January 2006 Grocery Challenge

JAMIEDODGER

first shop of the new year (mine starts today!) spent £19.31 woohoo!

calleyw

funkymonkey wrote:

GO TO FARM FOODS if you have one - i fill my freeser there and its fantastic - proper food thats cheaper! like 2 box's of four chicago town pissas for £2!!!

Nope don't have one of them close. And neither me nor my husband can stand pizzas. Urghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh reason being I hate cheese with a passion.

Think I will stick with using Aldi, Morrisons and what ever special offers Sainsburys and Somerfield have.

Yours

Calley

Essex-girl_2

Am joining this for the first time.
Will be doing a menu plan on Sun/Mon which Ive never done before but need to check out my freezer first.
Am gonna start off with a high amount abeit lower that what I normally spend as previously wasted a lot of food.

Will be easy this week as cupboards and freezer full.

Am aiming at £300 for 1/1/06 - 31/1/06 for two children 2 adults 1 dog & 1 cat.

manicdays

I shall take the plunge & join.

My month will start when I get back from my break on Jan 4th.

Will aim for £250. That must be loads as it is just 2 adults & 2 littlies (3 & 6). If I come under the £250 I shall be so chuffed!

I am going to menu plan & stock take!

Lisa

funkymonkey

ok just got back from my monthly shop. now my goal was £70 and i spent £63.28 and my cupboards are full. will have to pop to aldis in a couple of weeks for more milk and veg and braising steak but that will probably cost about £6.50 so ill be spot on my £70.

what did help was that the lady at tescos put my £10 gift voucher through twice lol. i didnt realise till i got out of the store.

skintchick

cindy wrote:

Maybe I will start the challenge from next month

Not sure what most single spend on their grocery challenge

....any singles out there ??? what do you spend ???

Hello :santa2:

I'm single with one cat and I spend £60 a month on food, toiletries and cleaning stuff. Month starts Jan 6, and I am hoping to come in under budget this month if I can.

kiwichick

My budgets not looking too healthy at the mo,not helped by DH who popped out the other night and bought 2, yes 2, pizza hut pizzas which cost £13.98 :mad: OMG!!!!!!

Having said that though,the freezer is chocca, the cupboards are full so it shouldnt be all that bad.

starlorna22

I'm going to try this for the first time this month. I've done an inventory of all the food in our 2 freezers, and the tin cupboard, and we've got absolutely loads!! I've got 7 tins of kidney beans, loads of cup a soups and 9 bags of rice :doh: Don't know why I've never done a list before.
Will be aiming for £40 this month which sounds VERY low, but we've got so much food in at the moment. This is for 2 adults and 2 cats.
This will also include packed lunches every day which at the moment looks like it's going to be cup-a soups (Boyf will love that . . .)

Miss_Behaving

After a couple of unsuccessful attempts in 2005, I've decided that I really must do better in 2006! My budget for the month is £220 for 2 adults, 2 children and carrots/swede for the horse!!

Cupboards are full, so I start the challenge full of optimism...

omega_2

In again at £185 for the month, which will include a very small birthday "party" towards month end, and two extra guests for at least 5 meals.