April 2008 Grocery Challenge

saveaholic68

Teedy, I feel exactly the same I dont really have the motivation for the challenge, but the more I fail, the more I want to not fail if you know what I mean?!
I went to Lidl this morning, armed with a list, but they hardly had anything in - no bread and hardly any veg -only weird vegetables I'd never heard of! I still managed to spend nearly £7 though. I then had to go to Somerfield to get the things Lidl didnt have and ended up spending a fortune. The veg in there is so expensive (especially when you have become used to Lidl's prices!) I ended up paying £1.50 for peppers which looked like they should have been thrown out last week. Did manage to get some sausages which had been reduced, and they still had some bags of value pasta (500g) for 20p, so I stocked up before the inevitable price increase!

Casperthefriendlyghost

Hi everyone

NSD for me today as far as groceries go, am going out to dinner with some friends tonight before John Barrowman's show in London Hammersmith Apollo and that was planned months in advance so budgeted separately for that, and am having cheese toasties and coffee for lunch.

Cheers
Casper
x x x

singlemum_4

Mrs M can you please add me?I know its late in the month but im trying a different tactic. Am going for a 4 weekly budget(thats how I get my maintainence) and maybe it will help me stick to it. Have been keeping up with my spending diary even though I havn't posted in ages. So here goes April 9th- may 6th £160 for me, 2 teenagers and an old cat!! this is for all grocerys, toiletries and household stuff!
So far have spent:
£68.21 Tesco delivery
£14.84 Lidl
£13.45 Spar
£12.74 Boots
Total £109.24
£50.76 left

This is my main monthly shop so hope to only top up with milk/fruit/veg etc.
Anyway off to feed the starving kids...........AGAIN:rotfl:

victory

NSD for me today, made the burgers yesterday and they loved them, some spare mince left so it will be spag bog this evening with wholemeal pasta.
Everyone keeps metioning the hobnobs can I please have the recipe for that?
I have made a coffee and walnut cake today OH fav and fairy cakes for the kids as they are still on school hols using 54p sainsburys home brand butter and economy eggs £1.09 for 16, the coffee and walnut pieces I already had.

When you BOGOF or stock up on things because they are reduced, cheaper, is that coming from this months budget but not next months?

funkyfunkymonkey

HOBNOBS

1. 8oz SR flour
2. 8oz Sugar
3. 8oz porridge oats
4. 8oz marg
5. 1tbsp Golden Syrup
6. 1/2 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
7. 1tbs hot water

• Mix flour, oats + sugar together
• Melt marg, syrup + water in pan then stir in bic of soda
• Pour into dry mix
• Make small balls of mixture on a baking tray and flatten with fork or fingers
• Cook for about 15mins until golden (not brown) in mod oven 180 degrees

Frugaldom

victory wrote: »

...When you BOGOF or stock up on things because they are reduced, cheaper, is that coming from this months budget but not next months?

Hi there,
If it helps, anything I buy, regardless of when it will be used or what the offer was, I deduct it from current grocery bill, otherwise I would get too confused if something lasted for months

Determined to stay under this month, as I want to start tightening the belt a bit further, especially if wheat, rice, soya and tomatoes are all going to be soaring in price soon. :eek:

savingfortravel

Hi Victory
I think everyone budgets for BOGOFs and Multibuys differently. But we have a running long term budget that gets included in our monthly total, then we have the freedom to take advantage of deals...I like to organise a rough shopping list for the next month so I can cross alot off when we buy reduced products or multibuys.
It is complicated and needs monitoring but so far its saved us a fortune. Our shed if full of non-perishables.... HTH
SFT

mama67

Nipped in to Co-op this morning and they had 2pk boneless chicken breast on whoopsie down to £1.40/pk got all 7 pks (was £2.89).

Also got 6pt organic milk in Tesco for £1.45 whoopsied.

With what I know I need to pay out before the end of the month I think I might be over this month but that chicken is going to do us 3 meals next month.

I have also bought enough branded peach barley squash from Asda to sink a battleship, but this is the one the boys drink most and it was 3 for£2 (normally £1.15ea) so I have bought enough to hopefully last until the next offer is on somewhere again; I haven't paid full price for this in over a year, with buying loads each time the offer is on.

I did notice though at Tesco that petrol had gone up to £108.9/ltr.

Sunnyday

EEK!
Just updated my sig to add the eggs that i forgot about yesterday, another £1 gone so thats £1.13 to last for the rest of this week and next week as well :eek:
I wonder how much the lentils cost that i need
SD

ifonlyitwaseasier

okay, got tortilla chips, passata, tinned toms, tomatoes, reduced radishes and a couple of bit OH decided were "essential"
so updated sig, £6.20 added on, we have now however got so much food in we could just buy milk for the next month and have enough of everything else, IF i planned it and stuck to it