April 2013 Grocery Challenge

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Budgets done to here

Like the look of that pasta dish Bluegreen - loving your work

Happy Easter everyone.
Coxy

Welsh_Poppy

I spent £16.58 in Lidls and £16.50 in Morrisons but have enough for almost 2 weeks if I am careful.
Got DH 15 weeks of Chocolate as Lidls chocolate reduced for 100g to 19p today and tomorrow.
Will update signature
Have a Happy Easter:-)

tessie_bear

hi I have had a cheeky visit to costco this morning and we spent £82 mostly on meat/choc pastries/school drinks/fruit/veg

the freezer is full to the brim and it all looks great hope it tastes as good ,we are having kievs for tea tomorrow and then we are out and about for easter

will try and make some mini egg cakes tomorrow and think of a nice breakfast for easter sunday maybe free range eggs boiled with soldiers
take care tessa

bmma

Hi my budget for April is£60.00 this is just food for myself and the cat
I cook from scratch and vegan so will putting in an extra effort to stay within budget.

Florenceem

We had HM salmon quiche with HM wedges and HM coleslaw for dinner.
It was the last of the white cabbage - from the time before last - SS.

minicooper272

Florenceem wrote: »

We had HM salmon quiche with HM wedges and HM coleslaw for dinner.
It was the last of the white cabbage - from the time before last - SS.

I'm drooling over those wedges! Our oven is pretty pathetic, and you'd sometimes get better results blowing on it to heat it through! I do miss crispy wedges...

getting-sorted-sarah

Hello everyone. I am a lapsed GC-er and DFW, back from the wilderness. I've missed you people! :wave:

I don't know why I stopped meal planning but I wish I hadn't, because it is harder than ever to make ends meet and my debt has crept up. These days I work longer hours and have an OH who lives 165 miles away, so I'm spending on petrol and rushing about. Also eating out and take aways - oooh did I mention my weight has crept up too?! Enough with the excuses, I'm back in the fold and ready to start April. I've spent £150 on a T delivery for tomorrow, and a quick shamefaced look around my kitchen tells me I have loads in if only I plan the meals. My aim is to spend no more than a total of £280 including the delivery.

sheeppappar

Crikey just popped in to update my sig. Spent £100 already but will need to adjust it as £10 was a DVD and about another £10 some buckets for mr sheep which the business will pay back.. Still £80 already! It was mostly a massive stockup though with meat etc which should last well into the month..Tesc are doing free click and collect for a couple of weeks if that helps anyone do a big Everyday Value shop without being tempted by nicer(more expensive stuff in the store) sorry if already mentioned but I'm on my phone & haven't had chance to catch up on thread..
Hope everyone having a fab easter! Xx

bigmaz

Just done a big shop that will hopefully see us through the month, budgeted for £200 this month. Spent £40 on meat in Asda in their 3 for £10 section, after splitting it all up into bags for each day its given us over 20 days of meat. £113 spent, so got £87 for the rest of the month for fresh veg and fruit etc through the month. Heres hoping we can stick to it, thats feeding 2 adults and 2 young kids.

Splitting the meat up into separate bags for each day seems to work well. Saved us the last few weeks.

krustylouise

I did a weekly shop today at ald! and was shocked at the till when he said £33! That includes 3bags of cat litter (1 for my neighbour as she can't get to the shop) and things like sweets (making stain glass window cookies tomorrow) really happy with that but it's only for DD and myself