March 2018 Grocery Challenge

Ginmonster

I had an ocado delivery this morning which came to £48.05. Lots of sensible stuff in there but also a few not so necessary things. They gave me a voucher for £1 off a bottle of ale so I got one for 79p and they had 20 percent off pieminister pies so I got one each for hubby and me for an easy meal. Previously I would have bought lots of pies to go in the freezer but now my freezer is quite rightly too full of home made meals and my bank account has money in it. Yay for the grocery challenge!

In other good news Tesco finally got back to me about my complaint re: an order full of short dated food several weeks ago and they're going to refund me for all the short dated stuff. I'm not sure how much I'll get back yet but it's a win as I actually managed to use or freeze everything in the end although it was a bit inconvenient.

I'll need to be sensible now for the rest of the month as I only have about a quarter of the money left for half of the month.

71.74/100

pamsdish

£28.65 in Tosco, needed choc and picked up some y.s. items.

Doom_and_Gloom

We spent £7.86 since last update.
OH spent £2.73; 750g red onions, mix pepper stir fry and vegetable spring rolls.
I spent £5.13; 1kg peas, 1kg sweet corn, 1.5kg red onions, 1kg carrots, gala melon, pack of tomatoes, broccoli and 2 mangoes.

OH will likely be having beef and vegetable stir fry.
I have a vegetable stew cooking in my multi cooker. Will do courgetti to go with the stew.

Me - £48.45/£77.50. £20.05 left.
OH - £27.78/£77.50. £49.72 left.
Total - £76.23/£155. £78.77 left.

indigowarrior

£10.59 at tesco. Defo didnt need to spend anything except bread but was hungry and depressed.
Total Spend for this month. £48.01 Total amount left £51.99

K9sandFelines

Bananas, avocado and quorn picnic eggs and quorn sausages - £4.36
Then Dad picked up Pea protein powder for DD2 - £1.49

So, £5.85 to add.

Bit peeved that Cashew milk I got delivered last night at full price, had gone on offer yesterday but on offer for a.£1 instore and nothing I can do about it :mad:. My delivery came to £43.71. So, £49.56

Ive just realised ... does anyone knock their bag refund off shopping from Morrisons and Ocado online. I have never thought to do it, yet when I have to buy a bag instore I always add it :embarasse

selloptape

Thanks to cw18 and Merlins beard for the tips! I think being more organised is key.

Spent 11.37 yesterday but today was a NSD. At the halfway point and on track

PipneyJane

Good evening everyone

I’ve just started my new job, where there is absolutely no internet access, so apologies if I’m even more absent than usual. I can browse on my smart phone at lunchtime but I find it really difficult to post. I will try to browse more in the evenings.

We have finally found an Aldi within reasonable distance - although not on one of our regular routes - and DH popped in there last night, on the way home from visiting a friend. He spent £3.67 on chocolate and 2 litres of milk. (Did I mention that he’s a chocolate monster?). That brings our total Grocery Challenge spend to £40.13/£120, leaving £79.87 for the remainder of the month.

- Pip

Mrs_Cheshire

ancientmum wrote: »

Thank you Mrs. Cheshire for the info on Babipur. I will definitely give them a try.
x

Let me know when you plan to purchase and I can give the current discount code for 10% off.

Spendy day for me today as I did the main weekly food shop, stopped at Mr t's first and picked up anything I knew was cheaper or that I couldn't get at Ald!'s. spent £16.96, then went onto Ald! were I spent a further £79.82.
It's going to be an interesting end to the month, got just under £100 left and I'll need a top up beginning of next week and then the main shop next thursday and a top up before the month ends.

Merlin's_Beard

£104.62/£100 today.... big oops! Borrowed from last month's leftovers, now I'm on damage control, I think. Lots of extras to blame.

pamsdish

£47.24 in, Lidl, Morries, Poundstretcher and B&M, mostly store cupboard as needed tonic water and veg, very lucky to have all those in a small area.EDIT £42.24 AS £5 for friend