March 2020 Grocery Challenge

PipneyJane

Evening All

I’m not a happy bunny because we’ve lost a receipt.  Sunday, we popped into MrT’s and spent £9-something on lunch stuff (mainly YS meat IIRC, plus some salad, humus and wraps).  The receipt has vanished into thin air - it was in the bag until DH unpacked it - so I’ll round up and call it £10 spent.

We did our Big Shop on Wednesday.  My what a difference a couple of days of Covid 19 panic buying makes!  Our MT’s is one of the big variety, an “Extra”.  It also services a large Asian community.  It was almost completely out of pasta.  There were very few dried pulses in stock and the Asian aisles were completely devoid of their usual 10kg sacks of flour and rice.  In the “regular” rice department, there were large gaps on the shelves.   They still had the remains of a pyramid of 4-for-£1 tinned tomatoes - only the bottom layer was left - so we stocked up and bought a shrink-wrapped “case” of 24 for £6.

Pasta is the only thing on our list that we couldn’t purchase, so we popped into Sainsbugs on the way home and they only had very expensive, wholemeal pasta.  I refuse to pay £1.50 for 500g of pasta.  (It’s a lifetime since I made fresh pasta - I was six and “helping” an Italian honorary auntie - but I might have to brush up my technique.). 

Anyway, back to the shop in MrT’s.  While we were wandering around, DH and I had a conversation about the collection Clubcard vouchers we’d built up and, off the cuff, decided to use them to pay for the shop instead of cash.  All of it.  (Normally, the Bulk Fund would pay for the tomatoes - about 5 months supply - and I’d reimburse the kitty for the hair dye I‘d picked up (at 2-for-£11 instead of £7.50 each).). The shop totalled £55.50, so we assembled £54.50 of vouchers and paid exactly £1 in cash from the Grocery Challenge kitty.  Rather than adding the vouchers to my GC budget, I’m just going to log the £1 spend.

Anyway, the above brings our GC challenge spend for March to

£18.90/£126.30,

leaving £107.40 for the remainder of the month.

- Pip

moving_forward

Spends to report- Mr T £73.14 Groceries, £1.20 Pets, £7.21 Toiletries/Household.  This is expensive but does include a Chicken (£6.01) that can be cut in half (half for SFC pieces, half to freeze for next week) 2 blocks cheese (£2.50 x 2) - I have a cheese sandwich everyday for lunch at work and we have some meals using it this week so as its on offer got the 2.  Another big chunk (£5.70) is 3 x bottles of pepsi max! I need to reduce this habit.  Mr M_F may drink some weekends but he has cloudy lemonade mid week which is cheaper.  I have some bottles of ribena in so need to drink them and limit the pepsi max drinking mid week!
This weeks meal plan:
Sat - Meal out with friends as planned
Sun - Southern Fried Baked Chicken using fave Spice place mix, BBQ Beans, Mini cobettes and wedges
Mon - Jackets, Cheese, Coleslaw and Salad
Tues - Egg Fried Rice -Eat Well for Less recipe with added cashew nuts
Weds - Freezer Fish, chips and peas
Thurs - Chicken casserole, mash and Green veg. (This was going to be pork casserole but we are using up the chicken we defrosted yesterday and didnt use) - will be cooked today in SC and frozen ready to heat up.
Fri -Chilli, Chips (me)/ Rice (Mr M_F) and cheese 

Jacs205

£14.15 BnM £16 petrol so £272.13/500 but have resisted the urge to panic buy in the main 

K9sandFelines

Oops ithought i was in the Feb thread.
I would like to try £350 for this month as having to buy gluten free items,which cost a bomb.
Good Luck 

jam2019

Today's spend of £6.73 included some very exciting purchases - half a dozen cans of tinned tomatoes (always fun to carry home) plus some drain cleaner... I do know how to treat myself 

ForestBluebells

Ok I’m way over budget already 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️Next month 😂🤞

boultdj

Another £59.83 spent, but as we had to go to one of the big town's for an appointment and there is a Farmfoods, so stocked up on butter for OH plus other stuff.

lantanna

£25.50 today, toilet roll, wine, ice cream and soft drinks

Doom_and_Gloom

Spent £19.36 since last post.
That included a large beef joint for OH that was reduced ; he cut some beef off last night to make a beef stir fry and the rest he put in the freezer for when he wants to make a beef stew, probably some time next week.

OH dinner : chicken and bacon tortellini with cheese sauce.

I forgot to soak my soya beans last night to make tofu for my dinner tonight. I have some in the freezer thankfully that I'll defrost. I'm having the same dinner again tomorrow so I'll make sure to soak my soya beans tonight! 
My dinner : yasai itame (Wagamama style) with chili salted edamame beans.

£108.21/£224.82.
£116.61.

zafiro1984

NSD that' no 6 this month.