February 2010 Grocery Challenge

nicki_2

Had a chippy tea tonight & bought a big bottle of diet coke from the local offlicence It was a treat, no idea how much I spent, but I've put all the change from £20 on top of the mantel piece and I'll sort it tomorrow - chippy will come from my grocery money, and the cola will come from my "pocket money" which is just £5 this month I needed change for the bus tomorrow - the bus drivers don't like you handing in £20 notes and thats all the cash machine had.

franby64

Normal service has been resumed - Just spent £17.42 in local C*op and T*sco!
I got some of the 2x4 for £3 baked beans from the C*op and might get some more of those - I think the offers end on the 9th.
Also chipolatas, skinless sausages and rolls, fruit, turkey ham for DD, cabbage, chips and a cheap packet of chocolate biscuits which I hope are OK!
Hopefully this will see us through the weekend.
Some of the earlier posts mentioned half-term and I think this will probably sink me too!
Anyway - will try for a cheap week next week and see how it goes.

Kitchenbunny

I've spent a further £1.50 on free-range eggs from the market, so that pushes my total up to: £38.70. Not bad so far Haven't managed an NSD in a while, but I'm getting there.

Kitchenbunny xx

BigMummaF

loopychriss wrote: »

That was an expensive bottle of squash!!! I've got an OH like that too.... we went to Morrisons today for a loaf of bread and some tomatoes: came out with a CD, a DVD, a baby feeder cup, magazine, 2 tins rice pudding, hot cross buns, 2 loaves, coleslaw, cream crackers, a seed starter kit and the tomatoes! (To be fair, the CD was £2 and the DVD was £1). Total was £10.60 so not too bad, but still more than a pack of tomatoes and a loaf of bread.

I had this kind of 'chat' wiv me muvva only this week, when I said I rarely leave a supermarket with a receipt for less than twenty quid Her words of wisdom were to "only buy what you need" [said in that mother-knows-best-&-this-is-a-tongue-lashing kinda way ] so I countered with "if I get it now, I won't have to come back tomorrow & be tempted all over again!" You have to realise too, that my mother will say she doesn't need any shopping when I go for some milk, but will put things in the trolley because she "isn't spending much" :rotfl:
I've had a couple of spends so will update my siggy when I've worked out how much is actually grocery

winterfrost

Hello, sorry, joining late this month! In the last two months, I've had to estimate the last week or so, but this time I have been keeping all my receipts and sticking them into a folder! So hopefully it will be totally accurate. Once again, my target is £120.

becky170

Just been for my weekly shop, and spent £11.36 in Mr T. As I have to carry it home (only a mile, but it's still not fun with lots of shopping) I can only buy what I can carry, which is maybe a good thing as I can't buy too much but it means I can't stock up on special offers or heavy stuff. I'm hoping to buy a car in the next month or two and I really can't wait. No more having to carry heavy bags back from the supermarket I'm having a refresher driving lesson this afternoon, so let's hope it goes well!

RuthG

Total spend on food this week: £7.54. Not bad for two of us, but will have to do some stocking up again soon.

Ruth

freakyogre

£2.46 spent today - 2pts of milk and also got some paprika and smoked paprika in the health food shop.

Long_tall_sally

Well my shop for marg & tin foil left me £34.87 lighter! Also got milk, bread, coke, lemonade, gluten free cereal & biscuits & bread & 4 ginger bread men to ice )big treat for DS who has Coeliacs), squash, more fruit & veg, Cadbury desserts, rolls and soup as well as the marg & tin foil! Had a £3 off a £15 spend for Sainsburys and tried to be clever by spending £18 odd originally in Sainsbury's hoping that it would give me another till spit to try & get me to spend £20 but it didn't work! then spent another £2 odd. The check out lady said that the till had not been spitting out anything that day.

poohbear59

I spent £30 in Mr Al yesterday and then another £29 in wholefood shop and £10 in the co-op. I have started to include DH's red wine in my grocery shopping and it is not only making us more aware of the costs but also diminishing my budget.


So I am now £13 over my budget.

I do buy in bulk quite a lot and today I bought enough tea bags and pasta to last us at least three months, possibly longer. It is tempting to do a longer range budget such as 3 months but I am sure I would overspend a lot more then.