January 2010 Grocery Challenge

ceebeeby

Grocery Spend was £14.22, however, £5.31 of that was on pets!!!

What's in the store!

Freezer
1 packets of uncooked diced turkey
12 'best' lincolnshire sausages
2 good for you garlic baguettes
Irish fruit loaf
2 x bread/ crumpets / pancakes / pkt pitta / bread.
½ pkt frozen chips
½ pkt frozen green beans ¼ pkt left
Loads of ice-lollies!
2 Birds Eye Chicken Steaks
2 Birds Eye Chicken Burgers
Full pkt veggie mince ½ pkt veggie mince
Full pkt veggie bacon bits
3 pkts fish pie sauce 2 pkts left
1 microwave meals (spag bol)
1 pkt smoky bacon
1 black pudding
Pork Bolognaise Pasta – already made up – enough for 2 meals - 1 meal left
2 x Chicken Fajita’s made up.
1 portion left over Turkey Curry and Rice
Frozen Lemon Chicken Sauce
Huge lump of cheese
1/2 bag of frozen strawberries

Fridge
4l milk - 1l watered down to skimmed
salad stuff
Jam / Lemon Curd
Beer!
Lots of Marg / Butter / Trex
Tub of pate - use by 21st Jan

Cupboards
Pasta Shapes ½ pkt left
Dried Spagetti - large packet
2 x pkt savoury rice
2 tins soup (1 veggy, 1 meat)
4 tins beans - 3 tins bean
1 tin meatballs
2 tins spagetti
1 tin tomatos
1 tin chick peas
4 tins rice pudding 2 tins
4 tins sliced peaches 2 tins
½ pkt of long grain rice
1 pkt value pre-ready pasta
9 pkts value noodles (kids favourite stuff!)
1 small jar dolmio pasta sauce
Medium Amount cereal (weetabix, bran flakes, rice crispies, frosties)
Tea / Coffee / Hot Chocolate
All sorts of home baking stuff incl. 2 jars mincemeat – running low on Plain Flour
Herbs /spices / gravy / stock cubes / Ketchups (every flavour) (lots)
chilli sauce
sweet and sour sauce
2 pkts stuffing
4 pkts instant custard 2 pkts custard
Biscuits / chocolate / Xmas Pud / Mince Pies / Sweets galore
2 pkts chicken soup
2 pkts instant cheese sauce
40 pkts crisps! 30 pkts crisps
A smidgen of drinking squash
8kg Potatos

Meal Plan So Far

Mon 11th Jan
B'Fast: Porridge for kids and me. / Cereal himself
Lunch: home-made tortilla wraps with jam / lemon curd / peanut butter filling
Dinner: home-made burger mince meat balls and mash potato.
Tues 12th Jan
B' Fast: Crumpets for kids / Cereal for Adults
Lunch: Sandwiches – rest of tuna with mayo.
Dinner: black pudding and smoky bacon with fried potato and beans - BIG FAVOURITE
Rice pudding and peaches.
Wed 13th Jan
B'Fast: Crumpets for kids / Cereal for Adults
Lunch: Packet soup for Adults / Wraps for kids – cheese spread
Dinner: Micro Dinners x 2 / Kids had noodles (v unhealthy!)
Thursday 14th Jan
B'Fast: Cereal
Lunch: Sandwiches - ham
Dinner: Soup for kids and me with any bready things. / Left over curry portion for himself
Friday 15th Jan
B'Fast: Toast
Lunch: Sandwiches (boring!) – anything that’s left!
Dinner: Home made pizza and popcorn
Saturday 16th Jan
B'Fast: Porridge / Crumpets
Lunch: pitta pockets
Dinner: Sausage casserole with mash
Sun 17th Jan
B'Fast: Porridge / Toast
Lunch: 2 x chicken fajita’s made up for himself
Home made fajitas with veg / chicken burgers for me and kids
½ pkt chips
Dinner: Spagetti on toast

mrs-moneypenny

spent £3 in the last 2 days - carton of milk and 4 tins of soup.

not doing too bad but still working through the christmas overstock

Moniker

Managed to get to Sainbury's this morning - the first time in 10 days! I was getting withdrawal symptoms! Anyway have spent £34-30, mainly on FV+M, but also some toiletries we had run out of which bumped up the spend. Have updated my sig and am quite pleased with the totals so far.

Am going to do some more soup and rolls this afternoon - probably celery soup as I made some chicken stock earlier in the week and have a bunch of celery to use up.

Should be at work, but still having terrible trouble on local roads and the hill up to the campus, so staying put. Yesterday's experience was scary and I have terrible back pain, I think from sitting hunched over the steering wheel clinging on for dear life!

Keep safe and warm everyone.

