learning the art of frugality
  • I had a roast chicken on Sunday - I usually get a meal and a couple of days' sarnies before I get bored and ditch it. But inspired by this thread, I've had a roast, 4 days' sarnies (2 with tarragon mayo, 2 jazzed up in coronation chicken), and I'll have a chicken and veg curry tomorrow. Best of all I stripped the carcass and made a scrummy chicken and mushroom pie with a few mushroom that were on the turn - that served 2.

    So 8 meals off a single chicken - I'd have never done that before! Thanks to everyone, this is my first month, and I'm a convert!
    Save £12k in 2022 thread #7:

    Save £10,000 Jan-May 2022 THEN RETIRE!!
    Final total for (half) year: -£4,000
  • Billie-jo
    Billie-jo Posts: 1,221 Forumite
    edited 25 April 2013 at 7:24PM
    Good use of the chicken - wentthedaywell

    Have spent £20.88 today and will need fruit & veg at the weekend. Brought some yogurt with 50% off that DH likes.

    We had chicken in white wine with rice, broccoli & tomatoes for tea and very nice it was too. Have to say I cheated a bit as the sauce was a ready made one I found in the cupboard and was slightly out of date by a few months :whistle: (erm 28 of them)

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  • Just popping in to say I'm really inspired by this thread and having lost my income this month will definitely need to sign up to next months!! I've worked out a budget and I'm trying to stick to it till the end of the month!
    July Grocery Challenge - £0/£140
    No more buying DVDs in 2013 - 0/0
    2013 Savings aim - £582/£1500 39% :j
  • lizalloareds
    lizalloareds Posts: 1,838 Forumite
    45p Mr T, today is my last day for April challenge and under budget:)
    May challenge starts tomorrow
    September GC 30th aug-4th Oct £332.74/£375 NSD 3
    Gc Jan £234.85/200 :(Feb £298.92/280:(March £298.42/£280:( April £270.49/280:) May Gc £351.08/£350 June £300.06/280 July £256.15/£240
    Aug £318.74/£280
  • storytime
    storytime Posts: 334 Forumite
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    Final report for April spends inLidl of £27.01 and Mr T of £32.80 . So under budget again. I have a £5 voucher for Aldi and MrT for next week so I will do a monthly shop at both which hopefully after that will mean less visits for the rest of the month.Besides quiche I thought I might try making a frittata and salad and will try a cheese and lentil loaf cold with salad. Still thinking up summery menus. I have a huge bag of lentils to use , any ideas?
    Sig updated.
    My secret fantasy is having 2 men....
    1 cooking and 1 cleaning.
  • sheeppappar
    sheeppappar Posts: 252 Forumite
    I am off to the May GC.. hoping for better this month! Well done everyone and see you all over there XXX
    CC1 £7,944.10
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    CC3 £1,020.88
  • Sligo
    Sligo Posts: 210 Forumite
    Just squeaked in under budget for April at €599.95/€600 :j

    Moving over to the May challenge - and it's a good start to the 5 week month for me with a fairly wellstocked freezer, fridge and cupboards so only a small shop required this weekend! :T
  • morning all :)
    our month ends on sunday officially but im going to declare now as we have all we need in, so wont be spending this weekend.

    went to the paper shop early and bought 2 copies of the mirror on thursday for the vouchers, went straight to ald! after the school drop off to get the shopping. my lovely husband brought me a copy of the mirror home that night. he said as i didnt mention it maybe i didnt know about it so bought me a copy. so now i have 2 vouchers, and the dilemma of squeezing in an extra trip to use it up and bump up the may budget or write off the 50p cost of the paper as a loss.

    anyway only 1 spend this week
    Ald! £48.90

    GRAND TOTAL SPENT IN APRIL £283.05

    £8.03 over budget, but the freezers are full of portioned up joints from the easter deals, we have enough gold blend for 3months, and I'm half way through my shopping list to take on holiday with us next month, so all in all not too bad.

    HUGE THANKS TO ALL WHO RUN THE THREAD! :beer: :T

    Have a great weekend all, and see you in may :)
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