March 2017 Grocery Challenge

Fruittea

Just a small spend of £5.51 on eggs, butter and broccoli for me. This week and no veg box. I've also cooked up a batch of bolognese sauce which will give 6 meals for 2 either as bolognese or turned into lasagne. So that's 2 meals on next weeks meal plan. The budgets blown though as the Hello Fresh box was £36.

Islandmaid

Another NSD here Not leaving the house today

WantToBeSE

Sorry I'm a bit late this month!

Can i please aim for £450 this month? It's a 5 week month for us, hence the more expensive than normal cost. £200 has already been spent.
Secretly hoping to come in under budget, but shhhh, don't tell anyone. I Don't want to tempt fate

Really on a roll with taking money out of the account every week, it's helping me a LOT. Instead of going over on the grocery budget every single week, i rarely go over now

My next aim is to work my way through the food stores i have. I don't have excessive amount, but i do have about 15 tins of beans and lentil to use up, so am concentrating on using those up this month. I also have a freezer drawer full of meat (mainly chicken) so will be looking in the recipe post to get some ideas.
I also have 2 squash to use up. 1 is a BNS and the other is a Coquina Squash that i bought at the end of January and they have both stayed in the pantry ever since. So i am planning on using them up as well

Ginmonster

Hubby made the dreaded Costco trip today and spent £32.44 on 3 slabs of 24 cans each of diet pepsi, a pack of 4 packets of halloumi and a huge pizza for our lunch. Although that's quite a big dent in the budget (and half of it was on pop which is hardly an essential!) I'm quite relieved he didn't get too sidetracked.

£60.27/£100

XSpender

Went to Aldi this afternoon with DH which is usually a dangerous thing to do but he only added 4 blueberry muffins and a frozen apple pie. Him who says he doesn't have a sweet tooth.;) He also decided to try some of their own brand lager at £2.15 for 4 cans and has decided it is drinkable so I hope he will swap his expensive brand for that sometimes.

£62.13 spent today which includes a big pack of chicken and enough F&V to open a greengrocers as I start my new diet plan on Monday.

I will need to pop to Sains tomorrow for the few bits I couldn't get in Aldi namely a sponge thing to polish shoes, reduced fat sour cream, GF tortillas, courgettes or courgetti and fresh mint.

Total stands at £234.43/£400 with 2 more weekly shops to go and I could do with some carb killas which will be £20 but will last 6 weeks. This will leave me with just under £73/week which is very tight but I am going to do my best to come in on budget. I am doing better than I usually do this far into the month so I will keep plugging away

just_trying

Ginmonster wrote: »

Hubby made the dreaded Costco trip today and spent £32.44 on 3 slabs of 24 cans each of diet pepsi, a pack of 4 packets of halloumi and a huge pizza for our lunch. Although that's quite a big dent in the budget (and half of it was on pop which is hardly an essential!) I'm quite relieved he didn't get too sidetracked.

£60.27/£100

Do you have a farmfoods near, they sell cases of Pepsi, sure it's cheaper than Costco, plus they do vouchers.

We call Costco the £100 shop anything less is a bonus.

Dipping back out, to much going on to do the challenge.

armchairexpert

Second big shop of four done and I'm standing at $550 spent, $450 remaining. Which I was feeling alright about until DH pointed out that we're low/out of basically every single cleaning product we own. I'm not sure I'm dedicated enough to scrub the house with baking soda!

Pennydreams3

Spent £1 at the market yesterday as I passed some beautiful clementines and couldn't resist. I got 5 for £1. And stand on 55.54/120 left for the month, that's £21 something a week. I'm a bit nervous! But we are going away next weekend so only need 5 meals for the meal plan this week and food spends come out of holiday budget when we are there so that'll save me a little on my grocery budget!

Fruittea

NSD for me today as I won't be going near the shops. And I have a meal plan in place for the rest of the week that doesn't need any additions.

Bluegreen143

Suffolk lass I did indeed do the recipes what seems like a lifetime ago (probably about three years or so but as I've got married, moved house and job and had a child since it feels like longer!

No spends yet. Today little monkey had pancakes from the freezer for breakfast with banana and yoghurt. I had HM peanut butter granola (a Jack Monroe recipe). Being taken out for lunch by my papa which is lovely. And going to do HM breaded pork escalopes for dinner.