January 2010 Grocery Challenge

miecherox

Thankyou to everyone who replied for the motivational ideas for my supermarket/shopping addiction. It has been a painful past two weeks but I am working on strategies to deal with it and get some money back in our pocket.
DP has agreed to come with me and do the big shop with me and then I will have a few pounds £10 I think in cash for milk etc and once it's gone it's gone.
I'm also not going until the freezers have been cleared - we have so much it's embarassing:o

Anyway I will be following you all in the Feb challenge and sort of joining in except my challenge will be a very personal one

Thankyou all again and see in Feb x

pixiechick99

That's me finished with grocery shopping for Jan....so can you put my total down as £195.80, under budget for once woohoo:beer:

SarahNeedle1872

Hiya all, Jan ended yesterday for me, so declaring at £356.98 - £6.98 over

Will have a think about the Feb budget in the morning.... but have been shopping already

Sx

[Deleted User]

I am declaring at a bit more than I anticipated
Petrol £76.00 (lots of running around delivering present and cards over christmas)

Food £74.95 (not bad as I had £120.00 in my food purse)£75.05 will go into holiday fund for August holiday.No more food to buy for a fortnight

entertainment£19.80 Cinema with DGS, and am-dram with my friends

Phone Top-up for mobile £15.00

Parking ticket :mad::mad: £25.00

New lampshade for bedroom light £10.00 in BHS

Total for January £220.75
Still pleased as January is a very loooooong month.

Mrs_Money_Penny

Hi All just updated signature by £24.59 should be enough for another week.
Welcome back MrsM and thanks Helen for looking after us all must be very time consuming. Can I log for end of January £161.06 spent from annual budget of £2500 many thanks.

KITTY_2-2

My January total was £246.16 so just scraped in.

Need to pull in the reins a bit next month as got a couple of big birthdays coming up in the family which will be quite expensive.

Hope to go for £220 for February. I'll post budget over there now.

Good luck all, K

savingforoz

I'm declaring £76.50 for January - well under budget, so I'm pleased with that.

SarahNeedle1872

Ok, had a look at the budgets, and due to serious lack of funds this month, the budget is being cut again!

Feb is £300 please

highland_fling_2

Good morning everyone,
well I am declaring at £157 for January.
Please Mrs. McC put Highland Fling down for £160 in February.
Off now to make some lentil soup, read it someone had made it earlier in this thread and it has put me in the notion for some.
Very cold today with frost all around me so it will warm me up.
Good luck to everyone in the coming month.

NJW69

We'd run out of milk so I thought oh no I'm going to have to buy some and I've alreday declared for the month. So I have made some with the milk powder I use for breadmaking. Washed out the old milk carton and shook it up and put it in the fridge. My son noticed the difference but had it on his cereal anyway. Made some bread so I won't need to buy anything and I'll have enough bread and milk for tomorrow and I'll lift some steak out of the freezer for tea tomorow. Have had all NSD since I shopped at Sainsburys last Saturday.