April 2014 Grocery Challenge

laura_hoggle

Hi all, and thanks to those who keep the thread running!!

Went a little over budget in March, had a couple of visits from family and had to cook a few meals for more people than I'm used to! However there is still plenty of food in the freezer and the cupboards, and I'm getting good at this meal planning malarkey now!

I'd like to aim for £220 in April please - I'm cooking this weekend for Mother's day so have had to order a joint of meat a bit bigger than I would normally buy, and I'm not sure what's happening at Easter so I want to make sure I've got the costs covered!

We have ordered a delivery from Sainsbobs to come this evening, DH set up a new account to make use of the £15 new customer offer, plus he had an offer on his loyalty card account to get £15 worth of points as well, so fingers crossed we get both offers! I don't want to declare the spends from that until we get it though, in case they don't deliver everything that we have ordered.

I'm making a dinner from A Girl Called Jack cookbook tonight, and we need to do this more often to keep our costs down. I'm also getting a bit bored of taking sandwiches to work for lunch every day, so need to rethink that a bit!

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Feb and March have been a disaster for me with food budget so I need to sign up here again to get back on the straight and narrow.

Please put me down for £150 for April please. Thanks.

laura_hoggle

The Sainsbobs order came this afternoon, annoyingly didn't have the joint of lamb I ordered for this Sundays dinner! :mad: So will have to go shopping in the next couple of days to get one because I'm working long days Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

The shopping they delivered came to £44.56 with the voucher, so that's us started off for April!

Florenceem

NSD. Keeping at £100 for 4 weeks GC.
For dinner we had roast pork - FF + roast potatoes + stuffing balls - FF + cauliflower/cabbage/carrot + gravy.
Also used new recipe to me - Apple Cinnamon Scones - they smell lovely. Topping is cinnamon and sugar mix. Cost for 12 scones - about 60p.


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xacesx

Hi, Can I join in this month? Going to start off at £200 and see if me, OH, DD and the horde of pets can get it down a bit by next month

Lotti1982

Please can I join in again £225 for me, OH and LO going to be a tough one as it's a five week month for me pay wise and 2 birthdays plus Easter, eggs are all bought but extra treats will find there way in to the basket.

lynnejk

Thanks for the thread zippychick and coxy and thanks for the recipes bluegreen143 :T



A BIG welcome to all the newbies :hello: and hope you enjoy the thread.


Please put me down again for £240 for April.


My months run from 1st to the end so I'm still in March but will pop over for a look (well we're all nosy) :rotfl:


Good Luck everyone for April and hope the weather improves soon
Lx

craigywv

FLO, your grub looks so tasty................as always!!! xxx

Winged_one

I needed bread last night, so got cream needed for later this week as well, and some liver for my iron levels (which DH scoffed at when I came in but snaffled one of my 3 slices!). April hasn't started yet but I may as well start counting now.

joedenise

Have been shopping this morning and spent £18.44 on a top up shop so quite pleased with that. Spent £4.50 in As*a on beans (Branston beans on special at 1.50 for 4 tins so bought 12); £4.35 in Ald! on fruit, veg & eggs and £ 9.59 in Mr Ts mainly on stocking up on spices/herbs as I'm putting together a box of regularly used ones to put in the motorhome as I keep taking the ones of the shelf in the kitchen and then forgetting to bring them back indoors when we get back from our weekends/holidays away!

Yesterday was an NSD so off the mark with those on the first day of "my" month!

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Denise