Moniker

sistercas

was going to have NSD today but the weather improved so I popped out

spent £23.66 in the co-op

potatoes £1.45
onions £1.10
mange tout £1.00
leeks £0.55
tomatoes £1.00
baconx2 £4.00
spinach £1.50
hot rst chick £3.90 really fancied it
fr eggs £1.80
crumpets x2 £1.00
bread £1.45
gammon jnt £4.91 ( from the butcher)

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£23.66

think these 'little' spends may affect my budget I must be careful

russetred

I popped into mrT last night and dont you just know it full of whoopsie bargains.I swear it always happens when I'm trying to run the freezer down.£11.55 and I got 3 x sirloin steaks,1x topside joint,5 x 4 pack of lamb chops, 2 ribeye steaks and 2x twin pack of SF chicken breast fillets.My freezer is nearly full again but I will be using the lamb chops for a big family get together for DS1 birthday next week so saved a fair bit on that really.But I am not going near the reduced section till next month....hopefully!

loopychriss

I wasn't intending to spend any more of my grocery budget quite so soon, but when I took the decluttered stuff to Oxfam I thought I'd just pop into the Co-Op to see what they had.

Came home with:

3 x 12 packs toilet rolls (£2.50 each)
5 x Mullerlite yogurts (£1.50)
2 packs of hot cross buns (half price at 50p each)
2 bottle washing up liquid (2 for £1)
1 box of 60 all ni 1 dishwasher tablets for £5 instead of about £13
1 packet of crab sticks for my lunch (only thing not on offer at £1)

So - I'm now well stocked up for loo rolls, dishwasher tablets and, after my trip to Asda on Monday, washing liquid tablets!

Total spend = £17 plus points on my Co-Op card.

artichoke

sorry i posted my weekly meals by mistake thinking it was the general meal plan thread - sorry

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

A top-up shop for me today in MrT. Spent £36.16 on groceries, which included a couple of items to be used next month, but were on offer now. These included 2 x Old El Pa$o fajita kits, half price at £1.42 (for DS1's birthday tea on 5th Feb) and ImperiaL leather shower gel, 4 for £3 (these are for DH and the boys). No whoopsies to speak of except for 2 x 2 fresh breaded plaice fillets at £1.55 for 2. In freezer for Febs GC.

Also got teabags, coffee and washing tablets which always push the bill up.

Spent £6.15 on two birthday presents, but this was from a different budget.

Off to update sig and read up on the posts I've missed. Have a good day all.

Coxy
xx

scotsaver

Hi everyone - confession time - the roads here are clear so I drove to Asda and got carried away, had loads of meat/joints whoopsied so I couldn't resist. Also they have 4 packs of Branston Beans at 2 for £2, 3l bottles of Orange/blackcurrant at 82p, "good for you" jars of sauces at 2 for £1 ( I usually make my own tomato sauce but at that price it was too good to miss and I can re-use the jars once empty;)) they also had the tikka masala and another variety on offer, Bread Flour now 61p a bag, also got some more F&V so I've updated my total with my spends.:o

Total not looking too good but both Freezers are full, cupboards restocked and so I know I don't need to buy anything until late next week.:cool:

Tonights dinner is in the Slow Cooker. using some sliced Gammon from the Xmas joint that was in the Freezer, put it in with some potatoes, carrots, onions etc to make a casserole and hoping that the remaining stock/juices can be turned into a Soup tomorrow. Still got loads of sliced Gammon left (it was a huge joint) so will be checking out some more Gammon recipes to spread out over the menu plan over the forthcoming weeks.

Looks like the big thaw is well and truly under way. Hope you all have a good day.:D

XSpender

We needed some pots as BIL coming for tea and he and DH will be having chicken pie from the freezer so, in order to stick to my target of shopping once a week, I did the rest of this weeks food shop today at Mr S rather than drive to Mr M tomorrow. I still had to drive to Mr S but it is only 2 miles away.

Spent £43.65 which is under my £60/week budget for toiletries, food, household, alcohol and dog food. Picked up some R@dox shower gels for DH which were half price and some Qu0rn burgers and LM sausages that were also half price for me.:D They also had S1mple shower gel half price which is the only one I use. I didn't buy any as I have 3 in the cupboard but I am tempted to stock up on a few more at that price.

They had some good offers on toiletries and 4 x tuna half price but I resisted anything else:D

Will need to go to Mr S tomorrow or Sat to pick up DH prescription so may stock up on some more shower gels for us both then as I am sure he drinks the stuff I get him. He will no doubt want 4 cans of beer for the weekend which we will get when we get the prescription. I need to make sure I don't go buying anything else as DH leads me astray when we are in the supermarket together.:rolleyes:

So far I have spent £139.28 out of a monthly budget of £300 and am really pleased as we have lots in and 2 freezers full:T. I have been keeping a more detailed record of what I spend on different categories of my grocery shopping and it has made me realise just how much we spend on F&V:eek: