January 2010 Grocery Challenge

Trinny

£170 for me please - sorry i am late again this month

Trin

castafiore41

Please count me in!

My groceries target for january is £200.
Considering that I have a large , well stocked pantry, a full freezer and lots of home made jams and preserves, it should be easy this month!

CherryPie

2 NSD's in a row, a first for me. Went to Morrison's today and I was being extremely good. Bought loads of fresh veg for soup, got to the checkout, and as I finished the packing, my Mum had already paid for it. She wouldn't let me give her the money either. Even although it was only £10.42, I'm not adding it to my total as it was a freebie.

Still snowing here, I hope it goes away soon. I have a 6 hour drive on Monday for a job interview, don't fancy doing it in the snow!!


CherryPie X

mummyslittleboy

Please can I join really need to save some money on my shopping but no idea what I am spending so going to guess at £300 for this month and hope i dont spend that much!!

jackieglasgow

First spend of the year for me £2.30 for bread and milk on the way home from w*rk - I couldn't be @rsed making bread tonight and am out at w*rk again tomorrow, so needed some for my packed lunch.Also spent £22 on bedlinen in the sales for the boys, but that won't come out of my budget as it's a non consumable! Did plan to mealplan tonight but I am cream crackered so will leave that for tomorrow.

HowlinWolf

some amendments made to Mr S order due to heavy snow. Now estimated at 93.65. 4.90 spent at lakeland on rubber gloves.

ceebeeby

Wow - can I just tell you all, the pork mince bolognaise sauce (of which there is enough left for at least 2 more meals) was declared "the best ever" and resulted in 3 sparkling clean and empty plates!!

Thank you so much!!

taka

1st spend of the 2010 annual GC budget = £9.04

For that I got...
Water = 52p
Frozen spinach = £1
Phily style cheese x2 = £1.20
Yoghurt = 29p
Bread items (several) = £1.03
Lettuce = 34p
Salad onions = 74p
Baby bananas = 22p
Pears (2 bags@25p) = 50p
Plums (Large punnet) = 75p
Butternut wedges = 25p
Dried milk = £1.20
Shortbread (4 pkts@9p) = 36p
Choc truffles = 64p - erm not strictly a necessity... more a treat for braving the snow!

I'm pleased with that! :T It appears I accidentally timed it for the 75% off fruit/veg reductions as the store was shutting at 6 today (normally open 24hrs). I also used up all my extra points if you spend a £1 on XYZ (which would have expired tomorrow) so I got 151 clubcard points too!

I also spend £1.70 (out of a different budget) on 5 rolls of Xmas wrapping paper, umpteen bows and ribbon, Xmas stocking and a DVD giftbox so I'm all set for wrapping Xmas 2010 (and 2011 I think! :rotfl:)

ceebeeby

Sunday 3rd January
Breakfast: Porridge
Lunch: Bulked Out Soup and Sarnie
Dinner: Melon; 2 x Chopped Chicken Steaks in Lemon Sauce, Stir Fry Veg and Wraps.

Monday 4th January
Breakfast: Cereal Crumpets and Toast
Lunch: Packet Pasta
Dinner: Pork Bolognaise with Pasta

Tuesday 5th January
Breakfast: Cereal
Lunch: Me n Kids - Noodles on Toast;
Dinner: Sweet and Sour Turkey and Rice

Wednesday 6th January
Breakfast / Lunch - MYO
Dinner: Turkey Stew Casserole made day before

Thursday 7th January
Breakfast / Lunch - MYO
Dinner: Tinned Soup with extra veg in it

Friday 8th January
Breakfast / Lunch - MYO
Salmon Pasta

Saturday 9th January
Breakfast / Lunch - MYO
Microwave Dinners (I'm out for the day)

Sunday 10th January
Breakfast - Porridge
Lunch - Spagetti and Hot Dogs on Toast
Dinner - Burgers, made into mince meat - mix with onions, carrots etc. and make into a pie with shortcrust pastry. Green Beans. Chips or Wedgy's

laurasavon

Please can you add me to this, i have no idea how much i usually spend on food a onth as i do a weekly shop then buy things in the week when i run out so this should be a good way to keep track
Can you put me down for £250 for January please