March 2014 Grocery Challenge

Crowdpleaser

10.87 to add last night on 2 bottles squash some ys indian snacks ys turkey stir fry tahini and 3 bottles shower gel in mr s. Stil feel ok for spends. Not loads left in kitty but freezers are bursting x

charlies_tribe

The whole house has been poorly here so no big spends but have had to use the local shop for bread and milk and dd has had some money on her school dinner card.


Total spend now at 129/600.



The only plus side to them being poorly is that they have hardly eaten so the food will stretch a little further. Had pancakes yesterday as they were too ill on Tuesday, they were the bottled mix stuff, Must learn to make them myself, they taste so much better fresh made.



Think tonight will be sausage and mash with beans for dd's and veg for ds's (ds's wont eat beans and dd's eat very limited veg, something I really need to work on).

joedenise

Have done this week's main shop and have spent £1.16 in farmshop; £3 in Iceland and £21.56 in Mr T. Mr T was nearly £10 more than it would have been but I decided to get decent cutter boxes for foil & clingfilm as I waste so much without a decent cutter and they were £4 something each. Will be a long time before I need to buy any more foil or clingfilm as I've got loads now!

Have got enough fruit and veg for a few days but will need to get some more early next week - usually go to the market Tuesday but may just go to farmshop on Monday instead as I have to take the car in for service that day anyway so will save an extra trip and give me an extra NSD!

Denise

smokies

will set a budget of £250 for the Month, would hope for a lot less, but will need to restock freezer up as there is not a lot in there.


Had some fun with some of the meal - while eating out of cupboads and freezer for the last week or so .....


will up date my sig...... later tonight

Frizzle_2

Ladyluck1 wrote: »

Had to go to lidl for some bits for DS, bananas, apples, ham, potatoes etc.
£5.20 gone out of my remaining £22 so £16.80 left..
LO chicken is making fried rice for dinner today, using some cut up peppers from the freezer and peas etc

Were these fresh peppers that you have frozen?did you just chop them up and put them in the freezer? I have three in the fridge that need using up so I was thinking of freezing them!

lushlifesaver

NSD day again as I ended up avoiding the supermarket all together during lunch! Think I may do the same tomorrow then pick bits up in our little town on Saturday whilst doglet is at the groomers :-)

Florenceem

NSD.
We had HM sausage casserole + HM dumplings + roast potatoes/parsnips for dinner.

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Ches

Frizzle I always slice going over the top peppers and freeze them. They are fine for adding to bolognaise etc.

Spent £35.90 in L1dl and £14.22 in C0-op today. I will update my siggy in a mo. Shame I couldn't get everything in L1dl as the C0-op is expensive but is the only SM we have here. L1dl is in the complete opposite direction to any other big SM's so its difficult to shop around on the same day.

twigpig

Ladyluck1 wrote: »

No money again! The car needs some work doing and we don't have any spare cash so it HAS to come out of food budget so I now have whats left jn my purse for the whole month!? £22.
Luckily my freezer and cupboards are full x

Extra, extra good luck - it's horrible when you get unexpected bills.....

twigpig

Hey ladies - meal was abandoned yesterday as chicken smelled a 'bit off' (was a ys from my freezer, lol). I was debating a Chinese, but we managed to dig some fish and fish fingers out of the freezer.


Quick question, I had some broccoli cut up with a pinch of salt to go with the chicken (didn't put it into water or cook it). Can I freeze it as I don't think I would use for a few days and don't want it to go limp.... thanks