April 2015 Grocery Challenge

bmma

spends today
bread/rolls £1.35
oranges 70p
pringles,small 59p
bananas 70p
whiskas cat food £2.00p
total = £5.14
total spends to date = £7.30/£40.00wkly

PennyGrabber

Well, back from my aldililly shop, and I spent £11.93. I thought it would be about a tenner, but I realised while I was there that I needed a couple of other things. In the end, I bought:
4 pts milk
Bread
5kg spuds
1kg onions
1kg carrots
Galia melon
5 gala apples
400g strawberries
2 part baked baguettes
1kg bananas
Bottle of squash

I don't think that's too bad!

Supposed to be having sweet and sour chicken for dinner tonight, and I've taken a breast out of the freezer, but it depends how the children are when they get back from their dad's.

PG x

Trying_really_hard

Well, Mr S just delivered my shopping at a grand total of £47.67.

Haven't bought half as much crap/junk/treats this week as my OH still has a fair amount of Easter chocolate left. Although, now I'm scrounging around for something sweet.

Will update the old signature.

scotmumof3

£8.06 spend for me today

irishnini

Hi All,

Is it too late to join for April? I have been monitoring my grocery spends for the past 6 weeks, which has averaged at around the €50 mark weekly for two adults and a toddler. I am hoping to bring this down to a monthly spend of €150 eventually, if possible?!. For this challenge I am aiming for €190 for the month.

I have already spent €70.68/€190 :eek:

CountingPennies

A good few NSD's. 2 spends to update.

£4.20 at Mr T's
Around £20 from local shops

Will update total

CP xx

lynnejk

Hiya everyone


Welcome Irishnini

DH bought milk and onions at A*di today = £1.34. He wanted tomorrow's dinner today so swopped them about. So glad I did the month's dinners now as it's made me having a deficient foot less of a problem re food.


Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday
Lx

cw18

A bit of shopping today....

2 multipacks of crisps
Some chocolate and mini eggs to make krispie cakes to take with me when I visit my GDs tomorrow (then got home to discover I seem to have passed the half pack of Krispies I had to someone - probably them! Thankfully they were to be a suprise, and hadn't been mentioned in conversation as a possible or promise!)
Milk (for DS1)
2 ready meals (for DS1 to take to work)
2 cartons of soup
A triple pack of pizzas

Meals today consisted of
breakfast : plain microwave porridge with cereal topper (both long-term stock)
lunch : dried ravioli (long-term stock) with sauce (half of some I had left from last week)
tea for DS1 : one of the ready meals bought today
tea for me : one of the pizzas I bought today, to which I added some tomato, mushrooms and sliced chicken from the fridge (all bought recently)

Spreadsheet now shows a 7 day budget allowance of £57.14, and a spend of £29.20. A nice 'underspend' as of yet, but still far too much of it (£22.70) as shop spends compared to used from stock (just £6.50).

DS1 only has 2 more night shifts before he switches to days for 4 weeks, and I already have ready meals in for those (he seems to prefer them to home cooked meals :eek:). When on days he gets a meal provided at work, but because they're sometimes 'naff' he's asked that I provide a 'light meal' in the evening (hot chicken butty, omelette, spaghetti carbonara, a tuna pasta mix I cobble together etc.), so that should help reduce shop spending as the few bits I'll need to buy for those will cost less than ready meals would. Now I just need to find a way to make as many evening meals as possible using long-term stock, so I forsee sausauges and burgers making regular appearances

mummyjane

£12.50 spend for me today. Bought some bits for tomorrow as dd and I are having a baking day

Ches

I have bust the budget already but cupboard/freezer and fridge all stuffed so I will need to make everything last as long as possible to limit damage.