March 2021 Grocery Challenge

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evening everyone,  chilli con carne cooked and 8 portions in  freezer.  €29.87 spent this week with only 5.44 left for the rest of the week.  I've not confident of keeping within the €250 budget this month, however I'm not that concerned as I have bought lots of storecupboard items and I have at least 20 meals in freezer and enough soups until next weekend.  Jan & Feb figures were under  by €85,  so I am well within my year budget.  Will need some fresh fruit, salad,  veg and milk  friday  and also some pasta for storecupboard as it's on special offer, and maybe some more fresh ravioli as its delicious.   €244.56 /€250 spent so far    €5.44 left

goldfinches

Fell off my personal pedestal today due to succumbing to the temptation of y/s items when passing Mr Ts on the way home from a walk; I fell for 2 litres of semi skimmed goats milk and an organic cauliflower and therefore needed tinned chickpeas to roast with the cauli. I spent £3.60 and so my new total is £98.59/£124 which works out at £4.11 per day so if I can just last the next couple of days I should be back on track (famous last words). 

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joedenise said:

I made dahl a little while ago for DH and I.  We're not vegan but still enjoy vegan and veggie meals a few times a week.  Dahl is one of the easy meals I make.  I made enough for 2 days so we had with naan bread one day and with rice the other.  If you like your food very spicy you might want to add a bit more than the recipe says as some of the recipes can be a bit bland for our tastes.

Thank you for the input, sounds very nice.  My friend sent me her recipe, she makes a beautiful dahl, so will experiment.

Hope everyone is doing well.  Been going through stores, really makes me think out of the box cooking wise.  Had some spends of £23.79, lots of soy milk, aubergine, mushrooms, garlic, 2kg of chickpeas and 2kg of sesame seeds.  Will make some tahini and houmous (maybe roasted red pepper) and also the sesame milk someone suggested a while back.  I really want to make some dairy free yoghurt,  but not had much luck with it setting.  Am still well stocked with stores, but am seeing some gaps, which is good.  Happy shopping everyone.

t14cy_t

the kentycommunity larder box was a success, brilliant variety of goods too. this is £7 a week, so still in budget!!

Mrs_Cheshire

Afternoon all, just debating what to pull from the freezer for dinner. Spent £1.58 on milk yesterday but otherwise has been a nsd. Will see what bits I can get from ol!o tonight and then base the weekends meals on them before going shopping

joedenise

A couple of shops to report for this week - now have £35.06 left with one more shop for this month so should have a little bit left to move over to the bulk fund ready for next month which is very much needed as have gone over a bit today as Morries had whole salmon on special offer so bought that today in case they hadn't got any next time I go in.

thriftwizard

I'm pretty sure I'll be "bust" this month, if I'm not already. £40 spent on meat & bread this morning, which I've added to my total, but there have also been a couple of small supermarket spends I haven't added (things like butter, yogurt, cream, milk, pickle & chorizo suddenly "vanishing" from the fridge and needing replaced. Presumed eaten, or removed to DD1's boyfriend's abode...) plus there'll be the market spend on cheese, fish, fruit & veg tomorrow. I've bought extra because DS3 really is returning home for good this weekend, plus I'm stocking up for dinner for 8 (just two households, honest!) out in the gazebo on Monday night, weather permitting. It will be so lovely to have most of the family together for a couple of hours, if only outdoors! So I won't repine over going a little over target, I'll just try harder next month.

JingsMyBucket

Evening all. We’ve had multiple stops into shops since Sunday including the farm shop, the vegan store and a couple stints in Waitrose. I picked up a couple packages of YS ground beef in Waitrose today and stocked up on my oat bars that have been sold out lately. Also got a couple kinds of pork chops. Time to start eating through meat supplies.  

I thought we would be done for shopping this month but noticed this evening we’re down to literally 2 cloves of garlic, which is a daily ingredient for us. And just one onion. Oy vey. I’m stopping into Boots tomorrow to collect a prescription so I’ll try to jump in and out of the grocery store afterward. Night all!

£67.96 spent the past few days

£378.97/ £300 total spent

JingsMyBucket

t14cy_t said:

the kentycommunity larder box was a success, brilliant variety of goods too. this is £7 a week, so still in budget!!

@t14cy_t mind me asking what was in the box? I’m food-Nosey Parker.

t14cy_t

JingsMyBucket said:

t14cy_t said:

the kentycommunity larder box was a success, brilliant variety of goods too. this is £7 a week, so still in budget!!

@t14cy_t mind me asking what was in the box? I’m food-Nosey Parker.

not at all!! everything was in date. i infact paid just £3.50. there were 10 non perishables in which was a posh garlic mayo, 2 bags of carrots, waitrose eggs, hovis loaf. i worked it out it would of cost approx £25!! when restrictions are lifted will be able to select items myself. even better!!