March 2018 Grocery Challenge

lynnejk

Wysiwyg49 wrote: »

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Not feeling very creative at the moment, so succumbed to an enchilada kit yesterday. I'm sure it could be made at home for a fraction of the almost £3 it costs for basically tomato puree, corn tortillas and seasoning! Has anyone tried?

I always make my own - I prefer them Loads of recipes if you 'google' enchiladas.

Spent £21.72 in Al*i today on a few basics inc bread, milk, f&v.

On 4 GC NSDs so far

Hope you all have a money-saving week
Lx

PennyGrabber

Another nsd today. That's now up to 5/6 for me - a personal best! Only because I'm so busy, but shhhh!

Working two very long days tom and thurs, which I'm not looking forward to. I don't get overtime, it's just part of the job so I have to suck it up.

I'm still enjoying the fridge, pantry and stores going down. Used up a jar today.

PG x

K9sandFelines

Can't find receipt from the other day, so will haveto consult online banking. Spent £8.25 today on pizza, fruit and veg and bread.

[Deleted User]

First spends of the month £1.38 on a ys quinoa salad and also a beer, which is a separate budget. Have updated sig.

supersaver1000

Amazing to read people having their first spends and spending so little, but I'm glad I'm not the one also having large spends. I know I will get there with practice, it will just take a couple of months.

A$da order arrived yesterday. I knew there were several veg. not on there as they had written to me twice, but then it turned up without the joint of beef as well.

I called at A1di on the way home for the veg and blow me if the A$da order turned up early - that's never happened before, luckily dd was there to let him in. But in the rush to leave A1di I didn't check my receipt and have found they had charged for an extra stuffing mix! Only 34p, but still annoying.

Its been an annoying week for shopping but given all the disruption everywhere I am just grateful we have fully stocked cupboards for delicious homemade meals. And doing this challenge seems to mean that we are having more cooked from scratch meals - we're all pleased about that

So my A$da order was only £58.04 in the end, but I still need to buy the joint of beef and the veg to go with it. I can do that on Weds eve on the way back home. Currently have around £119 left and around 3 weeks to go :eek:

K9sandFelines

K9sandFelines wrote: »

Can't find receipt from the other day, so will to consult online banking. Spent £8.25 today on pizza, fruit and veg and bread.

Managed to get on online banking and the other amount is £6.37.

archwaysaver

Spent £13.85 yesterday at Sainsbury's and Tesco on some essentials - tinned tomatoes, onions, peanut butter, bread flour, and baking paper which we'd run out of. We buy olive oil from the Turkish shop around the corner as it works out cheaper, but it's a big one-off every few months (£17.99 for 5 liters) and I think will have to restock in the next week or two.

starting_again_in_the_sun

Spent 11.25 yesterday on bin bags, bread, butter, juice, fruit and veg.

DD has eaten most of the satsumas and cherry tomatoes already but won't go back to supermarket until Friday.

JingsMyBucket

supersaver1000 wrote: »

Amazing to read people having their first spends and spending so little, but I'm glad I'm not the one also having large spends. I know I will get there with practice, it will just take a couple of months.

I love seeing it too. I would like to reach that point in a few months as well.

supersaver1000 wrote: »

So my A$da order was only £58.04 in the end, but I still need to buy the joint of beef and the veg to go with it. I can do that on Weds eve on the way back home. Currently have around £119 left and around 3 weeks to go :eek:

Could you possibly pull some meat and veg from the freezer instead of going out to buy a joint and veg? Do you have chicken legs, hamburgers, etc and frozen veg you can sautee in a pan? That might be able to hold you off for a while, even to just avoid the hassle of having to go back out to get stuff.

On to my stuff: Sunday, Monday and Tuesday were NSDs. That brings me up to 5 so far. Today should be one as well. Tonight OH and I are going to check out a very large grocery store for the first time to see how it differs from our more local/neighbourhood stores in terms of variety and sales. If things look good, this might become the store where we get stock up items on sale like loads of TP once a month, etc.

I probably won't buy anything tonight because the fridge is full to the brim but OH might pick up some nice things for himself. That said, we do have a visitor arriving and staying the night tomorrow evening, so we might get some yoghurt for him. Hrm. I'll try to avoid it though. Do you ever get to the point where you just don't feel like spending? I think I'm there.

Totals So Far:
5/10 NSD
€93.80 / €400.00
£0/£150 UK stock up

Mrs_Norris

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Amazing to read people having their first spends and spending so little, but I'm glad I'm not the one also having large spends. I know I will get there with practice, it will just take a couple of months.

Originally posted!by!supersaver1000”

I love seeing it too. I would like to reach that point in a few months as well.!

Originally posted by JingsMyBucket QUOTE]]

Me too....would like to stay within a £200 target again this month but between us all weve spent £100 already. :eek:
£200 is a fair budget for us but we're still learning to make impulse grocery buys are a thing of the past....Maybe a grocery shopping puse is our answer.