April 2023 Grocery Challenge

Nelliegrace

M&S TGTG cancelled on us, third day in a row. 

We used a small tin of salmon from the back of the bottom cupboard yesterday which was a fair bit beyond the use by date. It looked fine, smelled fine, and we are fine. How did we survive before dates on tinned food. The tin was undamaged or I would not have risked it. 
Everything is out of the cupboard and sorted by date. 

When I am not so well things get disorganised, so a good sort out is needed, usually in Frugal Lent. 

Dinner was cauliflower cheese made using powdered milk, served with steamed assorted vegetables.

diminua

I bought burgers, buns and salad leaves in the end. Meal plan for the week was/is veg burger and potatoes and salad yesterday, pasta with tuna and pesto and salad leaves today, then those two things again Wednesday and Thursday. I am working from home today and tomorrow so will have toasted brie sandwich and an apple for lunch, and usual breakfast of marmite on toast, small glass of orange juice and coffee with milk. 
I also bought conditioner today, which comes out of grocery unless it's the really fancy stuff.
£30.13 and I shouldn't need to shop now until Friday, when I will probably have a little bit of an Easter splurge. 

AnnabelSaves

DH went to the shop and got bread, coffee and tea for the builders, and a few treats. £10.80- ouch! I got a 2G2G bag for tomorrow, can't wait to see what's in it. Some rump steak out the freezer for tomorrow's dinner. 

Soontobeoap

@Gettingmyshiztogether I teally had a chuckle over your pastry comment. 🤣. So order of things we fancied to get us through covid came today another £37.00. There was hardly anything there. I ordered 2 pkts of digestive biscuits for DH. They were 100g pkts!!!! How did I not see that. They were 20p cheaper than a pkt twice the size. At first I thought that they had just shrunk the pkt size but I checked and it was my own stupid mistake!!! So cross with myself. But I do question who they think would want to buy such a small pk and pay nearly as much as a large one! Such a school boy error!! Got some salad bits, ham, bread, wraps tortilla chips, milk and 2 bottles of pepsi max! Havnt bought any for ages. When did that go up to £2.00 a bottle? Fortunately it was 2 for £3.50.  Moral of this story is dont shop when feeling really rubbish!!! Grocery wise this month is just going from bad to worse! 🤦‍♀️. Still we are stillnot eating much so hopefully the rewards will ne seen at end of April or beginning of May. 

sarahj1986

sarahj1986 said:

Yes please let me do this again

last 2 weeks of March went a bit iffy because I wasn’t very well



£250 

£9.91 spent

it was a beautiful day yesterday so went to the park with my daughter and whilst I was in town I got a few things in the Tesco express. I have a big shop coming today but we didn’t have enough bread and milk to see us through for breakfast, lunch, hot drinks. Whilst I was in there I got a pizza for dinner seen as we were getting home later and no time to do a pasta bake that I had planned. I also check out the reduced section. I managed to get 2 chicken breasts for £1.29 a packet so I got 3 packets. I’ve got some chicken meals planned this week and that will do nicely. 

I then went into the Sainsbury’s local and found some crispy sliced potatoes reduced for 39p so got them to compliment dinner. 

£240.09 left 

smudgybunny

Big shopping trip to start the month! £148/£280 which included three months of expensive vitamins (on offer 3 for 2), lots of refills at our local plastic free shop, a general ‘restocking’ and Easter treats and food so I’m happy with that. Meanwhile I keep aiming to eat from the freezer so I can defrost, but old habits die hard and YS bargains and freezing leftovers are conspiring against me! 

Nelliegrace

£150 budget, £32.49 spent, £117.51 left.

Members’ free super hot chocolate and a pot of tea at the garden centre yesterday. £3.75 spent on 2 for 1 large cream scones for DH. (We took a Tupperware box and brought one home for later.)

Yellow stickered Double Gloucester cheese 250g £1.82 and milk 2pt 65p from the little Sainsbury’s there. Half of the cheese will go in the freezer.

£6.22 spent

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I've just realised that I should have reduced my food budget this month as we are away on holiday next week so no grocery shopping required.  I am going to squirrel away the extra £20 I had left from last week and also take £20 out of this week, which will leave £10 plus loose change, otherwise OH will spend it on who-knows-what . I'll set this aside for next month to reduce the overall budget going forward.  

I spent just under £20 in Lidl yesterday and meals are planned for the rest of the week until we head off on holiday.  I made bean and cheese pastries last night for OHs packed lunches at work as well as a lemon cheesecake and a multi seed loaf that will go with today's dinner. 

JingsMyBucket

Oof, it's been a spendy week. Maybe it's the first of the month twitch coupled with Easter prep and restocking items that all ran out at the same time. 

£40.60 spent at the market on Sunday. We got several cheeses, salad greens, baked goods, etc. and saw various friends. 

£9.11 spent at M & S yesterday for YS parsley, YS raspberries, 4 bags of wholewheat fusilli pasta that been clearance to 24p each (!), bananas, and a couple other items. That pasta should do us fine for a few months. 

Also yesterday, £6.98 spent at SuperSavers for toothpaste and mouthwash. 

£93.87 spent so far. £306.13 / £400.00 remaining

We have a Tesco order coming on Friday morning which will likely be £75. What's shocking is there's no meat or fish in that order! We're restocking on some items like paper towels and dish liquid but still. There's a lot of fruit and veg and we have meat in the freezer plus I'll collect the lamb order on Friday afternoon for Easter lunch/dinner. It still feels like prices have shot up though. 

Ginmonster

I seem to have managed to spend a big chunk of the budget in the first few days of the month - eek! 
£16.25 in Sains on toms, cucumber, hot cross buns, smoked tofu and Easter eggs. All very important.
£88.68 on a big shopping delivery that included lots of extra school holidays supplies e.g. stuff for doing some baking, just more food in general since the boy normally has his main meal at school and all the usual essentials. Annoyingly I didn't spot we'd nearly run out of dishwasher tabs so I'll have to go and get some of those as I didn't include them in the order.
£4.60 on a sourdough loaf.

So I'm up to £109.53/£250 already.