April 2021 Grocery Challenge

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£13 spent at butchers on bulk buy of smoked bacon rashers!!

PipneyJane

Welcome @scandimore.  Sometimes just paying attention to what is being spent, and where and when you shop, will make a big difference.  The links at the start of the Challenge are very useful too.

I’ve got one spend to declare from yesterday.  £25.61 in L!dl.  I popped in at 4.30pm to get the few things that were desperately needed on the shopping list (onions, fresh salad, humus, broccoli), as well as to take advantage of the offers (peanut butter, toothpaste).  Obviously, I picked the wrong time to go veg-wise; there was no broccoli, very limited salad offerings left on the shelf and almost no onions.  

An even bigger disaster: they had no coffee filters!  How can you sell multiple different styles of ground coffee and not sell filters?  I know the British are coffee heretics, but really?  I thought L!dl would be a good bet for unbleached coffee filters at a good price.  I’ll have to see what the Co-0p sell today, when I walk down there to buy the Sunday paper.  (We used the last one yesterday.  I normally buy our filters when visiting France; €0.99 in Carrefour for 80.)

Enough of me whining.  Definitely a first-world problem.  On a positive note, I managed to buy two YS packets of steak for £2 each and a YS packet of marinated pork, again at £2.  All three were marked down by more than half price.  They had an offer on mature cheddar - £1.39 for 400g - which made it nearly £1 cheaper than the regular price per kg, so I bought 2 packs.

The above brings out total spend for April to £56.53/140, leaving £83.47 for the remainder of the month.

- Pip

Mrs_Cheshire

Spent £5 on thursday and £11.20 yesterday bringing our total to £86.18/£350. Hoping to keep this coming weeks spends low as we've got plenty in the house. 

pamsdish

I always buy my coffee filters when abroad, I love browsing supermarkets, they seem to stock some exciting bits.
Popped to town, needed chicken thighs for the dog, none, only the expensive so will have to go L1d1, spent £8.86 on odds and ends.

PipneyJane

pamsdish said:

I always buy my coffee filters when abroad, I love browsing supermarkets, they seem to stock some exciting bits.
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You and me, both.  I love going to the market, the food shops and the supermarket in France and have been known to drive back to London with a boot full of food and wine.  

Sadly the C0-0p didn't have any coffee filters, but I did manage to spend £1.60 on one of their large beef pies, which will do us for dinner on Tuesday.  It was YS and I had a voucher for an extra 50p off.

This brings our April spend to £58.13/£140, leaving £81.87 for the rest of the month.

- Pip

retiredinfrance

Whereas just love going to Mr S and Mr T and MandS when visiting DD.
Keep safe everyone

Owleyes00

Hi! I posted a question about reducing my weekly shop in another thread and it was recommended I join here.

I live just my partner and me and I am trying to get my food shop to around £50/week.

Florenceem

As I shop using my pension - my 4 weeks ends today. We have done really well this month/4 weeks period - Mr F got quite a lot of YS items - including boxes of 12 free range eggs for 10p pack. Today he got Cinnamon & Raisin Bagels for 10p.
Total spend for April - £78.01/£100.

scandimore

Well things have got ahead of us this week and we have had a couple of top up shops / naughty choices. Have been writing them on a shared pinned list on our phones each time we buy something and like you say @PipneyJane even just thinking about purchases means we are buying less than usual. 
£23.65 on a couple of top up shops and £17 on a naughty couple of posh takeaway burgers after a full tiring day at the allotment. 
I have done the online shop for tomorrow - £65 - and will update signature now. Meal plan for the week done, doubling up on two recipes to cover us for busy days and then a couple of bits to make quick meals the other nights. 
Have done a quick freezer check and found about 5 bags of frozen rasps and blueberries. I think I intended to do overnight oats and kept thinking we had run out and then ordering more. I have now ordered yoghurt so I can get cracking on the overnight oats that I did used to do when following slimming world properly. They do make a tasty breakfast and hopefully will make a dent in all that frozen fruit! 
So that takes us up to £105.65/£400 but normally I imagine we would be on at least double that so not too bad, I will try to pull it back a bit next week though I think and no top up shops if I can help it! 

Pixiehouse55

Asdi online shop, click and collect £153 and Iceisnice £37.85. Apart from more milk, bread or fruit thats it this month, although I would like to get to our butcher's in town to get a leg of lamb,