March 2020 Grocery Challenge

supersaver1000

Its all gone a bit crazy with food shopping this month.  For some reason the first two weeks were not far off £100 each.  Then the second week has been £75 so far.  Now I have an unexpected visitor and so I suspect these last two weeks will also head towards £100.  Oh thinking about it we had a visitor the first weekend too, so that together with dishwasher tabs, cat food and coffee has pushed it up a bit.  At this point I would normally stop buying and start emptying the cupboards but don't want to leave them too bare just in case.  I always keep a couple of 'just in case' meals in (just in case we don't fancy what's on the meal planner one night) so I need to get myself organised and use up the other random bits lying unused - e.g. half packs of pasta etc.

Jacs205

And another £10.65 for me, not much left and these wee tenner or so shops don't half add up! 

tessie_bear

have had a few extra spends this week mainly dh picking things up...which is helpful but adds to the spend
i hope people are ok and can get what they need x

thriftwizard

£10-odd (slightly under, rather than over) spent today at the greengrocers, bakers & butchers; on veg, bread & (extra) eggs; no shortages whatsoever there, although I gather the two supermarkets' shelves were still bare. Slightly regretting buying the eggs now; I found 5 under the broody bantam (as well as the "marked" eggs she's been sitting on, pending the acquisition of this year's chicks) as well as the 3 the "big girls" proudly present us with most days. So it'll be a baking day tomorrow!
Also found we had rather more veg left at the allotment (though I suspect someone has "liberated" two of my spring cabbages) than I'd thought. So some leeks & chard went into tonight's stir-fry, along with sprouting beans raised on the kitchen windowsill, and a splendid rhubarb crumble followed on!

ms_iiwii

Spent far less than I thought I would do this month but also had a few takeaways which I need to cut down on definitely but spends to report are £8 in local corner shop and £16.75 in Aldi, just on essentials to get us to the end of the month which ends a week today! 122.50 left and I’m sure we will do fine as we don’t need much! I’m trying to decide whether to cut the budget next month or leave as is at £250 because of possible larger items of cleaning things, loo roll etc as I’m pregnant and high risk x

Doom_and_Gloom

£39.51 spent since last post.

£198.83/£224.82
£25.99 left.

We are without a doubt going over budget this month. Due to the times I do work and so most products being sold out (basically all veg and fruit was gone when I finished work today for example) by the time I finish and so able to shop, and not having the energy days I don't work to go shopping we are relying more on A&C deliveries. The produce and products are amazing however they are more expensive than what we'd usually pay. I used to use them to supplement supermarket buys but recently it is more the main shop, thankfully I have Mondays shop already booked as they have taken down their website due to demand!

Suffolk_lass

We are pottering along as normal but the preferred SM was out of all fruit and veg by the time DH went to try and get potatoes. We will simply do without and use something different instead. I fear for so many others losing their salaries and wages as we retreat into a much smaller existence. For the time-being we are fit and well here, and so are our fellow villagers. A bit of squabbling among residents needs sorting but that is all.

Naomim

A spend of £109.13 with MrT's. I just bought extra breakfast cereals mainly as we'll all be home in the mornings and not usually, also added two bottles of long life milk, one for me and one for the in-laws, and two boxes of eggs again for me and the in-laws.  

I have one more shop before the end of the month but think under current circumstances, I will probably have to start increasing the food budget with us all being home.

Naomim

boultdj

Between delivery and another 'just bread and milk' run another £90.35 to add, plot well and truly lost here, but furry should be OK for tinned food for the next 2 week's, and go cat wise probably 2 month's, the big pack's were on offer at the start of this shopping month.

GreenFairy

I'm just up the creek on this now....Ridiculous levels of bust, but I'm gonna keep on keeping track anyway.
This week I've no kitchen bar a microwave/kettle/toaster/instant pot. I knew I'd have a temp kitchen but presumed I'd have the oven, so stocked the freezer accordingly. Builders broke the door off the oven when they were moving it, and shattered my hob when they were connecting it to the electricity So I've got a packed freezer that I thought would take us through the month and I am still having to buy groceries that I can actually feed us with. We've had two nights of takeaway this week as well when I'd no kitchen at all.

Going out now for a socially distanced walk, and to get milk, bread, toddler snacks, sandwich fillings and some consolation ice cream. Ready for a little cry today. Given that it's 4.30pm now, there's sod all chance that my temporary replacement hob will arrive this afternoon as promised.