March 2021 Grocery Challenge

flossyblog

Last shop of the week  €67.33  spent at the supermarket tonight making €151.38 total for march so far that leaves me with €98.62 for the rest of the month.  1kg chicken fillets €7.49 and  melt in the mouth argentinian tenderloin steaks 8 packs for €49, milk, tea, apples and bananas.  Thats enough meat for 13 meals.  

I can check out tommorrow whats on special offer next week and plan meals accordingly. meanwhile we shall be eating Thai green curry tommorrow evening, bolognaise saturday and steak with grill vegetables on sunday.  I made a huge pot of spicy lentil soup for lunch enough to  last until monday.  

PipneyJane

Mrs_Cheshire said:

t14cy_t said:

morning all. spent a total of £24.58 in morrisons yesterday. i was so lucky again, the reducing was being done on the meat and meat substitutes!! so came away with £127 worth of yellow stickered goodies. my freezers and fridge are groaning!! best buys were organic chicken breasts were £5.95 down to 50p!! just under £50 spent so far this month. not shopping again until next week. good luck all. xx

Great bargains, what time did you go?

I had 3 spends yesterday, £20 at the wholesale past best before warehouse (mostly sweet treats and some squash), £35.05 in Ald! (milk, yogurts, cheese, some fruit, juice, fizzy, bin bags, fabric softener, pesto, noddles, coffee sachets, some noddle pots, cup pasta) and £7 for my afforable grocery collection (loads of sausages this week, as well as double cream, a huge squirty cream, chocolate milkshakes, fruit & veg, potatoes, eggs, box of cereal, rice, few snacks for the kids). 

We also sorted our tins storage yesterday, got about 15 tins of soup so will be using some of that up over the next few weeks. 
Does anyone have any unusual ways with sausages, other than with mash, chips, toad in the hole, in pasta dshes or for a cooked breakfast or in a sandwich?

I frequently cook this Sausage and Lentil Casserole. It’s really good if you have scored some really boring sausages in your YS haul.  You know the ones I mean: virtually no texture to them and pretty tasteless.   It’ll mask them beautifully.  It’s lovely with really nice, meaty sausages, too, but I save them for breakfast.  (Note:  the recipe suggests cutting the sausages into thirds, before frying.  If they’re really cheap ones, cutting them in half works better.  Otherwise, they fall apart.)

- Pip

candygirl

Just spent £16 at ALDI n Morries , on veg, wraps,  bread etc , so that makes £49/120 so far x

pamsdish

£21.27 in a1d1, bits of veg, topped back up baked beans, selection of flavoured coffee, I enjoy one if these if I "want" something sweet, will need to go to l1dl in the week as chicken thighs too small in a1d1

t14cy_t

oh my days!!! looked on checkoutsmart this morning, free  heinz baked beans, actimal and organix snacks. lucily i have access to my son and husbands accounts too so managed to get £36.75 worth for FREE!!! have just received the cashback into my account too.  

moneyonmymindsam

moneyonmymindsam said:

£61.40 spent to date, need to nip to shop later but will try to hold off as shopping tomorrow. Half my budget gone... Gulp. 

Sam x

£34.85 to add from today's shop. Bit of a spendy one for me.
£96.25 total March spend to date, I did spend on a few treat bits (chocolate, crisps etc) this time as nice to have something for the weekend if I fancy it. Stocked up on a few tins of staples. Only £23.75 to go (!) in what seems a long month to me. 
Sam x

mumtoomany

Top up shop of £26.10, included beer, so not too bad. Total now at £107.09 for the month. Total for the year to date, £544.89/£2750.

Mrs_Cheshire

Hi all, just added up my spends and we're sitting at £160.45/£350. That includes the 3 monthly toilet roll delivery. Still got a full freezer and store cupboards so should only be fresh needed for the rest of the month. 

Thank you for all the sausage suggestions, lots of lovely ideas. 

Pixiehouse55

I'm back with figures. Asde £203.70
Plus Amezon subscriptions fairy dishwasher tablets £10. Surf laundry £10.95 and Airwick freshners £10= £30.95 . Tomorrow I need to get a tray of eggs. Sack of potatoes, 5kg Sugar and  3lt of vegetable oil  not sure how much it will all come to, that should be it for a couple of weeks. Not too bad 

Porridgecat

I've been bad about updating, just realised its nearly the second shopping day of the month and I haven't declared last weeks spends yet. Total of £51.34 for us, we didn't need much fresh stuff so mrporridge just got the bits we needed at MrL*dl. Had a spend on cat food though at £103 although this comes out of my new bulk fund. Its for about 320 pouches so as MrPorridge says should last about 2 weeks Hopefully about three months.