May 2014 Grocery Challenge

bmma

spends today £4.40p total to date £ 7.60p

Make-it-3

MandM90 wrote: »

Wow, what discipline! Mines always full (plus I often travel for work and all in all am probably out of the country for 3 months a year :eek:) I might try to do that before our holiday in June though. :j

I'm a "just in time" shopper rather than a stock hoarder. We usually have some pretty strange meals in the last few days before our holiday. I'll post some of my odd menus next week. I find it good discipline to do this as it means the fridge/freezer gets a really good clean out and we don't come home to gone off food.

Florenceem

Spend of £1.47 today - milk + whoops rice noodles.
We had HM pie + roast potatoes/parsnip + roasted onions,peppers,tomatoes for dinner.

lovefullshelves

Ah May Please put me down for...£91 for may starting on saturday 3rd thats £1 per day per person. I think!

lynnejk

HAPPY MAY DAY EVERYONE.


A BIG WELCOME TO ALL THE RETURNERS/NEW ONES :wave:

lovefullshelves wrote: »

Ah May Please put me down for...£91 for may starting on saturday 3rd thats £1 per day per person. I think!

Think you are cheating yourself of £2 there lovefull


Lovely starting a new month with fairly full freezers and cupboards. Going to try for a really frugal month fingers xd - needs must eh :eek:


Hope you all have a thrifty Thursday
Lx

Taranaman

Returning after a spendy March and April to aim for £250. Nothing better than the first of the month to start with a clean slate!

Good luck to us all!

CH27

I need milk, bread & some veg today. I'm only taking my £9.53 in change so I can't buy anything else

XSpender

Oh dear I seem to have spent a third of my £100 budget in one go. This did include a GF and DF recipe magazine and AGCJ book as well as nappies, wine and beer:o

Not much actually spent on food but since the book/mag are to improve our diet/eat cheaper meals I though this budget was the best place for them.

We are at the cinema watching a live streaming of Shakespeare tonight so it will be a quick pasta bake to eat when DH gets in. I am going to attempt to make my own salty popcorn to take and have a bottle of water to take too.

We are sticking to the meal plan and I have made a packed lunch for DH every day this week. It is so much easier when I am at home and not working silly hours to plan and cook.

Total £100/£29.69

Kath123

After being WAY over budget last month and to be honest that feeling of pretty much giving up towards the end of the month, I am determined to be more frugal and go back to meal planning. There are so many more things that we want to save more and the only way to do it is but cutting back on things we could live without. So far this month I have spent £51 out of £160.

Miss_Bea

Hi Soworried, you can do what I did with a similar offer from Waitrose (£10 off £50 spend) and stock up on long-life foods. That way it won't go off but will keep your future grocery costs down as you will have plenty in the house. I stocked up on rice, red lentils, quinoa, porridge oats, olive oil, frozen bean burgers and some calming bedtime biscuits for my dog. What I have now should last me months! (I also got a £25 John Lewis/Waitrose voucher for my birthday which I used after the £10 deduction, so in total I spent £23 for a £58 spend!)