April 2008 Grocery Challenge

TheBees

Hi everyone especially the newbies

We are in for £340 for April starting Thursday for 4 weeks. Looking forward to the new month and the opportunity to refill the freezers and try out some new recipes!:D

Would everyone mind posting their weeks menus to give us all different meal ideas? Once I've worked ours out I will post it here.

I am planning to do a spreadsheet for this months spending as I am applying for jobs in admin and need to practice how to do them!!!! I have 2 interviews next week and one of them has an administrative task to complete. Having a panic now incase they ask me to do a spreadsheet! :eek:

Off to start the meal plan, a tesco on line shop and a spreadsheet!

Good luck everyone
From TheBees

Aril

Hello
Need to join as was very naughty in March and pretended it wasn't happening...think I just need to log in more often to keep myself motivated actually!
Please put me down for £200. That's for 2 adults and a small person with a small adult's appetite.
Thanks
Aril

Bargain_Rzl

TheBees - PM me if you need any tips on spreadsheets - I'm a bit of a whizz with them (I spend practically all my working hours in Excel) so try it yourself first but if you get stuck on anything let me know!

MRSMCAWBER

angelnikki wrote: »

MrsM I'm sure they are really easy but I dont need to try them cos we usually get crispy duck and pancakes :drool: for free from our local chinese whenever my OH does them a favor:cool: :money:

Nikki
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Well you can't get better than "free" can you :T
My hubby does jobs in his lunch and Naffi breaks and gets paid in beer :rotfl: hmmm like the sound of duck n pancakes more i think

frankerooney

MrsMc - thank you so much for managing the list. I'm here again with a calendar month budget of £180.

I think I'm going to cheat with March a bit. I normally despatch DH to do the weekly shop on a Monday evening but that would blow our March budget, so I'll send him on Tuesday next week instead... but that's going to make April a 5-weeker... :rolleyes:
Other spanner is that baby is due next week :eek:. We've stocked the second freezer up with whoopsed ready meals coz I don't reckon I'm gonna be in any fit state to cook!! :rotfl:

curly_cabbage

Good luck everybody as many of us including me didn't quiet meet this months buget. i can't beleave that we're on page 6 and April isn't even here yet!!! just goes to show what a great thread and contributors we have here. i'm off to Spain thursday for couple of weeks, not a holiday as we're working on our pile of stone's in the Andalusan mountains, so hopfully i'll come in on buget this month.

good luck all

CC

CC

nicky1306

Hello Everyone!

This is my first grocery challenge, I am going to guestimate at a shamefull £400.00 :eek: :eek: :eek: for April this is for me, oh and dd who's one in two weeks! we spend faaar to much on food, so here goes! It's dd's birthday party in two weeks should I include the food and drink for the party in our budget or keep it seperate?
Good Luck everyone!!!

Telute

nicky1306 - £400's not shameful, its my first time as well and i'm going with £250 for one so £400 for three looks v. good to me already.

mhe

Hi all - what a lot of posts already. Welcome on board all the newbies. I bet every other person you see in the supermarket is going to be one of you !!

THE BEES - heres my menu for next week - not the most inspiring but ....

Sunday - gammon potato and veg
Monday - gammon curry
Tuesday - MRSMs tortillas with quorn 'chicken' pieces and salad
Wedneday -potato pie with broccoli
Thursday - HM soup with HM rolls (as its football training for DSs tonight so late in)
Friday - Sausage casserole with carrots and peas
Saturday - HM pizza

Heliecopter - CARROT COOOKIES ??? I have made these and they are nom nom and very easy.

CARROT COOKIES

1 tbsp marg
2 tbsp sugar
4 tbsp grated raw carrots
6 tbsp SR flour
1/2 tsp baking powder

Cream marg and sugar. Beat in carrot. Fold in flour and baking powder. Drop spoonfuls onto a baking sheet or small fairy cake tin. Sprinkle with a bit of extra sugar if you want. Bake at 200c for about 20 mins.

fedupnow - I know what you mean. All the names I came up with had gone too so thats why Im saddled with MHE and I have no idea how to change it!!!

frankerooney - good luck for next week - or at least hoping it is next week!! I never got to 40 weeks cos all mine came 1-2 weeks early.

jj171

cheerfulness4 wrote: »

Yippee brand new thread and clean sheet budgetwise. :j

Anyone know any good deals on fresh milk at the mo? Was jumping on the Cravendales 2 for £2 last month but is that all done and dusted now?

Iceland milk is £1.10 - not on special either. It's just gone up from £1
JJ