May 2008 Grocery Challenge

clair2305

off to Asda 2nite.....fingers crossed

Nessa56

Good luck

gonna do my online shop at asda tonight (or today if I can wangle it at work !) :rotfl:

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SAVVYMUMMY_2

Hi everyone,:hello: and welcome to the newbies.

Already page 9 and only 2 days into the challenge, NSD for me today as it`s chucking it down on and off today and trying to sort out the attic for bootfair over the weekend. Fingers crossed the weather will be o.k.

Will be having chicken curry(yesterdays roast) and HM naan bread tonight with OH and the kiddiewinks will proberly have chicken, mash and veg. Mash always a winner with them and very filling(for half hour) and cheep!.

Will have to spend tomorrow as we will need milk and maybe something for dinner. Trying to use up whats in the fridge and store cupboard, before I do a biggish shop, so will have a good rumage through and see what I can come up with.

I`m down for £300 this month as I was just under in April, but i`m going to try and aim for £200 and see if that is possible. Then maybe bring the June budget down from £300 to £250.


Good luck to everyone.

Mudbath

hiya
i've heard lots of good things about this thread so can i join please. i spend way to much on groceries so i'm hoping this will make me focus. i'm going for £350 to include dog, cat and guinea pig food. my aim is to reduce it drastically as we normally [STRIKE]spend[/STRIKE]waste way more than this. i'm hoping to bring it down each month.

hope everyone has a good month xx

Sharon_1970_2

mandy_moo_1 wrote: »

damn!! thought they were gonna be heinz baked beans!! never mind :rolleyes:

My Morrisons has the heinz baked beans at 3 for £1

irishwexford

I will be in for £150 for May. Went over budget a bit in April but hoping for better things this month;)

bails

Hi everyone :hello:
Still need to catch up with the last week of April's challenge and then this one :rotfl:

Mrs M, please can you put us donw for £135 this month - that's for 2 adults (£125) and 2 lots of visitors (£10). All the animals (2 guinea pigs, 3 cats, some impending kittens and several strays) will have their own undetermined budget this month! Let's hope it doesn't bankrupt me :eek:

We managed to save a big chunk of money overall last month so I think I'm going to stock up on some things - it'll come out of that money for now and then be taken off the GB each month.

Good luck everyone, we can do it!

Pablosmummy

Does anyone know where the recipe for dough balls is? I thought I saved it but its gone. They were balls of dough (duh) with garlic butter or something in them?
Thanks

chocolateteddy

Lizzieanne wrote: »

So, We've finally settled him on a food which doesn't make him very sick - one of the Hill's Prescription diets, called z/d. He has a mixture of the tins and the dry food, along with frozen cod or coley.
This food costs £2.30 for a 156g tin!!

I don't include cat food in our food bill as I save separately for it. I have 2 cats on Hills k/d diet both got renal failure but they are as happy as larry so while they keep going I will have to fork out £30 for a 5kg bag :eek: which lasts 2 months. I used to buy Iams and that cost £35 for a 15kg bag so big hike. But wouldn't be without cats they are sisters and 16 this month!!!

Going well so far this month off to make bread and muffins although Twinks hobnobs were just too tempting to make (My sister made them and gave me some- good job I didn't cook them they wouldn't have survived the day!!!!!!!)

Did go to Asda yesterday for bread as I forgot to put BM on and tried hard but I bought some mozeralla and grapes as well but I would have bought moz on monday anyway so saves me remembering!! Can't find receipt but when I do will update signature

Chuzzle

Ok updating my sig in a mo. Spent £11.24 at Mr T's last night as couldn't be bothered after work to do much! Bought 4 can Guinness (DH), loaf bread, bag Minstrels, M&M's and revels (3 4 £4 :eek: ), Moist t/tissue (ds2 likes 2 no his botty is properly clean!!:o ) and value liver & bacon pate.

On the plus side I have worked out a meal plan for the whole of May, it's just a list of different meals so I can pick and choose what to have when. Have got to sit down and do a HUGE shop online once I've gone through cupboards/fridge/freezer and worked out what we need. Then the theory is I WON'T need to enter a food shop at all for the rest of the month.

I have a couple of allotments that DH and mum look after so in a couple of months I'll hopefully have fruit and veg by the lorry load!! Just need some animals and I won't need to buy meat either!!

TTFN
Ruth