April 2008 Grocery Challenge

EC12345

YAY .......

Final April bill: £171.33.

£4 under budget :j

bails

I swear I read earlier that someone had posted about cheap tins of beans and I can't for the life of me now find the post! Can anyone help please, were they on offer in Asda?
EDIT: I just checked on mysupermarket (forgot about that ) and can only see butter beans (and baked beans on offer) is that what the OP meant? Was thinking I might stock up on as many as possible but Asda is a real trek from here so didn't want a wasted journey. Thanks as ever for all the great tips peeps! :T

KITTY_2-2

:hello: (creeps in quietly as not been very good at keeping up with posts lately)

Hope everyone's having a sunny Saturday.
Well, I am getting very short of grocery money and still have a birthday party to cater tomorrow. Need 2 cakes as one is for family and the 2nd for DD's friends on Tuesday - her actual 16th _party_ I have the ingredients to make these but she wants the Me to You cakes in Asda :cool: How can I refuse

Think I may incorporate my pet budget with the family stuff next month. All the kittens will be off to their new homes over the next 3 weeks so won't need as much food and litter. Currently using a bag a day :eek:

I currently budget for £300 so I'm going to try for £280 in May.
Could you put £280 as my total for May MrsMc? and I'll be back with April final figure when I've been for cakes and bits tomorrow.

Congratulations to all those in budget and hugs to those who aren't (like me!)
May's shiny budget awaits :A

fallen_angel_shelley

Hi. i hope everyone is o.k. my total for April is £71.34p:T , i was away for the 1st half of April and DS is still at his dads which has saved me loads:rotfl:. i'm so envious of all you people growing your own veg, wish i had a garden to grow my stuff and keep a couple of chickens. count me in the May GC-£220 :eek: i know i can do it or should i say it's a case of having to:rolleyes:. i'm going to try and cook more vegi stuff and only have meat/chix/pork,etc once a week and fish once a week, meat is getting to expensive, so if anyone has any nice recipes could you post them or pm them to me please.

Meal plan so far

sun- roast chicken dinner.
mon- chicken soup & HM rolls.
tues- veg spag bol.
wed- vegi sausage, mash & onion gravy.
thurs- spinach & sweet potato curry.
fri- tuna pasta bake.
sat- fridays left overs, plus a sandwich if not much pasta left.

mrssnowy_2

Hello MRSM,all,
Going to declare April GC as £203.38 ,so £3.38 over budget,but out of that I have cooked for 2 fund raising events and started June holiday food stock!!
(+8kg rice,7 bags bread flour,sev.kg pasta and 10 bags sugar in stock cupbd-DH wonders when the seige is to start)

May GC £200 again ,when its time please MRSM.

Have now got 2 young mums from work interested in the challenge-as they say -way to go granma.
Oh,my May starts on Monday 28th April -pay day last Mon of the month.
Love reading all your recipes/thoughts/ideas-great thread,very inspirational and supportive.MrsM esp.,keeping up(trying to) with wt.loss challenge,starting slowly but need to walk more.

Well done all,keep going and see you next month.
x

weezl74

Hi All,

Sig lookin' even more scary, 2 quid a week til end of june :eek: but have managed to do all our evening meals til then with what I've spent so far, having just done 5 portions aubergine curry, and 4 portions of pasta with nettle pesto.

Gonna use the rest of the nettles for a soup and a saag bhajee, they really are quite like spinach, and with the cumin and garlic, I reckon it'll be loverly!

Got 2 heaving bags ful of nettles on a walk with DH at the bluebell woods. I'd urge anyone who (like me til today) hasn't tried nettles to go for it- free food!!!:money:


Mrs Macawber, please can I carry my running total over into next month to keep me on the straight and narrow til june? Thank you.:A

Love to all and thanks for the inspiration and recipes,

Weezl x

pink_princess

declare for april £328.06 a whopping 146.94 under budget im in severe shock lol roll on may challenge yeah

savingfortravel

Nettles-Interesting....
Stupid question-Are they safe to handle after they're picked?? What happens to their sting?

Weezl74-I'm following your GC with interest. You're incredibly organised.
Does it end at the beginning or end of June?

SFT

Wow Pink Princess-That's astonishing.. Any plans for your savings?

taplady

hello MRSM and everyone!
I am preparing to join next months challenge from 1st May and have been saving all my receipts and putting them in my online spending diary, ATM I am just under £300:eek: that is for 3 adults in the week and 4 at weekends plus a few grocery bits for DS1 who lodges away from home in the week. I havent done this for ages and my last target was about 70quid a week. The way things have gone up I dont think I've done too badly but would like to shave a bit off this!.

Kaz2904

Whoever it was who went to the farmers market- well done. Ours is horrendously expensive so we never go to it.
When I went into Lidl yesterday I was surprised because there wasn't really anything there that was of use to me. The eggs were over £1.30 for 6. The veggies were all quite expensive too. I think I may just stick to using them for the bread flour and get my other stuff from Mr T or whoopsied from Asda.
DH's cooking- Jamies carbonnarra mmmm yummy!