May 2018 Grocery Challenge

RedFraggle

In for £300 again this month please

MadamMim2013

I know I'm in for £300 again this month..
Spent 90.37 so far in Lidels and Mr A's..
Cupboards, freezer and fridge are FULL!
Will be getting creative in regards to menus and meals..
Good luck all for May :j

zafiro1984

I need to rejoin if I may. Things have been a little hectic and different this year but now hopefully all that is all behind me and I need to start budgeting again.

Can you put me down for £150 for this month. It will be a challenge to stay under this amount but I aim to try.

AsherBat

I've stocked up on rice, noodles, pasta etc today plus bought a bunch of veg which should last a while. Spent £24.85 of my 80 quid. Roasting leftover veg from last week now (courgettes, red onions and cherry toms) which I'll freeze so I can add to risotto/paella/pasta to make quick meals. Also prepping ahead 800g (equivelant of 2 blocks) of roasted tofu which will last the week and about 20 falafels which I'll put in the freezer too.

supersaver1000

Its going to be a £300 target for me please. Several birthdays to pay for this month so its going to take a lot of planning.

DH decided to buy a take away on Friday and then Saturday I made a macaroni cheese from cupboard ingredients but bought bread and eggs at Moggisons. Sunday would have been an NSD but we decided to have a MaccyD's, first one for a very long time. Today was a quick trip to Ald1's for some mince and bits to make a chilli.

Current Totals: £32.75/300

thriftwizard

Three NSDs in a row here, which feels rather like getting off to a good start! But I will need to hare off & restock at L!dls tomorrow, and the farm shop, not to mention doing a couple of online bulk orders; I'm beginning to think I should separate out the pet & livestock food & keep a different tally for those, as I do for my bulk orders of flour, oats and the health foods that we get through a lot of. Up to date, I've included cat food in the "bulk-buy" purse as I buy it online, and chicken & cockatiel food in with groceries as I just pick those up at the farm shop, but I'd be hard put to tell you exactly what they're costing us. I should be able to go back through my orders, work out what I have spent so far, & what I'll need to spend in future, the household having expanded by 2 kittens and 3 bantam chicks!

ETA: I seem to have made some kind of mistake... on going back through my order history for the year, it would appear that I haven't spent as much on bulk buys as I thought...? I've either added a transaction in twice, or accidentally put a large "normal" grocery bill in there. So I will separate the animal food out now, and reduce the bulk-buy target & running total accordingly.

And ETA again: On reflection, the mistake looks very much like a simple maths error; it's £100 less than the previous totals!

Tales17

£600 again for me this month please!

Will update the April thread with final totals in next couple of days x

Merlin's_Beard

£63.12/£100 already! It sounds awful, but £40 of that is farm shop freezer meat, so it should keep me going for a while (and I might halve that with my rollover/bulk fund if I'm tight). And short of one aubergine, hopefully I'm good until mid month (got the last one in the shop, but needed two!!)

turtlemonkey

Hi everyone,

I'm new to this, but would love to join the grocery challenge with a monthly budget of £110, please. Hopefully I should be able to come in lower than that, as I stocked up a little at Aldi in April.

cw18

A few spends to report already

£1.38 for mini chocolate eggs I actually picked up in April ready for baking with youngsters on holiday

1st May

Icel@nd - £3
Bag of chicken nuggets. That's my work day lunches sorted for a couple of weeks.

A!di - 87p
Went in to pick up some white rolls as I'm planning on burgers and wedges for tea tomorrow (burgers and wedges are freezer stock). They had 3 packets of 4 on 50% off, so I picked them all up. On the basis I have burgers one day a week while at home (and one of those is a day I'm also feeding OH) I need 10 rolls for the month. Seemed silly not to get them all while I could get reduced and have freezer space to store them

Her0n - 22p
Nipped in to check reductions, and they had a pack of Haslet slices at 75% off. So I had that with the 2 spare white rolls (and some marrow chutney from my cupboards) for my lunch

Spends stand at £5.47 / £120