March 2014 Grocery Challenge

craigywv

good day all nsd here today . was out planting some things in garden as it not too bad here so far. am eating out of freezers for a while as want to save a few pounds as need flooring, so expensive few weeks in store for me good luck all

Pippin12

A spendy day today for me - Ribena Plus was half price in Tesco and I love my Ribena so I bought five bottles (!). I also picked up some colour care shampoo which was also half price. I home-dyed my hair yesterday and the last time I did it around christmas the colour (red) washed out by three weeks so I'm hoping using colour care shampoo and conditioner will prolong the life of the colour. I've already got the conditioner so just needed the shampoo and it was £2.49 for 900ml (Tresemme) which I thought was a pretty good buy. Sig duly updated.

norabatty_2

Hi,

Can I join in for March please? I did really well in my first month - February spend was £120.83/£180 so please put me down for £140 for March. This runs from 1st to 31st March.

Popped to Mr S last night and spent £25.47

charlies_tribe

Spent £94 yesterday. Should have enough cereals, washpowder, nappies and wipes for the month, still need to do a full food shop.
Today is a NSD as I have poorly kiddies.
Off to update sig.

Anzac_Biscuit

Hi all,

Just did the first shop for March - came to $52.70, which I was pleased about. I have an offer from the sm for a $15 voucher if I spend $50 for the next three weeks - it's more per week than I had planned but I figure if I plan it well I can stock up on staples for later (and maybe not spend anything for the last week of the month

Bought some veg, bread, toiletries, house stuff and toilet paper.

Frizzle_2

Hubby took ds1 geocaching yesterday afternoon so while ds2 was having his afternoon nap I decided to crack on in the kitchen! I made three pizza bases (using half a bag of pizza base mix from aldi (so 50p), then when they got back ds1 helped me to top them. Pasta sauce (as I had ran out of passata), ham, peppers, onion, sliced tom (all needed using up!) and cheese. We put two in the freezer for anothe night!

I then made some bagels! They were so cool and fairly easy. We had them for breakfast this morning! Yum! The recipe made 10 and I used 1/3 bag of flour (25p) sachet of yeast (7p) and a couple of spoonfuls of sugar/salt so about 40p for ten! I froze half for next weekend!

Also made some choc chip muffins with eggs that had just past the date and choc chips that needed using up! The recipe said 12 but think my cases must be smaller as I made 18! They were yum and the perfect size for little ones.
I felt very good using all this food up that would normally have been thrown out!

catandy

will need milk this afternoon so up to 56.31/240 total this month...

Zippy001

family coming over for dinner had to nip to local shop to get some more drinks in
4 cans bitter , 4 cans cider, 1 large bottle coke, 1 large bottle cloudy lemonade £10.64, already have wine in for dinner.
will update my signature.

skintmum2012

Frizzle wrote: »

Hubby took ds1 geocaching yesterday afternoon so while ds2 was having his afternoon nap I decided to crack on in the kitchen! I made three pizza bases (using half a bag of pizza base mix from aldi (so 50p), then when they got back ds1 helped me to top them. Pasta sauce (as I had ran out of passata), ham, peppers, onion, sliced tom (all needed using up!) and cheese. We put two in the freezer for anothe night!

I then made some bagels! They were so cool and fairly easy. We had them for breakfast this morning! Yum! The recipe made 10 and I used 1/3 bag of flour (25p) sachet of yeast (7p) and a couple of spoonfuls of sugar/salt so about 40p for ten! I froze half for next weekend!

Also made some choc chip muffins with eggs that had just past the date and choc chips that needed using up! The recipe said 12 but think my cases must be smaller as I made 18! They were yum and the perfect size for little ones.
I felt very good using all this food up that would normally have been thrown out!

Mmm those bagels sound fantastic do you have the recipe please. So pleased its not just be who feels happy when they use up food hubby thinks I am slightly mad when I use up food I would have binned a while ago and feel so satisfied

Gorgeestwo

Hi, lots of pages to catch up on
Went shopping yesterday & spent £67, would have been a lot better but bought alcohol & meat, so not too bad
Hope everyone's Sunday afternoon is going ok x