February 2009 Grocery Challenge

victoriajj

Oh, if only I could get Wilja potatoes, they're my very favourite. I too am hoping that I can get iceberg lettuce to grow, but with being gifted a black thumb instead of green fingers I'm not holding my breath!

If you mean wilja potatos to grow, they are selling them in Wilkinsons, my husband bought some today

SAVVYMUMMY_2

bluetimone97 wrote: »

Can I join please, hoping to save enough to get a food processor and new breadmaker (my freecycled one will not cook).
Do I just put on here what I think I want to keep to?
There are 5 of us, 2 adults, DS's 16, 15 and 11.

Hi Bluetime, I don`t know if this will help(hopefully save you a bit of money), but does your bread maker have a dough cycle. I only use ever use this cycle, to make my bread or rolls. Once the dough cycle has finished, I shape the dough into rolls or pop into a tin, let it rise again to double size, then pop into the oven. HTH.

MadamMim2013

Only needing to top up with bread and milk which I'll get tomorrow and I'm doing well!
Not sure what target to put for march yet.... having a thought or two

PennyGrabber

I want to know how I change from being a money saving newbie!!

Never thought I'd say this, but I'm looking forward to going back to school next week - so much better on my pocket for the GC! Plus the diet...

I have been thinking about the target of £125 I've set myself for march, and I feel quite good about it. This time, I WILL come in under! More good news - my mortgage has come down again, so the money I will be under for the GC will go on overpayments for my mortgage.

Aren't theories lovely?!

PG x

Miss_Liquorice

I managed to spend £3.50 on bacon rolls and a bottle of diet irn bru this morning because of a cancelled lecture - very annoyed at myself. Still under budget, as long as I hold my breath for the next week then I should be fine. If I'm under budget this month I will be going and using the excess to stock up on rice and jars of sauces etc for next month, when I'm going to cut my budget down a bit more. Eek!

reb

Coolmum66 wrote: »

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Plan to shop Sunday this week and Monday next week. Used to do this before (don't know why I stopped!!) and then read it again on here I think.

Not sure how this different day shopping would make a difference. please could someone enlighten me. Thanx Maybe I could learn a new way to save?

OrkneyStar

reb wrote: »

Not sure how this different day shopping would make a difference. please could someone enlighten me. Thanx Maybe I could learn a new way to save?

Sunday week 1
Monday week 2
Tuesday week 3 and so on.
Basically you are making each week last another day (8 days), but only buying a normal weeks shopping (7 days).
This is what I understand it to mean anyway :rolleyes:.
hth
I have now decided to take DS out of real nappies (basically to cut wash loads due to struggling back). I think we did well having him in them for 20 months :T (minus a couple of holidays and 5 days in hosp when born!). Problem is I had budgetted for him in real nappies and now we are buying sposies . I have managed to get a couple of packs using CC voucher/coupons , but obviously this will add money on to the spend every couple of weeks . We only have Tesco (not full range), Boots (ok), Coop (naff for nappies!) and Lidl (Lidl own but not so keen on them). TBH I cannot really increase the budget as we don't have much spare, we will see how it goes :rolleyes:.
Hope all are well.

GreenandThrifty

Hi guys

Have been reading through the thread over the past few weeks and you've all really inspired me ( so much that i've been running an unoffical GC challenge in my sig )


How do I join in the challenge officially??

SunnyGirl

GreenandThrifty wrote: »

Hi guys

Have been reading through the thread over the past few weeks and you've all really inspired me ( so much that i've been running an unoffical GC challenge in my sig )


How do I join in the challenge officially??

I only joined in February so was like you too! I waited until I saw the new thread for February grocery challenge then posted in that. Everyone posts their budget amount in red & bigger letters to make it easier to be seen & Mrs Macawber (I think ) then adds it to the first couple of posts with everyones names on a big list IYSWIM

Keep going & posting as you go this month though it always helps me seeing how I'm spending & picking up tips from other people

starflower_2

Just updating sig, spent £12.26 at Co-op this morning, got bread and milk, fresh fruit and veg, and baking supplies. now have about £11 left in budget until Friday, think I'll be ok, cupboards and freezer are well stocked, enough meals for a week and baking this afternoon to keep us going for snacks, making a malt loaf, carrot cake, Buttermilk cookies and Gingerbread cookies for the week. Also going to try some home-made crisps.