May 2013 Grocery Challenge

meg72

K9sandFelines wrote: »

£2.40 on four large bananas and a small aubergine from the grocers :eek:. I only expected it to be about £1.80. I will stick to SM prices in future. I wouldn't mind but i used up aubergines last night with pasta, not realising i needed them today :mad:. Also spent £1.09 in the chemist on calamine lotion, as DD and I are covered in bites again .

Will add to sig, as not planning on any more spends today.

*Edited to say* and just seen they are now 50p in Tesco - gah! I could have shuffled around my meal plan and cooked my recipe later on :cool:. Does anybody know if they roast and freeze okay, as i'll stock up if so!?[/QUOTE

Yes they roast and freeze fine.

katep23

hex2 wrote: »

MrT just don't send me vouchers bargain hunter which is a shame as I want do a home delivery.

There's a code for £12 off a £60 spend here which is valid for existing customers - look down the thread for the code as the first one stated doesn't work:

http://www.hotukdeals.com/vouchers/12-off-60-spend-using-ecoupon-tesco-groceries-1542178#post17914807

Been to Lidl's, farm shop and Costco in last few days so spends have shot up but we're fine for chickpeas which we use a lot of for ooh about 3 months! Need to get some squash but that's on offer next week at Costco so need to go back but there's nothing else on offer I am interested in so hopefully not too much to be spent then.

£146.13 / £200

K9sandFelines

meg72 wrote: »

K9sandFelines wrote: »

£2.40 on four large bananas and a small aubergine from the grocers :eek:. I only expected it to be about £1.80. I will stick to SM prices in future. I wouldn't mind but i used up aubergines last night with pasta, not realising i needed them today :mad:. Also spent £1.09 in the chemist on calamine lotion, as DD and I are covered in bites again .

Will add to sig, as not planning on any more spends today.

*Edited to say* and just seen they are now 50p in Tesco - gah! I could have shuffled around my meal plan and cooked my recipe later on :cool:. Does anybody know if they roast and freeze okay, as i'll stock up if so!?[/QUOTE

Yes they roast and freeze fine.

Thanks Meg, will take advantage.
Here is tonight's tea with the pesky aubergines. Moroccan chicken and chicklea stew with Moroccan giant couscous

hex2

Thanks Katep23 -much appreciated, just tried them and neither works for me.
I notice they have 3 for 2 on the cheese which may help someone.

pinkypig

Have managed another small(ish) shop this week at Ald*. Needed coffee, milk,eggs, orange juice, cheese, bread, flour and some fresh fruit and veg. I wrote a list and stuck to it:j
Total spend £19.85.

Off to update my sig.

PPXxx

lbnblbnb

meg72 wrote: »

K9sandFelines wrote: »

£2.40 on four large bananas and a small aubergine from the grocers :eek:. I only expected it to be about £1.80. I will stick to SM prices in future. I wouldn't mind but i used up aubergines last night with pasta, not realising i needed them today :mad:. Also spent £1.09 in the chemist on calamine lotion, as DD and I are covered in bites again .

Will add to sig, as not planning on any more spends today.

*Edited to say* and just seen they are now 50p in Tesco - gah! I could have shuffled around my meal plan and cooked my recipe later on :cool:. Does anybody know if they roast and freeze okay, as i'll stock up if so!?[/QUOTE

Yes they roast and freeze fine.

Good to know, aubergines are my favourite veg and I can get loads very cheap from Leicester market when I visit mum and dad.

lbnblbnb

I am declaring at cough cough cough.

I will total up my spends, but I know I am over, maybe by as much as a £100. Eek.
Onwards and upwards though.
My first Approved Foods order arrived today, all looks good. There is so much stuff on there that I would never buy, I can't see us buying a lot from there, but I got a lot of raspberry and yogurt cereal bars for packed lunches and masses of wraps, again for packed lunches. Some treats too. I can make cereal bars and wraps from scratch, but as I cook from scratch almost all the time I don't feel too bad about it - so much more convenient.
I am off to the June thread as I was paid today (early because of the weekend).

DanielleNic87

£15 spent today. Hubby went shopping after work. 2 Cravendale, taco shells, 2 packs of mozzarella, 3 ciders for hubby, cherryade for me.

Can't believe we have spent less than £300 so far this year.....

becsxxx

Well, minor change in plans as one of my best friends is leaving her OH and so is now coming to stay with is for a week, bless her. She is a veggie so this has meant re-thinking about all meals and I've also got some "treats" in to try and cheer her up.

Spent around £21 in Mr S and Ald1 today - will find exact amount and update siggy in a bit. This means I'll definitely go over my original budget this month, but extenuating circumstances I think.

Tonight we had baked fish, lemon and coriander cous cous and griddled asparagus with lemon, ,yoghurt and black pepper dressing - it was gorgeous!

I've also made the no-bake key lime pie again to take to our friends we are staying at tomorrow and got some bits out of the freezer for a raclette when my friend comes to stay from Sunday.

Have a good weekend everyone x

LarLar

Sent my other half to the shop for some salt and it says on the salt 69p which has been printed on it by the manufacturers. But it had a sticker on the top saying £1.10 which has been put there by the shop owner.

Some expensive salt right there..

Left over budget = £72.90