December 2010 Grocery Challenge

adelight

I wish all the online OOD food shops would combine into one so I only had to pay one lot of postage
One has cheap pasta, split peas and barley, but another has cheap bread mix, curry pasta and kp choc dips! Why can't they be on the same site so I can have cheap split pea curry?
What's everyone's favourite food website?

I'm considering an order off one of such sites for my carbs/tins/condiments etc, then seeing how cheaply I can live buying reduced/market f/v/meat

All I have left from my approvedfoods order in september is a few teabags and a small loaf worth of bread mix.

Tropicalmoments

Please can I join in with this challenge. I'm newly registered to MSE but have been a long-time lurker.

There is only me and dh most of the time so I'm setting our budget at £200 for January. I really hope that this will cover my fuel costs too (dh gets his paid for him).

freakyogre

£4.22 spent today.

Got some cheddar cheese as have run out and some soft garlic cheese for my crackers Also got a box of biscuits which was reduced. I wanted to try them when they came out, but didn't want to pay full price It's a mixed box of the caramel, crunchie and bournville biscuits. Naughty, but nevermind!

rosieben

Billie-jo, so sorry to hear about your oh, hope he is well soon, sending lots of positive vibes your way

hello and welcome to our newbies :hello:

I'm hoping to get away with no shop till mid/late January, might just need milk before then but nothing else, I still have a few fresh veg and a dozen half used pack of frozen veg that I want to clear up, will make some much-needed space in the freezer

see you all on the Jan challenge soon

cat_smith

Cheated slightly and did a shop today. Picked up some staples. Annoyed that I bought some things now because I had vouchers - got to the till and was told they were on-line coupons only. But didn't buy anything I wouldn't have anyway - just brought the purchase forward.
Did quite well on reduced items - lovely FR chicken, S/Salmon and Ham. Straight in freezer. Unfortunately now freezer almost full. I love cooking so I tend to cook faster than I eat. And I love my SC. I have Venison Stroganoff in the SC for dinner and then I've prepped the ingredients for a chilli to go in overnight. That provides 2 nights this week and 4 portions in the freezer for my husband when he's on call. Mental note - need more Lock and Lock boxes!

~moneysavingnovice~

Still holding off on my final Dec shop. Think we will do it Thurs as that's the last day before pay day and Jan GC starts. Shouldn't need to spend too much.

I have some leftover roast beef from Xmas day- anyone know if it'd be alright to chuck in the slow cooker 2m, or have I left it too long? It's been in the fridge.

life_in_termoil

We are a family of myself (Mum) DS 18, DD 15, DS 13 and 1 mutley. Everyone except DD eat anything and have huge appetites. DD used to eat everything and anything but now refuses to eat anything which is tomato based. Christmas presents and petrol cost me 350 from my total the rest is just rubbish and things I "thought" I would "need" for Christmas eg Pork joint, gammon, 3 bird thing from Aldi, more veg than the farm shop, christmas pudding, meringue nests, brandysnap nests, christmas cake, cream, cheese (about 2 kilos in total of all different cheeses) crisps, dips, milk (? Humm) chocolate (all varieties of tins), alcohol!!, cheese and sweet biscuits and bread!!! All of which I still have and not touched any of it as we ended up going to mums.

Oh and god knows how much money on the evil ciggys!!! Got my patches though as I will be quitting.

Gorgeestwo

Hi
Could I join the grocery challenge for 2011 please, I really need to be more moneysaving this next year, we spend too much on our shopping at the moment, so I really need to start taking more notice of what we buy! Please could I start off at £325 a month. This is for 2 adults, 2 children (aged 4 and 5), 2 cats and 2 guinea pigs Thankyou.

elf06

Well yesterday was a spendy day. Made it to L1dl and spent £13.13. Still a couple of things to go back for next week (as I read the date wrong on the leaflet ). Also had a spend today before work of £8.94 and then a rather odd spend after work which I wont be counting. I saw great gift for a friend's son (will be put away for his birthday - £39.97 reduced to £12.97 ) so I picked up some more heavily reduced items aswell. I got 2 packs of 2 salmon fillets for 60p each, 2 packs of chunky cod fishcakes for 17p each, 2 packs of 4 malted baps for 16p each, 500g minced lamb for 49p, 8 pack of sausages for 30p, 500g parsnips for 15p, lamb steaks for 60p, 4 round slices of lorn sausage for 19p and a whole swede for 8p but after discount and some coupons I only paid £11.98 which was less than the reduced price for the toy :rotfl::T:rotfl:. I am really really pleased with my haul and will give the salmon fillets to my parents as a gift.

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Sue14

£9.25 spent in Mr S on Christmas eve, then another £20.38 in Mr M today, leaving us with £30.64 to last until Friday. I don't think we will need to buy anything else before the end of the year, except maybe milk and cat food so we should be ok, but I'm cutting the budget right back next month.

I thought I'd done so well on Christmas day, I served up dinner only 40 mins behind schedule (instead of at least an hour behind), didn't put as much on the plates as usual so there was nothing to throw away, although we all had plenty to eat, and the veggies were to my dad's liking for a change (he's 85 and doesn't have any teeth so he always moans that the veg is too hard, lol!). However the next day, as I went to put some sausage rolls and cocktail sausages in the oven for our buffet lunch, I found a tray of yorkshire puds on the top shelf, which I'd forgotten to dish up with the dinner the day before, lol! I said it was partly my DS's fault, lol, as that wouldn't have happened when he was living at home as he would have asked where the yorkshires were! Still the birds had a nice treat, lol!

Also this year I completely stripped the turkey crown of all the meat, using some for sandwiches, and the rest I've put in the freezer to use later, usually I'm really wasteful with the turkey, only using about half of it and then binning the rest, as I usually can't be bothered to carve it all off the bone, this site has really changed me, lol!