March 2014 Grocery Challenge

Ladyluck1

twigpig wrote: »

I'm on the free Family & Prime trial and noticed the subscribe and save can work out quite a bit cheaper. Can I order at the subscribe and save price and then just cancel the subscription - do I need to wait til after delivery to cancel it? Any help on how to get the best out of this would be much appreciated as still have a month of my free trial left....

I've done the same, you can cancel the subscribe and save after your first order and make sure you cancel the prime subscription before they charge you too.
Mine is up 8th march

Luiem

Hi, can I join you for March please?


We've been using a shopping budget for a few months now, which stands at £40 a week for food, household cleaning products, hand soap for kitchen, toothpaste, mouthwash and shampoo.
All other toiletries come out of our own personal spending money (and in truth are stockpiled so not in much danger of running out there!) We have a separate petrol budget as well.
Our week starts on a Monday and runs payday to payday, so we will have four Mondays in our March budget. Please put me down for £160.


We eat too many convenience foods and snack foods at present and neither of us (2 adults in house) knows how to cook that well. These are both things we are hoping to change.

twigpig

Ladyluck1 wrote: »

I've done the same, you can cancel the subscribe and save after your first order and make sure you cancel the prime subscription before they charge you too.
Mine is up 8th march

Thanks for this. I ordered some size 1's for next week and will then go in and cancel it. My trial ends on 22nd March - Am i right that I cancel the Prime membership as that's what charges the £49 and amazon family is actually still free?

Ladyluck1

I'm not sure! I'm just about to cancel my prime before I forget

Ladyluck1

Small spend of £4.35 in Mr M on another chicken, biscuits, butter. It's was extra 20% off day again so thought I'd get another chicken

Ches

As I don't need anything else for this month I have closed down on Feb GC at £49.54 under budget. :j
I did the first March shop in Mr M today as we won't have time the rest of the week and we are away Fri and its stuff we will need on our return on Mon. Spent £36.91 and I was pleased with what I got for that. Plenty in the freezer/cupboard now so off to a good start.

dizzy_lizzie

Ches wrote: »

As I don't need anything else for this month I have closed down on Feb GC at £49.54 under budget. :j .

Well done Ches. That must feel good
I've paid £40 deposit today to book a place on a Crystal Healing day course. It's something I'm very interested in and hopefully I'll gain a lot from it. The balance doesn't have to be paid till April.
I've added it to my sig. and I'm going to try and still keep to the budget I've set for this month. It'll be harder but I'll give it a good try, apart from that a no spend day

Florenceem

NSD.
For dinner we had stir fry - Mr F had got Pork instead of Gammon out of the freezer but it was yummy.

dizzy_lizzie

Mmmmmm that looks lovely Florenceem.
Being vegan I'd just replace the meat with a handful of cashew nuts. OH made tea, a mushroom omelette for him and a jacket, veggies, a big round beetroot and gravy for me. I love veg and gravy. Just as well

skintmum2012

Thank you for advise on nappys everyone will definitely be looking on Amazon when it comes time to shop again at the moment I have 4 big boxes to use up. I feel as baby is getting older I would use powder when out and save on the bottles but not a clue how to make them up when out. Breast feeding is so much easier you just wipe out a boob and off you go saves a lot to lol. I am making a lot of recipes from a girl called jack at the moment and its saving me a fortune can't wait to read her book.