March 2024 Grocery Challenge

otb666

202/550 Half way through and doing ok. Have not done a big shop online went to aldi instead and did muslefood

SausageDogSandwich

Morning all, have been wondering how I’ve spent so much and just realised I didn’t take off books for daughters bday, Easter egg donations and shopping bought for brother but I will come back to take that off another time as I’ll have to work it out. Anyway have spent the thirty from feb on getting kids crisps, cereal bars, squash etc as planned. 

Then I hav3 been to farmf and Asda and a few things from ald! To make my total
£50.11/350
Doing big shop tomorrow in the shop instead of online so hope I’ll stick to my list.

thriftwizard

I'm slightly plot-lost here; OH had a minor operation last week which made it very hard for him to chew (not his teeth, this time!) so I've needed to rack my brains to do "soft" things for him - fish pie, spaghetti bolognese, kheema mince etc., plus I was actually out for two of the days & evenings, so it meant choosing & acquiring things that the DDs were happy to cook. So the amount I've added to my total is the best I can do by ferreting around in the bank account & working out what cash I had, minus what I still have! Altogether that came to £96.41 so I just hope I haven't forgotten anything. I'll need to run down to the city today & pick up the non-perishables, as I didn't have time to do that last week, so the total will balloon upwards later on.

In other news, DD1 & BF have found a place of their own & will be moving in towards the end of this month. So things will become simpler and maybe even cheaper from here on in! DD2 is much cheaper to feed - a pescatarian who actually does only eat fish, cheese, bread, fruit & vegetables & is happy to cook for herself - and sometimes us as well - so no ready-made "treats" and short-cuts needed. Just lots of herbs, spices & beans... must get planting!

Finstickle

A couple of small spends and the weekly shop done here.

£1.52 on YS bread
£3.60 on YS chicken drumsticks 
£85.51 on the weekly shop.
This included a bumper pack of pork steaks and lamb mince as well as some packs of cold meat.  Although I did come home and realise we are nearly out of coffee so the new list has started already 

I've a chilli on right now and plans to try and use up what is the in freezer so I can do a muscledfood order, there's a few odds and ends taking up unnecessary space!  Nothing exciting planned for this week.

Currently at £190/£500

diminua

I didn't get a takeaway - my cousin left fresh pasta and garlic bread and some wine for me so I had that. Today I bought olives, flatbreads, baby tomatoes and houmous for lunch at work. £11.71 in total! But I've enough left over definitely for Wednesdays lunch and possibly Thursday too, so still cheaper than the canteen, let alone a sandwich shop. 
Made a big pot of home made veg curry this evening. Again there should be enough curry left for two more meals with fresh rice. I don't really follow a recipe - just boiled carrots, peas, broccoli, potatoes together until soft but not mush, heated tinned chickpeas in microwave with grated garlic and chopped chilli and a stock cube, tipped water out of veg pan and added the chickpea mix and a tin of coconut milk instead, then garam masala and some soy sauce to taste while it bubbled away. Despite tasting I still underestimated how strong the chilli would be once it was all infused so will get some plain yogurt tomorrow.
£69.9 spent to date. 

number_23

Hello, I’ve been MIA for a while but have reset my goals and would like to be held accountable please. 

We’re paid at a random time in the month so going to set the rest of March as £300 please as this is our first proper month of tracking and prices have risen. 

Crazycatlady2

I've not done a great job of keeping track again but I'm thinking I'm on about £270 

PipneyJane

Afternoon All

I have a couple of small shops to declare.  DH had to drop something off at a friend’s, 6 miles away, so we trekked to the nearby W8tflower to buy their ownbrand woolwash and some quinoa.  £10.25 spent.  On the way home, we stopped at MrT’s to stock up on Oral-B dental floss - now back to £1.50 in price, so he bought 10, paid for by the Bulk Fund - and a large (500ml) bottle of Soy Sauce for £2.30.

The above brings our GC spend to £83.88/£145.80 leaving £61.92 for the rest of the month.

- Pip

Mamaofmanybudgets

£176.86/£400 

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Pennypincin

Hi everyone.
I came in around £5.20 under budget, and have put it into the bulk fund.
I've a spend of £19.80is to declare on mainly fruit, salad and some random bits in Tesco's.
I may just need some salad veg, plus frozen peppers, but hope to come in under budget if I can get on top of picking up random bits and only getting what I need.
I've 3 tubs of soup in the freezer plus plenty of frozen veg and vegetarian bits it the freezer, so I should be good for the weekend.
I'm still trying to run the freezer down so I can clean it and then restock it.