May 2018 Grocery Challenge

supersaver1000

Declaring at:

£390.05/£300

Way over target but we have had a very good month

pamsdish

£51.04 in Morries, had a spend £50 get 5000 points voucher to use, needed to restock my alcohol, no Famous Grouse again, never is when on offer, had to settle for a Grants whisky, which is ok, bought a mini Jamesons on offer for £10, quite like an Irish occasionally, 3 chickens for £10, 1 for tomorrow 2 will portion and freeze, few other bits all offer to get total.

Tales17

Update for this week:

- £20 ASDA Shop - other half bought a bottle of his favourite drink

- £4 Top up shop for coffee and snack

- £93.96 Click and Collect Tesco Shop - this was weekly shop plus about £35 on party food and sweets for games and including a unicorn cake for £12!

- £89.09 Click and Collect Tesco Shop - this was a larger shop this week with a few bulk buy items such as £20 on breakfast biscuits that were half price and should last us a couple of months!

Total so far this month is: £486.31 / £600 so quite pleased with that! Next big shop will be 1st June so hopefully that might be all for this month!

selloptape

Wow - I didn't know that Ic*l*nd had gone palm oil free. I've never shopped there, will have to check out my local one. Thanks for the info K9sandfelines and Save Dosh!

Have updated sig with spends so far, not too spendy but £20.67 of that was on Work lunches :mad: must get this down next month, so easy to get into bad habits when you're tired though.

Merlin's_Beard

£136.32/£100, and I think that's me done for the month.... There is an extra bought lunch in there, but I'm refusing to put that in my grocery budget - if work wants to spring a surprise "no you can't go home for lunch, you're staying for GDPR meeting" surprise at me, the emergency lunch is going into their part of the budget!

MadamMim2013

Eeeek:eek:
Think I am slightly over target.. Boo hiss..
Need to chase up receipts then will tally up.
Busy week, DS1 turned 18:j:beer: have really had a lovely few days!

YorksLass

Merlin's_Beard wrote: »

£136.32/£100, and I think that's me done for the month.... There is an extra bought lunch in there, but I'm refusing to put that in my grocery budget - if work wants to spring a surprise "no you can't go home for lunch, you're staying for GDPR meeting" surprise at me, the emergency lunch is going into their part of the budget!

Quite right too!

Just £11.43 spent in Week 4 so I have £33.27 left in the budget for the final week. So far on my shopping list is: 4pts milk (£1) and a pack of 2 haddock fishcakes (£1.45) = total of £2.45.

I've done next week's meal plan and don't need anything else (unless I spot any bargains of course ) so should have a healthy surplus to divert into the holiday pot. :)

turtlemonkey

Haven't updated in a week or so, have spent another 31.25 since then. Annoyingly, over £10 of that was just on what I call 'out and about food', i.e. having to buy lunch because I'm not at home. This doesn't happen often, as I work from home, so it isn't something I budget for! Guess I should just be grateful that I managed to get some time to myself away from home, it's a rare thing.

I now only have £11.08 left of my budget for May, but I also have £7.50 in Tesco vouchers. Should be enough for the remaining 4 days! :-)

NSDs so far: 14

K9sandFelines

K9sandFelines wrote: »

Can't find my spend from Sunday at work (and think it was cash)!
Had two spends yesterday, one in Morrisons for £6.98 ( went in for wraps, forgetting that they are cheaper in B and M, where i was going anyway). £1.39 spent in B and M. Still forget an iceberg lettuce :mad:

Have found the receipt :T It was £1.53, and today i spent £0.25 on YS eggs for DD2 to use for baking. She's made some nice vegan cakes tonight for me though with chia seed egg (so probably won't be needed, unless DD1 eats them or takes them home as she is omni). I spent £3.23 work yesterday, all YS items - bread,carrots,onions,mushrooms and grapes.

Famous last words were that i wasn't going to spend any more then realised if i wanted to bake i would need a vegan baking substitute for butter (as not all recipes require oil); so got a delivery for tomorrow coming from Ocado which should last me into next month. Three bags of family size Quorn items and four bags of Linda McCartney Scampi bites which we haven't been able to get for ages and we love these .

Off to tot up.

supersaver1000

K9sandFelines wrote: »

............. Linda McCartney Scampi bites ..........

Just read this and am intrigued - vegetarian scampi bites - might have to track some down to see what they are like - do they taste good with tartare sauce? :drool::drool::drool: