January 2010 Grocery Challenge

brodie1_2

Hi,
DH came home with rolls and bread flour from Tescos 1.80.
As you can see under £4.00 left now until the end of the month. Just some cat bics to get now and hopefully we are done.;)
Brodie1

HowlinWolf

Mrs M can you put me down for 220 for Feb please.

I was debating whether to include the money I need to spend on ds's passport or not but I will just stick to it being grocery's and all household goods including majority of toiletries and any nappies/wipes we might need. I am impressed that even though I went over this month I still was 100 better than I've done in other months. If I can keep this up it will help a lot. I am reading Weezl's old threads for inspiration and then I'm going to move on to Thriftlady's wartime experiment.

SilverCo

Hi everyone :hello:

NSD for me today, yay!! Am going to declare £201.16 for January, which isn't too bad for my first GC! Nothing else is needed until pay day now and the meals are all planned out. Dare I say it, I think I'm actually becoming organised

Well done to everyone this month and see you on the Feb thread!

Silver x

coffeeholic_2

Evening everyone, I have been MIA for a couple of weeks but still sticking to GC, well trying to. Will declare total spends nearer end of the month as we have another top up food shop to do tomorrow.

I'm hoping I will end up under my budget but it will be a tight squeeze so I'd like to go with £200 again for Feb pretty please.

Thanks for all the ideas I am picking up from this thread, you are all fab.

elizabunny

Evening all!

Been missing for a few days. Trying to use up things in the freezer/fridge for the rest of the month so we're having some rather odd combinations. Today I made some curried bean soup using the mixed beans I had been soaking which turned out quite nice. Also I've been adding some omega 3 seed mix into my HM bread which makes a really nice change. Dinner tonight was a HM Chicken and Leek Bake, followed by a couple of chocolate and walnut muffins taken from the batch I made earlier....naughty but nice. I just need to sort out my receipts now and tot up what I've spent so far this year. Will update later. I hope everyone else is doing ok.

albacookie

Payday tomorrow so my last bits come to £17.52 - will update signature in a mo.

Can I have £100 for Feb please.

freakyogre

Went to Asda tonight to stock up on bits for my new freezer I will add my spend onto February's total as all my meals are planned for this week and apart from a couple of things, none of it will be used until February anyway.

Spent £25.04 and got quite a lot; frozen corn cobs, peas, spinach, green beans, broad beans, scampi, prawns, pizza, fish fingers, some chicken steaks, chips and crispbakes have all gone in the freezer. Also got some reduced breads rolls which have gone in there as well as some crumpets and sausages. Got some cup a soups for work, bottle of lemon juice (as end up buying a lemon for recipes and half of it gets wasted each time), a packet of polenta, some garlic, a jar of pesto (never tried it), a bag of salad, some cake slices (reduced!) and 2 Wispa Golds Also bought some eggs and was so embarrassed as when I was checking the eggs, I lifted one out and dropped it. It hit the trolley, cracked and just oozed onto the floor. I went and found someone and apologised a lot, but felt so bad! My sister was just laughing at me while I guarded the poor scrambled egg on the floor

Oh, also got a set of plastic food containers - 18 various sizes for £3.00. I thought they'd be quite useful, but I will see over time

Enough of my rambling. I think I will go for £60.00 in February please which actually leaves me with £37.96 when I take off the above total (minus the plastic containers). I will see how I get on with that...!

purpletent

I have already been paid, but am going to count each month starting on the 1st. It looks like I will be going over budget (but it was a guess and my overdraft facility did not get as much abuse as usual!)

I will keep the same budget for feb. It is a shorter month and I hope that I will not even need my overdraft!

I have really benefitted from the recipes posted at the beginning of the thread and have enjoyed planning meals etc. There is still alot of room for improvement and am looking forward to continuing with the challenge!

mark55man

big shop at sainsbury's today - bit later than usual so got more woopsies. also lots of things Bogof - think I did OK

will do a big total on Friday, but may need one more shop

jintyb

I'm declaring £156.04 for January, hooray! Really chuffed with that!
Can you put me down for £170 for Feb please? This is for 28 Jan- 20 Feb ( payday)a bit high but I need to stock up my freezer with meat from Costco.Anything under that will def be a bonus! See you all in Feb!