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January 2010 Grocery Challenge

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  • NJW69
    NJW69 Posts: 843 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    NJW69 - hope DS1, DIL and baby are all OK. How far along is DIL?

    Laura[/QUOTE]


    34 weeks.
    GC Jan £318/£350, Feb £221.84/£300, Mar £200.00/£250 Apr £201.05/£200 May £199.61/£200 June £17.25/£200

    NSD Feb 23/12 :j NSD Mar 20/20 NSD Apr 24/20
    May 24/24
  • Afternoon everyone

    I've updated the budget list, and I've put "30 something" in with the S's - mind couldn't cope with having a persons name start with a number!!!!

    Thanks for adding me Helen, I am perfectly happy being with the other lovely 'S' people.:rotfl:

    Spent another £8.63 of my budget yesterday. I bought:

    I can't believe it's not butter light spread (500g) - 48p
    Warburtons crumpets x 2 packs - £1 for 2
    aspirin 16 pack - 16p
    Tv guide - 49p
    Go cat x 2 (950g boxes) - £3.50
    Baking potatoes x 2 (2.5kg bags) - £2.00
    Chocolate coins x 4 - £1.00

    1 pack of the crumpets made a very tasty quick lunch yesterday, and the other pack has been frozen for use another time. The spread made them taste even nicer ;)

    The chocolate coins were a mistake - proof that I should leave my son at home when I go shopping in future :rotfl:. They were right next to the till and at the bargain price of 25p a bag, left over Christmas stock. Seemed like a good idea at the time, but will try and shop alone as much as possible this year.

    Not quite ready to give up buying a tv guide yet, though in all honesty it only gets read on the day of purchase and hardly ever gets picked up at all the rest of the week, as we use the sky on-screen tv guide if looking for something to watch.

    All in all a fairly cheap week grocery wise. Will be updating totals and doing meal plans for next week later.
  • dink1
    dink1 Posts: 197 Forumite
    Hi, had a voucher someone had given me for christmas so was very pleased with self when i didnt buy clothes i didnt need i stocked up on some food bargains at mr A, large christ cake only £1.75, cool:rolleyes: !! and whats more as didnt spend cash havent counted it on budget. Is that cheating? if so will ad the 6.27 to siggy. Dink
    JanGC £250/£82 far:weight loss 1lb cc250/£86/cm40/£9.50 :A
  • £42.19 this week for me. Bought cheap juice though and it is foul so don't see that one lasting for long lol
    5 Year plan. April 2020 to June 2025- CC and mortgage free by time I'm 60
    Currently CC £23,674.36 /£14,895.41/£14315.42
    Mortgage £28,214.65/ £26,254.71/ £25,746.43
    By end 2020 I want CC at £ 19,000.00.
    By end 2021 I want CC at £10,000.00
  • Aril
    Aril Posts: 1,877 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Hello:j
    A further £24.81 spent here this week but we're well stocked with the essentials for the next few days and DH informed that he and the small person had stocked up on sausages from the oopsie fridge [whoopsie:D] Shouldn't need anything other than milk until the weekend so am pleased with how it's going so far.
    Aril

    Aiming for a life of elegant frugality wearing a new-to-me silk shirt rather than one of hair!
  • freakyogre
    freakyogre Posts: 1,465 Forumite
    Not quite ready to give up buying a tv guide yet, though in all honesty it only gets read on the day of purchase and hardly ever gets picked up at all the rest of the week, as we use the sky on-screen tv guide if looking for something to watch.

    I'm the same, i've been buying What's on TV for so many years now, it's just a habit. I read through any interesting bits and then only tend to look at it a couple of times during the week.


    Was going to go for a long walk this morning, but it started snowing again and the pavements are like an ice rink, so had an early morning wander down to the seafront instead. Went out again earlier to get a bottle of milk - 86p, but have everything else I need.
    Grocery challenge - Nov: £52/£100
  • sistercas
    sistercas Posts: 4,803 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    one good thing about the snow is that I still cant get my car out and so the shopping has to small enough for me and DH to carry. so that has kept us on the straight and narrow - so far ;)
    got 2 weeks worth of food to buy with £200 still in the pot :j:j
  • I haven't had time to update recently. But I am doing well. The first week, I only spent €28 roughly, as I had a full card of savings stamps. And then this week, I spent €95 as I had a voucher for €20 off once I went over €100 (and I wanted to make sure I had plenty in with the weather as it was).

    So while I did this week's shop last Thursday, I have enough for the entire week to next Sunday already.

    This week's menu looks like:
    Today - roast chicken
    Tomorrow - Sweet'n'sour chicken (from leftovers)
    Tues - Lasagne (in the process of making a double batch this afternoon)
    Wed - Beef stew
    Thurs - pasta bake (from freezer)
    Fri - to be decided - but shouldn't be a takeaway this week

    So I think I should be well on track for being under budget this week.....
    GC 2010 €6,000/ €5,897

    GC 2011:Overall Target: €6,000/
    €5,442 by October

    Back on the wagon again in 2014
    Apr €587.82/€550 May €453.31 /€550
  • I've been to Li*l and Al*i. Spent 32.41 in L*dl and 4.42 in A*ldi. Including some new wellies for ds. Signature updated
    Sealed pot member 735
    Frugal Living Challenge 2011
    GC 2011 404.92/2400
  • luce181
    luce181 Posts: 408 Forumite
    So far this month We've done quite well,
    We had a delivery from waitrose (had £10 off voucher), they left quite a bit of the shopping in the van so had a refund, but they refunded almost double the amount we'd paid for the missing items so the shopping only came to £19 :D

    Been to co-op a few times and got some reduced bits, and we had our veg box delivered last week so my total spend so far is £60.96,

    Quite chuffed as I don't think we'll need to buy much else this month :T
    Addicted to MSE, I can't resist a bargain ;)
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