April 2008 Grocery Challenge

getting-sorted-sarah

Great minds.....!

ifonlyitwaseasier

getting-sorted-sarah wrote: »

Just have to mention guys - because I know you'll understand, whereas my real world friends give me funny looks - Lidl have 24 Charmin loo rolls at £5.69 - I now have enough to last till summer........

i bought 2 packs my OH goes thro it at an alarming rate! and as thats £3 cheaper than tesco's own 24 pack i thought it was well worth it

MrsBartolozzi

Hi MrsMcawber, Please can you put me down for £200 for April. Thanks.That's for Me, DH, Ds1 nearly 16 and eats more than an adult, and DS2 eats almost an adult portion, so pretty much 4 adults.
I went to do my monthly tour of the four big supermarkets today, instead of Monday as the boys are off school for 2 weeks now, so I have already spent.................£111.63!:eek: :eek:

It looks so bad, over half the budget, but I now have tons in and have just to make up the meal plan now. I think, off the top of my head there is enough for 20 meals at least, so I am not too worried. Stocked up on bread flour too, it is cheaper than plain in some supermarkets, and I have been using it instead of plain and adding baking pdr to make SR, so I won't run out of bread flour now - only trouble is I have little room in my freezer for flour (to kill those nasty eggs :shhh: ) so I will have to put them in 2 at a time until we eat some of the food that's in there!
Well off to start making tea, fish curry for me OH and DS1 and fish pie + portions for the freezer for DS2. Does anyone else have the problem when you take something out of freezer (yipee space!) and then end up putting almost as much back in (extra meal portions) so sometimes it seems the freezer is never getting empty. I suppose I shouldn't complain, but I like there to be space for the yellow label whoopsies.

Have a great weekend everyone!:hello:
MrsB.

pink_princess

bertiebots wrote: »

Hi can I join this month please:D ? I hung around last months challenge but didnt officially join as I had to get a grip with how much I really was spending (not what I thought I was :rolleyes: !) I am feeding a family of 5 ..thats 2 adults and 3 kids (who eat like adults and some!!) 2 cats and 2 dogs and my food budget also includes all cleaning products etc. I am going for £220 and am hoping to come in under .I have already halved my weekly shopping bill thanks to os:eek: !

My month goes 22nd to 22nd so I have already started!

hi bertie bots im in shock at your target for the month were also a family of 5 and have managed to reduce our budget from £650 to only £500 so far any advice on how you achieve this would be great i don t even bin any thing :rotfl:
hope your first month goes well
pink princess

lilmisskitkat

Kaz2904 wrote: »

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DD has a party for 2 tonight and I have to send her with presents wrapped in Christmas paper :eek: because DH wrapped the last birthday present and didn't tell me he'd used up all the paper apart from 10cm left on the roll :mad: !
Never mind heh!

At least it wasn't newspaper lol. I did this a few weeks ago, to be fair though it was Disney Princess paper, how was i supposed to know it had snowflakes on it??! Of course DD noticed at the party and just HAD to announce it to everyone

Kate xxx

MrsBartolozzi

pink_princess wrote: »

hi bertie bots im in shock at your target for the month were also a family of 5 and have managed to reduce our budget from £650 to only £500 so far any advice on how you achieve this would be great i don t even bin any thing :rotfl:
hope your first month goes well
pink princess

Hi Pink Princess, I know that I used to spent £400-500 each month on food and now spend less than half that. Maybe if you post us some of your meal ideas with the ingredients you use the wonderful peeps on OS will give suggestions on how you might save some money. Everyone is so nice here, and the suggestions are great! Good luck.

just a thought,
MrsB.

SAVVYMUMMY_2

Hi everyone, brand new month and new challenge for me. Thanks Mrs Mc for putting me down for £300. I`m going to try my best, along with my own other challenges that i`ve put down. Great start for today, it was a nsd today for me, i`ve made 6 kiddie burgers, 4 adult burgers and a big mince mixture for the freezer. 2 kiddie and 2 adult burgers for tonights dinner along with HM bread rolls and salad with HM coleslaw and maybe a few boiled spuds Pudding proberly will be fresh fruit, homemade yog, made the other day drizzled with a little honey. Any way got to go, getting hungrey just writing this. YumYum.

pink_princess

MrsBartolozzi wrote: »

Hi Pink Princess, I know that I used to spent £400-500 each month on food and now spend less than half that. Maybe if you post us some of your meal ideas with the ingredients you use the wonderful peeps on OS will give suggestions on how you might save some money. Everyone is so nice here, and the suggestions are great! Good luck.

just a thought,
MrsB.

oh thank you any help gratefully received this is my first meal plan ever so not to ambitious
sat bolognese wraps
sun chicken dinner with works
mon duck wraps with hoi sin sauce and garlic peppers
tues pizza all round (tut tut)
wed beef special fried rice with prawn crackers
thursday bangers and mash onion gravy
friday hm chicken soup with paprika prawns and garlic bread to follow

any help on cheaper ways would be fab

belfastgirl23

Hi MrsM well after last month's slip off the wagon can you put me down for £130 again this month please? TBH I'm not sure how it will work out, both me and DH are away for parts of the month and I also really need to do some serious healthy eating to make up for Easter...but here's hoping. I just don't exactly feel in control these days for some reason...

Anyhow I've already done an online MrT shop for around £50 which covers a lot of basics. And I have a very well stocked store cupboard. So here goes!
Good luck everyone!

PS thanks for the Charmin tip Sarah! I really resent spending good money on this sort of thing

babymaker

Hi guys
id like to join you on my 1st Grocery challenge. My April is from the 1st till the 30th. Can i declare a budget of £300 please Mrs M for me OH, DD4,DD2 and DS (9weeks-though he dont eat yet lol) To include all groceries and toiletries but excluding nappies i have another budget for them.
Right off to menu plan for next week.
Good luck peeps xx