March 2017 Grocery Challenge

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Hi everyone. Well, did a bigger shop than I wanted, but am still in budget, just. I am going to declare at £79.26/£80. Hopefully I will not spend any more the next few days, but if I do, I will add to April. Leaving 74p for 'Grocery Overflow Jar'. See you over on April everyone.

t14cy_t

spends of £4 yesterday in the bakery. so £3 left over from budget this month. see you on the other side! x

pamsdish

Quick nip into Tosco as I was passing, needed my choc supply picked up a couple of ys items £20-67 in total

Ginmonster

Yesterday I bought a box of cereal bars that I had absolutely no need for just because they were reduced. They will get used up, it's just that we already have plenty of hm cakes and flapjacks in the freezer that should be used up rather than buying new. Still, it was only £1.39 so I'm declaring at £93.77/£100 for this month as I'm not going near any food shops between now and Saturday. See you on April's thread!

freyasmum

Elsie, I'm sorry to hear about your pet rat - they are super intelligent little creatures as well

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.

Not great that it was off - but what a result! My DD absolutely adores lamb, so I may make the trip to get one for her! Will slice and freezer the portions (hopefully before she has the chance to decimate it TOO much! :eek::rotfl:)

Islandmaid wrote: »

NSD here

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

Your OH has a good birthday!

Well, I cannot believe it! I know we still spend a lot considering how much other people manage to spend; However... it's the second last day of our month and we have spent the grand total of £238.58 leaving £71.42 over :j:j:j The only thing I think is that it's been done at the expense of more fruit and veg - I've gone off it at the moment and don't particularly want to have as much as I did before

We did have a meal out on Mother's Day and had a takeaway on my birthday as well (Tuesday), but this would account for much less than 10% of our savings.

We still seem to have a decently stocked cupboard and plenty of meals in the freezer, so are well placed for next month. We do have a few days away as well, which should also help the budget.

K9sandFelines

I have bought lots of fruit and veg on Monday.I have ran out of a few things but they'll wait. Last of normal vegan milk which was stock piled, so only have chocolate milk in ... no good in mash, and almond yoghurt didn't taste great!

I will try and be more consistent with posting during April.
I have shopping coming tomorrow, but it's classed as an April shop not March. It is mostly handwash on offer at Ocado and washing up liquid. I have just bulk bought shower gels and shampoo and conditioner from Superdrug which i will add to April's spend and any Amazon bits due which are groceries or toiletries/cleaning stuff. The rest is yoghurts and a few veggie items for daughter, and a mixture of veggie and frozen vegan bits. Ordered the new Swedish Glace Almond and Cocoa ice cream to try. Does anybody know of any with no palm oil? Seems impossible to avoid unless you make your own.

Will update spends and report back. Not too bothered if i go overn in April as it's mine and daughter's birthday. Will be mindful though.

See you all over in April. I will post this again there, so apologies if reading this twice.

armchairexpert

Well, as soon as I went over budget I got a bit derailed and started popping into the supermarket for treats and things. Whoops!

So I'm declaring at $1126.07 which is quite a bit over in the end. Oh well! Onwards and upwards!

DanielleNic87

Checking in with my March total of £146.35.

We have ate out of the cupboards a lot this month and it just feels this has been spent on nappies and wipes

Off to update my annual budget.

try_harder

Quite happy ,i kept to my £203 food spend for the month but did buy fish and chips twice which were extra so a bit naughty ,must try not to do that in April

pamsdish

Sister visited yesterday and she wanted Morries, which caused me to spend £7 on ys meat.
So wrapping March up £7 under budget and 22 NSDs