February 2011 Grocery Challenge

suzybloo

Evening folks Need to update my signature as my butcher meat that I posted about this morning actually came in at £112, should have been £124 but with the office clubbing together we get 10% discount as the order is over a certain amount. This meat will see us over the next six weeks or so and I am hoping to build a stock as hubby always has a quiet spell from May until August, so will keep a drawer in the upright freezer for this purpose. Probably pop a couple pounds of mince and stew in there with a pound of sausages. Planning ahead for summer already :-)

PennyGrabber

Well, really quite p****d off with myself. Have had 2 NSDs, today and yest, but spent a small fortune on tues. (Well, about £45.) I went to S@insburys, and only spent £9.50ish, and drive out of the car park thinking "I always wondered how people managed to spend so little at a sm, and now i've finally done it!" Then I went to asd@ and spent £40odd. Dammit!! This takes me dangerously close to my total, and I've still got 17 days left! So, about £1 a day from here on in!

On the plus side, I am further on in my stocktake. I've been using the opportunity to sort and reorganise the pantry too, and now, all the ood stuff is on one side to be used up first, then the 2011 stuff , then the 2012 stuff! I have also made a list, which I will refer to when meal planning, but will also take shopping, so if i see something i fancy, i'll check to see if i already have it first! Wish i'd done that before my stupid shop, but never mind!

The freezers are slowly but surely being used up. I got a tub of ice cream out of the outside freezer today, and cba to put it back, so thought i'd try and find space in the inside one. hey presto, it fitted easily! Normally, it'd be like a military operation to squeeze something in! That also means there's space outside too.

I'll update sig when I find the exact amount, but it's £131.??. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Night all
PG x

SOT2011

Hi All,

Great to read all the updates this week.

I've not been so good this week so far, but I think there is still a good chance of coming in on budget for the month I think if I can just take a bit more care as my initial target seems to have been quite generous.

The problem is I knew I was going off plan as I was doing it and still didn't manage to stop .

Was going to make a detour on Thursday to Mr M for loo roll deal, but some posters have suggested it has been out of stock quite a bit and it is too far out of my way to justify the trip if that is the case, so went to L**l instead. Got 24 rolls of loo roll for what seemed a good price - £6.99, and got most of the other bits on my list - I needed to take some bits to work for a leaving do, but then got myself a load of other treats too - biscuits etc.

Not only off list, but off diet too :eek:.

£29.01 in L**l, then nipped to Mr T to get the bits I couldn't get in first shop and spent £8.99. Not all bad though as that included a Valentines card for OH and leaving card for friend.

I'm going to deduct the spends for leaving do food and card and Valentines card, as they were not really "normal groceries" - so subtract £10.03, leaving £20.98 plus £6.99 for the massive pack of loo rolls but if I had stuck to the list, there shouldn't have been ANY spend left after that deduction!

So - brings spend so far this month to £80.39. Could do better me thinks

mummyjane

laineyc wrote: »

I have yet to convince my dh that one meat free night a week is a good idea.

Well, it's only taken me 12 years! Every time I tried before he just replied something along the lines of 'man carnivore, man eat meat' like the true caveman he is :rotfl:

:shhh: I suspect the only reason he went along with it today was that he hadn't eaten and was famished - but hey he's done it once, no excuses now

de1amo

i have lived abroad for 5 years and never thought i would be virtually vegetarian without a struggle---i am still eating meat but i am straining my brain at this moment to actually think of the last time i ate any--must be the drink--15quid a bottle and will last me 7 days from mehmet at the corner shop!-i have given up trying to calculate every kurus of our spending-no one gives receipts in this society and my wife is always coming home with essentials but this exercise has jolted her to realise how much we were spending and she is being OS--we got a new car this week and she drives it 2kms to school every day so in the scheme of things her reducing the shopping bills is small fry!--the car cost about 40 years of shopping but it saves her walking--i ride a scooter that cost 4 months shopping

rachelww1

Went to Mr T's tonight. Got all the way there....and realised I'd left my purse in the kitchen :doh:Only made it back there before closing time by the skin of my teeth!! £47.39 spent. Still need to go to L*dls tomorrow for their half price meatballs offer.

Mothership

mummyjane wrote: »

Well, it's only taken me 12 years! Every time I tried before he just replied something along the lines of 'man carnivore, man eat meat' like the true caveman he is :rotfl:

:shhh: I suspect the only reason he went along with it today was that he hadn't eaten and was famished - but hey he's done it once, no excuses now

I tried that with my OH 'ONCE' lol, it was a vegetable curry, he searched through the veg looking for the meat, when he realised there was no meat in it he pushed it around the plate, and left it. Two hours later I looked out the kitchen window and saw him sitting in the garden eating a fish supper . I got the message...
' MAN CARNIVORE,MAN EAT MEAT!' :rotfl::rotfl:
Hope you have better luck than I had LOL.

Had lovely roast beef done in the slow cooker with mashed potatoes and carrot and turnip mash, very tasty, DGD (5 1/2 months) loved it. She wants to eat everything we have just wondering what she will do with a dod of steak LOL.

katholicos

Today was almost a NSD but at about 10pm found myself in Mr A and purchased:

12 Free Range Eggs for £2.50
Crisps £1
Dry Roasted peanuts .49p
Cola x 2 .80p
4 x pkts cathedral city, on offer for £2 a 400g block.

Will update siggy after i post this.

Made 2 main meals today...a bolognese for my mum and DS, and a coronation-chicken-style Quorn curry with brown rice for me and DD.

rachelww1

Mothership wrote: »

Think I might need to go and see my Dr, don't think its dementia or anything like that, DH thinks it was an emotional reaction to extreme stress. Dunno, I've managed to gather myself together, I'm not allowed to tell anyone what's wrong, so none of my close friends know anything. So you guys are all I have

Sorry to hear you had a bad turn. Best get yourself checked out. And the www is a great place to offload your worries x

youngmummy

hi all, i have already updated my sig and about to go to bed but just thought id post too say i spend £4.88p today on dog food. hope everyone is well nigh night all x