April 2014 Grocery Challenge

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joedenise wrote: »

Not seen a 12v slow cooker but agree they would definitely be a drain on batteries. I know that rather than 12v people are running a 240v slow cooker from an inverter whilst travelling - but would rather not risk that myself!

Denise

Here is the link to the one I bought, but I would not recommend http://www.amazon.com/RoadPro-RPSL-350-Quart-Slow-Cooker/dp/B0013IR88A/ref=sr_1_1?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1397161959&sr=1-1&keywords=slow+cooker#productDetailsit. It is tiny, much better to use a conventional one, but our motorhome is "off grid", solar, gas and geni.

lynnejk

MrsCautious wrote: »

Next week we are away in Portugal and I will count money spent on food out of my holiday budget, but I know we can have a fab time without spending loads, health wise I'm looking forward to daily exercise hopefully of walking and swimming and eating well with fish and lean meat. .
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Hope you have a superb holiday Mrs C. Think you deserve it :T

kayester wrote: »

had a naughty indian takeaway and a bottle of wine to celebrate me getting a job. £23 spent.

pizzas tonight with the kids. ile have the sausages from butchers tomorrow!

Well done with the job and sure it's worth a celebration :j


Had HM salmon fishcakes (LO mash and tinned salmon) with steamed asparagus - very yum. Had a small spend yesterday of £3.14 - potatoes, salad and ham for pack-ups.


Hope you all have a great Friday
Lx

Ches

Spent in Mr M today mostly on fresh stuff. Spent £39.13 so total up to £161.76. I am away for the w/e and again 21-25th so I am hoping catering for the visitors between those dates will balance it all out.

kayester

ok so yesterday i went to the butchers again to get more sausages and made HM toad in hole. so pizzas tonight instead.
going to get some chicken breast for sunday today going to make chicken chasseur, hm lasagna tomorrow

PennyGrabber

I had a small spend of £2 yesterday, as the g pig needed food. Managed to walk around a$da looking at their 'deals', without buying anything! I think I am beginning to turn a corner as regards my food spending, as the whole time I was looking around, I was thinking about how I didn't need any of it and that I already had loads at home! Go me!!!

The lo bolognese mix fed both bf and me last night. He wanted us to go and buy garlic bread to go with it, so I made some by using a par bake baguette and some garlic butter, as I usually have those things in the house!

This means that I have the lo turkey and mushroom cream cheese pasta for dinner tonight, which is all ready to microwave. Glad it's a quick dinner, as I treated myself to a new cross stitch kit yesterday, so whatever time I'm not working today, I want to be sewing!

I get my babies back tomorrow, and while I've enjoyed having some time to myself, I've mussed them like crazy and can't wait to have them in my arms. 8 sleeps is too long... Not sure if I'm giving them dinner or not tom as don't know exactly when they're back, so will plan ideas for both scenarios.

Have a good day everyone! I'm off to do a bit of sewing...

PG x

smokies

Good morning fellow challengers


Needed milk yesterday and some fruit and bits to see me over the weekend, spend £18.24


must remind myself not to go shopping when tried and hungry and just finished work.


oh well off to update my sig (still under budget )


Have a great day folks


smokies xx

Crowdpleaser

Rubbish. Yesterday nsd turned into a spend of over 8 quid in mr s. I needed milk and also got 2 ys chickens, ys rolls, ys hot x buns and ys pizza bases. Oh well.... will update sig later x

Ladyluck1

The next 2 days will be NSDs and we don't have much in!
DH had to take an unexpected trip to see a family member in hospital that cost him £60 all in all!
I'll stick to my meal plan and I have some flour tortillas and salad leftover from dinner for mine and DS lunch today. With some tuna mayo.

cinnamonpie

Good morning all!

We're almost half-way through the month. I can't believe it is going so fast! I am a bit over half-way through my budget but I also have half of my sainsbury's vouchers left still so will use those for a big shop on Monday. We have visitors the last two weeks of April and first week of May so that will mean more shopping!

I agree with some other posters who say that April has been an "easier" month for them. I've been using a few things from the freezer and my stockpile and we've had quite a few veggie meals, which has also helped.

With all that, I deserve going to the hairdresser's next week, right? :rotfl:

joedenise

I spent £49.07 spread over Mr Ts, Ald! & Mr A.

Spent £19.04 in Ald! but only £4 of that came from GC money, the rest came from my household budget as things for kitchen; £10.86 in Mr As spent on specials - leg of lamb & some cod; the bulk of it £33.90 was spent in Mr Ts for the rest of the shopping.

So quite a bit of the money spent was actually "money saving" for the future months but came out of this month's money. Total spent for the month so far is £124.61/£200 and my month runs out on 19th so more than enough left and should even have a bit leftover towards food whilst on holiday!

Denise