January 2012 Grocery Challenge
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Hi small shop in Mr A this afternoon so just updated my figures for this month.
Please could I have a budget again of £200 for February.2024 Decluttering 2292 ⭐️0 -
Crowdpleaser wrote: »Dont be angry with yourself ypoi are doing amazing to put it all right now!!! We should all be very very proud of ourselves!!!
xxcarolinerunner wrote: »Gorgeestwo I know JUST what you mean, right there with you, but progress is good, and you can only change things from now on. In the words of the cheesy quote:
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that's why we call it the present."
see you on the Feb thread soon!mumwithamission wrote: »Gorgeestwo ditto! Can't stop thinking how different our life would be if I'd cottoned on to MSE forum advice years ago. Never mind (big sigh) perhaps I can sort things out before we retire :rotfl:
NSD for me - hope I can make at least another one before the end of Jan.
Hoping the multi quote thingy works
Thank you all very much you're all right :T I'm really surprised at how being organised with my shopping/cooking has made me more organised with other things too :j looking forward to getting stuck into February and saving some money :beer:
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£9.40 to add, so i'm now waaaaay over my target, got the ken hom meals 2 mains and 2 sides for £5 got 4 spring rolls,eggfried rice, crispy beef and ribs, was intending them to go in the freezer, but because i stocked up on another deal weight watchers meals £4 for 8, i cant fit anything else in my freezer, also got 2 packs of prawn crackers and 2 whoopsied sandwiches, this was yesterday, so i have been bad.
Need to deffo tighten my belt, looks like there may be redundancies at my work.Lose 28lb 3/28lb
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On_an_Avon_Mission wrote: »All the washing powder etc there is fab. They've won quite a few Which awards. The non bio doesn't antagonise my kids' eczema either!
Thank you for that I was wondering about their non bio. I always use Mr T's for that very reason, but will try the A*di version.
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£2 savers club 2012 #174 £16 Jan (saving for Christmas 2012)
Don't Throw Food Away Challenge 2012 January £9.35/£5 February£8.59/£10 Annual £13.89/£75
Aim Stash down to 250 items (currently 450 items) UU5/IN1 Jan, UU0/IN1 Feb
Grocery Challenge £165.55/£290 Feb Annual budget /£36600 -
NSD again today, that's 5 in a row!!! Hoping not to be tempted to go in tom; I drop the children off at their dad's for the weekend at 6pm, and I'm then alone til quarter to 4 on Sunday afternoon (when they go to a party and are fed their dinner!!). I'm so often tempted to go around the sms at these times, esp now I've started ww, but I'm also more tired than I think I've ever been, so I'm going to go and prep something nice for tom's dinner, maybe make a pizza base to just check some veggies on or something. If I have something half prepped, I'll be more likely to stay home than go and buy stuff.
DD helped me to make a shopping list for me to get over the weekend, easy meals planned for next week; dd chose cottage pie, and ds chose sausage casserole. The sausage casserole will be for monday and I'll have any lo on tues, then the cottage pie will be for thurs, with lo for the children for friday after swimming lessons. I'll have any old random thing that falls out of the cupboard when I open it :rotfl:
Night all,
PG xGrocery challenge for family of three - me, dd(12) and ds(11), feeding dp 2 or 3 x a week too. Only food, not toiletries. Jan £87.97/£100 Feb £0/£100
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£8.65 spent since my last post.
£3.70 on Sunday at Sainsbury's on bread and 3 x fruit juice.
£2.57 yesterday at Sainsbury's on milk, cheesestrings (reduced) and a chinese ready meal (reduced). Handy for a 'can't be bothered night'.
£2.38 today at Lidl on oats and crisps.
I may go over as i'll need bread for lunches next week. I've just started a new job and I don't think there's any real kitchen facilities, so I can't take my usual soup/leftovers etc that i'd like to. Booo!Grocery challenge - Nov: £52/£100
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Went to A*di and used £5 off voucher. First time I have ever did a large shop in Aldi. Paper only cost me 23p as local shop had all newspapers half price. Total spend there with £5 off was £35.34.
Then went to Mr M and got some meat for freezer. Large chicken was half price and got pork chops and diced pork on special. Total spend was £42.80 after my staff discount (MIL works there)
Pleased as lots for freezer and got enough biscuts, crisps, cold meat, diet coke, yoghurts etc till at least middle of Feb. Will put in DR order tomorrow and then going to avoid supermarkets as much as possible. Just going to try go to A*ldi for bread, fruit & veg and milk.
Only other spend was £4.24 in cafe, was out with mum and aunt and was my turn to buy. Hadnt been to bank and started snowing so me and Aunt went half's as didnt have enough cash on me.Yearly Grocery Budget - £100.77/ £3500. January Treats Budget - £11.80 / £100.0 -
DH will be popping to Ald1 or Mr T tomorrow for dog food and milk as we will need it that night and I am out with the girls:beer:
Wow! Not sure my DH would be happy with dog food when I'm on a night out! Perhaps in a mystery pie...:rotfl:Save £12k in 2024 - #2 target is £5000
OS Grocery Challenge 2024 16.02% spent or £480.73/£3,000 annual
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
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From a cookery book dated 1981.
10 oz short crust pastry.
Filling:
2 tomatoes - sliced thinly. 1 Tbsp grated onion. Salt and pepper.
6 - 8 ozs bacon. 4 eggs.
Use half of pastry to line an 8 inch dish/pie plate. Arrange tomato in dish then add grated onion. Cut bacon into small pieces and put in pie in a cross shape - leaving four hollows for eggs. Break an egg into each hollow and season. Damp edges and put on pastry lid. I just go round the edges with a fork and then brush with milk. Cook 30 minutes - 190 then a further 25 - 30 minutes at 180. Lovely hot or cold.
Makes 6 servings.
Can freeze.
I use bacon trimmings - Mr T - about £1.20 for 500g - I make this enough for 3 pies. In the past when I have been out of tomatoes - used mushrooms instead. A pie does us two for three dinners.Decluttering Achieved - 2023 - 10,364 Decluttering Target - 1277/2024 March - 1895/171
GC NSD 2023 - 242/365
2023 Craft Makes - 245 Craft Spends 2023 - £676.03/£400
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GC - 2024 First 4 Week Period £11.75/£100 2nd £33.71/£100 3rd £57.13/£100 4th £3.01/£100 NSD - 55
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Every morning I rush around making packed lunch for me and DH and lunch and tea for DS to take to his grandmas when he is there 3 days a week. This morning she suggested that I pay her a bit more on top of what I pay her now for minding him and she will feed him. I feel a bit guilty really that I won't be 'feeding' him. Irrational I know:o
She gets paid for looking after her grandchild ???:eek: What did I do wrong :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Don't answer that I know its none of my business.Mortgage and Debt free but need to increase savings pot. :think:0
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