March 2014 Grocery Challenge

dogmom_3

Morning everyone - isn't the sunshine wonderful. I only have £30 to last until my month ends on 27th March. Should be doable but a bit tight. I've bought some bulk items this month so hopefully it will even out later.

lushlifesaver

Well I've walked in to town and back;
£2.50 in Fulton Foods (double strength squash and 2x southern fried scampi)
£3.00 on the market (5 gigantic potatoes and 2 large packs of strawberries)
£6.50 in Iceland (4pints milk, 1.5lt orange juice, smoked ham, wraps, pack of chocolate biscuits, 3tins baked beans)

£12 added to sig- need lettuce, more wraps and a small block of cheddar but other than that we should be OK through to months end next week :-)

joedenise

Had a bigger shop today than intended and ending up spending £44.05 but this included a lamb shoulder joint which was reduced which I only bought today as it is on my "shopping list" for the monthly meat shop on Thursday and thought might as well get it today while it was reduced. This also included a bottle of wine for the weekend which I wouldn't normally buy until my regular Thursday shop but had a voucher with £1 off which runs out tomorrow so all in all although I spent about £15 more than I needed to I have actually saved at least a fiver over what it would have cost me on Thursday, iykwim!

I think I'll still be just within budget after my shop on Thursday which is my last one of the month as currently at £199.68/£250.

Denise

K9sandFelines

Forgotten i had bought gnocchi in the week as hadn't had it delivered in shopping, so need to add £1.30 plus some YS bread which i think was 23p a pack. Then today's spend was £7.16 mainly on fruit but some YS bakery items fell in there too. Aswell, as ready made yorkshires ( having to cook in halo at mo due to cooker being broke, so can't do my own) and Quorn pieces.

Unbelievably i've had to do another Tesc* delivery for tomorrow, as i've ran out of washing (laundry) liquid and they seemed to have the best deal on, so topped up on more offers.

Note from here on in *stop stockpiling*!!!!

PS Congrats to Bluegreen 123, and better luck to all those who are going through more difficult times.

Off to update sig ...

Lotti1982

Planned a small spend £1 on milk but ended up buying nappies on special offer £14, ham on Bogof for £2, chorizo £1.09, Parma ham £1 and coleslaw for 54 p. total spend £18.63 signature updated. Won't make target for month but have got enough nappies for next month too.

smokies

spent £11-60 in Ald* this afternoon, needed a few things like eggs milk ect and oh cat food...


will update sig...


hoping to have a NSD tomorrow, as I really don't need anything for a few days ( I hope)


Got a nice bit of beef cheeks marinating in the fridge ready for the slow cooker in the morning... all veggies cut as well.....


smokies xxx

WhiteSnowdrop

Evening all

A huge Te$c0 order before the weekend as we had guests Sun/Mon and today. I'm quite proud of myself as I have produced some lovely meals but haven't had to buy anything extra and stuck to my plan although I am totally pooped now! I've meals and lunches planned till the 28th which is when my months run to and from so should only need a couple of small top ups for milk and fruit etc.

The freezer still has quite a bit of meat in there so I think I could do with sitting down and working out realistically just how many meals are in there and plan them in for the rest of March/April as I'd really like to empty the freezer next month.

Enough blabbering now, have a good evening everyone

debbiedeejay

Just rememebered I haven't updated my signature this week so to add onto this months total

Mr Mozzies for Fridays normal shop -£49.49
Local shop £10.53
£3 at shop near work towards lunch one day.

Oh and on Friday eve managed to buy 3 YS gammon joints reduced from £3.99 to a £1 each at C0-0p so one went in slow cooker and the others in the freezer.

Not having such a good month as I would like - need to pull up my socks & pull in the purse strings:o

Florenceem

NSD.
We had HM veggie casserole + dumplings + roasted potatoes.
I made an apple in and out pudding as well.


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bmma

NSD today = 9