April 2009 Grocery Challenge

Reporting another NSD for me. After my big shop in Asda earlier in the week, I'm a bit disappointed as now I'm ill and have lost my appetite! And no room in the freezer for anything fresh - grr. On the plus side, today I've eaten two bananas, an apple, a carrot and loads of clementine juice - nice and healthy!

As you can see from my updated sig, it is fairly unlikely I will make this month on target My appetite really does continue to grow by the week and I am consuming salad and celery like there is no tomorrow - I even ended up having a bowl of crunchy leaves, shredded white cabbage and celery for supper last night :rolleyes: . I might actually try re-working the week-after-next's plan so that it uses up the small accumulation of stuff we have in the cupboards and freezer to keep the cost down a bit - as long as I have me salad to munch all day long I am happy

Our spend at Asda last night did however include £5 worth of dishwasher tablets which were needed, ingredients for my Simnel Cake for Easter Saturday tea, £1.11 worth of reduced bread which - kept in the freezer - should do us a couple of weeks hopefully, and the 3 bottles of wine for £10 deal which should last quite well as it is only DH drinking it at the mo So I don't feel too bad knowing it was on stuff that will be used anyway - trying to talk myself into that there

ETA: Just came to mind on the mention of Easter pressies that our local £ shop had some great little token gifts - got DD sheets of springtime-like bubble stickers and a card making set complete with glitter glue/pens, card and safety scissors etc - she is only 2 but loves all that sort of palaver I also picked up a big multipack (x18 I think) of Easter jellies - about 4 in each little packet making up a whole bunny or duck. I'll be wrapping a couple up each, to hand out to extended family and friends' kids. Just thought the knowledge could come in handy

Morning all

Hubby will be home later this evening -hopefully laden down with UK bread flour, cheese n coffee ...
I have had a great week of using up odds n sods -I do this anyway for the 2 of us -but this week has used up those itty bitty bits that keep getting missed -so this week I have used

• 1 roast chicken breast, the last portion of my own broad beans from last year, a small tub of HM cheese sauce(all from freezer) and 1'2 tin sweetcorn from fridge and made a great pasta bake that did me 2 days
• Special fried rice using the last of the chorizo, a few prawns and odds n sods of veggies from the fridge
• today Im using the last of the potatoes that are going a bit rubbery -so Im making potato salad nomnomnom

So now I am 9 days into my month and only had 1 day where I have spent anything :j
I have drawn up a list for tomorrow and it comes to a grand total of :-

• 4 x 1lt milk =€2.20
• cucumber -50c
• 2kg onions -50c
• 2.5kg potatoes 99c
• 2kg oranges €1.50
• 2kg apples €1.50
• 1 tin tuna 85c

so approx €8ish to spend this week :rotfl: ..I have plenty of lettuce, tomatoes and peppers in the fridge and enough white cabbage n carrots to make lots of coleslaw mmmmmm
I can't wait until my veggies get going -we should be living on very little then :j-hence the using up as much as I can from the freezer -hopefully Im going to have loads to freeze:p
Right enough waffling -again..have a great day everyone

Could I be put down for £200 this month please?

Totally over spent last month and the cupbards are bare!

good afternoon....its lovely here today...hope it lasts until easter...i have just had a cheap lunch mega small bit of cheese grated on toast....grated makes it look bigger (well a bit)...Mrs M mentioning coleslaw u reminded me i have a chunk of white cabbage lurking in my fridge...im going to make it in to coleslaw...i always leave out the onion...i hate raw onion but love it cooked

i am making stewed braising steak for tea...neede using up but not really matched to the weather....i got a bargain in the coop this morning...its fresh pasta ravoil and in a seperate bag tortellini ...with exotic sounding fillings...reduced to 30p a bag so i got 4 i thought it would make a nice lunch tomorrow (well some of it)...im not sure if the kids will go for it:rolleyes: but hey it was very cheap...should have been 2 for £3...i also got my mum a pork pie made by dickenson and someone who make the real deal in melton mobray reduced to 50p

i was thinking of buying a cadburys easter cake the big round one with eggs on top...then i saw they were £3 so im going to make my own...goodness im getting mean....no sorry careful

have a nice day
tess