April 2013 Grocery Challenge

rock_queen

£14 spend so far this week, hoping to only buy milk through the week as we have enough fruit and veg and stuff in the freezer. Planning on using the rest of this weeks budget to go out for a meal for our 1st anniversary on Friday.

sweetpea26

Hi Zippychick:)

Could you please include me in this months challenge .... £300


This is for family of 3 during week and 5 at weekend...plus elderly relatives 2 days a week.

Have been away until Friday for a break and have since bought
2x 45p skimmed milk

Yesterday spent £8.50 on
2 litres milk
Fresh Chicken (roast dinner today)
Cheese mild cheddar
Traybakes (present for my mother)

Todays meal plan is

Breakfast... toast/cereal ...
Lunch....... Sandwiches...salmon (tin in fridge) sons may have pasta/cheese etc.
Dinner....... Roast chicken, carrots and parsnips (from freezer) mashed potatoes with peas(frozen) and gravy. (special request from 2 starving students before heading back to uni tonight)

Hubby having Curry from freezer, reduced naan from freezer and will cook some fresh rice if I cant find any in the big white cold box ::rotfl:

May make some banana muffins whilst I am cooking the chicken.

Need to check if I have enough fruit to pop into hubbys lunch for work tomorrow. Otherwise I am not spending today.

All the best to everyone and thanks for this thread. It is a great help.

P.S.
When I went to visit my mam yesterday was sent home with an almost full loaf of Kingmill white bread and a block of Mature cheddar. Hubby loves mature whilst the 'kids' prefer the mild so all happy.

hex2

mummyyof5 the pepsi is 89p/2l in Lidl from 11th if that helps?

Can you put Hex2 for £300 please - playing not posting for the last two months but I think posting does help.

Spends so far £37.50 in Lidl including six packs of sausages at 50p (ish) in the half price weekend stuff. Frozen individually rather than in 8's, one pack kept out for a sausage casserole.

Flour is cheap again in Lidl I noticed - 40 odd pence for SR and Plain. It was 50 odd last time I bought some. Sorry for vagueness, receipt is in kitchen and i have just mopped the floor.

Wentthedaywell?

:A I've only spent £5 on "proper" food this week, and it was wholesome free-range eggs and salad stuff from the farmers' market. :A

<<wishing there was a devil icon>> But I've spent £10 on reduced Easter chocloate! (But it was decent quality so I didn't get lots for the money!)

sistercas

Was going to be a NSD but the milk I defrosted is lumpy:eek: so DH is going to pick up a pint when he goes to get his mother for lunch.

I've made a chicken and leek pie with HM puff pastry with mash and broccoli for lunch. I did a cost comparison on the puff pastry , it cost £1.20 for the butter and 8p for the flour , so £1.28. i could get pre made in sainsbugs for a £1 so no saving. However the sainsbugs is 500g and mine is 624g .:D

bargain_hunter_2

Few spends to report -seem to be in out of more shops with kids being off school
£51.39 between Morries and ald* and t,s but this did include a nice bit of silverside for tonight's dinner (and hopefully some lo) and some toiletries all on offer in Morries and lots of clearance fruit shoots and cordial in our local t express.


then today spent £9 odds between ald* super six and ffoods bread milk beans -but that should be me for the rest of this week.

I'll need to be very strict if I'm to stay on target.

MoonJelly

ImDoingItForMe wrote: »

Hi everyones different. I tend to add my toiletries, house cleaning products and clothes washing products to my budget. As you cant really do without some of these, they are neccessities to me unless you make your own. Some include pet food (i havnt a pet). so its what suits you. I include the occassional bottle of wine but not spirits as i dont buy spirits that often.

Thank you for the reply. I buy some stuff in bulk so one month the budget for something (soy milk, washing powder, etc.) appears to be large and then it is non-existent for the next, so I suppose it is a matter of balance.;)

Debtbusterintraining

£42.97 in Mr Ts,surprisingly low 2 weeks in a row but using up leftovers.

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Budgets done to here

Went to Ts with DD. She has some friends staying over tonight - bit of fun in the holidays. We got some sweets and crisps, and as I'm feeding the extra three I got hotdogs and buns, plus some oven chips and salad. I made some rolo cakes earlier too.

I also got meat items for the weekly mealplan, some f&v, cereal etc. to take advantage of the £5 off wys £40. Total was £46.39 after the voucher. Need to really focus now to stay on target this month.

Will do DR beef shin casserole tomorrow as I will be in and out running errands. Must go and get the meat out of the freezer

Have a good evening all.
Coxy

PS. MrsCautious - good that you are enjoying your break. Feel free to ramble on as and when you feel like it. We are all here for you x

minicooper272

So far I've spent £36 of my £90 budget. I have to make this stretch to another 4 weeks worth of food... This week I refrained from buying huge amounts, because I need to run down my freezer, so I'm a little concerned I won't meet my budget!

Was talking to a local farmer, who was warning me that the bad weather last summer is going to hit fruit and veg prices from about now (as that's how long they store veg these days!) so watch out, because potato and onion prices are about to go up quite a bit!