March 2018 Grocery Challenge

RedFraggle

Mr T £50.42
Costcutters £7.79 (night in wine and creme eggs for me and my bestie
M&expensive £7.80 (lunch on the go on a 200 mile round trip at the weekend)
Garage £3 sweeties on above trip

Total £125.74 so £174.26 left

K9sandFelines

£3.11 spent yesterday at work and two loaves picked up by daughter today for 10p each. Therefore i have £3.31 to add to my total spends.

I have an impending Morrisons shop due on Wednesday, which i hope will be the last big shop needed of the month; but with another fifteen days to go from then, i am not too sure it's doable.

JingsMyBucket

€15.65 for strawberries, bananas, 3x avocados, cherry tomatoes, and butter.

We finally ran out of butter after a few months. I think we've been working through our butter since December! Most of the strawberries at the store were horribly moldy. I probably got one of the only few that weren't. I'll try to eat these as quickly as possible, just in case.

For dinner I had some of the beef soup in the fridge, half a scone and some of the fancy bacon we bought last week to try out. I pulled a skinny steak out of the freezer to defrost for lunch tomorrow and I should probably pull out more (bulky) meat to defrost for tomorrow's dinner as well. OH pulled out one of the HM ready meals I put in the freezer for him. While he was waiting for it to cook in the oven, he ate the last two eggs (which I didn't know were the last ones). I'll probably go get eggs tomorrow during another errand.

Eating from the freezer also prevented me/us from ordering food delivery and saved me about €30 or so. I'm so glad my laziness kicked in...and the place I wanted to order from is closed on Mondays.

I'm tempted to eat the refrigerated haggis just to avoid putting it in the freezer.

Totals So Far:
€133.42 / €400.00
8/10 NSD
£0/£150 UK stock up

MadamMim2013

:eek: my total is at £212.64 already... :eek:
Did purchase some staples, re filled the stock cupboard and some yummy veggies from the green grocers.. Enough cat food till next month too.. I shall only be needing top ups
I WILL come in under budget this month!! :rotfl:

JingsMyBucket

selloptape wrote: »

I completed a new meal plan at the weekend and shopped on Sunday for the first half of the week. Shouldn!!!8217;t need to go shopping again until Weds.

I!!!8217;m struggling to get my head round the cost of meals - joining the challenge has really brought home the increased cost of groceries Hopefully the veggie/vegan meals I!!!8217;ve planned in later in the week will reduce costs a little.

What about the cost is frustrating you? Is it the calculation of individual meals, the weekly shop costs or something else?

ancientmum

I have spent more this week as although I am going on holiday, DS3 will be home from university a few days before I return so I have stocked up the cupboards and freezer to prevent the poor love from starving.. I managed to get some YS meat and a pizza, what I have now should last until Easter with the addition of some fresh fruit and veg.

lemonverbena

£5.91 at the local greengrocers and £1.00 on food at Iceland so £78.34 total on food and £94.10 total on groceries.

ancientmum

I almost forgot, does anyone know where you can buy the recycle-able toothbrushes? I have read you can get ones made from bamboo, and that toothbrushes account for a huge amount of plastic waste.

Thanks.

Wysiwyg49

JingsMyBucket wrote: »

Wysiwyg49 did you brush the top with egg or anything like that? Thanks for this nice idea.

Hi - thanks I brushed the edges of the filo with melted butter so that it would stick a bit, and also the top. I think it started off from this recipe:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/potatoandpeasamosas_86618

but we often make chickpea and potato curry so I put that in instead. Did make it once with peas added, which was also good!

klbooth

Tesco delivery for the month today, usually comes start of the month but with one thing or another has been delayed. Also remembered a couple of chippy purchases that hadn't been put on last week so total now...

£175.59/£410