January 2011 Grocery Challenge

PennyGrabber

Well, I did end up going to te@co yest, and guess what? I spent zip!! :j

Thanks to all who mentioned about making my own pizzas. I do that quite often with my children, so they feel they've made their own dinner. I just wanted to have a treat, where I hadn't had to prep anything. Before the challenge, I wouldn't have thought twice about going to d@minoes and blowing £15, so a £3.18 pizza felt like a reasonable alternative. You've got to live on the edge sometimes!

Bought a few other things while I was there, but they will come out of the feb budget as they were bought for feb. Will update sig when I've worked it all out. Plus, a@da had their boots reduced to half price. Not really grocery, but still worth a mention!

PG x

janie-h

:wave:Hi All

Bit behind with posting, but have been trying to read posts! This thread really moves fast... and I love it.

Anyway, last weeks spends -
A**a - £2.20 (anti-bacterial handwash for son who keeps lizards!)
BM - £6.91 (Pataks curry sauces and set of kitchen trays)
W**sons - £7.46 (paracetamol, cotton wool, shampoo, bleach)
M**sons - £28.86 (washing powder - half price, fruit, veg, yogs and loads of reduced fish!)
Home Bargs - £20.79 (anadin, crisps, tinned stew, containers for freezer, toothpaste and stocked up on mega amounts of kitchen and toilet rolls)

Total £66.22

Been shopping today,
A**i - £35.46
I**land - £37.00 (extra bits that I couldn't get in A**i and restocked freezers)

Total £72.46

So, £138.68 to add to sig. Got to buy milk tomorrow, so will declare for January after that.

And see you all on the other side - on the Feb thread x

youngmummy

hi all declaring £250.79p for jan my anual budget is £2800 x

PurpleJay

Hiya

Asda delivery on Friday (free delivery code by email) came in at just under £60. Got milk, mums mags and some yoghurts on Thurs at Sainsburys and then bread yesterday from the newsagents and a paper and some cheap courgettes from Tesco express.

Dome my sums and I am declaring £295.78 for January which is just on target -yay!


We still have loads in the cupboards and freezer and am well stocked up on cleaning products, loo rolls, toiletries and laundry stuff so I want to try to reduce it a bit for Feb. I will go for £280 which will allow me £70 for each Friday in the month. This will probably work out at £50-60 for each weekly big shop with £10-20 fr top ups each week.

Will have a good go at thinking if I have something which will do before I buy - unless there is an offer to be had of course :-)

x

suzybloo

Hi folks, took up this challenge this month but havent posted due to our computer being sick! Will tally everything up and declare for tomorrow. Will take up the February challenge too. Its amazing how much you are more aware of what you are spending knowing you have set a target and have to report somewhere!

toddles*

Not as bad as I thought...

after a week on holiday with horrendous morning sickness. (which meant I couldnt plan any meals as I could only eat what I fancied, when I fancied it).
Turns out though I only really fancied cereal and fruit most of the time.

Ive totted up my receipts and Im declaring £345 for January. Only £45 over budget which Im really pleased with.

esmer

Im going shopping today, so will put up my totals

david69_2

Well went to mr al yesrterday and spent £40.08 so my total for the month is £211.49 I want it under £200 for feb

minnie2

so had a bit of a spend yesterday and gone slightly over budget - but weve got enough things to keep us going into Feb.Tomorrow is definately going to be a NSD so .....

I am declaring £156.81 / £155 for January - so over spend of £1.81

still going for £!50 for February - i know its £5 less but I still need to change a few things so sure it can be done!

Hubby's razors are so expensive so i am trying to change those - i have bought cheaper before but he complains. Razors are what made me go over - bought his usual - £3 for 10 and also bought some cheaper ones for him to try again £2.05 for 20. I did buy him an electric razor but hes lost the lead for it!!

Tracey2609

I went to Mr T's & Ice*and yesterday - the final shopping trip of the month! I spent a total of £66.50 (broken down to £54.50 Ts & £12.00 Ice), I've updated my signature already - I've spent a total of £344.92 this month, which means that I've saved an incredible £155.08 - I can't believe it, this is going to pay off one of the credit cards :j For February I've decided to drop my amount to £360.00 for the month - which is £90 a week.