April 2017 Grocery Challenge

Sequeena

Spent £42.38 so far this week.

Islandmaid

Hi all,

First spend of the month, £66 at Aldi.

XSpender

Please could you put me down for £440 in April. My budget starts to day and ends on 27th April.

This is for 4 full weeks including the food and drink I buy to take on our caravan holiday for a week. Anything I buy to eat when we are away on that week will come out of the holiday spending money.

Today will be a spend as I need cereal and something for tea for DH and I.

Suffolk_lass

My shopping for this week is done but very little is attributable to GC as we are away from tomorrow with a week or so walking in the North of Scotland and then a day or two at my Mum's in Southern Scotland. All the shopping is my part of the list for the self-catering house that eleven of us will be sharing. The accommodation was all paid in December and I will be out of pocket until we settle up but that is OK.

My shopping this week is a few store cupboard top-ups and some milk, cereal and pizzas for DS with will be cat-sitting while we are away

ancientmum

Hello all,
Please can I increase my budget to allow for some treats over Easter (and softer toilet rolls) and aim for £180 from 1st-28th April.

Thank you

Coxy11

Hi everyone


Budgets list updated to here


Welcome to all the newbies, nice to have you along.


Coxy

FurryBeastOz

I'm in again. I'm hoping for a repeat of March. We are both away for a couple of days next week, and that will come from a separate budget. DH is studying for exams so Easter isn't really happening. We have guests tomorrow but I've done the shopping/cooking for that already.

The cupboards are beginning to show gaps. I'm going to try really hard not to refill them. I also need to start using up some of the 'winter snow supplies'. Although that might be a bit premature considering last week:rotfl:

caronc

First shop today of £53 so at £53/£160, this should last apart from milk/bread until 13/04. A fair bit of it was household, toiletries and pet supplies. I also a couple of bits for Easter as on SO that runs out next week.

Frugal_life

Hi all,

Been AWOL for a few months, but I've just started a new job and need to make sure we manage our finances better.

Please put me down for £600 for the month of April, starting tomorrow.

This is quite a large amount, but that's because I'm hoping to do a relatively large shop at Co$tco, and will subsequently reduce our May and June budgets down to £300, to make an average budget of £400 a month over the next 3 months.

Happy money saving everyone and hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

samtoby

Thank you so much for the advice. I have just written a meal plan -

Saturday - Toad in the hole
Sunday - Dinner with my Mum (free)
Monday - Cottage Pie 500g mince (from 1kg pack)
Tuesday - Spag 500g mince (from 1kg pack) - already got pasta
Wednesday - Jacket potato beans cheese
Thursday - Sausage Mash
Friday - Chicken wedges veg

I had ordered from Asda but for some reason my payment didn't go through Thurs so re did tonight. I spent £36 but that included an offer for 36 toilet rolls at £7

I have a lot of things in the cupboards so hoping not to waste all that, do some baking with the children.

36.56 spent so far