April 2014 Grocery Challenge

meg72

physicsgirl wrote: »

I bought it earlier and it's a £5 off ***£45*** spend Aldi voucher along with coupons for "Benefit" cereal, gourmet crackers, sugar free sweets, Compli-mints, flavoured soft cheese, brie and a couple of others that I can't remember - I can get the paper from my car if anyone wants to know the full list.

Annoying that it's gone up to £45 spend I struggled to spend £40 usually, even with lots of store cupboard stuff.

I stopped using these when it went up to £40, I used them when it was £30 and struggled when it was £35 but at £45 no chance.

recovering_spendaholic

Thanks Physicsgirl - I am in two minds about getting the paper as I will struggle to spend the £45.

Was going to be a NSD as I've got zilch left until payday on Monday, but add paid me back some money she owed:T so I went and spent £10 on milk, bread, cheese, dog food and Doritos.

Home boiled ham with cauliflower cheese for tea -one of my favourites!

Declaring a final spend of £425 for April:o must do better for May!

kboss2010

I will apologise to the slightly squeamish gents on this forum but I'm seriously impressed with S'burys at the moment.

Using their double up scheme and current offers, I just got 5 250mL bottles of Original Source shower gel, 28 bodyform sanitary towels and 56 s'burys branded tampons for £5 worth of nectar points!

iammumtoone

going to give up for this week as gone over budget will start a fresh next week for the new month.

Does anyone shop once every two weeks? how do you plan for this? I would like to take advantage of the lower delivery prices for online shopping but don't want to spend the min of £25 as that is most of my weekly budget gone. I was thinking of having a home delivery once every two weeks and topping up every week just buying bread, milk, fruit and veg (and maybe meat as I prefer to pick my own).

cw18

iammumtoone wrote: »

Does anyone shop once every two weeks? how do you plan for this?

On a weekly basis (more day-to-day as required) I buy fresh milk, veg and fruit (vary rarely buy as don't really eat much) mostly from A1di. Bread is also weekly, but I often make a loaf rather than buy. I do a trip to C0stco every 3 weeks (or even less frequently - if I only want one or two long-life items my OH gets them when he's there, then brings them over for me the following weekend) which is for meat which goes into my freezer and things like tinned tomatoes which I buy a tray at a time (12 tins).

Anything else I nip into a larger supermarket for either when I'm desperate for it, or when it's on a 'need to get soon' list and they have it on offer, or when they've sent me a decent voucher I can use against it (and I've not already got a huge stock pile of the said item). Think I've done 4 'big' supermarket shops so far this year (by which I mean a spend of over £15), so that's roughly one every 4 weeks.

I find this works fine with a monthly budget, as one month I'll buy a tray of tinned tomatoes and a couple of trays of mince, the next will be a tray of baked beans and a couple of trays of chicken breast, then possibly a bag of fish fingers and a couple of trays of pork steaks - so it tends to average out month-on-month.

Mrs_T_M

kboss2010 wrote: »

I will apologise to the slightly squeamish gents on this forum but I'm seriously impressed with S'burys at the moment.

Using their double up scheme and current offers, I just got 5 250mL bottles of Original Source shower gel, 28 bodyform sanitary towels and 56 s'burys branded tampons for £5 worth of nectar points!

TMI possibly: reminds me of how I used £20 worth of vouchers from a Clearblue study to buy a moon cup. One of my best purchases ever! Women need that sort of stuffs, and men, well, men can just get over it.

cw18

my (late) hubby was squeamish about that kind of thing, but my OH is brilliant and would buy for me if I sent him out with a shopping list that contained 'personal items'.

I don't actually need at the moment thanks to a 12-weekly injection, but my GP wants me to come off it soon due to age so it could be a situation that arises in the next year or so

K9sandFelines

£7.02 in L*dl today and just had a Tesc* shop for £36.25. So i am now definitely over ... boohoo!!

I have tons in but not sure how many days i can go til pay day (9th) without spending something!!

Billie-jo

another NSD today and have done a list for tomorrow if manage to go.
Tonight we had a home made chicken & veg pie out of the freezer with some potatoes and carrots & broad beans. Took the photo before remembered hadn't put the beans on. After I had some fruit and DH had a yogurt.

minicooper272

I've done my last big shop for the month. I set a target to buy 10 days of food for less than £12, and came in at £10.33 - not bad! It is calling on some tuna and chicken I already have in the cupboards, but that's what it's there for.

I did also spend a further £7.50 on bits that were on offer over the weekend - e.g. Tuna at a not to be missed price (£3 for 4 tins), and a couple of bits for while I was at my parents.

Total for the month is £52/£80. This is the second month I've managed to come in well under budget, and I've still got some very well stocked cupboards, so I should probably consider reducing my budget next month. Pay day/new month starts next week.