April 2013 Grocery Challenge

GreenFairy

€6.60 spent today on pitta bread, a jar of peanut butter and bags of salad. Cooked chickpeas to turn into hummus tomorrow.

Presses are starting to show some gaps, which is nice. Getting a good view of the things that I use rarely/very little of and either don't need to replace them at all or should get the smallest unit size available when they run out.

Bluegreen143

Meant to say yesterday, big shop at Mr M was £25.80 in total

Meal plan for the week as follows:

Su – vegetable fajitas with cheese and yoghurt

M – macaroni cheese with broccoli and salad (I had tuna in mine)

Tu – chinese chicken curry with egg fried rice (new recipe)

W – mushroom stroganoff with potatoes and veg (from freezer)

Th – chilli con carne meatballs with rice (new recipe)

F – calzones with salad

Sa – OH is out and I haven’t decided what I’m doing yet, probably some salmon that's in the freezer with salad.



Small spend in Mr T on some YS items - baby swede 13p, 6 pittas 19p (can't make it cheaper), 4 rolls 26p, spring onions 19p. quite happy with these

NickJW

K9sandFelines wrote: »

I love Chinese food too . Will definitely try these. Thanks so much and hope Sains get back to you. Not very good customer service is it? There's a few people from this thread work for them, so maybe they could shed some light on normal procedure ...which you would think would be to take your word for it; as you would an online delivery (was it online??), they would just refund your money over the phone without wanting the product back.

Thanks Unfortunately it was in store, but I couldn't get back to them on the same day.
If they don't get back to me then I just want shop with them anymore I guess - it's the principle rather than the money to be honest.

Eyebright

Oh dear, somehow managed to spend £69.32 in MrM's last night, which is not going to leave me with much in the budget! :eek:

To be honest though this is my first month of the challenge, and I am adjusting as I start to stock up my cupboards and change how I cook etc. But still! Off to update signature...

Hollygym

Wow - i miss a couple of weeks and look what happens!! 29 pages to catch up on. Everyone's been busy!!

I hope i can add onto the April challenge...and i'm hoping to have a month spend of £400.

Been away on holiday and life has just been busy, but i'm hoping for a quieter time now. I will manage to read up the pages and remain focused (honest:o )

mummyyof5

NSD yesterday as OH paid for Cinema...Will be back later though as OH has a very rare day off so taking LO for new school shoes and then he wants to go to HB...now I love HB but :eek::eek:..I know how much we spend there ...will attempt to minimise damage:)

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Going to the farm shop butchers later today. We had some BBQ meat from them over Easter and it was delish. Hoping to start using them instead of DR. Will make the purchases using 2nd purse as I'll probably get a bulk order.

Coxy

liz-paul

I thought I was doing so well last week but now I'm almost halfway to my budget and I need to buy mince (£10 will do til end of month and prob beyond), Diet coke (not really necessary but I don't have many luxuries) & iron tablets for OH. And pay my mum back on Thurs for a couple of bits she's getting for me..... Which leaves me about half my budget for the last 2 weeks of the month inc DS1's birthday party food....

I think I am stocking up too much on 'bargains', particularly treat sort of foods....

meg72

liz-paul wrote: »

I thought I was doing so well last week but now I'm almost halfway to my budget and I need to buy mince (£10 will do til end of month and prob beyond), Diet coke (not really necessary but I don't have many luxuries) & iron tablets for OH. And pay my mum back on Thurs for a couple of bits she's getting for me..... Which leaves me about half my budget for the last 2 weeks of the month inc DS1's birthday party food....

I think I am stocking up too much on 'bargains', particularly treat sort of foods....

As someone who is also inclined to overstock on bargains Ifind it useful to make myself have a use up week every now and then. I plan a weeks menu from the freezer and cupboards and only buy absolute essentials for that week.

I try to do this the first week of the challenge and use the savings to stock up on the last week so that I am a bit ahead for the next month.


this works out well for me as I live alone and can please myself what I eat, much more difficult when feeding a family though, too many moans of `We havent got any

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goldopals

Just checking in to say I almost had a NSD altogether, but then bought an ebook from Amazon.