March 2015 Grocery Challenge

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haras_nosirrah wrote: »

Hubby comes in yesterday having gone to tesco unprompted as I shop at lidl on a Sunday and announces he is making me a cake and pancakes for breakfast as it is Mother's Day.

Oh bless, its probably worth going slightly over for such a lovely jesture, but totally get where your coming from. Maybe he could give you the £10 as a mothersday gift. I do stuff like that. I'm on a Fiscal Fast - no spending for 7 days, 4got about mothers day, so my daughter is treating me to a card for my mum and Im putting an M&S voucher in I was given (bit naughty). Good luck.

Im hoping to last until Wednesday not spending (!!!), I'm leaving my money at home. Dinner is sunday roast at my parents with the family.

Coxy11

Hi everyone,


Budgets updated to here


Going okay so far here - have approx. £160 left in the budget until 24th. I've resorted to online shops as I'm not getting the time to go in person. Probably for the best though, looking at the budget! Next online shop coming on Tuesday evening - approx. £85.


Happy Mothering Sunday to all those who mother. I have done two hours of ironing today, two washloads, paid a load of bills, and sorted lunch and tea. Don't knock the pancakes haras_nosirrah lol!!


Coxy

Frizzle_2

13.25 spend in morrisons on a few essentials. I was going to spend £40 as I had a voucher but couldn't find it so just went for essentials!

wannalot

Well, all my good intentions have gone out of the window this week!

I had planned only to spend only what was strictly necessary, a bit of veg from the local C@@p. Instead, I popped into M@rrisons on Friday and spent £35.50. I went in to see if there were any YS, and spent one fifth of my monthly budget. I'm disappointed in myself, because I boughtloads of unnecessaries!

anyway, my hope of making it to 26th is almost zero. I have less than a tenner left! What a nightmare!

The truth is that if I had any self-discipline i could actually manage on that until payday (the freezer and kitchen cupboards are full), but my self-control is a work in progress! I really need to tackle this though, because I really can't afford to have a food bill which is completely out of control.

Wooftastic

A bit of an overspend for me this weekend a total of £62.71 but I only did a small shop last week and if I do the same next week it'll even out! £69.13 left for the rest of the month - fingers crossed I can pull it off

skintmum2012

Hi everyone I am pleased to anounce a nsd get in their we spent the day at my mums then hubby has made me a stake dinner
Reading coxys post and wow how inspirational I hope one day I can get my numbers looking like that

scotmumof3

wealthygirl happy birthday :bdaycake:
£36.22 spends for me over the weekend

CRANKY40

Been nowhere and done nothing since ds had his operation last Wednesday. I do have a smallish list of things we need and was contemplating an online shop but it appears Asda is no longer stocking the wood pellet cat litter that I've used for the last 5 1/2 years, sigh. I don't really want to use Strangeburys as it is more expensive (same volume cat litter is £4 there as opposed to £2.78 which is what I have been paying). It may be better to make a quick dash to MrA and see if I can lay my hands on the problem substance. We will need milk probably tomorrow but I can nip out to the co-op for that which only takes 10 minutes and the boy is well enough to be left for that long. Hmmm, decisions.

miss_try_to_save

hi all £185 left for month which is not to bad really oh informed me we needed more stuff today but im going for a slow stroll with him incase he goes ott

wishus

I've been soo busy, I keep meaning to find time to come online and log this and that. You only have to neglect once and then you lose track!

Asda spend of £22.45 on Saturday. Got an APG of £1.12 for the future, too! Woo!