April 2011 Grocery Challenge

hi everyone,

am feeling quite excited about april's gc, just feeling really positive that i'm being better with the money i spend:j
did a weekly shop in m'sons yesterday and spent £54.98, added £9.98 to this which is for the half price nappies i got in march that will be used this month!!and £4.99 on a box of 6x johns*ns babywipes in savers.

i don't claim to be a great cook but try to make sure we get enough veg and that it's meals the kids will enjoy, should get 9 days of meals out of this spend:

*beef and veg lasagne (with grated carrot to hide it from kids and brocoli)
*chips and fish fingers
*boiled bacon,veg(brocoli,cauli,cabbage,carrot,swede,peas,roasties)and onion sauce,
*leftover bacon with veg(new pots,brocoli,carrot)and cheese sauce,
*hotdog pasta,
*tuna and new potato layer bake served with brocoli(might add sweetcorn)
*pizza and chips,
*homemade veg soup (carrots,cabbage,cauli,sweetcorn,will add brocoli and pots if there are any left) blended untill fairly smooth served with brown bread,
*leftover veg soup used as a sauce with pasta and topped with cheese.

we all eat fruit every day and obv eat a few naughties lol

after i made the lasagne i had a few sheets of whoopsied fresh pasta to use up so my dd who's two tore it all up into little squares and i boiled it with some peas, let it cool then added sweetcorn and mayo for a quick 'pasta salad', not your regular pasta shapes but was yummy and meant i used up pasta that before joining the gc i would have binned:o

also bought the 3 for £10 meat so have 2 portions of beef mince and 2 portions of diced chicken in the freezer:Dand before the gc i would just have bought smaller packs of mince as i needed them, costing me more over a month!!

anyway sorry for the long post:oand good luck to everyone in reducing your spends:D

Wow! Just had to catch up on thread not been on since last night and am 4 pages behind!!

Popped into sainsbugs lastnight and managed to spend £32.78!!!
Not liking how my budget is looking or bank balance so early in the month!!!:eek:

Have a good weekend everyone!

I spent £3.50 on sweets and fizzy drink. Must do better. Total spend this month £29.55. I've spent £4.55 on junk. I could get the ingredients for a meal out of that.

farmers-marketeer wrote: »

Hi first time for me so £160 for April please done well so far checked my food shop from company shop £27 worth for 10.95 will get 3 meals from the half price belly of pork Wait**** 500 grammes for £1.30 so figured could afford the Best Morris*** apple sauce anyone noticed the store second veggies there I got broccoli and red potatoes for 14 p each 750g and 250g so apart from milk and fresh veg I am sorted for week time to bake a loaf.


me 2 cats and a need to cut back on booze no pub this week end thats everything

we have a company shop near us, its fab i go about once every couple of months and stock up on meat , toiletries,yoghurts, sweets and any other offers they have

NSD today , we are going out for a meal but that is from another budget

I had a couple of hours to kill last night in town, so did my meagre shop first in Ald*, then Morris*ns, A*da and finally T**co. They are all quite close together so I didn't have to use any petrol to speak of. It was very very quiet at 7pm but few whoopsies, other than half price smoked salmon which I bought and then split into portions and froze. Spent the grand sum of £11 (plus wine, but that comes out separate budget at present). So £11/50 for April, but I won't be going shopping again until at least 10th.