March 2022 Grocery Challenge

Ginmonster

£39.35 spent on ocado delivery today with all the important stuff to keep us going over the week plus £10 worth of free chocolate as a gift for shopping with them for X many years. It was a godsend having a delivery pass during the last two years but blimey did I spend more on food. And like everyone else their prices have been steadily rising so I'm using them much more rarely now.

£100.21/£200

boxofpaws

2nd March - Sainsbo
£69.34 groceries 
£1 toiletries.

8th - Discount shop
£10.80 coffee 
£35.95 cat food
£2 h/hold

12th March Sainsbo
Toiletries £1
Hhold - £4.50
Alcohol £37 (beer stock up for the husband)
Groceries £90.97

5 bottles of wine x £8 = £40

£292.56 of £400 

I am no longer feeling so smug

Soontobeoap

Meal plans for this week 
                                      :- Monday - fry up with bacon found in freezer, egg, baked beans and potato cakes from frozen left over mash.

                                      :- Tuesday - mushrooms on toast ( no time to cook today)
                                      :- Wednesday - roast turkey joint. ( bought in case we couldn’t get to daughters for Christmas!
                                     : - Thursday - cold turkey, jacket potatoes and bubble and squeak.
                                     :- Friday - turkey pasta
                                     : - Saturday - Lasagne ( batch made at beginning of month)
                                      :- Sunday - Sausage and mash.
                                 

DH spent £2.10 on bread and milk yesterday. Months spent looking good so far. Watch this space!

K9sandFelines

I've just updated spends. Nearly at the £80 mark of £225.

My meal plan (Vegan) for the week is as follows
Yesterday = Gousto'sSweet Potato Chilli Lime rice salad in wraps (made with own ingredients)
Today: Jamaican Curry with greenbeans (as got pineapple to use up. However, as we speak; I am not hungry, as didn't eat dinner til half 3. So, I may make it and eat tomorrow, or leave til tomorrow altogether. Therefore, everything will be pushed forward a day if so.) 
Weds: Plantballs, pasta and broccoli
Thurs: Jacket potato cheese and beans
Fri: Curry wurst in a bun with onion rings and corn on the cob.
Sat: Ginger five spice beefless pieces with noodles
Sun: Pizza, soup or wrap (basically something light) as having vegan grill up for dinner. 

joedenise

@K9sandFelines - I'd make the curry today for tomorrow.  I always find curry tastes better reheated.

Greying_Pilgrim

Evening,

Just thought I'd let you know that the Cinnamon Apple Turnip soup turned out well, as it's a new recipe to me.  I did 'tinker' a bit with the recipe.  I used the last greeny/yellow apple from the MrL box, plus a couple of small apples from the fruit bowl (pretty sure they were Gala), and I didn't add ANY sugar to my soup.  I also didn't bother adding any 'heavy cream' (would have used Greek yoghurt anyway, as that is what we have in), into the soup when making, but you can see from the pic, I did do a bit of a poncy swirl of Greek yoghurt to serve - jus' 'cuz......... 🤣 

I am guilty of being too heavy handed with the cinnamon, but that was my fault for not reaching across to get a teaspoon 🙄  And I topped with a little (dried) parsley, again, jus fer effect and colour - as I am aware that some of my teas do appear to be variations on the scale of brown.......😬  A relatively cheap, nice tasting soup, which is easy to make.  A keeper for me.



Greying X

K9sandFelines

joedenise said:

@K9sandFelines - I'd make the curry today for tomorrow.  I always find curry tastes better reheated.

Very true @joedenise I did  it, and ate banana, yoghurt and granola instead 😋

Suffolk_lass

Just had my subscription coffee delivered by big river company. It was £27 this time for 6 x 190g jars of our preferred Dutch brand - it was showing as £43 a couple of weeks ago. It is £33 in the SM on offer so v happy with this one. I also got 4 packs of Tw Everyday tea for £10.80 - also happy. No SM for me this week. I might need to top up fruit by Friday but that is market day. Two of my brand snob items.

pamsdish

Suffolk_lass said:

Just had my subscription coffee delivered by big river company. It was £27 this time for 6 x 190g jars of our preferred Dutch brand - it was showing as £43 a couple of weeks ago. It is £33 in the SM on offer so v happy with this one. I also got 4 packs of Tw Everyday tea for £10.80 - also happy. No SM for me this week. I might need to top up fruit by Friday but that is market day. Two of my brand snob items.

Expecting my coffee over the weekend, seems to have settled now as every other delivery was unavailable, shortened my delivery to 4 weeks instead of 6, but will go back to 6 after this delivery as a decent stock now.

atrixa

Grocery spends are now up to £106.89/£123. Spent £14.63 in Mr M today on some bits for tea tonight, ingredients for a soup I can have for lunches, bread and pasta. There was more of the 85p non-dairy ice cream so I got a tub for tonight's pudding. 

8 days left of the month, £16.11 left. With a bit of pre-planning, I can probably manage.

I'll venture to Mr S on Friday to see what prices they've got on tofu. I've got some decent n3ctar price offers, so I might take advantage of those as long as I'll use them.