January 2009 Grocery Challenge

Changingme

Just been out to Co-op and brought milk and the Sun,for the holiday token.
As I'm only suppost to spend £60 a week I'mnot doing very well.There again I did have to buy a birthday present for my niece.

Toonie

Well, BF came back with what I needed, plus got a bag of oranges, which will be nice he spent £8.81 which will see us through until the weekend, when we will need to get some potatoes (the ones in the shop looked horrible apparently).

Tonight we're having roasted veggies with sausages. We have some swede leftover from Christmas, so will be chucking that in with some tomatoes, carrots, peppers and a little onion. Plus will do some peas as well to go with it. Then will have some warm fruit salad for afters.

wornoutmumoftwo

just discovered bread flour is now 48p at tesco (was 45p then 75p) so i'm going to stock up before it goes up again as i use loads

Thank you,:T

I thought I was going mad the other day as it was 48p in my small tesco's and 75p in the large store. I bought some from Lidl's in the end.

Lucycat

Late as always! Just been over and posted my final tally on the Dec thread, and as it seems I still have a way to go :rolleyes:, can I join the Jan challenge for £300 please? Thanks in advance, and Happy New Year to all! :beer:

mummy2mygirls

hello, I went to see my nan the other day and she was lovely and gave me a little selection of yummy things like hm mince pies. Well we have eaten or going to most of the little bits but she gave us a wedge of white stilton and apricot cheese, we both are not fans of stilton so wondered if there was any recepies i could add it to or any other surgestions would be great

thanks if anybody has got any ideas

Savvy_sewing

Since I moved I have found that the ASDA will accept my Electron card, and will also deliver. Bonus I thought, but I am still waiting for the delivery today. ITs now 3 hours after the 2 hour allotted slot!. will it ever come. I know that we have snow but the roads are clear I was out at 8.30 and they were fine? Mind you the spend is a big one, with the babies nappies and wet wipes etc, coming in at around £140 I belive. We will see if it actually arrives.

OrkneyStar

Another £1.59 for milk (2L local stuff) and £1.04 for haggis slices (local, for freezer for DS/H when I have veggie haggis on burns night), from small local shop (I like to support the small shops in the area every now and then, instead of lining Tesco's pockets all the bloomin' time :eek:).
x

angelatgraceland

Mooloo wrote: »

Since I moved I have found that the ASDA will accept my Electron card, and will also deliver. Bonus I thought, but I am still waiting for the delivery today. ITs now 3 hours after the 2 hour allotted slot!. will it ever come. I know that we have snow but the roads are clear I was out at 8.30 and they were fine? Mind you the spend is a big one, with the babies nappies and wet wipes etc, coming in at around £140 I belive. We will see if it actually arrives.

Don't wait any longer-phone them! Log in and see if your order is showing as pending. If its disappeared then sometthing has gone wrong with your payment. not trying to panic you but this is not normal for Asda!

Savvy_sewing

angelatgraceland wrote: »

Don't wait any longer-phone them! Log in and see if your order is showing as pending. If its disappeared then sometthing has gone wrong with your payment. not trying to panic you but this is not normal for Asda!

I have rung them, 3 times now. They said the shop would be back to me, just put the phone down to them, finally ringing me, to say that they are running a couple of hours late becuase of the weather! I said that this is now 3 1/2 hours late, and that when they are supposed to ring me back they didnt. Now they are going to ring the driver and find out where he is (Again), but this time they are going to see if they can refund my delivery charge. So at least that will save me £4.50. But I am not impressed.! lets hope they are here soon, we are just about out of Nappies!!! With two one year olds we need them!:rolleyes:

PurpleSkies

As it's my first post in the January thread - happy new year to all!

Can I be put down for £40 for Jan please? Although I will be trying to stay as far under that as possible! If I were doing the GC from payday to payday this would be a 6 week month!!!! So things are going to be pretty tight this month after the overspend that was Christmas! (Although I don't think I did too bad considering!)

Hope 2009 turns out to be a good money saving year for everyone!