April 2018 Grocery Challenge

MadamMim2013

Will be a NSD for me today, off to work in a mo..
Just need to make up a suitable tea for the munchkins.. Pasta bake me thinks:T
Seems everyone is off to a good start, two weeks in & I'm more than happy with what I've spent.

caronc

£5 top up shop today bringing total so far for April to £122/£200

Merlin's_Beard

Can't remember if I posted this already...

£96.88/£100.... wish me luck with my £3.12 for the second half of the month!!

YorksLass

Pleased to report that Week 2 has been a lot less spendy than Week 1. A total of x6 NSDs and only one shopping trip coming to a total of £17.32, leaving me with £63.77 in the budget for the next fortnight so it's all looking good.

Meal plan has been drawn up for the coming week, mostly using fresh stuff and a couple of LOs from the fridge. In fact, there's only fishcakes and chicken & bacon slices scheduled to come out of the freezer so that's not going to make much wriggle room, is it? Never mind, there's always next week.

Let's see what Week 3 brings .....

K9sandFelines

K9sandFelines wrote: »

£1.68 spend 07/04/18 in Morrisons
£24 ish at Iceland Warehouse (will double check) yesterday
£5.61 spend in Morrisons today

So, roughly £31.29

Iceland spend was £23.86 so can knock a few pennies off the total. However, I've found another receipt for £8.90 which was all fruit and veg a loaf of bread fand fresh orange juice from Morrisons. So, £8.76 to add to sig.

thriftwizard

£22 spent at the market this morning, on a chicken for today's roast, a pack of chicken breasts, a pack of chicken carcasses to make a massive pot of stock, some extra inexpensive fruit & veg and a tub of delicious olives! Those are a bit of a treat for DD2 & I but will also be an option for topping HM pizzas later in the week. Now I need a couple of sensible NSDs food-wise, as the kettle sputtered its last today & will have to be replaced.

ETA: and a whacking £85.60 added to the bulk-buy total; that's 5 months worth of adult cat-food pouches, plus 1 month worth, I think, for the two kittens arriving next week - it may or may not go a bit further. They'd run out of the dried food we have to use so I'll have to buy that when it's back in stock; we're not desperate yet. I will almost certainly need to adjust my "allowance" for bulk-buys; I realised we were likely to run out even before we agreed to adopt two rescued kittens! Flour supplies are dwindling fast and we're almost at the bottom of the last sack of oats...

Another edit: out of curiosity, I checked back to when I last ordered oats; it's usually 4 months between sacks. However the last order, the sack that is almost empty, was placed in February. This means that the London Marathon is responsible for us going through 25Kg of oats in double-quick time! Well, that and the Beast from the East too...

cw18

Picked up a bag of froen sweetcorn from A!di today, so another 79p added to my total taking me to £104.40 / £100

Also spent £1.39 in B'n'M, but that was on tiny chocolate eggs to use as cake toppings at the end of next month (always try and do some simple 'baking' when we borrow GDs and a niece for a holiday - has been rice krispie cakes for a couple of years, but this year we're going to make chocolate nest cakes using shredded wheat instead). I've decided I'm going to keep that receipt to one side and log it against my May budget as there's no way I'm going to be touching them until we go away, and I'd not have bought them until closer to the time if I was confident they'd still have them in.....


Could have been a lot worse today, but I somehow conveniently forgot to remind OH that there was a local food festival with free admission this weekend

PennyGrabber

Thriftwizard, wow! 25kg of oats is certainly a lot in a few weeks!! May I ask from where you order, and how much you pay? Curiosity more than anything, as I go through 1-3kg a year!!!

I've lost track completely of my April spends, mainly because of the holiday. Oh well. I know I've blown it, as there's no money left in the account, but there's plenty in, so we definitely won't starve!!

Big healthy eating kick started this weekend, as my fella proposed on Friday. I'd quite like to be slimmer for my second wedding than the first - four stone to go...!

PG x

frugalish

PennyGrabber wrote: »

Big healthy eating kick started this weekend, as my fella proposed on Friday. I'd quite like to be slimmer for my second wedding than the first - four stone to go...!

PG x

Congratulations PennyGrabber! What a lovely start to your weekend! :T

Big Adli shop today - £66.45, plus we had fish & chips for dinner on Friday (approx £10) and I bought two YS bottles of Ariel gel for £1.38 each instead of £5.95, which I thought was too good to miss, but then realised they're biological!! So I can't use them for stuff that's next to my skin, but ok for soaking stains off etc. So still worth it, I reckon! :cool:

£79.21 added to the spend, but the Adli shop included stocking up on some store cupboard stuff that had run low, so shouldn't need to spend that much again this month.

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PennyGrabber wrote: »

Big healthy eating kick started this weekend, as my fella proposed on Friday. I'd quite like to be slimmer for my second wedding than the first - four stone to go...!

Aw - very happy for you - congrats. How long have you got to lose the weight ??? I got down to 9st 2lb a few weeks ago (9st my ideal) but it has crept back on - I weighed 9st 12lb this morning - I got dizzy on the scale with shock, but I'm determined to lose it asap. I'm going to a pool party at the end of this month, be nice to shape up for that - wishful thinking. EDIT: wanted to say I'm sure you'll look lovely whatever weight you are, it's not important.




Ok, so no spends, but I took home an absolute ton from work (free). We got donated some really posh tabulah salad tubs, trays of them, my kind of food, but really not to a lot of peoples taste and they needed to be used today. I took 16 tubs home, have put them in the freezer, sadly loads will be thrown - l also got 4 tubs of Mexican bean soup, some Alpro (vegan) stuff dated 2019, rainbow rice, peppers, some vegan friendly garlic & corriander naan breads, some lovely sprouted seed bread, granola, which will be going back as just noticed it has honey in it - can't remember most of it. All healthy stuff which will be great for my weight loss efforts. Gonna put my weight loss on my sig, hopefully it will encourage me.