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March 2024 Grocery Challenge
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I’m a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on the Old Style, Crafting and Techie Stuff boards.If you need any help on these boards, do let me know. Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any posts you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button, or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com.All views are my own and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.GC: May 22 £tbc/£250 Vegan 27-8-139
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So sorry for your loss @Soontobeoap, do be kind to yourself in this difficult timeI’m a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on the Old Style, Crafting and Techie Stuff boards.If you need any help on these boards, do let me know. Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any posts you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button, or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com.All views are my own and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.GC: May 22 £tbc/£250 Vegan 27-8-136
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Sorry for your loss @Soontobeoap x
Just a quick post I am upto £164.98/350. We’re away next mon to fri so just having a use up week this week, with a couple of fresh things to buy for packed lunches. Won’t be buying food as it’s included, so will do a big shop when we get home and will get the kids an Easter egg aswell.Take care everyone x5 -
Sending hugs @otb666, take care of yourself
Little update re GC challenge, I'd usually spend a LOT at the weekends due to being on the go and unorganised but this weekend we had a takeaway on Friday (£30 including delivery, which we record separately to the GC) and I've made homemade for the remainder of the weekend (cannelloni and a garlic chilli chicken curry). GC total for March is now £45.29 due to buying bits I needed for meals and school lunches this week.5 -
I seem to have had quite a few spends this week:
£2 on Smol washing & Dishwasher tablets (free, pay for postage) - a good deal if they work
£29.55 at Sans, popped in to the big supermarket as I was in the area, stocked up on herbal teas, spice marinades etc - all the nice things you can't get at a local Liodl. These should last a while as obviously not using everyday
£9.36 on wine & chocolate (definitely needed)
£62.89 on the weekly shop. Really happy with this, cost is definitely dropping as I become more ruthless with what I buy, I don't need to always have 2 spares of everything.
£3.92 on potatoes and YS veg this morning.
Currently at £297/£300
Although we have a party next week (increased booze spend) and myself and DD are going away in the campervan with friends for Easter. A few beers and a planned egg hunt will see a bit of an increase. Offset by DD going to in-laws for a week of the Easter Hols, although this will fall into Apriil.
June Grocery Challenge £0/£250
2024 Grocery Challenges Jan - £390/£350 Feb - £431/£500 Mar £499/£500 Apr £729/£700
May £413/£450
2021 £pd Average £16.41
2021 Declutter 369/365 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🏅🏅🏅5 -
Bit behind! I'm now on £88.90. I used my cashback voucher of £39.50 the other day in Sainsbury's to buy provisions for our weekend break near the campsite. Quote a lot of that was beer, most of which we've brought back home.
Today's trip was to Aldi for £21. I've bought a few instant pots of porridge for OH to take to work, as he won't use their microwave but he will use their kettle. I also bought a few chocolate gifts, and I'm trying a butter chicken kit.
Need to sort our meal plan for the week, think this will be it, after going through the freezer:
Monday: sea bass, wedges, kale and peas
Tuesday: sausage, mash, carrots, onion gravy
Wednesday: veggie pasta/pizza
Thursday: veggie pasta/pizza
Friday: Butter chicken and rice, poppadums, raita
Saturday: veggie chilli, rice, guacamole
Sunday: Roast chicken, roast potatoes, veg.
Keep reading books!
July grocery challenge START: £150.
total SPENT £127.53, REMAINING £22.37.5 -
Sorry for not keeping up with posting.
I came in £5 under budget this time.
I'm trying something different for a while since I've been awarded pip and will try a monthly food budget.
I will try £30 per week for the rest of the month, but am tempted to slightly increase the food budget and see how it goes.Decluttering campaign 2023
2 🏅🏅 +1 ⭐️ +1🌟 awarded later in year
Decluttering campaign 2024
2 🏅🏅 + 1⭐3 -
Its been a shopping morning. Looked at prices online and between Asda, Aldi and Sainsburys have spent £57.17 and used £10.00 from nectar points to bring it down. £20.00 was spent on options drinking chocolate. I have taken on board all of your kind suggestions for mixing it with cheaper etc but have decided that if we can buy it at £2.50 a jar its not too bad. Sainsburys had that offer today so we bought 8 jars. Along with the 2 jars that we still have, that should keep DH going for a while. 🤗.
This means that I am over my target already this month! 🤦♀️. Each month I think we have all of the bulk buys we need and then an offer that is to good to miss comes along. However I do think that I save more money when I have a low target as I remain more careful.
craft stash 2023 =161, 2024 = 119 2025 = £25.96 spent, 128 made and 5 mended,
GC 2022 = £3154.96
2023 = £3334. 84
2024 = £.3221.81
2025 = £2043.99/£3300
Jan 413.77 Feb £361.32, March £192. April £438.06 May £261.66 June £204.54 July £172.64/ £250
Decluttering campaign. 2024= 76 and half/52 bin bags full. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🏅💐DH ⭐5 -
otb666 said:480/550 So should come in as go from 23rd to 23rd. Been a strange week my Dad passed away 10 days ago so have been a bit off kilter. Had not seen him for 5 years and he could be very self centered So been a bit of a strange time and feelings going from relief to worried about attending funeral But there you go. Seems I have reached that stage in life where it’s one funeral after another.
- Pip"Be the type of woman that when you get out of bed in the morning, the devil says 'Oh crap. She's up.'
It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it - that’s what gets results!
2025 Fashion on the Ration Challenge 66 coupons - 25.5 spent.
4 - Thermal Socks from L!dl
4 - 1 pair "combinations" (Merino wool thermal top & leggings)
6 - Ukraine Forever Tartan Ruana wrap
8 - 4 x 100g/450m skeins 3-ply dark green Wool Local yarn
1.5 - sports bra
2 - 100g/220m DK Toft yarn4 -
£10.50 added, for cheese, apples, poppadoms & naans from w8rose - curry tonight as a bit of morale-boosting is called for; OH's poor nose is still very sore! So I will still have to get him some sliced bread at some point but there's still half a loaf left & everything else is holding out well.
ETA: sorry to hear about your Dad, @OTB666; even if you were estranged, it's still a bit of a body-blow to lose a parent.
Edited again: And also your sister, @Soontobeoap; so sad for you. Don't be too harsh on yourself...
Angie - GC Jul 25: £225.85/£500 : 2025 Fashion on the Ration Challenge: 26/68: (Money's just a substitute for time & talent...)6
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