April 2018 Grocery Challenge

frugalish

Bit of a disappointing day for me, spend wise. It was planned to be an NSD, but I made myself a cuppa at work and the milk was off, which left a vile taste in my mouth. So rather than drinking water to flush it out, I bought a coffee and a cake on the way home ...

£4.70 lighter!! :eek:

Totals: £81.61 / £250 = £168.39

cw18

£3 spend today, which has taken me over my budget. But I'm really impressed that this is my first spend since Monday of last week, and I've been eating fine from stock - sweet treats is going to be my big downfall later in the month as it appears I don't have a stockpile of those

Today should have been my day off work, but I opted to do a shift at a different office (need the money for a potential big bill in July to get my car though the MOT), which put me almost next door to a discounted food store I've had some great deals from before - and I couldn't resist popping in.

Picked up 5 boxes of stir fry stock-pots (2 pots per box) for £1, which is cheaper than the stir fry sauce sachets I can get locally to home. Also two jars of marinade/sauce for £1 (one a flavour I've had before and love, the other being one I've not seen before). And I gave in to some sweet treats, so two 6 packs of bakewell tarts for another £1.

That's a very restrained spend for me in there, and there were plenty of other lines I'd not seen before that tempted me. Unfortunately it sounds like I could be back there later this week, so I need to try and resist again. (And before anyone suggests it, I never go to work without my purse as I'm confident that doing so will ensure my car breaks down!)

MadamMim2013

£6.25 spend in the local shop today, Loo rolls and 2 different lots of ice cream as I cannot seem to manage much else at the mo, Drs given me antibiotics today as my lungs are squeaky.. :eek:
I've tried so hard to fend off this bug, hoping it now does one as I'd like to feel a wee bit better please!

caronc

£42 for me to do which is more than usual but I stocked up on my favourite washing powder which was on SO. Total so far for April is £117/£200

thriftwizard

OK, plot lost again! It'll take me days to round up all the receipts... Last night we did some baking for OH's fundraising bake sale tomorrow; I made flapjacks & savoury flapjacks, which went just fine, but both girls, normally pretty expert bakers, had baking disasters - flat sponges, layers which refused to remain separate, etc. So today they've been scurrying round our county town buying replacement supplies anywhere they can find them whilst I did my mother's shopping, (plus £4-worth of irresistible bargains for us) and most of the receipts have been lost! Once the baking has been successfully concluded, I'll see if I can get any sense out of both or either of them.

The £4 was £2 for a box of mushrooms, and £2 for 4 punnets of strawberries and 2 of blueberries. Would have been daft not to.

It's interesting that this "disaster" should happen. My aunt was a professional cook, and on the rare occasions she had something go wrong, she'd sigh and say, "See? It's the atmospherics, you know..." and it was always on those horrible grey, dank days with incessant heavy rain & the wind veering all over the place - exactly like yesterday was down here. We used to laugh, but maybe there was something in it; my girls are often asked to bake & decorate cakes for other family member's posh birthday celebrations and usually get "oohs" and "aahs!" and not a crumb left. So it was really unusual, to be fair to them! Perhaps I should put it under the Entertainments budget...?

MadamMim2013

NSD here for me
Used up lots of odds bits, made a quick decision tea of (most of) yesterday's chicken leftovers in gravy with Yorkshires, steamed new potatoes and veg.. Boys wolfed it away, banana loaf for pud with a dollop of ice cream. Yum.. :A

thriftwizard

It would appear that they spent £13.85 - could have been much worse, but I'm goggling gently at £3 for 12 muffin "wrappers" - so I've added £17.85 to my total & will just try to keep it within the general grocery budget. You'll all no doubt be delighted to hear that the lemon curd glitter cake, fairy cakes, Malteser truffle muffins & chocolate fudge brownies have all been completed without incident, but my second batch of herby pizza rolls got burnt when my step-sister rang up for a natter - no "atmospherics" needed!

Omelette for tea; didn't cost us a penny, thanks to the "girls" (i.e. the feathered ones) all laying like crazy just now. Cheese, spring onions & other "fillings" were already in the fridge, and some of today's box of mushrooms went in too. Most of the rest will be in the dehydrator tomorrow...

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A £2 spend on the new Iceland vegan burgers 'No Bull' - that's what they are called, launched Monday, which are getting really good reviews, so had to get them. They bleed #donchaknow. I already have a ton of burgers, as I made a load of lentil ones, but hey. It's turning out to be a very low total for me this month (so far), been eating breakfast and lunch at work and using up stores mostly in the evening. I need salad stuff and want some ginger n lemons, but that is it really. So far I'm at £13.99. I do predict busting the alcohol budget though - I'm wanting to make some cocktails I had at a bar. We shall see.

mrs-moneypenny

Ive just declared for march and come in with my usual monthly spend
I'm a bit late coming in but have kept a note of spends so far
April will be £400 please

Puddleglum

This week's spend has come in at £13.99 which represents a £21 claw back on last week's £23 overspend. It was worth it, spending the weekend with old friends and there was enough food left over to push back this week's shop to today.

No alcohol for the rest of the month now so that will keep the bills down.