February 2010 Grocery Challenge

poohbear59

I spent another £20 in MrL yesterday. My very first time in a Mr L store. If I had some spare cash I might go back! I am now down to £56 until end of the month.

Tomorrow I am going to grate all the cheese and bag it up a freeze it to try to reduce consumption of it, by my family, for snacks.

I forgot to say that we had some lovely bakewell tart and jam tarts made over the weekend and most of it is in the freezer for another day. The jam is now down to just two open jars which is much more manageable. And on Sunday we had pork with crabapple jelly! Thanks for all the ideas you gave me.


carrieon I sympathise with you. We have long journeys to our nearest food stores so rarely get the chance for whoopsies. Our co-op is nearer and marks food down from 5pm onwards so is worth a look.

carrieon

Thanks for that poohbear. I have tried that but still found no bargains. Think i must just be the last in the queue. In more ways than one. lol. Will have to get up there at 5 as you suggested and just stalk the aisle until i see them.

welshkaz

another nsd for me today , hoping for wed and thurs too ...

slowandsteady_2

Evening all,

well im very excited cos my Jan salary has finally been paid:T:T, and we are no longer literally broke. Thank goodness i pursued it or else i do believe i wouldnt have been paid next month either as i literally didnt exist at payroll:eek: Maybe we can get on top of bills etc now

I wouldnt have known actually but took dd for a walk round town as i needed a prescription from chemist, went to get some cash and was pleasantly surprised.

So in true OS ways (not!):o i went and spent on some bits while in town;

Po£ndland-

2 x boxes Honey nut shredded wheat £2
pack of 9 McCoys crisps £1

Farm£oods

2x bags of frozen casserole veg £2
1 x bag frozen onion £1
1.2 kg pack of cheese (50% free if anyone interested) £4.50

Market-

bag of mixed veg for my soup 99p

Have cooked carrot, coriander and veg soup for dd and dh lunches as i am on two long days wed and thurs so gone from 6.30am till about 10pm:( and also slow cooked a big gammon for their teas, dh needs to do some spuds cos im sick of cooking and shopping today!

NSD wed and thurs as at work from dawn till dusk.

Good night all x

rosieben

earthmother wrote: »

rosieben - I've had it twice ...
Hopefully they'll have it sorted soon - I have another one booked for next Tuesday, so we'll see.

thanks for that, I though the guy was maybe spinning me a line when I couldnt find any mention of it on here

welshkaz wrote: »

rosieben you sound like a true nigella chick can you please post your recipe for pastry you can freeze mine always crumbles to pieces after its defrosted not for the want of trying lol

Nigella??? think I bear more of a resemblance to Jamie :rotfl: I use the basic recipe of half fat (I use Trex) to flour, pinch of salt and add water, nothing else. I mix it in the food processor when I make a large amount, it takes so little time but you do need to add the water very gradually to make sure you don't add too much. Pastry is definitely shorter after its frozen though. I tried rolling it out into dish-sized pieces once and it crumbled to bits despite being flat in a tupperware box, so I freeze it in a pie-sized lump these days

monks wrote: »

... ps Keep up great posts - more time reading posts = less time in shops and less cleaning stuff used! :rotfl: my excuse anyway

you've just given me the best excuse yet to while away the odd hour or three on OS

Purpleclutterbuck

Lots of nsd going on - I'm actually a tad envious so have decided to start to count of a few nsd myself -should be interesting to see how I manage! Thanks for including the recipe rosieben (sorry about not having a title:o)
Today I ventured out to mr m and resisted the usual biscuit bogof's and headed straight for the whoopsies -it's the only part of the store with a crowd around!!
Total spend was £63.76 and tomorrow I will check if my local waitrose have any bargains and then the plan is to make everything in the fridge/cupboards nooks and crannies etc streeeeeeetch out to feed 3 of us for 2 weeks and that includes lunches-
this is my mission if I choose to accept it - :cool: (well I'll have a go! wish me luck!)

SilverCo

Hi everyone, just checking in quickly with a £3.70 spend on bread and milk.

NSD for me, yay!! Although travelling on a train for six hours might have something to do with it...;)

slowandsteady - you're solvent again! Well done, bet you're sooooo relieved (as are we!)! :T:T:T:T

Silver x

NJW69

A NSD today and had a good diet day, boiled value free range egg with home made bread toast, toasted ham, cheese and onion panini (paninis on whoopsie yesterday with shopping), tomatoes and celery, lots of fruit, 8 pints of water and no wine for three days.

Made a large chilli with mince out of the freezer, with loads of veg, lentils etc. Made tea for the three of us and three portions for the freezer.

Going to try the freeze it in a container and then pop it out and put in a bag technique someone else mentioned

LittleMissHappy_2

Hi everyone

I'm new to this challenge, but decided at the beginning of Jan that I was spending far too much on food (well over £100 a week). This is for food, toiletries, cleaning products for myself, DH, DS1, DS2 and DD plus a dog and 2 cats

Anyway, tried to keep my budget down and managed around £70 pw last month but didn't record everything (small trips for extra milk etc), so will try the same amount this month so I am going to say £280 for this month please - have already got my first weeks shop, so will update my sig Good luck everyone :beer:

pammyj74

Started my grocery spend with just £4.90, got some strawberries half price and cereal...