April 2016 Grocery Challenge

mrs-moneypenny

Afternoon all spent £3 on fruit as I was in town.
Doing make do veggie shepherds pie for tea with a mash and cauliflower cheese topping left over from yesterday.

dangerbadger

89p on dog food today

Soworried

A spend of £6.50 today, £5 was in to the cuppa fund at work for the month. £1.50 was on cheddar cheese spread , ys green beans x2 and ys nectarines.

njk1012

Another no spend day for us.

Chicken and Veg tajine with vegetable rice for tea tonight, something with mince tomorrow night, as we seem to have a glut of that in the freezer (Maybe spicy wraps with salad). I'm hoping that I don't have to shop again until Thursday night.

Pandora_2

Hello all

Hope it's not too late to officially join this month's challenge?! I definitely need to keep an eye on this thread for motivation as I've been AWOL from here for far too long and the spending has started going crazy again. The last time I did the grocery challenge was November 2014 and my budget then was £100 per month/4 weeks and that was to cover my food and drinks for home/work, toiletries, household cleaning stuff, and food and litter for 1 cat. I also include any takeaways or eating out that I do if I'm doing it just because I can't be bothered to cook, but actual occasions come out of the 'fun' budget.

So, I'm going to stick to the same as before and declare £100 for April starting yesterday on Monday 4th April and finishing on Sunday 1st May.

The freezer and cupboards are full to bursting thanks to so much overspending, but that overspending has also ended up in plenty of money literally going right in the bin. I'm ashamed to say I just threw away about £10 worth of fresh fruit, veg, meat, bread etc and this definitely has to stop! Both a waste of money and a waste of food

However, rather than focusing on how much may have gone in the bin, I'm going to think positively and change my bad habits (again!!) and hopefully that money will be going towards paying off my debts instead

Yesterday and today were both NSD's but I'm almost out of cat food and have absolutely no fresh food so I will have to go shopping tomorrow for a few bits. I've noticed when I do a big weekly shop I end up binning lots of food that's gone off so I'm going to just buy a few bits when I need them (with a list!!!!! ) which will also save me the taxi fare home as I'll be able to walk instead :j

Think that's it for now apart from saying thanks to all the lovely people that keep this thread running and to everyone else for the continued support and motivation you all provide :beer:

lynnejk

Evening all and a warm welcome to the new peoples and welcome back Pandora :hello:


Good luck with the GC challenge and if you want to know anything please just ask - the only stupid questions are the ones you don't ask


Managed another NSD here today :j


We had sweet and sour chicken (freezer) and veggie rice today.


Will have salmon fillets (freezer) with steamed asparagus, snap peas and carrot batons served with potato croquettes and hollandaise sauce the morrow. Looking forward to that already :rotfl:


Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday
Lx

BrassicWoman

NSD but forgot I cooked last night (walked right past big pot on stove!) so microwaved freezer stuff. Will do better tomorrow!!

milasavesmoney

NSD

Rice rigatoni with a sauce made of onion, mushrooms, garlic, red pepper flakes saut!ed in olive oil
and a gulb of pasta water added to make a bit of sauce. (Wine would have been better).:D

t14cy_t

nsd yesterday, yippee!!xx

[Deleted User]

Another £10.50 added to total - I stocked up on my fave coffee, which was half price. If I can only spend £10 in the next week, then I will have reached the half way mark. Really must try and meal plan today.