March 2023 Grocery Challenge

joedenise

@sarahj1986 - there's usually an offer at one or other of the SMs all the time for Pepsi Max or Diet Coke in the 24 packs.  It's what I buy for my DH.  He's not bothered whether it's Pepsi or Coke (and I certainly couldn't care less because I don't drink it!)

I just do a check online a couple of weeks before I need to buy it again - don't think I've paid full price for a couple of years now since he started drinking it regularly.

sarahj1986

joedenise said:

@sarahj1986 - there's usually an offer at one or other of the SMs all the time for Pepsi Max or Diet Coke in the 24 packs.  It's what I buy for my DH.  He's not bothered whether it's Pepsi or Coke (and I certainly couldn't care less because I don't drink it!)

I just do a check online a couple of weeks before I need to buy it again - don't think I've paid full price for a couple of years now since he started drinking it regularly.

I have a Tesco delivery pass hence why I order from them and no car either. I only have a Tesco, Morrisons Lidl or Aldi nearby so choices are limited although I guess if the offers are good I can get delivery from Ocado, sainsburys and Asda 

zafiro1984

Hello Elsiepac,,

Please put me down for £220.72.

This thread is certainly helping curb my spending - thanks

poppingjay

Soontobeoap said:

Welcome @poppingjay. @nat21luv,  welcome too. There are loads of ideas to spread your money a bit further on this forum. Hope you enjoy joining in. 

Thank you kindly 🙂 I did my first click and collect tonight. Not sure I'll do it again, I felt like the Queen 👑 of Sheba!

£33.64 spent/£116.36 remaining.

otb666

122/600 my month runs from 24th-24th Not impressed with myself. Its very hard going to stay in budget

Nelliegrace

DH has started our March challenge with a Too Good to Go with seven items for £5 from M&S. It is not stuff I would buy, there is a ready meal with cheese, but the ingredients all look good. Perhaps I should count it as dining out as it adds to our cheese ration.  

Thousands of British restaurants and canteens were set up to provide economical meals for those at work. Women had to join the workforce, even doing heavy factory work when the men were called up. Restaurant meals were rationed by price and only one protein course was allowed, so they couldn’t serve both a fish course and meat main course. 

Nelliegrace

A good idea to bottle stewed apples. Suffolk_lass I get friends to save me jam and honey jars, and still have a stash of new lids from WI. Jar and lid prices have gone up a lot recently even with bulk orders through beekeepers. Jars can be sterilised and re-used but new lids are required for giving or selling jams.
We foraged over 80lbs of apples from the canals, the common, and country lanes and they store well in our cold garage. They are definitely wonky apples, blemished and with grubs, but worth the effort. The hens get their share. Blessings on people who toss apple cores. I make apple jellies, cooked with orange peel, rose hips, or sloes for variety. Stewed apple and yoghurt is my desert most days, and apple crumble when I fill the oven on Sundays. 

Soontobeoap

Oh dear! I hope that I havnt set myself up to fail this month. Shopping delivery arriving today £46.92. This includes £13. 50 spent on gluten free sausages and some minced beef, gf lasagna sheets, garlic bread and dairy free white lasagna sauce for  when GSs stay in April. 

Also went to Asda to get gluten /dairy/soya free pizzas from Asda. 95p each cheaper than Tesco so I bought 3! I also needed eggs and milk Cheapest pack of eggs today was 12 for £3.50. DH was, with me!!! So we ended up with 2 packs paracetamol (he is stocking up I think), a double pack of digestives and a large pack of butter. £22.63 spent. So already £69.57 gone from our £150 budget for the month!! We will be shopping in Aldi this month and  eating from freezer and store cupboard as much as possible.

Good luck all. March has begun. 

LunaCatty

£250

^for us this month please. One of our cats has developed further food allergies (already grain free, now egg we believe triggering her too in her kibble - she won't eat raw unfortunately) so we're having to trial a few different wet and dry foods which means an expensive pet food month. Thankfully fridge/freezer/store cupboard still well stocked so the main costs will be the pet food, us humans can have beans on toast (gluten free for the coeliac kiddo!) for the month  

diminua

Went into Morden and back on the bus in my lunchbreak - just doable and something I will miss if we're ever back in the office full time. Shops are so much less crowded on weekday lunchtimes and stocks are usually better. 

Bought: broken brazil nuts and raisins for breakfast muesli and odd snacks, tomatoes (stock lower than usual, but I think that's the case in most supermarkets right now) cucumber, large eggs (all the medium were gone), coffee, sliced wholemeal bread for work lunches, tinned tuna and mackerel, vegetable sausages and green pesto. For the store cupboard: big bag of macaroni reduced with SmtShp (as were my coffee and sausages) vinegar ditto, own brand minestrone. I don't usually bother with the app, but when there's three or more things with money off it seems silly not to. 

£26.59 in total