March 2015 Grocery Challenge

cat4772

£325 for month: spent £43 at the weekend. will do a mid-week shop (probably about £15 to top up on fresh fruit and veg).

Cat.x

lushlifesaver

NSD yesterday for me, was going to report one for Saturday too however I remembered that I stumped up for a chippy lunch for me, bf and his mum which was just shy of £9.00 so adding that to my total.

We need hair gel for bf and laundry detergent plus some bread rolls so I'm off to our little town centre later. Hoping I can get a decent deal on laundry detergent; we only have a co-op (so expensive!) a lidl, a factory shop and an Iceland so not sure if I'll find any at a price I like! luckily we have a bit left yet

joedenise

I had an NSD yesterday and will have another today.

Have planned to try a different way of shopping this month so will be doing a big shop tomorrow and hoping to get everything which can be stored in cupboards or frozen for the month and then hopefully each week will only need to buy fresh stuff like milk, bread, fruit & veg. I can't buy milk & bread for the month as I don't have enough freezer space!

I have done a month's menu planning which we tend to stick to most of the time, although of course occasionally things change! Like yesterday I was doing a roast chicken dinner and DH invited DD1 and DGD to dinner - not a problem there was plenty of meat (I'd bought a large chicken), I just did extra potatoes & veg to go with it. As more meat was used than planned I've had to adjust today's leftover meal from cold chicken, chips & beans to Spanish chicken as it uses less meat.

I'm hoping this will help me to spend a bit less than I currently do.

Off to update my signature.

Denise

DebtFree2012

Morning all,


Shopping done on Saturday which means I will need it to stretch for another day as not wanting to go until Sunday.


Today is chicken and pasta/rice and tomorrow is a chicken one pot in slow cooker. I've found a soup I want to try to but don't have all the ingredients so I'll make it next week.


So spends so far are on target at exactly £35 spent - I couldn't have done that if I tried! Thanks to £5 off Ald1 too.

wishus

Spends this weekend - £1 Poundland for brown paper to send a parcel. Thank goodness for this challenge, I might have thrown the receipt away, and it's a freelancing expense!

Asda 8.77, Sainsbury's 26.18 - got a voucher this time for £1.43 woo! :T

Solstice_3

Been out for a quick shop and post office trip. Was feeling a bit extravagant bought pesto topped houmous and fresh filled pasta for some of my lunches - DS and DD will have pasta salad for 2 days and I'll have fresh pasta as a treat (DS won't eat the filling and DD can't have it - milk). We've eaten the houmous (not all of it) for lunch with some baton - yum! Spent £13.81

bmma

hi spends today
dairy free spread 80p
cucumber 50p
total spends todate £1.30/£90.00p

Milly-Ann-Molly

bmma wrote: »

Hi Catherinemm,welcome and good to have another vegan on board,

Hi, thanks I am not vegan yet but am working on it. we are going to be vegetarians for a month or two first and slowly transition as I learn what I am doing! also I need to do it on a budget. I am re- planting my entire lawn out as an allotment so hope to be growing all our own organic veggies this year... So far I have started the potatoes, herbs and rhubarb, plus planted some apple, pear, plum, cherry and hazelnut trees... we will have a mini orchard in a few years time if it not edible I am ripping it out and replanting... my new hedge is rosehip and hazelnut...

It is a daunting task to start off as shopping habits die hard. I am finding sourcing products and reading all the labels a big time stealer... and ewwww I am so glad my kids do not eat jelly sweets or bubblegum...

i am lucky that they love dark chocolate...

Here's to a budget month for us all. x

miss_try_to_save

hi all £85 spent so far this month in my grocery challenge not bad for oh and dd2 combined 2 nsd s yesterday and today need to do meal plan oh is in what ever we want mode he doesn't like shopping so it will probably be easy to cook and quick

Trying_really_hard

Hello lovely people

Not doing a big shop this week. Last week was a bit disorganised for various reasons so there's still a fair amount of stuff left in the fridge.

I've just been to the local Asd* and picked up milk, bread and such. Spent £9.45. Plenty of room for if I do need to pick up anything else. However, we've decided we're going to try to make do where we can.

Now to have a little catch up on the thread.....