April 2021 Grocery Challenge

joedenise

Have done a big shop this morning which actually covers a lot of May's food but there was enough left in the budget to do the shopping today a few days before we actually get paid.  I will probably need to get some fresh bits at the end of the week but still have £76.14 left of April's budget.  I also spent some of the Bulk fund on 12l of UHT milk; XL pack of pork chops (enough for 4 meals for 2 of us).

Hettyhound

Hello,I’m declaring for April at £194.01/£200 so very pleased.  Considering reducing May by £10 and it is a shorter month payday wise as we get paid last working day of the month.  I’m going to study my receipts and mull it over 🤔

PipneyJane

Good evening All

I have another spend to declare.  I had to work on Sunday, so DH wandered down to the C0-0p on his own to buy the paper (paid via a subscription voucher.).  Since this week will be taxing for both of us, work-wise, he also bought one of their large steak pies, cashing in our C0-0p points so that the pie only cost us 70p.

The above brings our total spend for April to £138.60/£140, leaving £1.40 for the rest of the month.  Only 3 days to go but I won’t declare just yet, in case something comes up.

- Pip

goldfinches

I gave in to the siren lure of the supermarket this morning only to find myself wandering round not wanting to purchase anything, I even looked at several y/s bargains and didn't want to give them fridge room so can only assume that my current bout of insomnia comes with money-saving side effects. 
Naturally I'm now wondering if I can derive a new and lucrative career from this, but am also finding that being so tired means that I can't concentrate for long enough to make any decisions! 
Anyway I did finally manage to follow my list to purchase organic milk, bread, live f/f yoghurt, gherkins, mango and mangetout salad and a seeded roll which all came to £9.45 making my total £76.32/£120 and an average daily spend of £2.93. 

Finstickle

the budget is blown!!
not by too much, but as expected i did go over (only 2 days to payday so hopefully no more)
£570.74/£550

That's 2 high months in a row and now my mum is staying with us for a couple of weeks.  My OH hasn't been as strict with his workoputs lately so I have been able to swap in some non-meat protein in the form of beans etc.  Will do that as much as possible but still need to keep his meat consumption pretty high and will struggle to feed my mum cheaply.
She doesn't like curries which are my go to cheaper & easier meal, she doesn't do middle eastern or african flavours, she doesn't do vegetarian etc.  all the cuisines that I actually cook alot  

The lack of snacks and alcohol was definitly making a difference as having had a couple of weekends socialising I'm seeing the difference in my grocery spend - i will take the socialising though!!

I also went to Lidl without a list on Friday as i needed to use my £10 voucher, but did mean i ended spending a fair bit in Tesco locally yesterday.

Tightpants24

M0rri3sons have another voucher code for online delivery or click and collect.  £5 off £40 spend or £15 off £80 spend using code VOU0915822  at checkout.  I just used it for my click and collect this weekend taking £82 to £67

Money_Choices

Hi
On 23 April I spent £10.07 at the local shop, whick makes my spending total £68.72.

Money Choices

goldfinches

Finstickle said:

the budget is blown!!
not by too much, but as expected i did go over (only 2 days to payday so hopefully no more)
£570.74/£550

That's 2 high months in a row and now my mum is staying with us for a couple of weeks.  My OH hasn't been as strict with his workoputs lately so I have been able to swap in some non-meat protein in the form of beans etc.  Will do that as much as possible but still need to keep his meat consumption pretty high and will struggle to feed my mum cheaply.
She doesn't like curries which are my go to cheaper & easier meal, she doesn't do middle eastern or african flavours, she doesn't do vegetarian etc.  all the cuisines that I actually cook alot  

The lack of snacks and alcohol was definitly making a difference as having had a couple of weekends socialising I'm seeing the difference in my grocery spend - i will take the socialising though!!

I also went to Lidl without a list on Friday as i needed to use my £10 voucher, but did mean i ended spending a fair bit in Tesco locally yesterday.

That sounds rather difficult to navigate to me what with the change of ingredients and the short stay etc. I've always found the difference in preferences and so on the hardest part of catering for others, you have my sympathies. 

I spent a meagre £1.75 on bananas this afternoon which makes my new total £78.07/£120 and my average daily spend £2.89.

Tightpants24

Ran out of teabags so had to pop in the Coop.  This led me to some ys treats.  Ended up spending £6.47.  Still in budget though...just!

Mrs_Cheshire

Went to the community grocery on Monday as well as Ald! so spends of £4.30 and £5.32 to add to this month. That brings to total to £238.39. Got 1 more community grocery shop this week and a couple of things from Mr T.