March 2020 Grocery Challenge

supersaver1000

Almost up to the £100 mark on the first week of the month. It means that for the remaining three weeks I am aiming for £55 pw.  Should be do-able.  DH picked up a pack of loo rolls today with a couple of other bits.  Total £10.  Apparently the loo rolls were very low stock, so I'm glad he managed to get a pack as we are almost out.  I bought some dishwasher tabs last week so that will last a couple of months, and DH also picked up a 6 pint of milk which may last 2 weeks depending on whether we have macaroni cheese soon.  Meal plan for next week is all prepped and it should be a low spend shop hopefully.

Herbyme

My downfall is top up shops too. I need to work out what I'm going out for (not what I come back with, which is sometimes different). So far in March, total about £140/550 (that's a bit ahead of target, should be about £90 at this point but we are quite well stocked up)
Main shop (Ald1): £100
Top ups: 26+8+6=£40
I can remember that top ups so far have included cat food (literally out!!), macaroni, pastry, sun dried tomatoes, tinned beans and baked beans. Come to think of it, they were all things they didn't have at Ald! so that makes sense. But I need to keep receipts for top up shops so I can tell - last time I did it, it was cheese, eggs, butter, bread, milk and cereal that caught me out, it might have changed.
I notice baked beans running low, not toilet rolls, anything else I should go out and panic buy?!

Anzac_Biscuit

Crikey we're spending up big so far! DH did another big shop yesterday which came to $174. 6 days in and we're well over halfway through the budget (yes, I know, it was very much an estimated one this month).
He did buy both salmon and steak though, so I guess he's forgiven

Jacs205

Another £9.35 last night but that included wine after a hard day!  I'm thinking of doing a stock up on loo rolls and dried/tinned stuff, extra pet food and perhaps upping the monthly target a bit to cover it.  I'm trying not to worry about Covid19 but clearly failing.  

ForestBluebells

Jacs205 said:

Another £9.35 last night but that included wine after a hard day!  I'm thinking of doing a stock up on loo rolls and dried/tinned stuff, extra pet food and perhaps upping the monthly target a bit to cover it.  I'm trying not to worry about Covid19 but clearly failing.  

I’m wondering if I should do this too 🙈 I’ve been using up all my food stores so should the situation get worse I wouldn’t have much in 😬

sarahj1986

sarahj1986 said:

Hello all

please update mine to €300 for March as I had a €50 (well rounded figure) underspend in February so will use that extra to stock up on supplies needed

€7.44 spent yesterday and today

we got water and crisps yesterday and today I picked up milk and some chicken on offer

€292.56 left 

€30.50 spent 

this is over a couple of shops on water, fruit, veg etc. We have a big shop landing on Monday which is our bulk ordering of nappies, wipes, toilet roll, kitchen roll, fizzy drinks, frozen, tinned and some fresh items. I will post that total when it arrives

€262.06 left 

pamsdish

£34.47 replenished my fresh veg, few other bits should be able to weather any $#&! storm.

thriftwizard

Oh dear. £75 spent at the market today & the baker's yesterday, bringing me up to £300. Three weekends left to go & I'm seriously doubting that I'm going to be anywhere near my target. Everything seems to have gone up, and my stocks had run right down with my mother's visit. So I might just ask elsiepac, please may you add another £100 to my target, taking it up to £500? We're in the fortunate position that it's entirely possible to do this without dipping into the red (despite DS3's plea for an urgent parental top-up yesterday) but I'm not a happy bunny... I suppose I'd mentally put aside £100 for a pre-Brexit stock-up, which I've never used, so it can come into play now, and I do have the peace of mind that knowing that we're well-stocked-up brings. 

moving_forward

Spent £10.98 yesterday at H & B on some trail mix type dried fruit and nuts for Mr M_F.  He has two walks either side of his train home so he has a handful or two of this when he gets home as a healthy snack.  We usually buy from Mr T's but lately they haven't stocked it so I've set up a subscription at H & B as its a necessity in the M_F household.  Mr T shop coming tonight so will update totals when thats come.

GreenFairy

Left my sodding bacon and sausages in the fridge at work, so no coddle for us last night! Ended up making herbed roasted cauliflower and topping with very runny fried egg, plus the few leftover sausages for DB and Boy Wonder. Was very tasty. Spent €14.83 in Leeedl today - stewing beef, soft drinks, milk, burger buns, and veg. Then another €25.59 in t3sco, as we needed cat food and nappy pants  - both were on big special offer so got 2 bags of cat food and two 60 packs of nappy pants for that! Saved €19.60! It's very tempting to stock up on more of both but we're about to start packing up the ground floor of the house (which will need to get squished into the first floor!) so we won't even have room for an extra packet of cornflakes.