May 2018 Grocery Challenge

Mrs_Cheshire

Haven't had much free time to catch up on the chat this month but I've been adding my spends to my spreadsheet as usual. I'm currently at £260.49/£400, got loads of meat in the freezer and most of the bulk items that I'll need for the rest of the month.

supersaver1000

Quick shop at Adli's on way home. £8.05 but it wasn't for veg - no veg in my basket tonight - just four lovely burgers, cheese to melt on top and some nice soft buns. Then in slipped my trolley were some Tunnock's teacakes, wafers and some yoghurt rice cakes - just jumped right in and couldn't stop them Few fries from the freezer and it was comfort food tonight

To date: £306.63/£300

MadamMim2013

£15.84 in MnS today.. Must haves and treats!
Will total up..

Puddleglum

My spend for this week came to £43.85 which is slightly over budget but I have been under for the earlier part of the month. There were some exceptional items in the basket like toothpaste for oh so sensitive teeth and they probably added £6 to the total. Funnily enough just buying the toothpaste seems to have done the trick, I don't think that I will actually have to use it!

K9sandFelines

Killed some time today before college so spent £4.46 on food in Quality Save
Then I got home earlier than usual on a Thursday, so dived in with my Dad to go to Aldi, so I could stock up on tins and a few other cupboard staples.That came to £27.02.

£31.48 total for today.

This brings my full total to just over £100.

We should have plenty to last until most of the rest of the month.

supersaver1000

Chocolate purchase today £2.20

To date: £308.83/£300

turtlemonkey

Stopped by Lidl yesterday and spent £11.12 on food and some snacks. (Also got a nice new top and a solar light for the window sill, but those come out of separate budgets.)

Total spend on groceries so far in May: £65.67. Left in budget: £44.33. NSDs: 10

K9sandFelines

£2.00 spent on Starburst. I went into B and M for throat lozenges (but i don't include these), and bought these aswell.

Doom_and_Gloom

Spent £19.42 since last post.

£124.28/£155.
£30.72 left.

YorksLass

I've just realised I didn't post last week :doh: (RL and all that), so here's an update.

Week 2: Small spend at Co-op (milk), Friday market trip and stock-up shop at Sainsburys. Total spend: £32.57 and 5 NSDs.

Week 3: Co-op shop (milk, beef spread, box of dried peas and YS bag of baby potatoes). The Fultons frozen foods stall in Leeds market closed a while back and this is where we normally buy our packs of Chinese curry sauce (2 for £1 and very authentic ). As we've exhausted our stash of them, DH caught the bus to Harrogate and bought some there, so that was £4 out of the (separate) bulk fund.

While he was doing this, I was at the dentist and paid £50+ for NHS check-up and private scale and polish :(. After this, a much more pleasant drop-in at 5 CSs for a mooch. Bought 5 children's books for £1 (Xmas pressies) and 3 travel size toiletries for £1.50 that I'll be using when we go on holiday later in the year. Shampoo, shower gel and body lotion, all l'Occitaine in verbena & ginger fragrance.

Today - trip to market (new potatoes, lunch tongue, turkey slices and 2 pork pies). Weekly shop at Sainsburys but not too bad. £1.05 saved on promotional items, an enormous YS cod fillet that will do two of us for a mid-week meal (now in freezer), extra bonus points on two items, used a £3 MOC and bill came to £20.29.

Total for Week 3 = £37.48 and 5NSDs.

There's £44.70 left in the budget and - apart from milk - I won't need any shopping at all for Week 4. There's plenty of fresh stuff in the fridge, the freezer is rammed to the point that I can't shoe-horn anything else into it and the store cupboards are looking very healthy. And it's rubber chicken week too!

It looks as if I'll be making 4 weeks dosh stretch over 5 weeks so I'm feeling pretty pleased with how it's all going.