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April 2013 Grocery Challenge
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Becs sorry to hear about your accident! Hope you're not too sore!
I've spent £6 at Wait rose yesterday for a pasta pot and some snacks to last me on a long train journey (snacks weren't all for yesterday). Nipped to Mr T last night, and spent a little over £15 for a basics stock up, which leaves me £69 for the rest of the month.
This weekend I need to buy breakfast things, cereal bars and fresh fruit, but otherwise I'm hoping to be imaginative and use up some of the stuff that's been hogging cupboard space. I'm making butternut squash soup and chapattis for lunches and I'll be using up my assorted homemade ready meals for the whole of next week!0 -
NSD today
Yesterday:
£1.95 on de-icer (grr!)
£8.27 in Morrisons - couple of treats snuck in including Malteaster bunnies @ 4 for £1!
Total spend so far: £45.60
Don't think I have anything more to buy this week - except maybe some yorkshire puddings for the Sunday dinner but I have a £2 Sainsburys giftcard (for finding wood chunks in a salad bowl) which I could use for those, next week we are only around 3 days and on the Wednesday we will buy a take out for us and my dad as an extra thank you for staying at ours to drive us to the airport! That should cost us £12 but it will come out of the entertainment budget.
The rest of this month I should only need:
£50 changed in to DKK for our trip
£50 for other fortnights food budget - although bf is away 4 days so actually hoping to save at least £20
£25ish for my phone bill
£30ish for bus tickets
£20ish slush
So I should have £150 left over at pay day, give or take obviously. And in next month's pay I should get my incorrectly paid tax back which will be nice - and will pay a chunk of my credit card bill haha.
Hoping to squeeze a nice meal out of next months budget to treat bf************************************
Oct 2025 Grocery Challenge: £302/£3000 -
Didn't work on phone so had to delete other post and edit this one ...
Tonight's tea ... Butterbean and Leek tagliatelle with Parmesan
GC 2026 £1,429.10/1320.00
(20.49/8 = 2.52 <2/8> coffee) Oct £93.63/100 BB £30.07/30 Nov 4.87/100 BB 14.71/30 (includes food, toiletries and cleaning, from 13th to 12th of each month).
One person vegan household, with occasional visitors
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Forever learning the art of frugality0 -
Ah here you all are! I had some trouble finding this ,thanks coxy for pointing me in the right direction. Im pledging £300 again for Aprils budget.LBM Jan 2012 £32355 now £23984.01
GC Feb£289.64/300 Mar £284.92/300Apr £215.53/300
£2 Savers £124/100
NSDs Jan 9/8 Feb 6/9mar 8/9 Apr 5/90 -
First shop for a couple of weeks and seem to have spent a fortune, will sort it all out later but wanted to say if , like me you love faggots chips and peas,Iceland have a great deal, six pack Mr Brains for only 87p,
I only have 1.1/2 faggots now as cant eat so much now so only 22p a portion.Slimming World at target0 -
K9sandFelines, I've added your Szechuan chicken/seabass recipe to the index
DS age 10 💙 DD age 70 -
becsxxx, your Spicy red cabbage recipe has been added to the index DS age 10 💙 DD age 70
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No grocery spends today or yesterday - yay! Defrosted some HM spag bol sauce from the freezer for dinner.DS age 10 💙 DD age 70
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Had to get a loaf on the way home from work to get change for bus £1.09, then went to B&M and got some cleaning stuff and snacks £12 (rounded up as DH binned receipt).
Tortellini for tea with Ald* stir through sauce which was delish.
We went out last night and used Clubcard Pizza Express vouchers, but paid for drinks/tip £10 so i'm adding that in too. Chippy tea tomorrow!
Edited to say I've decided to now go from payday to payday (23rd) as this will help me budget better so I've added in the shops I did at the end of march £45.96 Ald*, £30.32 M*rrisons and £9.75 Ic*land.0 -
Another NSD here, turkey burgers using mince out of freezer for dinner and lunch was 2 veggie packet meal thingies (veg chilli and chickpea and lentil curry I think) so using up things out of freezer and larder :j0
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