April 2023 Grocery Challenge

Cocobeans

£194.37 / £250 spent

A few little spends over the last few days including lunch stuff and treats for DD and her 2 friends on the last day of the holidays. Also went to @sda yesterday and stocked up on Soya milk - can't believe the difference in prices of soya milk in different shops! 

Have plenty in now and are away next weekend for a family wedding so should come in on budget! 

MissRikkiC

I assume Asda is the cheapest @Cocobeans do you buy the unsweetened? I need to stock up too

Cocobeans

MissRikkiC said:

I assume Asda is the cheapest @Cocobeans do you buy the unsweetened? I need to stock up too

@sda and Morries both sell the basic unsweetened cartons for 55p  - not sure if there is anywhere cheaper. Morries never seem to have theirs in stock where we live though which is a pain as @sda is our furthest supermarket! 

Update: just checked trolley.co.uk and Mr T and @ldi are both 50 p per carton

Nelliegrace

£150 budget, £92.57 spent, £57.43 left.

DH bought milk at Asda today. It has gone down 10p to £1.55p for 4 pints.
Celery 60p, cream crackers 55p, some nice blueberries reduced from £3 to £1.35.
£5.60 spent. 

KajiKita

MissRikkiC said:

I haven’t officially joined the challenge this month but read along and still keep a track and I feel like this is a longer month?! Is it?! Or have I just spent more. 

We won’t make the month through without being over (we’re actually already over) but certainly not with a weekend before the next month starts. Maybe I need to review number of days in the month instead of just blanket budgeting the same regardless. 

I get paid on the 25th so I’m having a five week month between salary payments….. to me it feels like a verrrrrry long month ….! 😉

KK

2Scratters

I get paid on 27th except if it is a weekend or bank holiday but try to make it last till the end of the month each month as my own challenge. I only had the light bulb moment last year and I am years old!!
 It was something I picked up on here somewhere in MSE in relation to the Christmas wages being paid early and then running out before the end of January. So I have now put that into place all year round and have built up credit in the house keeping pot.

2 Scratters xx

Soontobeoap

Another £7.00 spent in coop today on salad stuff and a pkt of dorritos for DH who is still craving dry foods. Seens a lot for what we got! 🤷‍♀️. 

MissRikkiC

Glad it’s not just me @KajiKita It makes sense to try and stretch it out but I can tell we’re at the tail end of the month! I too get paid on the 25th unless it’s a weekend but when it’s not and it’s not a Friday either I can really tell 🤣

Gettingmyshiztogether

Hello Everyone,

I haven't updated for a while because have just been super busy! Last week I was disappointed at how much I had spent on food 🤣 I am competitive with myself! Anyway, today I feel a bit better about things as nipped into L!dl and managed to grab a £1.50 box full. I am always impressed with the L!dl boxes. Today ours had in it, a packet of mange tout, a pack of green beans, a pack of pakchoi, a packet of large mushrooms, a huge bag of apples, a pomegranate and some seedless Grapes! I may bake an apple cake tomorrow to use some of the apples up, and make some stewed apples too for porridge or a crumble. I also got a free packet of biscuits and a free packet of nuts although got home and kicked myself for not choosing pecan nuts as could have made a beautiful mushroom Wellington this weekend if I had! Never mind 🤦‍♀️

So Aprils food spending to date;

£247.47/ £400 (two adults, one teen, one preteen)

I need to sit and do a meal plan for this week. Tonight we are having Homemade pizza! 🥳

Nelliegrace

£150 budget, £110.66 spent, £39.34 left

We had DH’s members’ 2 free hot drinks at the garden centre yesterday, and spent £3.75 on the 2 for 1 large cream scones. As usual we checked the yellow stickered items in the little Sainsbury’s and got 2 x 2pt of milk and a pack of pâté for £1.43, £5.18 spent. 

Today at the till in Asda DH noticed a customer using her Blue Light Card. She said the 10% off had been continued for an extra month to the end of April. It wasn’t in my e-mails.

We did well with with yellow stickered items, I got a medium chicken and 5 chicken thighs, reduced to £2.47 and £1.49, and a pack of lambs liver for £1.18. (Offal was never rationed.) I was lucky because a woman then grabbed all of the rest of the chicken which seemed mean. We had half of the liver with onion gravy for dinner, and the rest, and the chicken thighs are in the freezer. (Each chicken thigh will do a chicken stew for two, in the pressure cooker.)  I shall cook the chicken in the covered roaster tomorrow and get several different meals from it over the next few days, plus chicken dripping, and then stock from the carcass for a chicken and mushroom risotto, and soup. There will be just a few well cooked bones left. 
I bought basic muesli, mushrooms, fruit and vegetables. 
£12.91 spent with offers, Y.S. and BLC discount. 

£18.09 in total.