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April 2014 Grocery Challenge
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Unexpected visit to Mr T today with my DD and found Bold washing liquid half price so bought 2. Fabric conditioner reduced to £2 and hand wash 2 for 1 so £9.80 spent on store cupboard stuff but would have needed all these next month anyway.Mortgage and Debt free but need to increase savings pot. :think:0
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B ought from local farmer friend huge leg of lamb £21.00. It's in the freezer for Easter Sunday! Should do lots of meals!Busymumofthreeplusdog......
..............on a mission to curtail the spending and build up the savings
2015 NSD total - 50 -
NSD.
Made GCJ's Soda Bread for first time - yummy. Recipe says - semi skimmed milk but we have skimmed so used that.
We had the soda bread with a waitflower meal.
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Decluttering Achieved - 2023 - 10,364 Decluttering - 2024 - 8,365 August - 0/45
GC NSD 2023 - 242/365
2023 Craft Makes - 245 Craft Spends 2023 - £676.03/£400
Books read - 2023 - 37
GC - 2024 4 Week Period £57.82/£100 NSD - 138
2024 Craft Makes - 240 Craft Spends 2024 £426.80/£5000 -
Small planned spend of £5 today in ffoods. Needed a shove in the oven double serving dinner, so got three pizzas for £5, had one before DD's play, and two after, with leftovers for my lunch and dinner tomorrow. I usually make my own, but just had no time today, esp as I find hm take longer to cook, even if I had made the dough yest/this morning.
I'll be too tired tom eve to do any shopping, so nsd planned. Will shop at mr t for the offers I want on sat or sun, work dependent.
Just sitting down to do a couple of hours' work now, then up at six for a slightly shorter day (only planning on doing 11 hrs tom!).
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PG xGrocery challenge for family of three - me, dd(12) and ds(11), feeding dp 2 or 3 x a week too. Only food, not toiletries. Jan £87.97/£100 Feb £0/£100
Frugal 2018 needed! Saving and NOT spending0 -
£9.44 in aldi
2013 NSD 100. CC2014CC- £31.50/£1352014 NSD 86 so far - May 20/212014 G/C spend £741.55 so far May £107.99/£91Debt Free - 30.05.13 Emergency tin - £1000June 23 - 9NSD0 -
That soda bread looks lovely Florenceem - have often said am going to try some but never got round to it yet.
NSD#3
Tonight was omelette to use up last of the bacon, mushrooms. tomatoes and some cheese which had gone a bit manky in one place (just cut it off)
Shopping day tomorrow so have my list ready just need to stick to it.
MARCH £62.38/2500 -
It is so easy and cheap - go to GCJ's site for details.Decluttering Achieved - 2023 - 10,364 Decluttering - 2024 - 8,365 August - 0/45
GC NSD 2023 - 242/365
2023 Craft Makes - 245 Craft Spends 2023 - £676.03/£400
Books read - 2023 - 37
GC - 2024 4 Week Period £57.82/£100 NSD - 138
2024 Craft Makes - 240 Craft Spends 2024 £426.80/£5000 -
NSD #2 for me March GC £606.33/£400
April GC £387.96/£400[/COLOR]
May GC £0/£500
2 Adults, DD5, DS 2, DS 8months0 -
Total of weeks spend is £76, not as high as I thought and managed to feed everyone with a rubbish shop. Have bought shampoo, conditioner, shower gels etc to last the month too.
Planning my meals tomorrow and will not let myself down with poor shopping again next week June GC Budget - 310/400
July GC Budget - 445/400
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I am so proud of myself. Did dinner last night and had the leftovers from a cabbage. We never eat the middle! I was about to throw it away and then wondered if I could make some soup with it. I have loads of onions and pots as I usually buy them by the sack now.found a recipe on line- carrots (had some left over from last week that I would have thrown, but put them in the freezer!), pots, onion, cabbage and I threw some peas in with some chicken stock. Put it in the slow cooker before I went to bed. Woke up this morning to a lovely smell in the house, whiz zed them up and made 6 lunches from them. Perfect for work! Cost- practically free as all would probably have been thrown away!Grocery challenge-
J- 52.40/£200 M- 187.56 A- 212.93 M-193.44 F-201.31 J- 240.62 D- £149.27 N- £210.69 O- 196.80
S- 213.68 A- £213.03 J- 249.66 J-206.29, M- 252.91, A-£250, M- £250
debt free as of feb 2015. Now saving for deposit for new house! Moving in June 2015!!!0
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