February 2011 Grocery Challenge

wannaBrich

well I've had some take aways, eeeek!

but went to visit my mum and came away with some food she "donated" to me, lol

pack of mushrooms
onion
carrot
block of less than 5% cheese
2 x muller lights

hope everyone is ok xxxxxxxx

Pernicious

Evening all,

I have been meaning to post all weekend but found myself doing other things/trying to catch up with the thread! Finally there though

Thank you to everyone who maintains this thread, doing a great job :T

Friday was payday for me & my OH, so off to Mr T's we went - I was aiming to spend about £70 from our £150 budget but we ended up spending £93.60 :eek: & that's after "saving" £19.04 on deals! Shocking how much things have gone up by. We also popped into Mr T's again today to pick up a few bits I forgot - spent £5.37 on parmasean cheese, garlic & pepper...hopefully I can avoid going back for another couple of weeks & stick to the meal plan like glue!

Good luck everyone, I'll update my sig soon x

lil_me

lil_me in at a brave attempt for £250 again, wasn't easy last month but will have another go. 2 adults, 2 boys who eat as much or more than adults nearly all meals (apart from an overnight stay) inclusive of takeaways to put us off buying them

Good luck all x

rosieben

wannaBrich wrote: »

...but went to visit my mum and came away with some food she "donated" to me, lol ...

now that's the kind sort of 'take aways' we could all do with

scotsaver, your chocolate and beetroot cake is indexed :beer:
and martafdz, your lemon madeira cake is indexed :beer:

babyboysmommy

I need to change my budget, can you change it to £250 please

I need to lower it from the £300 I had budgeted for, hopefully it's still achievable. Long term £250 is a far more realistic amount anyway so I guess I may as well just go for it rather than trying to lower it over time. We have some major expenses over the next 2 months so every saving helps.

Candy_Belle

Morning All! Argh why does the weekend go so quick! No Fair!

Just a small spend yesterday at sainsbugs £7.99 - Kettle crisps, multi pk crisps (DH Crisp Monster!) Milk, Bread, Box of miniflapjacks & Gingerbread men - oops......:mad:

Have a g8t day everyone x:)

weezl74

our month has started fairly well, with a huge purchase of milk and eggs at costco, then bread flour, pasta and whoopsied cheese at asda. So £12.80 spent, of £40 budgeted, eeeeeeeeep, however this has yielded:

4 x 2 litres whole milk
1 x 500g pasta
11 x 1.5 kg bags of bread flour
72 eggs
1300g cheese (whoopsied to 10p per 100g :money:)

I also have a question about the Khicheri recipe in the index of this thread http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/creamylentilandriced_86573 has anyone made this? I am just a bit confused about the portion size and would very much like to make it! It says 35g of rice and lentils per person. We normally have 125g rice per person here so I'm just wondering if this is a lunchtime portion and I will need to do a 3 times bigger amount per person IYSWIM?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts!

shyvicky123, I really understand where you are coming from about costco! When things are tight, we sometimes only take cash to costco, of a predetermined amount, just to avoid the temptation that the freebies inevitably bring! Easier said than done though

catznine

Please can you put me down for £100 this month! Managed £79.95 last month but that was using up the Christmas food. Still have lots of rice, pasta, soya mince and pulses in. Have also got some meat in the freezer somewhere! It's just the 2 of us and little dog, might try to make some dog biscuits for her this month.

lemanie

Good morning all,

I would like to join in, please.

Budget for Feb £400 for 2 adults, 2 teenagers, 1 child and 2 budgies and includes for groceries, toiletries, cleaning products and does include any school meals.

Thanks to the organisers.

Mel x

happycrafter_2

Hi

Wow where did january go??? Thanks to everyone who helps on this thread :beer:

My month runs from 15th (or nearest working day if its at the weekend) to the 14th so still have to post my january final figure but its looking good!

February grocery challenge (when it arrives) will be £250