February 2011 Grocery Challenge

scotsaver

katholicos - so sorry to hear of your loss.

PennyGrabber

Thanks for the recipe Helen, sounds like one to try!

Hmm, not doing well now. I went over the budget (not surprising, as I had less than £2 left for over 10 days!). Then, went away for a weekend with bf, we've got back tog, and he did all the buying, so that was fine, but then forgot that I had to cater for dd birthday party at the weekend. I haven't included the party food costs (although making loads of it myself this year - sausage rolls, hm nuggets, flapjacks, pizzas, twinks, lemon cookies etc) but of course I put other stuff in the trolley. I also did a stock up shop ready for next month, and I was going to include it in next month's money, but now I'm just going to accept that I haven't reached my target this month and lump it all in together. Then I can do an AP order for next month, and hopefully that won't take me over budget. I may also try and stay out of all sms for the whole month. I reckon, even if I only need half a dozen items, it's got to be cheaper to pay for the delivery than to go and mooch around myself!! I'm way more organised than I ever used to be, but there is still a long way to go until I can truly say I've cracked the gc.

Major bonus in baking today. I LOVE twinks, and I also made the cheesy biscs, man they're lush! Did them heart shaped for my dd. Also, lemon cookies are the way forward - never really used lemons in cooking before, but these cookies are fab! Does anyone have any good recipes (savoury or sweet) that use lemons, so I can use up the rest of them! Thanks in advance.

Declaring £213.36 for Feb :mad:, but hoping that march will be better!
Mrs M, please put me down for £150 for March again.

Thanks all!
PG x

bertiebots

katholicos verysorry for your loss..(I didnt read through the posts earlier when I updated) .


Can I just ask what people are paying for a bag of granulated sugar at the mo. I just payed £1.09 at sainsbugs:eek:..and is it cheaper anywhere!??

helen_jelly

Bertiebots - do have or know anyone with, a Costco card - you have to buy about 16 bags but it works out at approx 50p a bag [well it did the last time I bought some]

Poundstretchers usually sell it cheaply too

Helen x

theonlynuttytart

can i be put down for £150 for march?
im lumping everything together in the grocery budget and that includes home bargains visits for cat litter!
ive come in about £145 for feb... not bad but can do better!
im going to order my nhs cashback card and load it up with £150, so i have to stick to budget or face embarrasment at the tills! eeekkkk! and cashback from asda and sainsburys as well as lots of high street shops!

Pinwheel

Hi bertiebots

I got 1kg of granulated sugar in my T***o delivery today for 68p. The make is 'Mr Sugar'.

Hope this helps
PWx

Rhealea

68p in Asda and Quality Save for a bag of sugar

Sunflower1227

katholicos - sorry to hear of your loss.

Billie-jo

Katholicos - sending my condolences to you and your family at this very sad time.

Bertieboots - Last time I was in our local B&M (about 3 weeks ago) sugar was 69pence so a huge saving if you have one near to you.

Evie189 - Well done on the large underspend thats brilliant. Almost £60

Got mum out of hospital so nipped into Te$co to get her a few things and spent £8.49 myself mainly salad things and also got a large chunk of cheese reduced - it was to good to miss. Am doing weekly shop tomorrow and seem to have more meat on my list this week than usual, even though freezers are still really full will also want milk on Saturday so expecting a higher bill than usual, however have £84 left of budget so will manage it. Must do an inventory of the freezers as soon as possible but just lately something has always cropped up.
Have meal planned up until March 5th and am hoping can stick to it. Trying for 3 meat free days in this period and also a couple of new recipes.
Made some more soup for lunch today using up half a chicken carcass, onions, swede, celery and some sorry looking pak choi but it tasted fine.
Am really watching what I throw away food wise latley and this week it has just been one smallish carrot and an apple which was brown and not nice. Only found this out though after taking a bite.

mfwin2019

I needed milk, salad & bread so now have £8 left for the rest of the month, its going to be tight & I will probably just go over by a few pounds but still less than I would have spent before.

I made flap jacks today & a massive blackberry & apple crumble so we are OK for sweet things for a while.

Can I go for £185 for March store cupboard a bit bare & need to slow cooker some more meals but DH away with work for 2 weeks so I don't need to feed him