January 2010 Grocery Challenge

Purpleclutterbuck

Eeek!:eek: doesn't the grocery amount suddenly creep up ! I must keep looking at everyone's ideas as its the only way to keep focused - Tonight's tea will be courtesy of my mum-in-law as she gave us the cold meat from the joint -very much appreciated!:T so today is going to be a NSD !
February budget is £275

RuthG

NSD today for me. Dinner is leftovers from yesterday amde into a stew using veggies I already have.

Ruth

BigMummaF

Meant to say yesterday that our milkman can be paid, any extras ordered & holiday dates given on-line. HTH.

Welsh_Poppy

Well been shopping today last shop of January did my research on here and shopping thread visit mysupermarket got a list of deals my list and off we went 4 supermarkets later I am a Mr M girl for main shop normally but the comparisons dont do Morrisons.
Anyway Mr Lidl 2.50....very disapointed as offers not the same as threads or website
Mr Aldi again disapointed but 3.25
Mr Asda 22.00 very good got most i needed then on to Mr T for water and Heinz beans offers and dove deodrant on offer(I dont include toiletries in budget)4.10
Mr M for anything I could not get 8.20
Have updated sig but it was very hard to keep in budget which we did with scrap of teeth. did not help could not frozen roasted parsnips except for 1.75 which was 75p more than I wanted to spend on them. May try Iceland next week for them.
going to amend Feb to £210.00 which will include toiletries and any alcohol as this month used seperate budget . Aiming for £2,880 for year and working on 7.50 Per day for each month.

brodie1_2

Went to coop 2day as things I really needed. Also short on elmlea and brown sugar for the sticky toffee pud I was making for husdands son and his girlfriend as we were visiting 2day to see there 2 day old baby.:)

The shop came to15.77 and had dog food on it, tuna (hlf price), mango chutney (we had run out and alot of curry going on at present) Massive typhoo t bags for 2.00 instead of 4.something. Only 1 whoopsie today tho 32p for some bread which still had 3 days left on it. Qite pleased as onbly thing off list was t bags and we only have aweeks worth left anyway.

Tea is macaroni cheesew, left over beans from sausage casserole and broccoli. Pud left over choc pud I made the other evening. Tommorow we have 3 small portions of sticky toffe pud (well I couldnt let them have it all);) Off to update signature.
Brodie1

Coxy11

Went to MrS today when taking DS2 for his swim lesson. He has changed to a later lesson which means the whoopsies had been marked down . Got 2 packs of TTD meatballs for £1.50 each and 2 packs of fresh pasta for 75p each, all of which are in the freezer to use during Feb.

Also got sweets for the children, stain remover spray, milk and a stir fry sauce for tonights tea.

Off to update my sig.

Coxy
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freakyogre

86p spent today on milk.

I bought my new freezer yesterday :j I am going to have a look online tonight and make a 'list' to start filling it up as it's running now, so I may as well put something in it! I'll either add this on to February's 'budget' or just give up totally on January! I don't need a great deal, but will buy a few bags of veg as it'll be so much easier than buying fresh all the time.

I'm very excited!! :D (sad, I know )

SilverCo

Hi everyone :hello:

A £2 spend today, so that definitely takes me over budget, but not by too much, so I'm happy enough!! Should only need a pint of milk now for the rest of the week, then Feb challenge kicks in on Saturday for us.

HM veggie soup tonight (from a batch I froze a couple of weeks ago) and L!dl banana Heavenly Delight. I know it's not the healthiest pud in the world, but what's wrong with a few additives now and again!

Have a good evening! Off to update sig.

Silver x

Sunnyday

I`ve not caught up with the last few pages yet but i will make a start shortly, i`ve just got my receipts out and updated my signature.

I was hoping that i`d done my sums ok as i had to actually put a couple of things back onto the shelf when i went shopping - not things that i needed this week but i knew that i would need them next week and its really just a habit that i`ve got of buying things in advance.

I`m not buying a thing until the weekend when my Feb challenge starts but just to be on the safe side i`ll not declare my total just yet, i don`t need anything at all, just need to make sure that DH stays out of the shops too not a lot that can be bought with 2 pence though which is all thats left :rotfl:

Good luck everyone.

SD

annieb30

Can you put me down for £170 for February - have £60 of Asda vouchers on top of that of should be able to do it - going to include ALL my lunch stuff for work within this. Love this thread!