April 2008 Grocery Challenge

MrDT

Did my big shop for April yesterday £44.63 split between mostly asda and a few bits in home bargains, majority was spent on groceries, about four quid was spent on toiletries. This leaves me with just £15.37 left to last the month, but I think it's doable as it's just me and I've done all my meal planning in advance

I'd like to note that what I spent wouldn't usually stretch to two weeks, nevermind a month, so meal planning made a HUGE difference. I just bought what I needed, not crap, so this will likely become a regular thing - thanks to all for posting helpful tips!

I've been busy in the kitchen today making home made hobnobs, chocolate orange rice crispie cakes, bacon casserole to split and freeze for the month, and am about to go make some flapjacks in a bit. Have found it to be strangely fun day! Can't say I've baked anything for a good fifteen odd years when I used to 'help' mum as a little kid. Won't do much for my street cred, but who cares :rotfl:

ifonlyitwaseasier

speaking of baking, my milk bread came out beautifully!!!

and i even had enough dough to do three rolls for lunches tomorrow!!

apple_mint

weezl74 wrote: »

Hello apple mint, the asda by me has just price matched this for smartprice plain flour,

Hope that helps

Weezl x

How does this work weezl74? Do I need to take a print out of the mysupermarket page to Asda to do this? I've never price matched, and to be honest it would never have occurred to me last night when I was going through listing what I need this month.

Had a busy afternoon baking and making today:

• 7 portions of pea and ham soup, to add to my packed lunch soup stash in the freezer
• 36 muffins - only 12 for us (the rest are for trading / swopping / etc.)
• 4 chicken and broccoli pies - two are now gone, two for tomorrow night. (OH doesn't mind having the same thing two nights in a row )
• Currently waiting for my foccaccia bread mix to rise, then it will be popped into the oven with a mixed Italian herb and parmesan topping. When finished it will be cut into slices, bagged up and put into the freezer. 1 piece to go with a portion of packed lunch soup.

It's all very time consuming but:

• it costs a fraction of shop bought
• helps us keep in budget
• we know exactly what has gone into it all
• I find it therapeutic pottering in the kitchen

mikeD

angelnikki wrote: »

helliecopter you could just copy the € sign from someone else's post then paste it into yours (drag the mouse over to highlight the text, hold down 'ctrl' + 'c' to copy and then press 'ctrl' and 'v' to paste)

Mumzyof2 ctrl alt and 4 works for me

Hi halliecopter I know that this was about 9 pages ago but I have only just got around to this thread. Ctrl+Alt+4 works for me too, but if you've got a key called Alt Gr (bottom right on my keyboard) then try Alt Gr+4 because that works too.

Love the FM

weemissy

Hi everyone
Have come on just to tell you about my dinner - OH getting fed up listening to me:D
Feeling smug, just had a very delish fish pie which I would never have made before being struck down with OCB for here. Used some of the fish I got ages ago in MrT, value frozen alaskan pollock fillets cost about £2 and loads in the bag, parsley, splash of white wine, black pepper,1/2 tin corn from lidl - they didn't have frozen and the other 1/2 will do risotto tomorrow, 1/2 brocolli - other 1/2 yes - risotto, was going to add onion and forgot, all in a white sauce, topped with breadcrumbs from the freezer (end of HM loaves) mixed with grated cheese, put in oven. It was really yummy and there was enough left for a freezer portion - we would normally have forced this down our necks too!
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Gemmzie

Not even the 31st and we're 14 pages in :eek:

I'm in this month for £370 after hitting £380 exactly in March.

savingfortravel

Weemissy
Great night for fish pie!!! Ours was delicious too!!!!!
SFT

Telute

Yay - mangaed not to spend anything today, stayed in bed most of the morning and went walking in the afternoon so it wasn't too difficult. Have risotto bubbling away and might manage pudding from the frozen stewed fruit i stashed in the freezer yesterday.

Girl_least_likely_to

mandy_moo_1 wrote: »

ooh i'm buzzing!! just got back from morrisons, and they'd reduced quite a bit of stuff down to 8p......yep that's right....8p :j

i managed to fight my way past a dozen OAP's to get what i wanted, but i ended up with 240 PG tip teabags, 160 ty-phoo teabags, 4 tins of tuna (all cellophaned together so got the 4 for 8p!), 10 bottles of lucozade energy drink for DS who likes em after rugby training, a glade scented candle, a tin of dented Fox's biccies, 12 tins hot dogs, about 25 tins of pedigree chum, adidas deodrant, box of surf wash tablets and some dented tins of beans with the other bits of shopping i got (mushrooms, carrots & onion to pad out shepherd's pie for tea tonight), i only spent £4.80 :j

I've NEVER managed to catch when they reduce stuff cos they do it at different times every week, so i'm dead chuffed with meself :rotfl:

so does that mean i can be a member of the Whoopsie club now?? can i? can i?!!

Ooooh with that massive haul, not only are you a member, I think you'd give MrsM a run for her money :rotfl:

MRSMCAWBER

Girl_least_likely_to wrote: »

Ooooh with that massive haul, not only are you a member, I think you'd give MrsM a run for her money :rotfl:

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
I will graciously hand over the "whoopsie" baton to mandy_moo... don't think i have ever got anything that cheap before :eek: ....