April 2013 Grocery Challenge

sweetpea26

morning all

Its been a spendy week in sweetpea land I can tell you. I am now up to £204. So I have £96 to do me until the end of the month. There are 14 days left until the 30th so it has to do me. I am well stocked up and today I am making home made soup from the carcass of a large free range chicken I bought at the weekend.

I spent £8.08 on this bird but it was full of meat. So on Sunday I made roast chicken, home made chips and salad for 5. Hubby had curry.

Yesterday I had enough for a chicken and ham salad with chips

Popped the carcass in the slow cooker last night and today after straining etc I added leeks and parsley from the garden, 2 carrots, half a red pepper sitting in fridge and a soft tomato.

Its simmering away in the slow cooker and I will add some potato or pasta in afternoon. Bought gorgeous fresh wheaten bread earlier this morning and thats dinner tonight for 3 people.

I bought reduced chicken in major supermarket last week and defrosted it at the weekend ... not impressed I can tell you. Rubber would be a kind word to describe it. Pure rubbish and had to throw most of it away and use what other cooked chicken I had in the freezer to make the curry. Will not be buying that again.

So maybe it is worthwhile to pay a few extra pounds for a good chicken as it seems to have gone further for me.

Must catch up on all the posts.

Good luck everyone.

MrsCautious

Spent my Top CashBack giftcard in Iceland. Paid 60p towards groceries worth £12.30. Oh the excitement.

I've around £60 left as payable in my cashback account after opening a Santander account through it for cashback on my monthly bills so may also opt for this to be loaded onto the giftcard as it's a nice feeling shopping with this 'bonus' money. It's also good to check out Iceland, which isn't a shop I'm used to.

I got:

8 2-finger kitkats £1
4 pints skim milk £1
low fat spread £1 ish
30 % free Crunchy nut cornflakes £2.80
950ml Iceland Cornish ice cream, £1
Toffee cheesecake £1
Two Aunt Bessie puddings that can be cooked from frozen - lemon meringue and apple crumble at £1.50 each -- I know they could be made repeatedly cheaper than this in the long run but for now I'll stay with shop bought until I've built up a better store cupboard.

Just got 50 Sbury nectar points by watching first of this week's adpoints videos. As they say at another sm, every little helps. xx

PS very impressed by spiders Nicki-Sue , closest my kids have ever got to something inventive like that is a jauntily angled sausage in a dollop of mash x

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Was out and about earlier running errands and happened to be passing my 'local' A!di (8miles away). Thought I might as well stock up on some faves from there, pending (hopefully) another DMirror voucher next week(?).

Spent £42.11 but got lots of storecupboard bits, including baking ingredients, plus the lookilikey mooler corners that the children love

Need to update my sig.
Have a good day all.
Coxy

meg72

Nicki_Sue wrote: »

Doesn't everyone feed their kids on bugs? Pfft, and I thought this was a frugal board

Thanks for a much needed laugh :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

of course we feed them bugs but then we post a pic of a highy expensive dinner and pretend thats what we give them.

meg72

K9sandFelines wrote: »

Ran out of toilet roll and decided to take up the offer in C*-*p of the B1G2F kitchen roll as i use this for pet accidents, and one sheet also dries off the cat bowls; so will last ages ( i know it's not very MSE, but don't fancy using cloths for job number 1)! Also picked up two A*tivia on offer, so £2.41 in there spent.
Then went to other local shop One-St*p and got a treat for weekend of rtc Rolo bar and Aero bar on offer, and priced up and bought toilet rolls (though i'm loathe to pay over 99p for four, but ended up having to pay double that).So another, £3.27.
Roll on Mr Ms opening up here. Hopefully, i will have well got into the swing of things by then and will pick up more YS stuff and can cut out the majority of my online shopping therefore knocking off the delivery charge.
Off to update sig.

Kitchen roll is not really meant to go down the loo, could result in an expensive plummer bill,

meg72

smokies wrote: »

My first month is just about coming to an end on the 19th of April, I have just added up the cost of my Grocery bills for this month. OMG I can not believe I spend that much money on food....... I set myself a budget of £300.00 and I have gone way over this.

I need to stop spending so much on things that I don't really need..... and stop spending just of the sake of it....

Its a new month for me on Friday - so will set myself the same target of £300..... which works out about £75.00 per week.....

Thats the beauty of this thread,it shows you what you are spending and lets you see where you need to cut down,that plus all the lovely people who share and will help makes the GC the place to be.

Florenceem

A spend of £1.38 today on Cranberry juice.
No dinner photo again - I am exhausted by having the house renovations done. Everywhere is thick with plaster dust/brick dust and wood dust. Floorboards are up all over the house. No heating - please pray the weather doesn't turn cold.
Dinner tonight was HM wedges, roast pork, mushy peas and a poached egg.

Nicky_Noo_Na

Just a quick one to add £21.57 at asda on the weekly shop which I was pleased with - went fri after work instead of the usual sat morning and it was so quiet....might have to start going then!

Hope everyone is doing well with their budgets - need to read back when I get a chance.

Billie-jo

Today has been another NSD.
For tea we had pasta with celery & mushroom sauce. Think I did too much as we are still full.

Have found a ham bone in the freezer that I forgot was there so tomorrow will make ham & potato soup and see what it turns out like. Have also taken out some lamb for tomorrows teas but will need some veg as only have carrots and onions left.

getting-sorted-sarah

NSD for me. Dinner was pasta and quorn mince, mushrooms etc. I have a day off tomorrow so I am going to make some bread and pizza bases I think.