March 2021 Grocery Challenge

moneyonmymindsam

Have a lovely vision of you @flossyblog making a tomato puree potion 
Great idea to keep an inventory. 
Sam x

Porridgecat

I'm in again please, budget of £280 again, somehow we did manage to come in under this, last month and actually had £33 left, I've sent £20 to the bulk fund and £13 to savings. I've allocated more to the bulk fund as I need to do a big cat food order. The furry monsters seem to be eating constantly. I know you can get some money back on tax for heating and power when working from home but I think there should be extra available for cat owners to cover increased food costs when the demand feeding every time you move.
I got lucky at L*dl this afternoon, I had to pop in to get something for MIL and got 4 packets of four salmon fillets for £2 each, four chicken steaks at 90p each, and five sirloin steaks for £2 each. All in the freezer now. 

Doom_and_Gloom

Thank you elsiepac for doing this thread. As I've said before it really does help keep us accountable, even if we blow/go over the budget. 

We went over by £12.97 last month. So for 2 adults for food, drink (sans alcohol), cleaning products and our toiletries our January and February spends came to £326.83 together. This is equivalent to £2.77 for each of us a day which doesn't sound bad to me. 

Our March budget is going to be £180  (chinchilla products stock up this month).
The month goes 1st to the 31st.

This is for two adults, my OH and I, and a chinchilla. Includes all food and drink (except alcohol), cleaning products, toiletries etc and all chinchilla items (food, hay, sand, treats etc.).

£68.44/£180.

£111.55 left.

The chinchilla stock up is still to be done and I will get 5% cash back too which is not taken off the spends but goes to savings.
The spends already include a bulk stock up as well as most of the fresh items for the week. 

t14cy_t

first shop of the month for me. i was sooooooo lucky at morrisons yesterday. £15 spent and that included £82 worth of ys goodies. meat, fish, cheese, fruit and veg!! i used coupons and vouchers i had to bring the price down. fridge and freezer now stocked up.  a few cupboard staples to add this week but have another coupon to use. so, £85 left for the rest of march so far.......

JingsMyBucket

What an insanely good haul @t14cy_t, job well done!

Tightpants24

Tightpants24 said:

I have just placed my main supermarket order which is £63.  I left quite a few items off this week as I plan to go to Aldi on Mon or Tues for some extra stuff.  Hoping to keep it all under £100 total for the week.  This is my first time doing this challenge so I have a long way to go.

To add to this I have done a £30 shop in Aldi today to add the things I couldn't get online.  So under £100 for the week.  This is an improvement on previous weeks which were coming to minimum £115.  I am going to challenge myself to even less next week 🙂

candygirl

Just spent £34 on a Morrisons delivery, excluding dog food , so that starts me off this month at £33/120 😊

joedenise

First big shop of the month done split between The Food Warehouse, Lidl and Morries.  We have £216.03 left for the rest of the month.  Hopefully won't spend so much each week as it's only fresh stuff, eggs and yoghurt which will be needed.

SJAllicat

Big shop today topping up of £89.11 at Moggies. This should keep us going as my cupboards are full 🤓.  I’ll sort out a sig to keep on top later. 

Got some things reduced inc veg and fruit that I was going to buy and some tinned things that weren’t on my list but reduced so I bought them. 

goldfinches

I too have succumbed to the siren temptation of the supermarket but did manage to stick to my list despite various potentially useful y/s veg. waving to me from the shelves.
I bought y/s milk, y/s rocket, plain flour, yoghurt, chestnut mushrooms, gruyere, maris pipers and leeks for the grand total of £11.08/£124.