March 2015 Grocery Challenge

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skintmum2012 wrote: »

Finding it really intressting reading weekly vs monthy shopping as I am still not sure what to do. Heres my delema today guys my oh is really fed up at the moment so I want to chear him up was going to take him out for a curry but he said hes to fed up to go out so I offfered to get a take away still a no. Both of these where going to come out of another budget. So I decided to make him a chinese chew main his favourite but needed to buy ingredients. Do I add them to the gc as would not have added either the meal out or take away but it is still food shopping? What do you reckon?

I am unsure about the mothly vs weekly shopping too skintmum, so i am doing a bit of both (monthly for tinned/non perishables, and then weekly for F&V etc).

Re your dilemma, i would first of all make something that didnt mean i had to go and buy some other ingredients. Can you sub for different things (eg, lettuce instead of cabbage, 1 type of veg for another, cream for creme fraiche, that kind of thing), or come up with a different dish to cook?

Also, any food i buy woud come out of the GC, as it still counts for me. However, thats my way of doing it.

Coxy11

Hi everyone,


Still plodding on here. Tesco shop came to £82.61 the other night, so we have £77.52 left in the budget until Tuesday. I have said we will have raclette on Saturday and roast on Sunday, so still need to get some steak, pickles and a joint for then.


Doing a weekly online shop has helped the budget but not sure the family like the 'old mother hubbard' style fridge we end up with by the Monday


Baked breaded haddock this evening, with SW chips, broccoli and carrots. Filled tortellini and sauce tomorrow night.


Still plenty of chicken and minced beef in the freezer, along with meatballs and sausages, so that will give us a head start for next month


Coxy

Hoipolloi

Calling in to report an £118 spend on groceries, but it is for a fortnight, so that's okay :beer:

Still need fresh fruit and veg throughout the next 2 weeks though :beer:

Hoipolloi

Grocery spends so far this month £163 :beer:

Should come in under my anticipated £250 grocery budget for the month :beer:

cw18

Just updated my spreadsheet with all grocery spends since 10th, and can declare I'm well over where I wanted to be at this point in the month

I shouldn't really be above £149, and even without including odds-and-sods from stock I'm currently on £181 :eek: But this has included another visit to Costc0 where I picked up a tray of 10 chicken breasts (should last a few weeks, especially as I had 3 left from my last trip), a tray of 8 lamb leg steaks (which will be split over a number of weeks), a tray of 12 tins of chopped tomatoes (wasn't yet desperate for, but may need before I'm next there) and a 1.36kg tub of honey (cheapest deal I can find, and should last me several months as I only have toast a couple of times a week - plus I made up 12lbs of marmalade yesterday as well). And I also have 3 full loaves of bread (value £4.20) in my freezer, which is very, very unusual for me as I rarely have space for 1 even if I split it into bags of a couple of slices each so I can find 'holes' for them

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Skintmum I would personally add the money to GC budget, because I like to know how much I am spending overall on food. Having said that, I am treating 7 members of my family to a meal Sunday, its a very one off, as a treat for my dad always doing everyone Sunday roast every week (just Weatherspoons Sunday roast), but if it was a regular take away, i would add to budget. Like someone else said, we all have different ways of doing things.

Today i've spent £17.92, which just leaves me £6 left for the month. i'm so determined to do it, as i never really have b4, so will have to be really creative with my last monies.

Frizzle_2

Had two vouchers for morrisons (£6 off a £40 spend), one of which was ood.
So, went today and got milk, plants, fruit and veg and some other things that I can't get at aldi. Handed over the ood voucher and they took it! Was feeling quite smug but then she handed me another one so I now have two to use before the end of gate month! I will definately use one in Sunday but might have to let the other one go!
My maths was off for the first time and it came to 38.50 so had to add on a couple packets of chewing gum to take it over £40!
After taking off the plants and an Easter present my shop came to 28.27 so adding that to signature.

zafiro1984

oops - 41.15 spent yesterday and 40.41 today, I really must try not to fall into bad habits again

joedenise

Went shopping yesterday and spent a total of £16.24 split between Mr T's and I*eland (just milk & eggs from I*eland, rest from Mr T's).

A little more than I'd hoped but I did buy some cooked chicken to take away with us for the weekend to have with salad for lunch on Sat & Sun so without that it would have been under the £15 I was hoping not to go above.

Should be NSDs from today until next Tuesday (so 4 days) although won't add to signature until done.

Just off to update signature.

Denise

CountingPennies

Spends for the week are £39 online, £6.50 which mother picked up for me and around £20 odds and ends for holidays. Can't find the receipts for odds and ends so have over estimated. Will add to total now.

CP xx