January 2010 Grocery Challenge

millionaire_in_training

£22.51 spent today. Hopefully won't need any more until next weekend. Will meal plan later so I am organised for the week. Fingers crossed I do this

skaps

taka wrote: »

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:)

Wow that was lucky

KITTY_2-2

Just back from Asda and not a bad spend considering. Total was £50.18 which covers food for the whole week plus a meal for 12 tomorrow.
Got a few whoopsied items - 2 baguettes @ 10p, bag of pears @ 10p and 2 large pork pies @50p - all to be used this week as I have managed to write a meal plan that I can fit these in to. Baguettes will become garlic bread for bolognese on Thursday, pork pies will go to work for lunches and pears to become a tart for tomorrow's lunch. Feeling quite pleased with myself.

Snow falling quite thickly now. Only got home by travelling at 10 mph in 2nd gear :eek: The hills in Sheffield are a nightmare in weather like this and getting up the one I live on was a little hairy at times.

Keep warm and safe peeps, K

SunnyGirl

slowandsteady wrote: »

Unfortunately whilst i was in there, dh phoned me, he had gone to drop dd at grandmas for the night and his aunt had rung, his father has been very ill at home for a couple of weeks-he has COPD, emphysema and is alcohol dependent, and despite numerous efforts on our part to ring, visit etc for a few weeks we have had no response (not unusual anyway), but turns out he has been ill at home and would not accept help, dh had to call the police to gain access to his flat, he refused an ambulance but allowed dh to take him to a and e where he had a fit when in with triage nurse. He is in resus at the moment, and from what dh has told me and from my opinion as a nurse, it certainly sounds like he is very seriously ill. It is so sad when you do all you can but someone just doesnt want help, he is a lovely man, its such a shame it has come to this for him. I am praying he gets better. DH told me not to drive to the hospital as its a fair way to the one he is in, he will let me know when he is taken on a ward.

So im just sat at home feeling very sad, and hoping for some good news.

Just wanted to say big hugs to you Slow & Steady. We are currently spending lots of our time up at MIL's nursing home as she is dying. She is on Pathway Care and is comfortable & sleeping a lot but the poor thing has been like this for 4 days now. She has COPD, badly controlled diabetes (for years) and a form of dementia from the diabetes so it's pretty bad.

Hope that you find the strength to cope with the coming days/weeks xx

girlintheglassbox

Hi guys!

I'd like to join if its not too late *fingers crossed*

My budget for January is £40

thanks!

toshvaldo

Another No Spend Day for me. I went "shopping" but I resisted everything. Am chuffed with myself. No spend days x2!!

emmie26

I would like to join although I know I am a bit late, January's budget is £200 have not been shopping yet this year as OH went to Tesco a couple of days before xmas and managed to spend £250 in one fail swoop, he has now been banned from entering a supermarket for the forseeable future, he does not see this as a punishment and am sure he did it to get out of doing the shopping. However, I am off to Tesco tomorrow and he will soon be laughing on the other side of his face when I come home with no snacks! wa ha ha (evil laugh).
Have been very organised and drew £200 out of the bank put it in a little bag I really do hate handing over cash and I seem to remember that I've done it more than when I just shove my card in the machine and absent mindedly jab the pin in.
Only came on here for some ideas whilst I was writing out the shopping list, children are taking packed lunch for the first time next week so am hoping I can get everything that they need without going overbudget.
I would love it if I had some left over, it could go towards the sealed pot challenge.

WendysWorld

Well my last month was disastrous and managed to spend nearly twice my budget. Not going well!
So new year, new budget....will keep trying.
Can I set my budget at £350 this month please!

Thanks very much for all the board minding and happy New Year to all!

BM

meanmarie

2 NSDs for me so far....foodwise, cost €144.87 to renew our meds for the month at the pharmacy....ouch!

Hugs to slowandsteady and SunnyGirl

Marie

PrincessMort

Wow 2 days in and 18 pages already!

Can I rejoin the board with £200 budget for January please?

Thankyouuu