April 2014 Grocery Challenge

superrhinos

just_the_two_of_us wrote: »

Hi all - quick update after early shop for April! Much quicker doing it all with DH and car.

Have spent £108.92 already:eek: - some of that on stock cupboard stuff and wine for this month - which l bought much earlier in the year.

Now have a 12.5 kg sack of potatoes for £3.50 from nearby - ish farm shop. We decided to have a run out for a treat so were passing anyway. Have enough food for 20 main meals at least in freezer and are away 2/30 days in April so need only 8 more to manage for the month.

This month I am determined not to end up with several of the same type of meat left in the last week:rotfl: - it got a little boring!!

Managed to get G Blend decaff 150g refills for 2 for £7 from Mr T - even though shelf didn't show offer, also DH beers and yoghurts reduced and B Eye breaded haddock + other stuff too - receipt said we saved £12.62 but think it was much more! Whilst there we used the money off a litre to top up - so got petrol for £1.209 p/l. We were actually there when lots of meat was reduced, but didn't seem to be much of a saving and not much space in freezer so left them!!!

Does anyone have any recommendations for cheap and cheerful pasta meals - will look through the index too. We have kgs of pasta to use up and have gone off our usual bolognaise.

Now hope for several NSDs in a row. Catch up with you all later xx

Macaroni cheese, veg pasta bake

jumblejack

Got to report a spend of £21/40 as hubster made some purchases last night (I have since pointed out that I am imposing a £40 limit on weekly spending so I am reducing what will be purchased this week)

The sprogs enjoyed their games night.

The cakes that sprogs n hubster made went down well:





Leftover pizza n salad for dinner today.

Hubster gonna do something spicy with some yellow stickered chicken thigh fillets though for supper.

Suffolk_lass

Just set up for April and so far so good. At the end of quarter 1 of 2014 I have spent 21.96% instead of 25% thanks to a freezer week in March. This meant my average £300 target was underspent by just under £75. All the scrimping and savings are looking towards paying down the mortgage in my other challenge thread.

Good luck everyone!
SL
(Still lurking, not posting so much)

daffodil29_2

My week started yesterday - £10.40 spent in asda & £2 in wilko. so £12.40/50 for week 1 so far.


I'll be popping to Aldi later and have a £5 off £40 spend, have meal planned and written my list so fingers crossed I manage to stay in budget.

Suffolk_lass

jumblejack wrote: »

Got to report a spend of £21/40 as hubster made some purchases last night (I have since pointed out that I am imposing a £40 limit on weekly spending so I am reducing what will be purchased this week)

The sprogs enjoyed their games night.

The cakes that sprogs n hubster made went down well:





Leftover pizza n salad for dinner today.

Hubster gonna do something spicy with some yellow stickered chicken thigh fillets though for supper.

Hey Jumblejack

Good to see you back on here.

SL

Tink_04

Been to Asda today and spent £38.33 - so adding that to my spend of £47.36 at aldi yesterday I've spent £85.69 . I'm hoping to make this last for 2 weeks and it included breakfasts and packed lunches too.

PennyGrabber

Hello everyone... (Shuffles back in qietly, hoping noone will notice too much!)

Hope you're all well still. Good news with weddings and babies and things!

I'm back in the zone, after going completely off grid and off plan for the last ?? months...

Anyway, I'm in this month for £150. That's for me and my two little ones, who aren't so little any more! They're 7 and 9 now, and actually eat! They've always eaten well, but it used to be in tiny quantities, but now they eat more than me sometimes!

I have a huge stockpile, although my lovely american fridge freezer died last year so I'm back to a regular one. It's making me use the space better though, rather than having tons of food in there and not knowing what it is!!

Enough blabbing for now - I'm off to make lunch. DS wants a toastie and DD wants a picnic (random stuff that falls out of the fridge!). I'll have the remains of my dinner from last night, twice cooked jackets, my all time fave!!

PG x

newthrift

jumblejack - those cakes look delish!!
Went to a local farmers market today, spend of I think £10, need to have a proper add up and then update sig. It's on the last Saturday of every month so will be making a visit and getting veg from there norm as was loads cheaper - even than Ald* and the stuff was huge and very tasty looking

Mumof2_2

Hi, I wonder if you could put me down for £340 this month - only £10 off the last few months but don't want to be too rash!

Many thanks.

craigywv

jj those cakes look like something from an advert ! drooling here