April 2014 Grocery Challenge

Soworried

MrsCautious wrote: »

NSD for me today, hoping for lots more this week. By the time I got home from work one of my daughters had cooked herself some tea -- basics pasta with chicken in sauce, I cooked my other daughter some pasta parcels as planned. I had Be Good to Yourself bacon with a big mushroom from Aldi with reduced fat Philadelphia which had been on offer at Sains, with salad and some walnuts. This is me following a healthier way of eating and cutting out carbs in my evening meal.


I've lost half a stone so far and would like to aim to lose the same again in the next couple of weeks, but will be happy to lose anything and keep going in the right direction!

I must let all the lovely people who wished me well the other week when I announced I'd been told I had kidney disease, that this turned out to be wrong, I do have a form of anaemia though, caused by a deficiency of vitamin B12, I'm having to have a course of injections. So it's a huge sigh of relief from me but I do need more tests again -- should stop me feeling so exhausted.
We're off for a week soon, will have a good effect on the GC.

Mussels and French fries and French bread sounds so nice, long long time since we've eaten that.

That is great news :T

Soworried

I've been trying so hard the last week to spend very little and it is working. We spent half our budget in the first 3 days but only just over £30 in the 11 days since.
We are hoping to keep the very low spend going until the weekend.

she_who_can_not_cook

bmma wrote: »

SHE WHO CAN NOT COOK sorry for your loss (Goldie) x

Thank you ever so much

Zippy001

small spend today £6.00 on some squash chicken & sweets

Must resist temptation !!! I have updated my signature
Got to be really tight now ...

meg72

MrsCautious wrote: »

NSD for me today, hoping for lots more this week. By the time I got home from work one of my daughters had cooked herself some tea -- basics pasta with chicken in sauce, I cooked my other daughter some pasta parcels as planned. I had Be Good to Yourself bacon with a big mushroom from Aldi with reduced fat Philadelphia which had been on offer at Sains, with salad and some walnuts. This is me following a healthier way of eating and cutting out carbs in my evening meal.


I've lost half a stone so far and would like to aim to lose the same again in the next couple of weeks, but will be happy to lose anything and keep going in the right direction!

I must let all the lovely people who wished me well the other week when I announced I'd been told I had kidney disease, that this turned out to be wrong, I do have a form of anaemia though, caused by a deficiency of vitamin B12, I'm having to have a course of injections. So it's a huge sigh of relief from me but I do need more tests again -- should stop me feeling so exhausted.
We're off for a week soon, will have a good effect on the GC.

Mussels and French fries and French bread sounds so nice, long long time since we've eaten that.

That's great news Mrs C so pleased for you, you will feel so much better when the injections take effect, congrats on the weight loss too.

JoJoC

Just popping in to declare my first spends for April!

£22.80 on the weekly shop at Aldi last night
£0.65 on small pint of milk for my son

Total so far- £23.45/ £250.

Off to update my signature.

Billie-jo

Mrs.Cautious - glad that you do not have kidney disease but a vitamin b12 deficiency. I also have these jabs due to bouts of severe anaemia and hopefully they will in time help. I have one every 10-12 weeks depending on how tired I get.

Today has been a NSD but we have had a rethink of our budgets and aims. DH has already lost over 10 stone but since the beginning of this year he has stuck - a pound or two on one week then off again the next but no real movement so after talking to the sister at our practice we are going back onto the basis of the slimming world way of eating and are expecting a slight increase in spend however for April we are sticking to our much lower than normal budget and see what happens. If we go over we go over. On top of this I want/need to use up some stock that never seems to go down. If it happens to be a not so healthy food then we will have less of it to keep calories down and in this way we shouldn't resort to throwing money via food in the bin because its high in calories etc. hope this makes sense it does to me but then I wrote it. Lol x
Tonight we had grilled plaice, some boiled potatoes and salad. Plus lots of fruit for afters.

daffodil29_2

£1.90 on squash & milk - shouldn't need anything else this week so will hopefully come in under budget (just!)this week - my new week starts Saturday. sig updated

lovefullshelves

1.38 on kebabs from the butchers

jumblejack

Yayyyy!!!

No spend day!

Individual quiche n beans for dinner (with spelt and lard shortcrust pastry) and leftover brownies from the recent craft night which I plonked in the freezer to save wasting. I just reheated in the oven and smothered in custard for dessert






Gardening and upcycling furniture all afternoon so I was too zonked for shopping