March 2020 Grocery Challenge

thriftwizard

Slightly baffled here; I can't work out how to change the colour of the text in my posts. Colours are still showing up in my signature, but I haven't been able to find out how to post my new target in red! I'll have a mosey round other parts of the forum & see if I can work it out. In the meantime, £10 spent on bread at the bakery - not very frugal, but there's plenty in the freezer now should anything untoward happen to She Who Bakes Bread round here - i.e. me!

Hmm - that's not right then... or is it?

lantanna

£16 wine and fruit Asda, £22 lunch out

StartingAgainAt29

StartingAgainAt29 said:

Just spent £20.36 in Aldi, so that's £67.98 left for the month

I spent £18.59 in Aldi today, bought an extra box of cat food to start a little stock pile just in case! That's £38.95 spent, £51.05 left for the month. I have 10 meals in the freezer that I'm going to work through over the next couple of weeks so I anticipate spending a similar amount next week.

candygirl

Just had a Morrison's delivery of £46, which makes my total £74/110 , yikes

K9sandFelines

Had to do my first order at The Incredible Bakery (gluten free and vegan).Wanted to try and see if the bread is an improvement on supermarket bought bread.
So £47.50 to add, and some little spends which I will add at a later date.

2Scratters

Morning Peeps,
a lovely sunny morning here in Lancashire. Does anyone else sort of play this challenge of ensuring your amount of items and the bill averages out at £1 per item or less. Sometimes helps for an easy add up when whizzing through the store. When getting more proficient at it see how low you can get it to! Am off to a flying start this month.
My month runs from pay day the 27th Feb to the 26th March. I didn't actually withdraw my £200 till 2nd March Did the first shop at Ald! 28 items and spent 18.81 avg .67p per item. Well impressed with myself. Did a nip in shop at Sp@r 4 items and spent 5.39 avg 1.34 not so impressed lol. Really am emptying the fridge. I do frequently eat products that are out of date though. I have been known to eat a OOD yoghurt 6 months later.

GreenFairy

2Scratters said:

Morning Peeps,
a lovely sunny morning here in Lancashire. Does anyone else sort of play this challenge of ensuring your amount of items and the bill averages out at £1 per item or less. Sometimes helps for an easy add up when whizzing through the store. When getting more proficient at it see how low you can get it to! Am off to a flying start this month.
My month runs from pay day the 27th Feb to the 26th March. I didn't actually withdraw my £200 till 2nd March Did the first shop at Ald! 28 items and spent 18.81 avg .67p per item. Well impressed with myself. Did a nip in shop at Sp@r 4 items and spent 5.39 avg 1.34 not so impressed lol. Really am emptying the fridge. I do frequently eat products that are out of date though. I have been known to eat a OOD yoghurt 6 months later.

We don't necessarily eat the same dinners all the time, but the vast majority of the ingredients I buy remain constant month to month. This definitely makes me more aware of how much we spend, how much we were frittering away on "just popping to the shop" and how much we get for our money.

Jacs205

I may have blown it, had a wee panic after having to reply to lots of contingency emails at work and ended up going to Morrie's to get an extra pack of dog and cat food, passatta, pulses etc.  Everything I got will be used eventually and I tried not to go mad but spent £65.78 😯

StartingAgainAt29

StartingAgainAt29 said:

StartingAgainAt29 said:

Just spent £20.36 in Aldi, so that's £67.98 left for the month

I spent £18.59 in Aldi today, bought an extra box of cat food to start a little stock pile just in case! That's £38.95 spent, £51.05 left for the month. I have 10 meals in the freezer that I'm going to work through over the next couple of weeks so I anticipate spending a similar amount next week.

Spent £1.65 today in Sainsburys for the guacamole that had been eluding me in Aldi...so that's £40.60 spent, so £49.40 left!

jam2019

Today I've spent a total of £2.46 - got things to make kidney bean burgers and some sauce to go with it so that'll keep me going for a few days at least. I also managed to slice my finger open making them today so ideally that wouldn't be something I repeat...