January 2010 Grocery Challenge

Baileys_Babe

Just come back from Sainsburys, spent £28.57 mainly on cheese, milk and eggs, also picked up crumpets, scotch pancakes & hot cross buns all greatly reduced and in the freezer. Should have milk & cheese until February.

SAVEALOT

hi all, i bought my first 4 pints of cheap milk from lidl, nearly 50p off MrT, I need to try other places to shop as Tesco is far too much temptation for me, i cannot resist offers. But my problem with shops like Lidl is that their produce does not always say whether or not it is suitable for vegetarians, it would make life so much easier, not to mention cheaper, if they did. I know Aldi do this, but I live further away from them now. sigh...

skipsmum

orlao wrote: »

I don't know how much a packet of rabbit hay is but a bale of hay (try local livery yards, animal feed suppliers) wighs about 15kgs and should cost about £5 tops

Lidl do cat food sachets that are really good quality at (approx) £2.59 for 12.

My brother did this once from a local farm... small ball £2, large bale £10 delivered...he was expecting a sort of square bale you could sit on. They delivered while he was out and it totally filled his front garden, you couldnt even get to the front door!

coffeeholic_2

Small top-up shop today at Mr T's which should see us through until I do proper food shop near the end of the week. £14.80 spent today, which included toothpaste and loo rolls and other essentials. Risotto for dinner tonight, nice and easy and using up last of the frozen veg.

Have a good evening all xxx

skaps

Rebekah24 wrote: »

I just do £10 per week per adult..since thats just me £40 would be lavish.. £30 is being a bit careful/sensible..but still plenty!

Theres lots of ways of doing it..how about just reducing slowly £5 a month or £10 a month from what your doing now?? - may be easier and less of a shock :eek:

Wow thats brilliant - let me know how you get on. I've put down £200 and its onl 2 adults. Guess it should be more like £80. Though im not too sure how much i actually spend on just groceries as most of the time other stuff is bought at the same time as groceries.

skaps

Does anyone know if the weekly aldi fruit and vegetable offers plus others are published anywhere every week? This would be great so i could check offers out before going there. Also if anyone knows of Lidl or Farmfoods too please let me know.

Rebekah24

Today spent £5.50

skaps...I think living alone makes me more frugal lol..oh is a bad influence!! even just to take to the supermarket!

Had to get vitamin c, paracetomol, lemsip type stuff...some whoopsie bread...soupy bits, cheap veg...oh got swine flu..so..dosing myself up and getting some bland bits to give him when he stops being sick!

Should be no spend days now through until this time next week, change in my purse is going in my sealed pot

skaps

What is a whoopsie have read about them in a few forums but have no idea what they are?

Rebekah24

If you check out the "Food and Grocery" section, it has the weekly offers for loads of stores, including those you mentioned

whoopsies- where supermarkets mark down products in the evenings with yellow labels- can get amazing deals on eggs, fruit, veg and fruit this way..also packages bits..like pies, fresh bakery items etc.

Bit off topic..but hope that helps

skaps

Thanks for that. I have bought whoopsies before but did not know that this was the correct term for them. Am becoming more forum savy.