March 2016 Grocery Challenge

lollyfin

Just been to the farm shop and got our potatoes and eggs £13 so budget now down to 300.88 for the rest of the month

wishus

Hello! Please may I join in with the challenge again?

Will aim for £120. Spent £7.55 so far.

Billie-jo

March will be a 5 week month for us so £250 for March please. There is myself, DH and most days I cook for my mum who lives a few miles away. No pets but the amount includes all food, toiletries and cleaning items.
Good luck everyone lets try to keep those purses firmly shut.
Two NSD so far.

Feb was under budget - spent £174.44 out of £200

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Budgets updated to here

Welcome/welcome back to:
Frugal Artist, chirpychick, and WorriedFTB

Good luck all.

Looks like DH will be made redundant on 23rd March. He had a meeting with HR today and has been given his terms (only been there 2 years, so it's minimal). I had always maintained that I'm happy to downshift on most items, but instant coffee and washing up liquid were a non starter. Happy to report that Aldi coffee is not too bad(!) and their magnum anti-bac seems to clean just as well as fairy

First shop of the month last Saturday was Aldi £98. Have had NSDs since - helped by being on the road yesterday all day with work. Will need veg tomorrow to take us through to the weekend.

Have a good evening all
Coxy

Dizzy_Imp

Coxy11 wrote: »

Looks like DH will be made redundant on 23rd March. He had a meeting with HR today and has been given his terms (only been there 2 years, so it's minimal).

Not good news. I know you had been expecting it, but even so, it's added stress you could do without. Does your DH have a specialist job that might make getting work a bit more tricky?

I've been sneaking in a few Savers-type swaps for a while now and no-one seems to notice, so I'll be expanding on this to try to reduce our grocery bill further. I am going to check salt levels though as we watched something on TV yesterday that flagged up some products' sodium content has actually increased recently. It was suggested that this might make "lesser" non-branded (and cheaper) foods more palatable. I wonder if that's true?

Hope hubby finds work soon x

mrssnowy_2

I really really fancied a meat pie from the butchers for lunch,so I made veggie lentil soup!
Not bad,but no steak and kidney.
Fridge bottom stir fry for tea.

mrss

maria3104

Dd just back from uni with the ald! Shop.
Goodness me how much do I love this
Total cost 31.48 and as I look down the list the difference in the cost is staggering.
Kiki of carrots 29 pence. Just wow.
So March has started.
Will update signature and plan menus up to Easter.
Have fun all
Maria

Wysiwyg49

Becks81 wrote: »

Have downloaded a spending tracker as well so it's easy to record things. Its actually making me quite obsessed, but in a good way!

I love my phone spending tracker! After a couple of months I put it all in a spreadsheet to see if I was spending where I thought - found loads more on kids activities but at least I know where it's going...

£2.50 on some mince from Sainsb (not bad for 500g I thought). But Sainsb basics passata is very runny compared to A1dis or L1dls.

Kids didn't like the turkey meatballs, unfortunately. So can't add that one to the list Trying to get more whole family meals in the rota so I am not cooking twice nightly!!

Popstess

Spent another 94p on onions and cucumber from the corner shop. It's so hard trying to be this strict!

lynnejk

Evening everyone
Managed another NSD here today :j

Had a leaflet from F Foods through the letter box and there's a few good offers if you live near one eg -

Sugar : 1kg for 39p
Nicky T Rolls : 18 for £3.69
Hz B Beans : 5 x 415 for £1.99 (one of the few 'branded' I buy)

Hope you all have a super thrifty Thursday
Lx