May 2022 Grocery Challenge

Wicked_Lady

Just popping in to congratulate @MissRikkiC on the safe arrival of a son. Such wonderful news!

Bella_Budget

Sorry @MissRikkiC i missed you had your baby! Congratulations 🎊 

SausageDogSandwich

Congratulations to you and your family @MissRikkiC

My month has now finished, will be back to declare tomorrow as to lazy to work out how much I overspent by today now. 

MissRikkiC

Thank you everyone! Its so lovely of you all to have sent us your well wishes ❤️

Pinwheel

Hello

Congratulation @MissRikkiC - lovely news.

I've been to L**l this evening and spent £22.13,  it was more but I had £10 off.  £10.70 was on beer (not for me) which is annoying but oh well.  They didn't have any mozzarella so went to S**nsburys on the way home and spent £2.06 on that and a bag of pasta.  Pay day is Monday and we should have everything we need until then, but I won't declare yet in case we are desperate for something.  

FrugalHedonist

The only spend today was at the bake sale at school - so many donations and we got to the back of a very long queue - the small one was very overwhelmed by the choice of bakes and couldn't make up her mind - in the end she went with the cake we actually made ourselves 🤣🤣🤣

EssexHebridean

Have another “Congratulations!” from here too @MissRikkiC - what lovely news! 

No spending here today but I did finally get round to making the ragu that’s been intended to be made since the weekend! The mince got cooked last night as it would have been on its last day. It made less than I was hoping - I still squeezed one full size pot and one slightly smaller for freezing (the smaller one will have kidney beans and chilli powder added to it, the full size will be served with pasta as it is) but the remainder for this evening was quite a small portion each even with kidney beans added. We had tonight’s with garlic flatbreads, then a slice of Christmas cake each for pudding. 

This evening’s task is to create next week’s meal plan I think - and the shopping list. 

K9sandFelines

I spent £1.50 on oats from the Co-*p tonight. I'm fussy and only like the bigger oats. They did have 50p off with my Co-*p card and then I deducted 17p that was also on my card. I also picked up some YS rolls ready for Saturday's tea (soup and hotdogs).
Can I get to the end of 'my' month?
I need to buy Naturli tomorrow from Waitr*se. This also has 50p knocked off. I need to go tomorrow as I need to nip in the Dr's, which is virtually next door. I also need wraps so will probably take a walk up to A1di afterwards. As it's the weekend, I may also indulge in some pop (unless the one from last week has some fizz left) and some chocolate. So, I'm hoping for a spend of no more than £4.50.i will just have half of the chocolate, so that I have half for next week.
This should leave me with £6 for milk and fruit top ups for the next two weeks and a bag of s.r.flour 🤞

goldfinches

Just sticking my head around the door to say Congratulations to @MissRikkiC and family, lovely to hear about you baking together.

SausageDogSandwich

Happy Friday 

Ended up in Morrison yesterday so decided it was worth bursting my budget to get 2x spaghetti loops for 13p 2x mushy peas at 15p each, 2x dry spaghetti at 20p each, yucky coffee for 70p/100g and chips 1.5kg for 90p. Pretty sure the items were cheaper by a few pence than anywhere else. Also got some cleaning spray and vinegar costing 80p and 39p. All in works out to £3.75 spent yesterday. 

Declaring at £151.78/£150 , would have been nice to have come in under budget but made sense to get the items while I was there. 

I keep trying to decide if I should use up things I already have or buy extra of some items before the price goes up even more next month. 

Hope you all have a lovely weekend. :-)