April 2017 Grocery Challenge

Doom_and_Gloom

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

Since last update spent another £40.45. Hoping beyond hope that we stay within budget this month.

Tonight for me is sweet and sour vegetables, rice and seaweed. OH is having beef stir fry with egg noodles.

£125.01/£150
£24.99 left.

Need to stay away from the shops. We now have a pathetic £9.25 left for the rest of the month.

Got reduced bananas, reduced huge papaya for 99p (was £4!), two reduced cabbages at 14p each. Large punnet strawberries. Cauliflower rice 29p.
Also picked up dairy free white chocolate bunnies 50p each. Crisps I like on offer for 75p for huge bag (5 portions) so of course got quite a lot of those. OH will hide them away from me.

I'm having sweet and sour vegetables and rice again. Vegetable curry will be in the slow cooker over night so will have that tomorrow with potatoes.
OH is having beef stir fry and egg noodles again.

£140.75/£150
£9.25 left.

thriftwizard

Hmm - £108.60 spent in the last couple of days, between the market (£90) and the supermarket (£18.60) which doesn't leave a lot to get us through to the end of the month with. However, DS3 goes back to uni tomorrow, thus slashing the pizza bill, and there's plenty of - well, everything I can think of! - so with some judicious menu-juggling and defrosting, I should be able to bring us in on budget.

Absolutely not mentioning the "entertainments" budget, though, or even thinking about it... a take-away for 7 with all the trimmings to celebrate DS3's triumph in gaining 3 years' funding and stipend to do his PhD cost an arm, a leg and some of the bits in between too!

[Deleted User]

Spent £20.30 yesterday on lots of non dairy/meat free stuff, cheese, cream, lentils, tagliatelle, chocolate swedish glace ice-cream. A want, but not a need, sweet potatoes, avocados and free from salad cream, would cost £3. Very happy with how the spending has gone this month. Usually I make it, but feel like I have struggled, this month has felt luxurious. I now try to go as long as I can into the new month living off stores, buying just the odd bit, to make up meals, which then leaves me a load in the budget, to 'splurge' later in the month. Really working for me. Have updated sig. Now just need 'Arsenal' to win today. xx Have a lovely day everyone. Have updated sig.

ancientmum

Good morning,
I get paid next Friday, so am hoping I will not need to spend any more this week, apart from bread and possibly milk. Main shop was £30.53 at Aldo, the rest was odds and ends at various places. I have updated my sig.

Wysiwyg49

Shopped at L1dl and Sainsb this morning. Fruit and veg in L1dl seemed expensive today! Was looking for bargain spuds but none to be seen. Did get a good large chicken for £4.10 though.

Have gone a little over budget at £325 but quite pleased overall.

Plan this week:
Sunday - roast chicken dinner
Monday - spag bol
Tuesday - chicken pie
Wed - cauli cheese with bacon and mushrooms
Thurs - HM pizzas (bought pizza tray with holes to try!)
Fri - oven baked cod with roast mediterranean veg

Also making tomato soup today, flapjack, apple and blackberry crumble (blackberries been in freezer since last year!) and have work lunches planned. On to May soon, see you all there.

Islandmaid

NSD again here

Lamb Kleftico here with lemon potatoes -should be plenty of leftovers for wraps on Tuesday:)

K9sandFelines

Need to find the receipt from the last spend, but have spent about fifteen pounds on top of that including lots of ys bread rolls (from work), marg, deodrant, dry shampoo, carrots, tahini ( which I already had one of, and didn't realise), ys chocs (again from work),crisps, eggs and salad tomatoes

One of the freezers is playing up again which means i need to try and use up what is inside or try and put it in my other freezer (which i am also trying to sort out ( empty and defrost), so i can get rid of it. my only working freezer is full. Nightmare :mad:

Also found a receipt from March for £12 odd that i hadn't added, so will do that now and add to sig.

Florence_J

Currently £37.40 over budget. :eek:

I don't know whether it is the rising cost of food but my money seems to not go as far this year despite increasing the food budget this year.

I did stock up on lovely east end chopped tomatoes and chickpeas in Mr T though, and the OH had some turkey steaks and he rarely eats meat so he deserved a little treat.

I blame Easter!

t14cy_t

whoops, blown the budget this month!! spent £29 this week so gone over by £20. though in my diffence the freezer and fridge and chokker again!! best finds yesterday on the ys trail were huge pieces of fresh tuna originally £6.28, 49p paid!! I have however noticed that the ys bargains are not as cheap as they were, not surprising really as the general feeling is all supermarkets are upping their prices. xx

meg72

t14cy_t wrote: »

whoops, blown the budget this month!! spent £29 this week so gone over by £20. though in my diffence the freezer and fridge and chokker again!! best finds yesterday on the ys trail were huge pieces of fresh tuna originally £6.28, 49p paid!! I have however noticed that the ys bargains are not as cheap as they were, not surprising really as the general feeling is all supermarkets are upping their prices. xx

Great price for your Tuna, I hadn't intended to buy any food yesterday as have loads leftover from holiday but went to asda for seed compost. It was only 2pm and they don't usually start reductions until 3 ish, but they had loads at only pennies. Hake fillet 25p down from £4, tubs prepared fruit 5p, milk 25p bread 5p.
Salads 10p etc. Spent 3.75 for over £30 worth. So like you , freezer and fridge groaning again but a great start for Mays budget with 14 meals stashed away.

Ive made it, YAY ,money for new fridge freezer in the bank. Its taken me 6 months and Ive really enjoyed it. So much so that I intend to carry on this way as really really want a greenhouse. I am thinking I can save enough by next spring with a bit of luck.