May 2017 Grocery Challenge

Maisie_M

small spend today £4.50 for pies from M&S and £1.50 on milk. Total now at £57.67/£200. Hoping for no more spends until Saturday.

Florence_J

Spends of £7.07 in Lidl's means I have exactly £82 left from the Grocery budget. In terms of my mini challenge of only spending £10 in the next week (which began on Friday) I only have £2.93 left! Will be careful.

armchairexpert

I'm at $222/900 for the month, which is...okay. The first few days of the month were horrendous for top up shops because I'd been trying to compensate for Mr Expert's gourmet market extravaganza and ended up with very little usable food. This week is looking good though: the girls and I did a big lunchbox-snacks cook up on the weekend (lemon cake balls, cheesy scrolls, rice pudding for portioning out, peanut butter biscuits for afternoon tea snacks) and the fridge is bursting. Switching to Ald! has made all the difference in our budget.

Meal plan:

Monday: something with the mussels Mr E brought home
Tuesday: spinach and feta quiche (eggs courtesy of our chickens)
Wednesday: baked lasagne eggplants (from homegrown eggplants: the one successful crop we managed this year!)
Thursday: bolognese (lazy day)
Friday: Spicy mulligatawny soup for us, chicken noodle soup for the girls.

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thriftwizard wrote: »

Why on earth is it so hard to find tinned chickpeas all of a sudden? Anyone know?

They are on offer in Morrisons, 4 for a £1, along with a load of other beans, might have to do some stocking up myself. Apart from some tomatoes, only need avocados, onions and sweet potato this week.

Been on my 'DIET' a week and I've lost 8lbs - really pleased with that and I'm eating really well, I even made a ton of chocolate ice cream yesterday, low calorie of course. Not expecting too much this week, but who knows, i've treated myself to one of them 'vibration plate discs', determined to get back in shape. It was a bit 'novel' watching the Arsenal game with a coffee, but hey, not the end of the world.

mumofthetwins

spend of £54 over the weekend .. I was planning on a relatively smaller shop but I have a voucher for £5 morrisons points if I spent £50 .. at first I hummed and harrd but then I decided to stock up on freezer stuff the boys can cook when im at work until late so managed to re stock the freezer and get my weekly shop ... all other days were NSDs though
Lisa x

Coxy11

Morning all!


Budgets updated to here


Welcome all newbies and returners. Good luck all,
Coxy

Florence_J

80p on a loaf of bread = £81.20 remaining

Ginmonster

First spend of the month and it's only £3.46. :-) I'm trying my best to really use what I've already got this month so I'm only replacing things that are absolutely essential. I've bought some bananas, apples and a cucumber as I need these for making up my son's after nursery snacks and a bag of strong white flour as we used the last of that over the weekend. I reckon that should see me to the end of the week now as I still have plenty of veg in the fridge and freezer.


£3.46/£100

dumpling

I've popped up to Lidl this afternoon and spent £30 but had a trolley full of veg, tins, bakery items and quark. I am very dubious about using quark but as it is such a staple of Slimming World I will give it a go.

I have a small online order from Asda coming tomorrow as there was some bits and pieces that Lidl didn't have. I only spent the bare minimum for the order so that will be another £25 added to my total tomorrow. Hopefully that will be it until the weekend .

YorksLass

Save_Dosh wrote: »

They are on offer in Morrisons, 4 for a £1, along with a load of other beans, might have to do some stocking up myself.

That's even better than the Sainsbobs offer - a trip to Morries might be on the cards! I used to shop there when I was working as it was on my way home, but haven't been much since becoming a lady of leisure.