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April 2013 Grocery Challenge
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K9sandFelines wrote: »Was going to make crispy cakes but forgot to see if C*-*p sells an equivalent of value chocolate.
Ours doesn't if that makes you feel better. I got the 3 for 1 cheese too, about to grate and freeze it before the gannets spot it.'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need' Marcus Tullius Cicero0 -
Ours doesn't if that makes you feel better. I got the 3 for 1 cheese too, about to grate and freeze it before the gannets spot it.
Thanks hex2, i forgot to pop it on the grocery shopping; but i wasn't going to trek back to the shop just in case, in order to make crsipies - we will live without them. There is only me eats cheese here and i am doing SW, so the amount is limited. It'll probably last me til the sell by date :rotfl:!GC 2025 so far £1461.52/£1710 Dec 13th - Jan 12 = £55.52/180 (includes food, toiletries and cleaning from 13th to 12th of each month.Two person vegan household, with occasional visitors)Join me on the meal plan thread : https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6356309/could-we-start-a-meal-plan-thread-again-so-its-not-lost-in-the-gc/p1Forever learning the art of frugality0 -
spends today
84p B&m
89p FF
30p Mr t
£5.33 Lidl
£1 Mr A
£7.95 McD ( wouldn't normally include this but doing well so far)
sig updatedSeptember 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
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Another nSD 12 out of 13:-)
I go walking and we take turns paying for breakfast not my turn:-)
So dinner is something light normally maybe some HM mushroom soup and bread.Weight loss challenge 66lb to go /59lb's lost
Grocery Budget January £150/£175
Feb £150/0 -
Welsh_Poppy wrote: »11 NSD and still not spent any money as yet:-)
Dinner is fish pie for OH I am having salad and Glamorgan sausage.
Wow way to goGc 2013 +26 -5. -4 -7 -14 -15 -10.-8.20 +15p+30+5.80 Dec +9 GROCERY challenge 2014 Jan -2Feb -3 March -1.50 April +5.40 May +4.90 June -3.July 16.50/85
God bless my sweet "old man" Goldie that died in the early hours of 27 th March please see him on my avatar0 -
forever_saving wrote: »Updating my total to £157.93. Can't believe how much i have spent already. I do have quite a bit in the freezer though. I have being going to ald! in the mornings and getting bits at 50% off and popping them in the freezer.
I hope everyone enjoys their weekend.
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I have. Been so fed up with them they have stopped the reduced items. Well every time i go anywayGc 2013 +26 -5. -4 -7 -14 -15 -10.-8.20 +15p+30+5.80 Dec +9 GROCERY challenge 2014 Jan -2Feb -3 March -1.50 April +5.40 May +4.90 June -3.July 16.50/85
God bless my sweet "old man" Goldie that died in the early hours of 27 th March please see him on my avatar0 -
Small spend yesterday - £1.48 on six eggs and £1.70 on caster sugar. OH volunteered me to make a cake for his brother's birthday... don't mind but they're having a boy's poker and golf-watching night so I'm not actually invited to the party :rotfl:

Made calzones last night and on a healthy whim decided to sub some of the white flour for brown, worked out pretty well:
Part time working mum of DS (2015) and DD (2018).
NET WORTH Nov 25: £159,943
Assets: £230,000
Investments: £70,169
Savings: £3,288
Debt: -£143,514 (£700 CC / £16k car / £127k mortgage)0 -
hi went to waitrose today to spend a £15 voucher they sent me to ease my disappointment with them when i complained, I got x3 chickens for a tenner I have now portioned them up added piri piri sauce to the bag and chucked inthe freezer
I also got some bread and got given just under a fiver in cash oh in the weekly paper there is a coupon for a free packet of fancy phileas fogg crisp type things should be a quid but you get them for nowt
have a good rest of the weekend tessaonwards and upwards0 -
£14.50 spent in a farm shop today on pork belly, sausages and some cake to take to a friend's. Our weekly Aldi shop is tomorrow but shouldn't be too bad as we are out a lot of the week and away again next weekend x.0
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Bluegreen143 Calzone looks fab, and the cake
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GC 2025 so far £1461.52/£1710 Dec 13th - Jan 12 = £55.52/180 (includes food, toiletries and cleaning from 13th to 12th of each month.Two person vegan household, with occasional visitors)Join me on the meal plan thread : https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6356309/could-we-start-a-meal-plan-thread-again-so-its-not-lost-in-the-gc/p1Forever learning the art of frugality0
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