February 2010 Grocery Challenge

WendysWorld

Hello all, did very well last month and I'm being smug (I don't smash my target very often!)

However, new month new target! So I'm looking at

£300 for February please!

Thanks all board managers:j

TheBees

Finally got a few whoopsies in MrW where I've been working.... Got a one litre bottle of ORGANIC POSH FRESH CLOUDY APPLE JUICE THAT WOULD NORMALLY BE £2.56 :eek::eek: :eek: FOR 59P ! (Who pays those ridiculous prices?) Well at breakfast this morning DS16 said it was really nice Q " It tastes like....(scratches his sleepy head and thinks for a few seconds)......" apple ":rotfl::rotfl:TBH it tastes so much better than the cheap stuff I normally buy, so this was a real treat and you really could taste fresh apple!

JayJay14

Been to Asda this evening, didn't need anything really but thought I'd get some of the cathedral city while I had DD with me and her discount card, got some lurpack spreadable as well.

Woopsies had been ransacked but did manage to get a couple of sausage rolls for 5p each, a portion of a chinese duck meal for 20p and a pack of breaded chicken fillets for 20p.

Spent £6.75 and have really hit the budget hard, will have to cut back or it will be my worst month ever.

Well it is Friday tomorrow so I will have the weekend to bake so that we don't buy snacks.

poppy-glos

katenut wrote: »

Hi everyone, hope all your challenges are going well. I just wanted to pick your brains about the grocery challenge, i have a small dilemma!
My boss gave me £150 of vouchers for our local farm shop for Christmas (possibly the best present I got!) and we are going at the weekend to do a big stock up, then to Lidl for the usual bits and bobs. Would any of you include this in your grocery challenge spends, or look upon it as an added bonus?
We will be buying some of the stuff at the farm shop that we normally get cheaper elsewhere (such as meat, cheese etc - its not the cheapest farm shop but lovely food) and some extra treats - so I'm thinking this will totally blow my budget if I include it in my challenge?! But if I dont include it in my challenge I'll feel like I'm cheating! We dont have to spend the whole lot at once so I might try and spread it out over a few months.
Its lovely to have a nice dilemma for once, rather than working out which credit cards I need to pay first!

hi, i wouldn't count it in the challenge, as effectively it is a present you have been given, enjoy ;-)

OuterNet

Yes please. I was lurking in January, and seeing how much I spent. It was £135 including some (but not all) toiletries, but I also spent nearly £90 in restaurants and take aways. I have joined the 'take your lunch to work challenge', and £30 of my spend was lunches at work. Please put me down for £120 for February to include all groceries and toiletries.

poppy-glos

£18 spent today on lush meal out, need to concentrate on the £5 a day aim to bring this month in on target.:beer:

meanmarie

Spent €2.65 on 4 packs beetroot and brown soda bread in Lidl...yes I know I should make my own but want it for breakfast and hadn't time to-day

Marie

mark55man

spent £48 at Lidl and then £40 at Sainsbury's

Have a weekful of meals planned - and they should all be <50p meal unless we go crazy on the Haggis (which was £2.00p at Mr S but should do 6!! - however I love Haggis - and me as English as Chicken Tikka Massala)

self_sufficent_wannabe

hi all

hoped for a NSD today but then remember i needed squash so asked the OH to call in morrisons, he managed to spend £10 :mad:

tried the baked potato pizza recipe, added a little mexican seasoning. Big hit, OH taking the seconds to work.

Oh need to ask a questions, probably already been answered but does food/meals/restaurant meals get included???

x

welshkaz

whoohoo 4th nsd on the trot im defo on a roll now x