April 2013 Grocery Challenge

lizalloareds

today's spends
£2.18 Mr A
70p Mr T

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meg72

MrsCautious wrote: »

Our dog ate all her treats in one go after wrestling them from where I'd put them while my back was turned, so I bought some more, plus some foil and cling film. Total £3.60. Really want to stay away from any more shopping now til the end of the week x

This made me giggle, I had a dog like that and I used to tell him when its gone, its gone but usually gave in and bought more. Could have been worse love, it could have been your dinner that got scoffed.

meg72

Billie-jo wrote: »

Another £3.20 spent this morning on oranges, broad beans and tomatoes. Did spend more but had a voucher for the rest. I am sure we could drop our budget by at least £10 if we stopped eating tomatoes as we have so many of them and eat them like sweets, still there are worse things we could binge on.

Know how you feel, I just love tomatos and would eat a punnet a day if I could afford them. Have grown more plants this year so hoping for a good crop and can then pig out.

MrsCautious

meg72 wrote: »

This made me giggle, I had a dog like that and I used to tell him when its gone, its gone but usually gave in and bought more. Could have been worse love, it could have been your dinner that got scoffed.

She is a complete pillock. She's a rescue Jack Russell and has us running round after her in exasperation and admiration

I won £10 worth of money off vouchers for Dr Oetker pizzas over the next 12 months today and got our free Graze box so feel like a proper super scrimper!

getting-sorted-sarah

Billie-jo wrote: »

Another £3.20 spent this morning on oranges, broad beans and tomatoes. Did spend more but had a voucher for the rest. I am sure we could drop our budget by at least £10 if we stopped eating tomatoes as we have so many of them and eat them like sweets, still there are worse things we could binge on.

Vine tomatoes are one of Aldo's Super Six this fortnight.

pinkypig

£5.86 on milk and cat food today but hoping for a couple of NSDs before our April challenge on Friday.

I have a £36 AF order arriving tomorrow but I am going to charge £12 to April, May and June as it contains serious bulk orders of whole meal bread mix (was much cheaper than bread flour at sm prices), margarine ( 4 x 450g tins for 99p and it is brilliant for baking so I got 24!!) pickles, sauces and a 3kg bag of Special K which will be used over at least May and June. Had a free delivery code so it seemed a good chance to stock up.:)
I hope this isn't cheating!

PP xx

Billie-jo

getting-sorted-sarah wrote: »

Vine tomatoes are one of Aldo's Super Six this fortnight.

Will be getting a few thanks.

DH had bacon, broad beans and parsley sauce for his tea and I had a jkt potato with some chilli that was in the freezer as don't like broad beans or parsley sauce.

lbnblbnb

K9sandFelines wrote: »

Can't remember who mentioned the Ald* voucher, but it's out this Thursday and lasts til 4th of May. So worth getting this one.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/5-off-40-aldi-thursday-s-daily-mirror-daily-record-vouchers-50p-1533741

Also the £5 off £40 voucher is on at Mr Ts again. This will be my saving grace.Do a shop between 22nd -28th of April and voucher can then be used between 29th of April and 5th of May

Thanks for this info. Does anyone know how much you have to spend at Tesco to get the voucher?

K9sandFelines

lbnblbnb wrote: »

Thanks for this info. Does anyone know how much you have to spend at Tesco to get the voucher?

You're welcome. It's a £40 spend to qualify.

Coxy11

K9sandFelines wrote: »

Can't remember who mentioned the Ald* voucher, but it's out this Thursday and lasts til 4th of May. So worth getting this one.

It was me! Thank you so much xx

Well I'm hanging on by my fingertips this month. Just dropped DS2 at Cubs - they are playing a wide game in the woods tonight :eek: and was going to Ts afterwards. I had to pass a Ws on my way home, and given the numpties that work in Ts during the twilight shift, I thought I'd give Ws a go. Not that impressed if I'm honest. 4 huges cages of chilled produce blocking the aisle waiting to be put on shelves whilst the youngsters gabbed away about their social lives :mad: Maybe I'm just getting old, but when you have to squeeze past and they don't even look bothered, it really gets my goat.

£31.25 spent on a fair bit of F&V (joined fatclub this morning) plus some lunch bits for me and the children.

Will get the A!di voucher but probably won't go until Monday to eeek out my spends. Then it will be from May's budget

Have a good evening all.
Coxy