March 2014 Grocery Challenge

lynnejk

Mrs Cautious - sending ((hugs)) and very best wishes to you and your daughters. Sure you'll manage to get onto the healthy wagon and beat this. You seem to have the positive attitude that defeats problems and you're definitely a star.


Shopping today was Li*l = £3.38, Al*i = £7.33 and Mr M £15.46 and should see me through this week I think, as plenty in freezer still :rotfl: I'm not complaining but it seems to fill as quick as I try to empty it. Think it's because I try never to throw anything away but recycle it all


:dance: My new mini cooker arrived from Germany :dance: so at least this week can have yorkies and pastry again :j (not every day though)


Hope you all have a super Sunday
Lx

kayester

ok meal last night was paid for by my Dad (for me and the kids) so £10.55 spent on a round of drinks and meal for OH (he couldnt make it as he was at work so took him a litle box of goodies home) and then he bought me wine

craigywv

I will be having a nsd here today again as not leaving the house. good luck on the healthy eating plan mrs cautious, I need to lose an awful amount of weight myself at least 7 stone! I 5 ft nothing and built like a tank its hard I know but I did it before and lost 5 stone and will do it again, so good luck to you. xxx

Soworried

MrsCautious wrote: »

I'm adding £5.19 as have just bought 2x half price Cif cleaning spray for £1.69 each at the Co-op, along with a couple of croissants for my daughters.

I've been diagnosed with diabetic kidney disease this week, really not great timing, not telling my daughters as I know this would cause a lot of stress, so my shopping this week will be totally driven by healthy eating, my budget hasn't gone out the window though, still want to be very cost conscious.

OMG, My heart goes out to you MrsC :A You can and will beat this and your daughters will be even more proud of you than they already are once you tell them :T x

Soworried

Billie-jo, your meal looks amazing

In the last few days I have spent £10.02p on mainly toiletries, I will need to spend today as I am out of milk and juice and a few other bits and bobs. I hope to do it for £10 again though and then the next few days should be nsd.
I need to sort out my meal plan to get me through til pay day on Friday.

MrsCautious

You are all very, very kind -- thank you so much for all your generous words of encouragement, it really is doable and shouldn't be too difficult for me to get this sorted, healthy eating to get my blood sugar down will play a v important part.

(I just read that six out of 10 people's symptoms disappear with the right approach)
With this in mind, here's my meal plan for a few days:

Sun

Wholemeal toast, scrambled egg, water, small yogurt.

Houmous and Ryvita, fruit. Water

Aldi roast beef, loads of veg, mushrooms in hm sauce, no potatoes for me!

Mon

YS mini shredded wheat, skim milk, nuts and fruit

Sains lean chicken salad sandwich, fruit

Sains basics prawn stir fry

Tues

Same breakfast and lunch then fish fingers (which were on offer ) with salad.

Weds

Brek and lunch TBC

Tea at my mum's -- cod and veg

Thurs

Brek and lunch TBC
Tea: Aldi roast chicken with veg etc, no potatoes for me

Fri

Break and lunch tbc
Tea beans on wholemeal toast for me, girls at friend's.

Lotti1982

Spend of £7.65 yesterday in LDL, £2 in Tsco and £1.99 in local shop.

Will add 11.64 to my total, still on track.

Off to the in laws today so should be a NSD, and we'll all get a lovely meal without cooking.

Soworried

Soworried wrote: »

I need to sort out my meal plan to get me through til pay day on Friday.

Soworried wrote: »

Last week until pay day for us so it really is a make what we have in week
Oxtail stew with dumplings- Already made and in the freezer, just needs heated and dumplings added.
HM pizza and salad- Bases already made in the freezer and have mozzarella in the freezer as well.
Spicy chorizo mince wraps- I'll make the wraps today and the mince mixture ready to heat up during the week.
BBQ chicken wings with grattan- I have wings in the freezer I can marinade and I have 2x ys grattans in the freezer also.
Toad in the hole- I have the sausages in and plenty of potatoes, the veg can come from the freezer as well, I have 3 veg mash and sprouts and carrots/peas in there.
Chicken dinner- I have 1 full chicken left, I'll make some yorkshire puddings and stuffing to go with it and veg from the freezer and mash.
LO chicken curry with turmeric rice- I have everything in for that.

We have plenty of oats and dried fruit in for breakfast and I am just about to make a couple of loafs for the week for sandwiches and toast.

I'll also make a quiche for lunch today and some cheese and onion pasties for during the week. We have some chicken soup in the freezer for lunches as well and I'll make up some egg mayo and cheese savoury for a couple of sandwich days.

Snacks we have a load of crisps and I'll make some twinks and some cheese biscuits today. We have plenty of dried fruit in and I'll make some HM yoghurt today as well.

I best get cracking, well after this coffee anyway :rotfl:

It doesn't look as bad as I thought Not a pasta in sight :A:rotfl:
Fingers crossed we can get through on the little I have left, we will need to buy the salad but other than that we should scrape it

Ladyluck1

£1.20 in lidl.
Need to do a meal plan today too!
We've got fish pie fit dinner made from sone frozen white fish and one salmon fillet from freezer. Lots of veggies, cream to use up. Served with petit pois x

lushlifesaver

NSD yesterday and today should be the same again, planning to hold off on any shopping until Tuesday which is market day at which point we will need wraps, milk, lettuce, potatoes, marg for baking, apples, bananas and maybe another fruit like strawberries (our fruit and veg man has delicious fruit for so much less than in stores).

All that should see me well through the week and in to pay week; which I'm trying to eek out of this months budget.

The only thing that might effect things is baby's debut! I plan to budget a little extra for that first week so that I don't beat myself up too much for not being super mum straight away!