February 2010 Grocery Challenge

LINKYPIE2009

Not been a great month but budget wise......ok Couple of shops = £100. Off to update sig...will spend some time catching up soon

xxx

CRANKY40

I have £10.55 to declare from Friday - bread, milk, eggs and a few other bits and pieces, and I took my friends mum to Aldi today, so £0.78 for carrots and leeks and £2.99 for toilet roll from H&B which is next door.

Flat_Eric

Need to find my receipts for February spends so far and update signature. I had a home delivery shop today from Mr A. Was browsing the mysupermarket website Thursday evening and discovered that Mr A had a great deal on cat food.

Order arrived today and its nothing short of comedy. Its rare I have Mr A deliver because something always goes wrong. On this occasion the driver knocked on my door, gave me my delivery note and then disappeared back into his van. 10 mins later ? he brings my shopping. Now I would be interested to hear from other posters on this point who have Mr A deliver. Why did the driver insist on bring £155 worth of shopping in two trips ? How the hell can he carry so much ??? why can't he bring the boxes to my door like Mr T does ? I really don't understand why they do this ? Do other Mr A customers have the same with their deliveries ?

So as Im unpacking my shopping, I discover that the lids have come off 2 glass jars spilling the contents into the carrier bags and the other 2 jars have their safety lids popped so none are useable. The order included lots of tins nearly all of which are damaged (big dents in them) so a phone call to the store ensues and a redelivery arrived a short while ago. To my great amusement, some of the tins have been replaced with the wrong item which is cheaper but I don't have the energy or the patience to wait in for another redelivery....

despite the above, took advantage of some great offers so despite the hassle was worth it.

cupboards looking full again now so meal plan to be done I think and just the bare minimum hopefully to be bought over the next couple of weeks.

Hope you are all having a great weekend.

mrssnowy_2

Well,I was feeling quite smug-thought I was doing OK.
6th and have now spent £49.31:eek:,nearly 1/3 of my budget.
In my defence,DD2 andDGS(age4)plus dog (large)are with us for a few days,she just wanted me to get some nappies from Al*i,also had to restock fruit bowl as DGS is a real little fruit bat.
Anyway yummy beef casserole -1kg shin-last night with mash and peas.Leftover mash went into todays bread,peas into 3 oddments of bolog sauce for lunch today-fed 4 adults and very hungry 4 yr old.Crumble for pud with fruit oddments.DGS 'helped' serious amount of flour around.
Leftover casserole into shop-in-shed,always seems to be some in some out-but never flipping empties.

They are going tomorrow so back on straight etc

mrss

poppy-glos

Gave dd a huge lunch before our shopping trip with her birthday money, so no food bought while out (she protested at being told lunch was at home as we used to eat out alot, but happily chose from the available menu here).
Batch cooking this afternoon, have made bolognaise and now about to make some sort of curry/brocolli sauce with the whoopsied brocolli i bought this week, so fingers crossed, a nsd today for our food budget :T.

meanmarie

4 NSDs so far this month, pleased with that but the months I am doing well all hell seems to break out at some stage, costing me a bomb....hopefully have enough in store to prevent that this month

Marie

KITTY_2-2

Today is a NSD but have put in Mr A order for tomorrow. With discounts this is just over £80 which puts a serious dent in the budget however I am stocking up on some of the offers which will last for the next few months (dishwasher tabs, fairy liquid, laundry liquid, cat food etc)

The cat food comes from a separate budget so the £30 ish I've spent on that will not be added to GC total. Looks a little better with that off.

Funnily enough hardly any of what I've bought is for main meals, they are all add ons or packed lunch items. There is actually no meat in this order at all! Just shows where the cash really goes.

lou1981

Hope you are all enjoying your weekends.
Just updating my sig, a Spend of £30 in Asda today and £5 on the markey fruit and veg stall but got quite a bit and my freezer is full so should only need to buy milk this week.
Louise x

Kitchenbunny

Crikey, I have to stay away from the shops! At least when I do go, I only spend a little That's another 60p spent on mushrooms for tomorrow night's tea. Hopefully no more spends until Tuesday!

Kitchenbunny xx

ellemm

Haven't been in here for a couple of days so had a bit of reading to catch up with

Done the weekly shop and only spent £21.69 in Mr M. most of it on meat to re-stock the freezer with some batch cooking tomorrow.

Made a nice Kashmiri chicken curry which I have just had with some rice, and at least 2 portions to freeze. House is smelling rather spicy but at least it's masking the vinegar smell from earlier when I did 6 jars of beetroot so a good productive day.

Nice bottle of red opened and a chance for a sit down and a catch up with other threads on here.

Have a good night all.