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Replenishing our store cupboard

Due to a few issues with my Dad’s health (now resolved), I’ve been struggling to keep up with my blog/s, but he’s much better (thankfully), and normal service should resume next week :)

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My regular supermarket (Tesc*) has raised the offer price - items normally reduced to £1 are now reduced to £1.50 – on a couple of products that I buy. So when I spotted that Asd* still had them at £1, off I went to stock up….I also bought a few other things on my two supermarket trip!

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Grocery Spending: June Budget £180
- £7.10 4th (at Mums)
- £15.99 6th (Brita Filters)
- £67.31 6th (above)
£90.40 TOTAL

Okay, so I’ve spent half of the budget already!! We have full cupboards though! :)

Grocery Spending May 2013 #4

I set the grocery budget at £180 for May, but as a little challenge to myself I’m going to try and spend less than I did in April (£170.58). Now I’m aiming to stay under £180!

Wrapping up my grocery spending for May!

I mentioned on Thursday that I’d been all over the place with my spending in May (mainly the last two weeks). Sometimes this happens, and invariably it means I over spend my budget!! Anyway, somehow I did keep track of our grocery spending.

Here’s what I bought this week for £24.96! I used Nectar points to reduce the cost (£7.50), so overall money spent was £17.46.

Grocery June

Not pictured are the 3 packs of minced beef that I bought. I wanted to make chili and a bolognese sauce for the freezer (6 meals in total) – it’s a lot easier to have them ready made, especially when I’m going up and down the country all the while.

  • Lettuce £1.00
  • Mushrooms £1.00
  • Ham £2.00
  • Tomatoes £1.30
  • Cucumber £0.45
  • Cheese £2.12
  • Peppers x 2 £2.50
  • Chopped Toms £0.31
  • Bread £0.95
  • Grapefruit (tin) £0.65
  • Potatoes x 2 £1.30
  • Milk £1.38
  • Organic Beef Mince £10.00

 

*MAY GROCERY SPENDING
- £85.64 2nd May
- £3.30 6th May
- £4.65 7th May
- £7.43 9th May
- £8.94 15th May
- £34.66 16th May
- £8.75 20th May
- £22.17 23rd May
- £17.46 28th May

Total spent: £193.00/£170.58 

Not too bad I suppose :)

Our Grocery Spending And Eating From The Cupboards

I’ve set the grocery budget at £180 for May, but as a little challenge to myself I’m going to try and spend less than I did in April (£170.58). Now I’m aiming to stay under £180!

I sort of abandoned my menu plan this week (Don’t blog a menu plan + Don’t stick to a menu plan!), and ended up buying a total treat dinner at the local supermarket! I also bought a few groceries (+extras) at my Mum’s and tipped my grocery spending very close to my May target. It’s not a big deal really, my grocery budget is my own personal challenge, and if I can stay within a few pounds of it I’m happy.

*MAY GROCERY SPENDING
- £85.64 2nd May
- £3.30 6th May
- £4.65 7th May
- £7.43 9th May
- £8.94 15th May
- £34.66 16th May
- £8.75 20th May
- £22.17 23rd May

Total spent: £175.54/£170.58 

Fridge contents

In order to keep our spending down over the next 8 days I need to avoid the supermarket as much as possible.  I did a quick food inventory update this morning and made a new menu plan. The pantry cupboards are quite full, we have a few bits in the fridge (see photo), and we also have the following in the freezer.

        • Chicken Portions x 2
        • Bean Burger x 1 +  Leftover Meat Sauce x 1 portion
        • Beef Portions (Stewing Cubes) x 5
        • One RM Pizza + 3 RM Quiche
        • Sausages x 1
        • Quarter bag peppers
        • Half bag stir fry veg
        • Pastry/ Milk x 2 pints
        • Bread x 1.5 Loaves/Naan x 2/Tortilla Wraps x 6

 

*MENU PLAN

  • Friday: New Potatoes, Veggies, Sausages and Gravy
  • Saturday: Stir Fry Chili Chicken Noodles
  • Sunday: Pizza + Huge Salad (need to buy salad)
  • Monday: Beef in Ale Pie and Veggies
  • Tuesday: Chicken Curry and Naan
  • Wednesday: Leftover Meat Sauce with Tagliatelle (M)  Bean Burger (Me)
  • Thursday: Quiche with Potatoes
  • Friday: BLT’s

 

We have a lot of food in, and if I buy anything apart from salad, milk or bread, it’ll just be me giving into temptation lol! ;)

Grocery Spending May 2013 #2

I’ve set the grocery budget at £180 for May, but as a little challenge to myself I’m going to try and spend less than I did in April (£170.58).

I think if anything it’ll be the extra in-between grocery buying that does in my budget this month. I’m visiting the local mini supermarket too many times…..and buying rubbish when I get there!

Anyway I’m not giving up. I have a well stocked cupboard, a pretty full freezer and a generous £25.96 to last me the next 15 days. I will do this :)

May grocery spending:

- £85.64 2nd May
- £3.30 6th May
- £4.65 7th May
- £7.43 9th May
- £8.94 15th May
- £34.66 16th May

Total spent: £144.62/£170.58

Here’s most of what I bought today:

Grocery 1Grocery 2

I had some coupons for Morris*ns (£4 off) and so for a change went across town to use them – I then nipped to Tesc* to buy Basmati Rice. Unfortunately they seemed to have stopped doing the 2kg bag for £2 (World Foods aisle). They did have Basmati Rice, but it was a whopping £3.39 for 2kg – I bought Long Grain at £2.49 instead!

How are you doing with your grocery spending this month?