March 2017 Grocery Challenge

*Margaret*

Sorry about your rat Elsiepac, it is so sad when animals go.

I've done my last shop today and bought extra milk so barring anything very exciting happening, that's me done for March.

This month I spent £38.00 with a target of £45. I'm not doing to drop my target down as I'll be changing up my meal plans as it gets warmer and not sure if that'll cost more (eg branflakes instead of porridge etc). My kitchen doesn't have a window so cooking in there is not very pleasant when it's hot so I'll need to come up with some new meal ideas - either cold or using the slowcooker.

meg72

Bought my first meat since Christmas. Beef and lamb is on offer at Asda at £5 a killo so bought a joint of each total £20.60.

My lamb turned out to be off so took it back but was delighted to find it was refund and replace so got £10 40 refunded and a replacement joint. I bought another beef joint and a chicken with the refund. So for a 10.20 spend now have 2 joints of beef, a leg of lamb and a chicken in freezer. Well set up for April now and well on track to buy my new fridge freezer at the end of the month.

Islandmaid

NSD here

Going away for a couple of days tomorrow for DH's birthday

purpleybat

meg72 wrote: »

Bought my first meat since Christmas. Beef and lamb is on offer at Asda at £5 a killo so bought a joint of each total £20.60.

My lamb turned out to be off so took it back but was delighted to find it was refund and replace so got £10 40 refunded and a replacement joint. I bought another beef joint and a chicken with the refund. So for a 10.20 spend now have 2 joints of beef, a leg of lamb and a chicken in freezer. Well set up for April now and well on track to buy my new fridge freezer at the end of the month.

what an absolute bargain! i hate it when stuff is off and you have to rethink dinners but in this case it worked out well for you


i did my last shop today on the way home from hospital, a pizza from lidles and some french beans 'fell' in the box cos I couldn't resist them as they were on offer this week.
I think i'm going to declare £148.35 for the month cos won't need anything tomorrow, i'm stunned it's that low cos early in the month it was racking up at an alarming pace.
means i'll have to be organised and make bread tomorrow but that's not bad thing, will be able to take stress out on the dough!

Pennydreams3

Well today I have crashed and burned haha. Lat shop of this month- week 5, and I have gone over by £15.27... I had to make the decision whether to overspend today and have enough until next week, or buy a weeks shopping and save myself having to go back in a few days, chose the latter and will be taking the £15 over off of next months budget. So I ended on £135.27/£120.00 not too bad. Where do I sign up for next month?? X

K9sandFelines

lynnejk wrote: »

Have you tried the online Big Gr**n Smile - they have loads of vegan hand-soaps. They do Ec*ver refills for about £8 a litre and atm have 3 for 2 offers on as well. HTH

We are now on seven NSDs so far :j

Hope you all have a fabulous Friday
Lx

Also what about Astonish handwash in most Savers and HomeBargains etc. Also £1 at the mo from Ocado. Ive just ordered one of each sort. Six available online incl antibac one.

Or a superdrug order. Sure they must sell it.

Some spends today on f and v in Morrisons. Will update sig when i report in with final total

Ginmonster

Sorry to hear about your rat Elsiepac. It's tough to lose a pet.


Another spend of £4.83 on fruit yesterday so I'm at £93.77/£100. Hanging on in there to the end of the month.

t14cy_t

spends of £14 yesterday on ys fish from morrisons to stock up freezer and bits and bobs. so only £7 left of original £80 budget. xx

poohbear59

We get paid on 24th of the month so tend to do big shop just after. I am a returner to the thread after a few years away. What I can't work out is whether to start my challenge on 24th of month or wait until the first. Any advice will be very welcome. I have kept all receipts from this month and food spends are much higher than we realised so this thread is really going to help me get back on track. As someone who worked with weezl on cheap recipes I should know better.

K9sandFelines

poohbear59 wrote: »

We get paid on 24th of the month so tend to do big shop just after. I am a returner to the thread after a few years away. What I can't work out is whether to start my challenge on 24th of month or wait until the first. Any advice will be very welcome. I have kept all receipts from this month and food spends are much higher than we realised so this thread is really going to help me get back on track. As someone who worked with weezl on cheap recipes I should know better.

Some people do payday to payday,others do the first day to the end day of the month.it depends what suits your finances best