January 2010 Grocery Challenge

candygirl

Morning all:j:jI spent £20 in ALDI yesterday, so am off to quite a frugal start, and have a freezer and cupboard full of stuff already:D:D

SunnyGirl

I have put my January budget in Decembers thread by mistake :rotfl: so Helen Jelly please can I be put down for £320 for January It's a four week month for us and I still have one more shop to do for December. I'll declare the totals over on the other thread tomorrow. Hope all of this waffle makes sense

Big thanks to Pink, Helen & Rosiben for keeping it all running smoothly :T Good luck everyone!

tallullahbelle

Count me in please... I've overspent by far too much in 2009, and with reduced work hours and this and that I need a major cut back in 2010. My challenge for Jan 1st-31st is £350. Many thanks.

Kitchenbunny

Rightio, let's begin January. My total for this month will be : £180This is for 2 adults (DH and I) for general food, health & beauty, and other groceries.

Good luck, everyone!

Kitchenbunny xx

scotsaver

Welcome to all the Newbies and welcome back to those returning.;)

CRANKY40 - so sorry to read of your loss.

I've updated my spends in Lidl today, only needed a few things as we are still pretty well stocked, will be making a new Freezer/Cupboard Inventory as it would be good if we could come under this Month and is also a good way of using up obscure items lurking at the back of the Cupboards. I'm also determined to use everything up and keep waste to minimum, usually do anyway but more determined now - last night we made Delia's Ham Hash Cakes using up some leftover Gammon. Also had some Soured Cream left from a dip I made so used the leftovers to make Soda Bread.;)

Tonight we are having some homemade Pizzas with some salad that is lurking at the back of the Fridge.

Hope you are all getting off to a good start.:D

Money_saving_Diva_2

*slides in shame-faced and waves at Rosieben*

Ok, can I come back please? I think I tried for about 6 months last year and failed the final three so stopped altogether in October. I have been keeping an eye on the spending and I am still spending about the same, I just don't seem to be able to get it down below about £320. So for January we are going to join the Storecupboard challenge too and aim for just £200, which I hope we can beat easily, even allowing for the odd takeaway with friends.

We have to pay out £4000 at the end of January and haven't got it right now so every spare penny is going into the pot, so I really need to do this. SunnyGirl said she would hold my hand so that will help!!

Hugs to all who need them - if I don't post on here and you see me on the boards - nag me to come and report please!!

Thanks to Pink, Rosie and Helen for keeping the thread going.

Diva.x

rosieben

I wasn't as organised as I'd like to have been this christmas so I'm joining in this thread - thought it might be of interest to others here. I rarely venture outside the OS board and I think I've been missing a lot of good stuff on the Christmas/Occasions board

hope there's not too much snow around today; we seem to have escaped the worst so far, just rain and a bit of light sleet.

mrT have just delivered and some really nice subs with price matching, I'm impressed!

have a good day all,

poppyc

Very new to this - have just left my job to set up new business so need to cut back dramatically - will try and aim for a budget of £200 all in for myself and the 2 boys.

helen_jelly

Welcome to all the new people joining us, I was going to list you individually but there are so many off you I'd never do it before the next months challenge starts lol. Please check out the recipes on page 1 listed by the wonderful Roseiben and read the first couple of posts by Pink - these will really help you out. Please remember that we don't fail - we look, learn and move on

Budgets are all gonna be done now and I've made a note of them up to and including PoppyC - thank you all

Cranky - welcome back, its nice to see you here again.

Helen

faye1978

Hi - can I join in please? I would like to go for £180 for Food and toiletries for Jan. Thanks :j