May 2015 Grocery Challenge

wishus

I spent £8.64 in Asda yesterday, but I went to a small one so, skipped on getting bread, cat food and toothpaste. Only the catfood is mega urgent.

Last night's free tea of dabs was lush. I flavoured it with lemon and tarragon, used some gifted Spanish ham from a mate who lives there, a few pine nuts, cherry tomatoes, some skinny homemade oven wedges and Aldi 49p veggies to make it a nice healthy and nutritious meal, as well as cheap! :T Dabs are tiny and quite bony, but it's gorgeous fish.

This morning I queued in Greggs for my free Coke Zero. I picked up a packet of crisps, then put them down again. I also walked passed the triple chocolate donuts. :A

LolaLemon

meat order was delivered yesterday, £16 for 1 ribeye, 1 sirlion and 1 popeye steak, 2 black pudding, 4 steak burgers, working out at £2.29 per meat item. It was part of a bigger pack which me and my mum split the original was 4 each of the steaks, 4 burgers, and then for free, 4 black pudding, 6 bacon, 4 slice (sq sausage) and 1 haggis . my mum got the bacon, slice and me and my sister are splitting the haggis. (sister had her own pack which was similar but 2 of the steaks each for £33)
I think it has worked out good value, the meat is farm reared/organic/free range/local(ish) etc just need to get the veg ordered to see if it is going to work out better value than hitting the shops

cw18

Signing in with a monthly budget of £253.10

But I'm hoping to declare at no more than £200 (managed on less than that in April), and ideally I'd like the shop spend to be no more than DS1's contribution with the rest coming from long-term stock (which I buy from myself). For May that's a shade over £106 with £13 of that already ear-marked for his milk, but it should be possible 'cos I did it on slightly less in April and I've promised myself I'll think twice before buying 'junk' food which accounted for just over £20 of shop spends in April !!

But I need to get a load of ready meals in for him which is going to make it more tricky! He goes back onto nights soon (with these being his preference for taking with him) and I have a week away at the end of the month when he'll want them for his non-working days as well - so I reckon that's a minimum of 10 ready meals to pick up.

Then today I went and picked up £12 worth of burgers for the freezer :eek:

Well they should have been £12 if bought as 3 individual packs, but on multi-buy they'd have been £10. Then they were in reduction at £1.49 a pack, and when they went through the till the £2 multi-save still came off - so that's £12 from my grocery budget, with £2.47 of it going into the shop till and £9.53 being split between my emergency purse and 'wants' purse :T Gives me 12 of DS1's favourite burgers, so 6 meals for the 2 of us. I'll do them twice this month, so that then gives me 2 lots for June and 2 for July as well. I could even eke them out longer if I have a different one from the freezer (others in there I'm just as happy with - or even some sausages he's not keen on instead), which would shut him up for a good few months

I reckon those burgers will end up being my bargain of the month for May

lynnejk

Hiya everyone


Starting the month with an NSD.


We're having HM chilli (freezer), rice for DH, a baked wrap for me with HM avocado and tomato salsa.


Must get a crack on and do a menu plan for the month before I make a shopping list for the weekend


Hope you all have a super Saturday
Lx

scotmumof3

Hi everyone hope you are all well
Today was the first day of the month for me and a spend of £24.65 at tesc* and p*undstretchers this should do me for about 4 days so I am hoping for a couple of NSDs . I have my menu planned for the week and have quite a lot of the ingredients in already

snowfox

I'd like to sign up for £220 please
Normally I spend less, but I've got my mum coming to stay for a long weekend, so there'll be some extra groceries needed there. Plus some treats

Doris65_2

Hi All

Just updating with my spends so far, £51.54 in A*ld, and £21.72 in T@sco,

Dx

AimingForBetter

Hello, can I join in for this month please. Been lurking on the KM, Decluttering and Flylady threads recently as trying to get house sorted but do now need to focus on grocery shopping again as well.

Budget of £250 which is perfectly doable.

Last few months have been around £260 but April was a massive £410 however that does include storecupboard and freezer stockup I did last Sat to take advantage of voucher for £12 off £80 spend in Morries and which will last well into this month. Taking that into account it doesn't actually seem so bad as I'm not doing a shop today and I suppose it kind of evens itself out.

Stocktake being done so mealplan can be worked out. Plenty of stuff in so mainly F&V, milk and bread will be all that's needed.

Right better get cracking, have a lovely weekend everyone.

AFB

mrsd

I would like to join again for this month, after managing to come in under budget for April am going to cut the amount to £275 for this month which is 1-31 May. I think I might withdraw the cash each week and that way it will be harder to go over. While DD was home she did a freezer sort and found few bits I hadnt realised were in there so that made a difference to last shop. I have done a storecupboard stock take and have rather a lot of tomato soup, think I will have to search for few recipes to use it up.
Sorry to hear of those with losses, always a difficult time.

teeni

hello i'd like to join please, can i start with £400 please this is for 2 adults and a dog and 2 cats and includes petrol for 2 cars. I know this is a lot but this is the allowed amount on a dmp and reduced from £750 which was identified as spent last month.

I am going to do a big clean through my cupboards later today to see what exactly i have here and then shop tomorrow after i have made a menu for the week .

Wish me luck folks