April 2025 Grocery Challenge

LiveSimply

Do the names and amounts on page 1 get updated at all? There’s lots of blanks. I was hoping to look through and get inspired by some low budgets. 

I’ve only shopped twice so far (although I did a shop on 30th March, I wasn’t doing this budgeting thing then) but I’ll definitely need to do at least one more shop before the end of April. 

Soontobeoap

I ran craft group today. Just goes to show that not all people have family and things going on over the long Easter holiday. Dropped into Aldi on way home for 2 bundles of spring onions at 15 p each. Today our meals have been sandwiches and toast to use up bots and bobs that are left overs from visitors. Hopefully we will make it to the end of this week without spending much more.

sams247

Managed to stay living out of the cupboard and fridge for the weekend.  Used up a tin of new potatoes by roasting them, added broccoli and carrots from the CF store, used up last of chicken that was from CF too.  Gravy, stuffing from cupboard and voila a roast.  Made a tuna pasta bake also.  Today is dedicated to using up last of salad for lunch then last of veggies for tea with some thing..... maybe a stew.   Which means tomorrow I have to shop!

Quantaqa

I am down to the last few days before payday.  Lasagne tonight for dinner was made yesterday and ready to reheat.  I think I'll do a bit of baking when I get home tonight so we have a tasty snack to have with a coffee to reduce the chance of nipping to the corner shop for chocolate, I have plenty of baking supplies in.  I want today to be a NSD.

Suffolk_lass

LiveSimply said:

Do the names and amounts on page 1 get updated at all? There’s lots of blanks. I was hoping to look through and get inspired by some low budgets. 

I’ve only shopped twice so far (although I did a shop on 30th March, I wasn’t doing this budgeting thing then) but I’ll definitely need to do at least one more shop before the end of April. 

@LiveSimply it's a question for @elsiepac, who runs the thread. She has not been seen on the thread, other than to put the new one up at the end of the month (and once or twice to say "budgets updated to here" in the first week after that), actually, for months. This month, she has not been on the forum since 1st April. I don't know why, but it suggests she is also not updating the recipes that get carried forward any more. When I started on this thread, there were two people looking after it, one did the recipes and the other put up the thread and updated the targets, but elsiepac took it all over and does it her way. 

LiveSimply

Suffolk_lass said:

LiveSimply said:

Do the names and amounts on page 1 get updated at all? There’s lots of blanks. I was hoping to look through and get inspired by some low budgets. 

I’ve only shopped twice so far (although I did a shop on 30th March, I wasn’t doing this budgeting thing then) but I’ll definitely need to do at least one more shop before the end of April. 

@LiveSimply it's a question for @elsiepac, who runs the thread. She has not been seen on the thread, other than to put the new one up at the end of the month (and once or twice to say "budgets updated to here" in the first week after that), actually, for months. This month, she has not been on the forum since 1st April. I don't know why, but it suggests she is also not updating the recipes that get carried forward any more. When I started on this thread, there were two people looking after it, one did the recipes and the other put up the thread and updated the targets, but elsiepac took it all over and does it her way. 

Ok that’s a shame. All the participants and recipes take up such a huge space on the front page, it seems like they might both be irrelevant then if not even accurate. Is changing the person who starts it a solution perhaps?



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TravelCrystal

Knew I would have to go shopping sooner or later.
In the middle of painting, so while the first coat is drying thought I would nip to Lidl’s 
I thought there might be a few bargains!
3 x YS rolls (pack of 6) @ 28p each
2x muffins @ 55p each.
Discounted Haddock from my app and a free tomato sauce.
Fruit and veg and frozen fruit.
Milk, marg and cheese
Toilet rim
A couple of bits from Asda at the weekend 
Total spend this week £27.65

Total so far £165.62/£250
I am going to declare now for April
Have a good  rest of the month
all

See you in May

T.C

Pennypincin

£11.13 spent in Morrisons on apples, oranges, cheap porridge, moist toilet paper, 1 pack of microwave rice and 4 sachets of powdered spice kits.
I hopefully won't need to do shopping for a couple of days as I've enough salad in.
I've quite a few carrots and potatoes, so should be ok for a few days their too.

SausageDogSandwich

Hi all, haven’t caught up with the posts yet but just wanted to say I’m still going. Last week we had a very last minute break away so there wasn’t any budget for food etc so that’s just come from the shopping fund and includes a few bottles of wine and spending more on the usual stuff than we would. Also includes a leg of lamb and all the other bits that go with that for Sunday roast last week. So it’s ended up a very spendy month, with a lot of days left and not much money left  I will have to get another big shop delivered on Sunday, other than that will want bread, milk and salad bits before then. I will probably end up going over but going to make it as less as possible is the new goal. 

£314.49 spent so far.

JingsMyBucket

Yesterday I tried returning the peppercorn grinder to M & S but their return systems were down! The attendant recommended I come back later in the week when it’s fixed. While there I bought more bananas and Greek yoghurt and spent £3.32. 

£364.06 / £400 spent. £35.94 total remaining.