March 2019 Grocery Challenge

VickyV

A spend of £3.56 to add for yesterday in the local t0sco.
I have a small B-word store, which I need to add to. My plan was to have a month's worth of meals in there but I'm not anywhere near that yet!

JingsMyBucket

Howdy! I finally racked up 2 NSDs, yesterday and today. I’ll likely have another Thursday as I'll be too busy to get to the store. Friday I'll try getting some eating cheese (cheddar or Brie, etc), Maldon salt and some fruit.

TOTALS SO FAR:
$80.50 / $300.00
2 / 12 NSD

Suffolk_lass

Shopped for the week yesterday and succumbed to Easter chocolate (separate budget) but also had to buy "food" for my dishwasher - cleaner and rinse aid which comes out of my stores budget. This is rather overspent (almost 37%) at the moment (B-word stores) but will come back into budget later in the year.

It is just as well I am planning a freezer week as I have already blasted through 79% of this month's £200. I will have eggs on Friday but otherwise it will only be milk and fruit that need topping up. I want to use up everything in the fridge between now and the end of March, ready for hols over Easter.

euronorris

Further spends yesterday and this morning:


Sainsburys - £3.50 - 2 packs of ham
Lidl - £1.09 - More milk (DD drinking loads of it at the moment)


Total now: £201.56/£300

pamsdish

£21.96 in Aldi, 8x soya milk couple of caulis, broccoli, 2 sourdough rolls, mint sauce, butter eggs nan breads and as a nod to B£$£*t 2 tubs of pepper.
I am old enough to remember the Suez crisis, everything was shipped in those days, and no pepper for a long time, don`t believe there will be much happening, as so much is flown in now, after the French have stopped pouting and being awkward things will settle.

Suffolk_lass

pamsdish wrote: »

£21.96 in Aldi, 8x soya milk couple of caulis, broccoli, 2 sourdough rolls, mint sauce, butter eggs nan breads and as a nod to B£$£*t 2 tubs of pepper.
I am old enough to remember the Suez crisis, everything was shipped in those days, and no pepper for a long time, don`t believe there will be much happening, as so much is flown in now, after the French have stopped pouting and being awkward things will settle.

Actually, the Department for Transport publishes annual transport statistics every year. The latest is 2018 for the year 2017. Air Freight was 2.6m tonnes (metric) in total. There were 4.2m lorries through Dover and Channel Tunnel over the same period. I would venture to suggest they were not empty. The Channel Tunnel statistics suggest 21.3m tonnes of freight with approximately 20% containing food stuffs in 2017.

The French will control all the exports of regulated goods, from Countries that are not part of the EU and with whom there is no recognition of standards (that is UK if there is no deal). That is not them being petulant. That is what the EU law says. So as much as we talk about letting goods in, if the lorries are queuing to get back out, there reaches a point where there will not be enough to bring the next lot to fill our shelves or supply the factories that make finished products.

Most pepper comes from Vietnam and India so is less likely to be impacted by the UK leaving the EU.

tighteningthebelt

Sorry to be blunt but there's loads of places to write about brexit, this is the grocery challenge. Please please please don't. Thank you.
So, I've spent £20.33 today, and updated my signature. And this is my first spend day of March, so I'm very pleased with that. Go me!!!

Doom_and_Gloom

Our March started on the 1st, bit late I know but been on top of keeping track of spends.
We have seen qiute a lot of price increases so we have agreed to increase the budget from £6.50 a day for both of us to £8 a day for both. However we would like it not to spend it all.
Please put us up for £248.
The month runs 1st to 31st and covers all food and non alcoholic drinks (except for date night eating out as that comes out of entertainment budget). The chinchillas have their own budget as does the toiletries, cleaning supplies etc.

We've done a bulk shop and a few fresh grocery shops so far. I know we are horribly over for where we are in the month however I'm staying positive that we can do this.

£113.05/£248
£134.94 left.

ditty1234

Bought milk last night £2
Groceries £106/£260
(Broke milk, put in various jugs, now needs to be used quickly. Very annoying.)
Cant wait to use my £9 off voucher in Sainsbury on Saturday.
Happy days.
Snacks £4.50 £110.50/£260

It's an other sneaky stressy week, spent 4.50 again today on coffee! Has to go on the good list though so here it is £115/£260. Cookie treat yesterday was earned for GCSE boy working hard, and coffee today was after a day as a cover teacher - Thursday activity. SO cheekily thought I earned it. These are exactly the type of things I am trying very hard to avoid, so will now stash some granola bars or something in car, for going home treats.

ancientmum

I have spent £49.75 in Tresco taking advantage of £7 off a £50 spend which with various small shops in Aldi brings the total so far for the year to £220.62/2000. I have a few homemade ready meals in the freezer, and some things that will need cooking, so think I will be able to hold out until next week without spending more. Unless I have a chocolate digestive emergency....