March 2024 Grocery Challenge

thriftwizard

First spend of the March budget here today: £49.07 between the butchers and the supermarket, but it seems I forgot the sliced bread... sigh!

Finstickle

Kicking off the month with £99.14 spent at Lidl yesterday.

This included £7.89 on 2 steaks as a treat for dinner last night.  They were so large that there was enough left over for DH to have as a sandwich for lunch today.  And treated us to some asparagus to have with it (my favourite veg). 
I am planning a new raised bed which will be fully planted with asparagus this year in hopes of having a good supply in future years as so amazing but always expensive to purchase.
Also got 2 whole chickens which will do Sunday Roast, Monday Stir Fry and lunches for the week.  I find this cheaper and healthier than buying packet meat.

Content at £99/£500 so far.

Suffolk_lass

Just milk for us so far. £7.50 for next week. They have changed the whole organic milk and it is not so good. More like semi-skimmed and far less creamy. I'm considering a break for a few weeks to see how I go with the local co-op (though that will mean hot cross buns when they have them). 

thriftwizard

£32 added from this morning's market trip, £7 of which was a jar of local honey; we go through one every couple of months but that's something I won't compromise on as a fair number of mass-market "honeys" have added high-fructose corn syrup. Also reputed to be good for alleviating hay fever - which hasn't hit me for years, to be honest! The rest was all fruit & veg. I'll have to do a non-perishables run down to the city early next week, but so far, so good.

Mamaofmanybudgets

£20.40 / £400 

So determined this month, taken out my cash already and won't be using the card. 

Just a few bits today in lidl, poundland, local foodshare , and corner shop. 

Stuff for this weekends packed Lunches, and a few bits to go with dinners this weekend. 

🧀🌭🌯🧁🍦🥒🍅🍎

Suffolk_lass

thriftwizard said:

£32 added from this morning's market trip, £7 of which was a jar of local honey; we go through one every couple of months but that's something I won't compromise on as a fair number of mass-market "honeys" have added high-fructose corn syrup. Also reputed to be good for alleviating hay fever - which hasn't hit me for years, to be honest! The rest was all fruit & veg. I'll have to do a non-perishables run down to the city early next week, but so far, so good.

You are so right about lots of SM honeys. What happens in parts of China is the bees are closed up in their hives and fed syrup - which means the product they produce is honey by name, it has the enzymes that the bees add to it to store it, but there is no pollen. The thing to look for is a mix of eu and non eu honeys on the labels. That assumes it is not fraudulently labelled. The best is local honey from a local beekeeper. The honey will contain small amounts of the local pollens that probably affect your hayfever, which is the same approach that the desensitisation allergy clinics take. I am of course, completely biased as we are beekeepers!

Crazycatlady2

£5 spend so far...Tesco delivery booked for tomorrow which I'm hoping is £100 max 

Mamaofmanybudgets

Just 90p today for a pint of milk 

£21.30/£400 

LotsOfTea

Spent £4.60 so far on a loaf of sourdough. We're making a real effort to eat through the freezer contents and still have plenty of fresh stuff too so I'm hoping to get through next week without having to buy anything. 🤞

Frugalistamama

Spent just over my weekly budget of £70 so £72 from Lidl and a Sainsbury's shop. So not starting off too well but only just over.