January 2009 Grocery Challenge

hannamint

never been into the woopsie section at asda till i came on here, ended up spending far too much today.. almost as much as i would on a weekly shop. Did buy some useful things.. but mostly not.... hehe ah well..

clutterydrawer

Flat_Eric wrote: »

I would be interested to know how you go about your food shopping (do you home delivery/go to the supermarket etc) because despite having a fridge/freezer/cupboard full of food, Im still spending unnecessarily.

I have trouble getting to the shops cos i live in the middle of nowhere with no car and few buses.


I usually get the (only) bus into town every second saturday for cupboard gooods, milk and bread some of which is to freeze, and veg....then top up veg midweek at the co op near my work

I'm thinking about switching to getting a delivery on my day off though for ease of carrying.

belfastgirl23

Hi everyone

Well I have managed over a week with no spend (last spend was an asda delivery on 3rd Jan). However I can't really congratulate myself on this - DH has been away for a week already and he's due back on Friday - and unfortunately I have fallen into the beans on toast or takeout trap. I'm normally good about stuff like this and have always felt it's worth the effort to cook for one but somehow this time it doesn't feel like it.

Anyway it has done my GC budget no end of good but has eaten into my leisure spends money quite badly so still on around £51 spent out of £120. I do need to do a lidl shop though, running out of tinned tomatos and oatcakes finally...

Hope everyone else is doing ok...

Rachel021967

I had 3 NSD in a row. Had the urge for a Diet Coke so I went to the supermarket and spent:

Grapes £4.33
Nectarines £1.69
Diet coke £0.99

I gave half the grapes to nursery and the other half for the family. I have to buy soft fruit as my daughter has a brace. I'll have to find cheaper soft fruit and not be so extravagant.

So this leaves me with £96.77 for the month.

Angelwings_3

Hi all,
It's been a few days since I last posted. Really pleased with myself - got £140 worth of whoopsies for £23 at Mr S's. Loads of fruit and veg and meat n fish too. Splashed out on reduced boxes of biscuits and sweets - £4ish for £1 - kids were happy and OH too. Method in this was it's cheaper than sweets from the corner shop.
Had for tea tonight
Large Steak pie 45p
Baby potatoes 20p
Corn on the Cob 20p
Cheesecake 60p
Which comfortabley fed 2 females and 2 male horses'

Spent £88 so far and have now got less than £112 left for the rest of the month. Freezer is full - had to use mum's freezer too and fridge well packed as well as cupboards.

dreamingofmoney

Hiya
Well another NSD day, Very proud of myself, think i am cracking this grocery challenge, only need to buy a large chicken breast today from local butchers, so apart from about £1.50, think today will be a not quite NSD, so well done me.
Dreamer

kalojac

I am doing quite well bought some meat at the weekend and updated my signature accordingly. Will need to get 1lb of mince today from butchers so will add another £2.50ish when I get back.

gailey_2

Right update from me

you may rememebr we wre running very low and i was doing some ingeneious meal planning to see us through until oh payday on thursday.
However oh gone and screwed us up because we had nothing he fancied!
He had £5to go to shops and get basic breadmilk and coffee told him go sainsburys or morrisions.
What does he do come shome with nothing! it gets worse
hes got hd from iceland min spend £25! so wheres he got £25 from turns out his mum gave him somone money so hes cheated I was so mad!
also he dident have sense to bring coffee home so coudkent ahve hot cuppa for few hours! Then you think can it get any worse!?
i check his coat pocket for recipt turns out hsi mam gave him £50 not £20 and its not like we starving! Also hes spent

£41 on 25 items!

most of which are junk
admittidly he got soem squash in there which was good value at £2 for 2liters however £2.89 for cofee when sainburys gold £1 something!
he brought 2 bottles fizzy pop!
2frozen pizzas one of which cost £3 even fesh sainsbury pizza on offer at £1.59 and he knew that yet spent 3quid on frozen chicago town!
5 ready emals pointless as they like snack for him he still hungry afterwards
another bag of chips despite us buying a bag day before in lidls which hes not keen on look of.
big bag or walkers crips

I think on sensible purchase was bread
milk 6p
yogurts and butter bogoff!

Was so disapointed and angry! wa slooking foward to thur.
I keep telling him iceland is priceya dn only buy certain things in there feel hes wasted part of our budget now ehen thur comes we got les sto spend due to his negligance and may even go over budget our challange will be much harder as i cant amke meals from junk and convienaince food!

gailey

mags50_2

Hi all

MrsM...would you mind putting me down for the yearly spend as well...instead of the monthly..pretty please
Like some of the others, I buy when things are on offer and then might not buy for ages! so it doesn't really give a true account every month iykwim

If you could put me down for £3000 for the year, that would be great. It's still £250 per month, but feel sure this would be a better way of doing the challenge for me. Then, hopefully, I shall be well prepared for Chistmas

Thanks everso

p.s. everyone's doing really really well

orchid-96

Hi all, I have had to re-jig the meal plan today as forgot to get the mince out of the freezer to cook chilli this morning (whilst my girls are at nursery as no-chance of cooking anything that takes longer than 2 minutes when they are around)..anyway I had planned a pizza night (got bases in the cupboard and have bits in to top them) for Thursday so have swapped to today (ds will be pleased although he does like chilli)

Been to the gym this morning (only a quick half hour workout) but feeling much better for it...

Have a good day all

planning a nsd today and if it works it will be the first one this month (I think)..