March 2014 Grocery Challenge

Soworried

A planned spend of £5.67 today on 4kg of chicken drumsticks and a kg of carrots These will stretch out well over the next couple of weeks. I love the Li dl weekend offers.

meg72

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This made me giggle, I had a friend who used to have a water pistol to scare the cats off her plants and she offered to stand outside Asda and squirt me. I was trying to break my daily shopping habit:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

mags50_2

Please can you put me down for £300 for March. Thanks

I go by the calendar month so will stay on the February thread for a while longer.

islandhoppa

2 spends to report, £77 on an online shop from Mr T which is my stock up on tins etc as easier getting all the heavy stuff delivered at once, the £6 in Ald! yesterday, freezer full and needs running down before holidays in April so trying to avoid the shops as much as possible and run stocks down

Coxy11

Hi all,

We are back from our skiing trip. The Wi-Fi was very patchy so apologies that I'm only updating the budgets list now

Welcome to our newbies:
Busymumofthreeplusdog, Luella-14, mintedby30?, GreenButterfly, Lotti1982, Irobson, george, amber03, misermello, twigpig, and Sky_bloo

I will join you officially on 1st March. Good luck all,
Coxy

rokat

Please can I join?

There's only me, my OH and my cat but recently we've been spending so much at supermarkets! Doesn't help that there is 2 within walking distance

Can you put me down for £200 please?

MrsCautious

Hello lovely inspirers,

I'm going for a £200 budget for March, this includes all groceries - food, household and cleaning, toiletries and pet food etc. It doesn't include eating out but not planning on doing much of that this month. It's for 3 people (2 teens) and a small dog. I may reduce the budget in months to come but for now it feels comfortable. I've tried £150 a couple of times and not managed it, but maybe one day!

Good luck everyone c

superrhinos

A few bits and pieces brought at the weekend and my signature updated accordingly. The freezer and cupboards are very well stocked at the moment so only trying to buy what we actually need to try and run stocks down a bit and save some money.

dizzy_lizzie

Lotti1982 wrote: »

my biggest mistake is popping in for milk and spending about £20 on stuff I would like not stuff we need. QUOTE]

Lotti it's so easy to do that isn't it?
Been shopping with OH today and hopefully I won't have to call in the supermarket for the next few days now. Last night I was so tempted to pop to Mr A's for supper but decided to make a soup with the reduced bag of mixed veg I had in the cupboard. Threw in a chopped potato and mixed herbs and it was totally delicious and it kept my money in my purse.

chirpycheap

E2006 wrote: »

Rather than freezing the bread, why not freeze your made up sandwiches in advance? I do this for my DH and DS and apparently they are as good as fresh once defrosted. DH just lifts them out each evening before bed. I tend to stick to cheese, or meat fillings as these freeze well. If you wanted to add some salad Im sure you could do this on the morning once they have defrosted if you have time. Doing it this way also means you can buy a larger pack of meat which in the longrun costs less.

HTH

E:)

Do you grate or slice the cheese? This sounds like a great idea. Since my son left for Uni we are struggling to use up loaves quickly enough and are ending up with stale bread so this would solve that problem. :T