March 2025 Grocery Challenge

SausageDogSandwich

Morning all, a lot of spending here. Went to close to heron and farmfoods and couldn’t resist going in   £123.33 spent

Pennypincin

I spent around £7 yesterday in Tesco.
Bits and bobs again including some slightly reduced fishcakes.
I'm tempted by the Lidl offer in the app for a slight discount on a carton of semi skimmed milk and the deluxe butter.

Nelliegrace

March Budget £155.

DH spent £2.90 on milk.
We shopped at Aldi this evening for milk x3, cream, yoghurt 1litre, frozen sweetcorn, cooked beetroot, butternut squash, mushrooms, 2x oranges (on offer,) easy peelers, mini bananas, pears, cherries (on offer,) fruit and nut mix, cream crackers, ground coffee (on offer,) a tin of sardines, and a bunch of daffs.

I found the daffs later, in the fridge.

£27.17 spent, £127.83 left.

zafiro1984

Small spend today at Lidl 30.83. Once home I compared prices online with one of the big supermarkets where I often shop. Interestingly I had made saving of £9.68. However my best bargain of the day was at the petrol station on the way home. Potatoes with todays date 2kg reduced from 1.65 to just 20p - I bought 2 packs 

Total spend so far this month £68.82/£200

thriftwizard

I might have overspent a bit at the market this morning - between that, the butchers & the supermarket yesterday I've spent £103.41. But shouldn't have a lot more to buy until next weekend - maybe some sliced bread for OH, and some more yogurt as they only had the 500g pots & there are 3 adults eating it! A kilo is about right for a week.

BudgetingBelinda

278/550 
thats now food in for the next week or so and two ‘weekly’ shops left to do after that. I have not nipped to the shop at all this week for any extras. It’s a bolognaise theme this week! Spag and lasagna and bol on a jacket pot 👌🏼 then repeat?! 😂 lots for freezer too. All packed lunches and kids snacks, washing stuff, dog food and freezer and cupboards full. I really should be able to do this 🧐🤞🏼 

carboot_karaoke

Evening all,  

A rather large spend of £103.63 to declare. However,  out of that amount £15.54 was spent on ingredients to cook dinner for a bereaved friend. Plud some condolences cards, so I'm going to cover the cost out of my money. 

So adding £88.09 to the previous amount gives new totals £224.64 / £500. Pretty high for this point in the month,  I'm going to have to rein it in a bit. 

The shopping consisted of alot of meat, fresh fruit, veg, and salad. I did buy a few treats too, to take with us on a day trip tomorrow. 

Mrs_Cheshire

Up to £177.12/£500 but have a lot of meat in the fridge/freezer, plenty of snacks and store cupboard is well stocked. 
Will need to get some more fruit and refill the veg in the fridge. I've got £5 off a £5 shop at L's so I'll pop by later today and get a few bits. I've got a voucher for £1 off a shop and 50p off milk at the C00p so I'll get my weekly milk from there. 

TravelCrystal

Morning all

Holiday reporting to declare:-
I knew this was going to be expensive.
 Decided that housekeeping would contribute £15 per person per meal out, D.H has expensive tastes and to be fair this is only 3 times for this year. Any extras we pay out of our own pockets 
So holiday food came to £163.29

When we arrived home we also had a twice a year take away, Chinese this time which will also do lunch today £32.20 including delivery charge 

We collected the cat en-route yesterday so decided I wouldn’t have to go out shopping today (saving fuel) so decided I would have an Ocado delivery late last evening £43.04 including delivery charge.

Bought the usual staples of milk, marg, fruit and veg, a white wine I wanted to try for next month but will include in this month’s spend.
Frozen fruit, fresh fruit and vegetables and salad items.

Before we went away I made a batch of Twink’s biscuits. Didn’t have enough white sugar so used brown. They are very tasty.
Froze some egg whites a few weeks ago, will see if they make meringues later. Haven’t done this before so we shall see.
Anyway have a good weekend everyone 

Total spend £317.78/£400

T.C

PipneyJane

Good morning All

I have a small shop to declare from yesterday:  £26.61 spent in L!dl.  I went a bit mad and bought 5 tubes of 1000mg vitamin C at 99p each, since they often don’t have them.  I also purchased multiple silicon muffin cases, which they had at 2 packets for £3.  (I say “multiple”, because each pack was meant to be 8 cases, but there was only one pack still with it’s wrapper - and it had 7 cases (I counted) - so I took a handful of loose ones to make up the numbers.)

The above brings our total spend to £59.83/£165, leaving £105.17 for the rest of the month.

- Pip