January 2009 Grocery Challenge

oligeo

Not a great start, spent £22.61 in the little tesco as couldn't be bothered to drag the kids accross town to aldi. Didn't get a great deal of food for that either.
On the plus side DH is totally on board with this and is getting as addicted as me, to the point of sitting down and working out the cost of each meal that I make!

Sarah

savingfortravel

Orkney star, Great Whoopsie find!!! The recipe is spicy roasted parsnip soup and is found on:
www.bbcgoodfood.co.uk.food.
Enjoy!
SFT

Barneysmom

Barneysmom wrote: »

Hi everyone, Happy New Year!

MrsM please can you put me down for my £170 this month.

My month will start this Saturday as I won't be shopping till then hopefully.
I know I've got to try really hard now, after the shambles I made of my last quarter's totals. I don't think I overspent but I did !!!! it up!

HI I just wanted to say, I didn't swear on this post honest, I don't know why it put the exclaimation marks there

But any road up, I did have to go to Asda today as I was very low on sugar. I've spent £25 and bought
a loaf of bread
2 jars of Gold Blend (just can't give it up!) £7.00 :eek:
a big bag of sugar
2 'flagons' of milk
a paper (haven't bought one all last week)
one of those zester thingys
and a big pack of loo roll.
some socks (£5.00) which shouldn't be out of the food buget so I'll pay that back by buying then next 2 flagons of milk out of my pocket money.

MRSMCAWBER

Barneysmom wrote: »

HI I just wanted to say, I didn't swear on this post honest, I don't know why it put the exclaimation marks there

:rotfl: did you say that you did c*ck up? if so then it will sensor it :rotfl: ..wonder if you can get away with having spotted !!!!!! ?

ooohhh it seems I can :rotfl:

Moniker

Gosh you lot are quick off the mark! I have only just finished posting in the Dec thread - but in case you missed it Mrs M can you put me down for £300 for Jan please?My month will run from 3rd -31st.

thanks

Moniker

Penny_Farthing_4

I've never done this before but would like to set £200 for me and my cats, to cover my food, pet supplies and toiletries. Gulp!

searching_me

hello everyone very pea'ed off today... found out that because of the holidays i wont be getting paid til next wednesday instead of saturday but i get my first lot of tax credits for this month in the next day or two depending if they put it in early so im still gonna start my month anyway so gonna get my budget brain on and get sorted (not good though when baby brain is starting to really kick in :rotfl:) hope your all well x

cw18

I'm over-complicating the way I'm working my budget (which will be different every month!), but for now

please can I go down for £128 for January

this is for food and drinks only

This is made up of.....

£1.80 each a day for me and younger DS = £3.60/day * 31 days = £111.60
£1.80 a day for 5 days to cover elder DS being home = £9.00
50p a piece for 3 cooked meals for younger GD (Mon only, term time) = £1.50
20p/day for after school snacks for GDs (M-W for younger one, M-F for elder one) = 28 snacks = £5.60

which actually comes to £127.70, but I'm rounding it up for ease


this could change in the next few days, as I want to explore some options with DD once she's completed her annual budget

Le_Foot

Hi everyone. I need to have a serious try at controlling my budget this year if we are to be able to afford our continental holiday in our camper planned for the whole of June. The weak £ against the euro will make it more expensive for the essential fuel, so realy need to tighten belts to save 'diesel money'.
Mrs. M, will you please put me in for £300 for January, although I hope to be able to shave a little off that for February .
Good luck everyone, and I wish you all a Happy, healthy, peaceful, Money Saving New Year.

sistercas

I need to keep my food bill to a minimum
£75 a week for me OH and 2 teenage DD's
that includes food, toiletries, cleaning stuff, milkman, papers and school dinners for DD1.
I hope I can do it, I am determined.
If I can give any advice to the new people this month is:
GO SHOPPING ALONE!!!! :rotfl:
If DD's or OH come along I end up spending twice as much:rotfl:
my aim this week was not to shop between xmas and new year and so far so good :A
good luck to everyone