May 2019 Grocery Challenge

Littlebigfoots

I've spent £0.23/£20 so far this month.

I bought reduced loaf of sliced bread which I've frozen.

There's 18 slices so comes to less than 1.5p per slice.

tighteningthebelt

Littlebigfoots wrote: »

Hello everyone I'm new to the forums. Let's get started right away. Please put me down for £20 this month.

Ooooh, ambitious!! Welcome and good luck.

Lauralozzle

Needed eggs and salad bits for packup tomorrow. Lost my receipt, but was under £5.00 so I'm claiming that until I see the transaction on my bank app!

So, £5.00/£300.00 for now....

Littlebigfoots

Thanks I have lots of old beans, pulses and grains in the back of cupboards so I'm going to work through those. I also have lots of 1/4 filled bags of frozen veggies shoved in the back of the freezer. Also lots of fresh young nettles in the garden so I made a big batch of nettle soup and used rice in it to add in the calories. Got a poly tunnel and stuff growing but nothing edible yet. :rotfl:

£0.23/£20 Hopefully I just worked out how to make things bigger and different colour.

little_pup

Hi I’d like to join if it’s not too late! My first time doing a grocery challenge.
Can you put me down for £150 for May? This is for just me, I’m hoping to come in well below this.

So far spent:
- £30 Morrison’s main weekly shop including 3 for £10 meats (whole chicken, 500g lean mince, 500g lamb mince), 2 packs of heck sausages for £4 and fruits (berries) and veg, plus some extras like flavoured water.
- Tesco £6: 2 packs of strawberries and 2 blueberries
- Lidl £10: more veg, cans of diced tomato, grated cheese, Doritos (oops!), plus a lovely low calorie ice cream for £2.49 called Graham’s Goodness white choc and raspberry (so creamy!)

This is loads of food for me, I did a roast chicken with potatoes and carrots and divided that up into 4 meals. Tonight I made moussaka and that’s about 4 meals and then I’m doing shepherds pie when I get time (another 4 meals).

My plan is to “swap” meals with my boyfriend. E.g. I ate a portion of his bolognese pasta for lunch so I’ll give him a portion of my moussaka. We’re on totally different budgets & he eats loads more than me so doing a shared weekly shop wouldn’t work but I think this is a good way to share food for us

BrassicWoman

£5 on way home for insta-dinner Was very late finish at work so that or pizza delivery... I'm viewing it as "saved £15"...

tighteningthebelt

Hi and welcome little pup
Seems you are off to a flying start with your prepping skills!

FoxFace

£26.77p spent last night on shopping to last us until Saturday, when I can go and actually stock up. Need to be a bit more organised.

elsiepac

Bit of a false positive for me so far... I've not been very good this week and bought quite a lot of treaty items and snacky foods, which I've used my "spending money" for and not taken from the GC. Hey ho. Made a lovely red lentil and vegetable stew for tea last night and have another one for tonight plus a third leftover. Proper healthy comfort food, all thick and delightful

The 2 t3sc0 shops were first for salad things and fruit and tea and tofu, and the second was kitchen roll but then I found the Qu0rn vegan breaded 5 grain fillets reduced so bought all 4 and froze them. Hence spending £8 something instead of like a quid!!
Then my Ald1 shop was just a load of fresh veg as I realised I hadn't shopped properly really. I'm good now for the rest of the week and actually shouldn't even need anything extra over the weekend so I'm calling my week1 budget. Week 2 begins on Sunday. I'm being taken out for brunch at a really funky place I love as a late birthday present from a friend, so that'll be nice!

Did my big stock up shop - planned £40 but came out at £45.38 so adjusting budgets slightly to cover this.


..............................£200 Budget
Date......Shop......Amount....Remaining
26 Apr....T3sc0.....£02.10....£197.90...(WEEK 1)
27 Apr....T3sc0.....£45.38....£152.52...(STOCK)
27 Apr....T3sc0.....£16.07....£136.45...(WEEK 1)
29 Apr....T3sc0.....£08.18....£128.27...(WEEK 1)
30 Apr....A1d!......£08.98....£119.29...(WEEK 1)



Week......Budget....Spent.....Remaining
WEEK 1....£90.00color=white].....£34.31....£55.69
WEEK 2....£40.00.....£00.00....£40.00
WEEK 3....£40.00.....£00.00....£40.00
WEEK 4....£40.00.....£00.00....£40.00
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Suffolk_lass

Littlebigfoots wrote: »

Thanks I have lots of old beans, pulses and grains in the back of cupboards so I'm going to work through those. I also have lots of 1/4 filled bags of frozen veggies shoved in the back of the freezer. Also lots of fresh young nettles in the garden so I made a big batch of nettle soup and used rice in it to add in the calories. Got a poly tunnel and stuff growing but nothing edible yet. :rotfl:

£0.23/£20 Hopefully I just worked out how to make things bigger and different colour.

Welcome! You might want to take a look and join in over here.