April 2008 Grocery Challenge

Frugaldom

Good afternoon all, I am now declaring myself officially finished for April with a total spend of £97.05 :j :j :j

My May target is £100, as usual.

I went and did my £10 shop at lunchtime, for store cupboard items in lieu of all the alleged price increases we can expect soon. The following is what I got:

Milk - £1.34 (needed)
1 x Lge table salt @ 30p
4 x 1kg long grain rice @ 45p
5 x 1kg pasta quills @ 20p (last 5 on the shelf)
5 x Spaghetti @ 24p
10 x tinned chopped tomatoes @ 22p
5 x toothpaste @ 22p
4 x washing up liquid @ 14p
3 x 2 naan breads @ 30p (half price)

Total - £10.40 (it was the half price Naans that did it.

Adding all of the above to what I already have in stock, I have enough in store to feed any number of guests who may arrive this summer so long as they like pasta or rice dishes. :rotfl: The BBE dates range from late 2010 t0 early 2011.

earthmother

Just realised I haven't declared myself in for May yet.

Can I go down for £285 please. And I know I said the other day it seems impossible to keep it under £300 in this house, but at the moment, that's what my accounts are saying there is to spare - and this is a 5 week month (28 Apr to 1 Jun) to boot _pale_.

I've spent just under £110 on bulk shopping already, but today is a NSD (first in a long while :j ) and hopefully all I should need to buy for the rest of this week, and possibly into early next week, is fruit as it gets eaten

clair2305

....just did my trolley for the month on MySupermarket, with Asda racks up to £108, but I know once I get in there tomorrow and get all the whoopsies and the cheaper versions that aren't on the website, I'll get that total down

jessie18

:hello: Hello everyone, hope you all had a good month, many thanks to you all for all the lovely recipes and advice posted again this month. Must say twinks hobnobs are totally scrummy! I managed to buy a breadmaker with the money ive saved on food over the last few weeks. I made my first loaf & was really pleased with myself (quite smug actually) it looked beautiful, smelt great, but tasted of nothing:( that will teach me, think im gonna need to practice!!! Could you put me down for £295 in may please mrs m
Best of luck to everyone for mays challenge

MRSMCAWBER

Hi there Jessie

Did you forget the salt by chance?... only i have done that before and you are right it tastes of nothing :eek: ..it sounds a lot but for 500g flour i use 3tsp salt and its scrumdiddlyumptious

jessie18

Hello Mrs M, many thanks for the advice, i wasnt sure if it was the butter or salt that made the difference to the taste. My book said 475gm flour, 25g butter and 1 1/4tsp of salt but it was not very nice at all. I shall give it another go tonight and let you know. Thanks again for your help:D

fallen_angel_shelley

hiya. how is everyone? i have a quick question, i have some courgettes, that i'm gona stick in a vegi spag bol, do i need to peel the skin of befor adding them???. after doing a shop on sunday ready for DS coming home i got a call to say that he is staying another week :rolleyes: so now i have enough food for 2 that i will have to try and use up in one week.

MRSMCAWBER

Hi there Shelley

No, no need to peel them just grate or chop and throw them in ...

fallen_angel_shelley

MRSMCAWBER wrote: »

Hi there Shelley

No, no need to peel them just grate or chop and throw them in ...

thanks Mrs Mc :beer:

MrsBartolozzi

Hi, not been able to post much these last few weeks, but I have been keeping receipts and am over budget by £21.73!!:mad:
April grocery challenge I am declaring £221.73
I know I should have set a budget of £220, but I was hoping to beat that. I blame the price increases that appear every time I hit the shops, and my compulsion to stock up while things are cheap(ish).
My latest moan is on the 20p rise on T's passata from 29p to 49p!! So far the plain tomato is still 29p so I am stocking up whenever I am in there.

Has anyone noticed that many cheap items especially value things are not on tesco.com for delivery, but are plentiful on the shelves? The only one I can think of at the mo is Tesco value sardines in tomato sauce only 17p, but not available on tesco.com. I shop at the store that my delivery would come from so it's not that my store does not stock them. Also value sultanas, we have them in store, but not online...
Does anyone have any more examples of this? Maybe it is a ploy to counteract the mindset of people who buy online to save money on impulse buys.

Anyhoo, off to start reading the many pages of this thread I've to catch up on. MrsM, please count me in for May, my budget will be £220.

MrsB.