April 2014 Grocery Challenge

Ladyluck1

Doing pretty well with NSDs this month!
I'll probably have a look for YS in coop tomorrow and then meal plan.
Tonight is, blackened salmon with potato salad and steamed broccoli for me hubby and DS.
Some boiled potato and broccoli for 6 month DD

MrsCautious

Spent £37 on weekly shop. Included in this was Aldi Super Six garlic roast chicken £3.99, beef stir-fry £2.99 and 2 x duck in sweet chilli sauce at £2.99. At Sains this included YS Heinz tomato soup 35p, HP YS tins of beans at 40p and meringue nests on offer. Bought Aldi reduced fat houmous at 65p (£1.20 in Sains) 1kg potatoes 69p in Sains. Two YS pork leg steaks and 12 YS beef meatballs have gone straight in the freezer, bought at local Spar, spotted while waiting in post office queue, both half price at £1.25.

So that's my meal plan revamped and if I can limit grocery spends to £13 for the rest of this week, I will feel more pleased with myself in terms of how much I have spent so far this year.

Have a lovely weekend all xx

Anzac_Biscuit

I've kind of lost track of my spends this month so I've been too scared to come on here and fess up!! I am such a chicken. I will go hunting and see if I can figure out what I've spent.

You all inspire me so much when I come on here, keep it up!! Great to hear of so many of you doing so well!

:beer:

Franigan

Hello!! Gone over!!!!

Last night it was £9.89 on 1 wine and 2 ales.

Today:

Spent £6 on cat food in Tesco (this period she only eats felix, last month she would only eat Aldi)

Spent £ 19.76 in Aldi. So I Bought:

Bananas
Blueberries (went for 1.39 to £1.59!)
Bread loaf
Coconut milk
Coffee
Rice
Sugar Snaps
Tomatoes (super 6)
Lettuce
Mayo
240g salmon fillets
2x 4pints milk
2 Ales
kitchen paper
Fish fingers



Off to update the signature!

Have a nice weekend!!

cw18

Just added a few spends from Thursday and Friday to my total. Biggest single item spend was oil for my deep fat fryer on Thursday - not used it in 10 years at best guess, so needed new oil. Splurged on rapeseed oil (cr!sp & dry) rather than the cheap veg/sunflower I've used in the past, so that was £6 gone :eek:

Still well under budget for the month though, and am pretty confident I'll come in under my unofficial (self monitored) budget of two-thirds my official budget.

Meal plan for the last few days of the month looks like

Today (me & OH) : River Cobbler (from freezer - whoopsie buy from start of month) with parsley sauce (old Whoopsie dug out of freezer) and baby pototatoes, cauli. broccoli, chantenay carrots (bought when on super 6 and frozen), green beans, baby sweetcorn and asparagus (all veg from A1di)

Sunday (me & OH) : chicken and ham risotto made using cooked chicken and gammon left overs from freezer, frozen peas and sweetcorn (already in house), mushrooms (left from an A1di purchase earlier this month, sliced and frozen) and risotto rice I've had in for a while

Monday (me & DS1) : Lamb leg steaks (from freezer) with potatoes (probably jacket) and veg (yet to decide which)

Tuesday (me & DS1) : Mince and pasta (mince in freezer, pasta in house) which also uses onion (already in house) and baked beans (ditto) plus sneaky red lentils and porridge oats (in house, but the less DS1 knows about it the better :rotfl:). I also sometimes add a tin of chopped tomatoes (I've plenty of those in the house) but I may use an el-cheapo pasta sauce I've found hidden away while doing some sorting this week. May also treat DS1 by topping with grated cheddar (from freezer)

Wednesday (me only) : Pie (in freezer, not sure what the filling is!), probably with the last of the oven chips in the freezer. Also veg (probably from freezer - I've got chantenay carrots, green beans, baby sweetcorn, cauli and sprouts from A1di that I blanched and froze, plus frozen peas and sweetcorn)


So I really shouldn't need to buy anything else to use this month other than milk for DS1 and possibly another loaf of bread (which I should really make instead of buy if I do end up needing).

But I may head out to Costc0 as I could use from more brown (granary type) baguettes. I generally have one a day for lunch, and I've only 4 left with 2 earmarked for tomorrow (with soup for myself and OH). I also need some fresh meat from there, but there's nothing on offer (again - this is the second offer period with nothing), so I'll try and hold off a bit longer (I've already meal planned almost the entire 3 weeks until the next offer book with what I've got, so that also gives me more time to make enough space in the freezers for it )

philsmum

Hi everyone, hope you are all having a good weekend, can't believe it's another Bank holiday next week. I have just reached £249.45 so I have 55p left to last until Thursday, no costa coffees again this month, can't get one for 55p. Don't need to buy anything more thus week so I will declare at above.

philsmum

Billie-jo wrote: »

Spends today of £7.25 in Morrys and £16.08 in A1di taking me up to £100.55 in total. Brought some potatoes in A1di and so far not impressed with them as they have a lot of black bits through them.

For lunch we had some sliced turkey with a large salad which was nice and tonight its fish pie with some broccoli and roasted tomatoes and then some fruit.
May get some yogurts tomorrow while they on offer.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

Billie-jo, if you are not satisfied with anything you have bought from Aldi, you can take it back and you will have no problem getting a refund, it's their policy, no questions asked.

lynnejk

MrsCautious wrote: »

Good morning all, I'm going to be doing 2 mystery shop assignments at 2 local branches of Super Six stocking supermarkets today,.

I like doing those thanks to you Mrs C I also have 2 'pub lunches' but they are next month


Li*l today was £1.48 for milk and an avocado


Had cheese omelettes, HM coleslaw using some YS white cabbage and chips, followed by other half chocolate cheesecake (which was really good for £1)


Did I see right that Mr T is doing veggies at 49p. Anyone know any more - what they are etc ?????


Hope you all have a savvy Sunday
Lx

Crowdpleaser

A couple more spends on milk, potatoes, carrots and choc milk yest. Today is my last day and I have to be kids social life taxi today so doubt any spends but will hold off til later to declare x

MrsCautious

lynnejk wrote: »

I like doing those thanks to you Mrs C I also have 2 'pub lunches' but they are next month


Li*l today was £1.48 for milk and an avocado


Had cheese omelettes, HM coleslaw using some YS white cabbage and chips, followed by other half chocolate cheesecake (which was really good for £1)


Did I see right that Mr T is doing veggies at 49p. Anyone know any more - what they are etc ?????


Hope you all have a savvy Sunday
Lx

Hehe thanks Lynne do you know I have referred five people and you're the only one who has actually done it I know the fee is minuscule for the shop ones but I do think of it as money off my shopping! Have had some lovely meals and the odd not so nice ones and again I think of this as how it's keeping my bills down. I've added a couple more MS companies now which pay a bit better, I must admit I enjoy it. Don't know about Tesco veg, sorry xx