March 2017 Grocery Challenge

PennyGrabber

Ive just had the best ys haul ever!! Went to M and got there earlier than usual. Ended up with 16 chicken breasts for £2.44!! All separated and in the freezer, ready to be used over the next few weeks. :j:T:j

I very rarely get meat reduced, so that's a mega saving for me. Got a few other bits too, which I won't need to get during tomorrow's weekky shop now.

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just_trying

Sorry, if not been mentioned but this ends tomorrow at Morrisons, I got 2.

They have a meat pack, for butchers week.

Approx,
900g pork joint,
454g mince same diced steak, though mines was more,
6 sausages & 4 pork steaks for £10.

Baileys_Babe

Baileys_Babe wrote: »

The meal planning this month is really working for us, I love waking up each day knowing what we are going to eat. Even better we batch cooked some of this month's meals meaning a lot less work day to day.

Spends: £48.11
Monday £46.37
Tuesday £1.74 ys items

Remaining: £169.95

Day 14 of my March GC 10 nsd's

Looking at this week I think we will need fresh stuff I guess £20 and we are going out for a meal on Friday, not sure how much we will spend would be good to keep it under £80.

This week went really well, once I had a good look through our fresh food the only thing on my list was bananas, I went shopping and only bought bananas, in fact I didn't look at anything else, 80p spent out of my predicted £20 :j On Friday we needed to travel through the rush hour so our plan had been to go for a meal through the worst of it, as the roads were a lot clearer than expected we drove home picking up a takeaway instead, £30.50 spent when we were hoping to keep it below £80 :j Another bonus of having a takeaway is we have enough for tonight :j meaning we will move tonight planned meal to further in the month into one of the 3 gaps.

Spends: £31.50
Monday £0.80
Friday £30.50 takeaway

Remaining: £138.23

Day 23 of my March challenge 17 NSD.

I had planned to go shopping yesterday, but by using UHT milk and excepting the only fresh fruit being apples, oranges and bananas I have delayed it to Monday, also helps that OH makes our bread and we have the ingredients in stock at all times. Today I need to make a list of everything we need until Friday, so I can get up and shop first thing Monday.

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Spent £2.06 on a couple of cartons of soya milk, some chilli beans and some wholemeal rolls. Hoping not to spend until hopefully mid next week. Have updated sig.

Dharma_Bunny

Hi everyone!

I am now at £257.86/£200 :rotfl:

I've plenty of staples in, got loads of potatoes, rice, tins of toms etc. and there's a few bits in the freezer I can aim to use up during the week too, so hopefully two small shops can take us through to next Monday.
Going to roast a chicken later that can be stretched and I shall write a list to take with me to Asda as we usually stock up on treats there so I need to watch myself.

Still happy with how it's going, learning where the gaps in the planning are, eg. need to work on what set days for shopping/online deliveries should be.

Wysiwyg49

Had a look at some of Thrifty Lesley's meal plans for inspiration this week...went to A1di then Tesco to fill in the gaps, and only spent £49.19! This included 2 whole large chickens to roast (about £4 each - got one from each shop, but the A1di one looks bigger). We;ll have a roast chicken dinner today and use the rest in lots of different meals.

Really pleased about this total, going to try some meals from some of the meal plans incl. chicken satay and a peperonata which sound very nice. Also planning roast parsnip and apple salad for lunch tomorrow.

funfairprincess

Hi all x

Just back from Morries and have spent £32.55 on packed lunch food, fruit, veg, dog food, soap powder/softener, toothpaste.
I will probably need a couple of things mid week but I will wait and see.

Islandmaid

NSD here

My turn to take the strain today - making roast Lamb with all the usual accompaniments. Left over 'lazy' Lime Cheesecake for pud.

The washing has been finished and is all put away, sandwiches and pasta made and packed up for the first couple of days lunches, work clothes all laid out - I leave very early and hate digging around for something to wear ��

caronc

An expectedly spendy weekend as son home and offered to go and get some bits from M&S for me so total now at £115/£150

FurryBeastOz

Had to do another small shop today. DH hadn't even bought milk - I've just made Rice Pudding with the on the turn stuff.

£47.42 total this month then.

Shouldn't need anything else this week. Away over the weekend, so should be a great month.