January 2012 Grocery Challenge

minipenny_2

thoughts to everyone having challenging times at the moment.

today is second shop of the month went to Mr T but most of the shelves were empty which meant I had to spend more to get less:mad:
did make some savings ie instead of 18 rolls of toilet roll for £7.69 I saw that 9 rolls (same own brand) was 3.50 so bought two of those instead

all in all I spent 73.75 instead of the 68.57 I had planned but did get an extra box of nappies in that which means wont need any more for another month off to update my sig now.

Edit to add I'm now at £91.65 of £250

Redouble

Another NSD here

lemmings1986

hi guys hope everyone is well and hugs to those that need them :grouphug:
i cant believe how quickly threads moving 6 pages since yesterday :eek::eek: just caught up.:):)
not much to report really was at work last night and got home late this morning so have hardly had any sleep,am out tonight for a meal with a few people from work so hopefully i wont fall asleep in me dinner :rotfl::rotfl:
but its coming out of different budget so thats good,oh will be having takeaway but thats out of different budget so all good.
am d/o tommorow so plan to make some more bread and scrummy mars bar cake off 1st page but instead of using marsbars and going to use snickers-hangon sorry not really a mars bar cake,snicker cake :rotfl::rotfl: hopefully will turn out ok oh really liked them but i havnt got any mars bars so am going to use the snickers out of the celebrations weve got rather then buy some :) think it will be something easy for tea tomorrow chicken,chips and curry sauce or chicken curry havnt decided yet.
i went to mr co's after work and managed to get 2xpacks of sweets pancakes reduced 52p and can be frozen so will split them up and use for breakfast.they had loads of other redcuctions on mince,bacon for £1.02 and some rump steak,but was good and didnt buy any yay me
my week runs friday to friday and have set myself a weekly budget of £15 and spent £7.74 so came under by £7.26 yayyyyyy so am going to put in a tin undecided at the min about what to do with it.so 1st spend for this week £1.04 hope everyone is having a good day sorry for long post

HomeMum_2

Please may i join? I realise its a few days late, but have decided this is my year, 2012:T I am determined to make changes!
There are 3 teenagers and 2 adults currently living at home, plus the occasional hungry stepson and a returning daughter from Uni, my weekly shop is usually £120 a week, I would like to try to reduce this, if even by a fiver. So if I could be added for £115 a week please, that would be great. I decided that I am going to try for a whole month to avoid doing "the big shop". I am going to attempt doing it the way my parents did, back in the day of black and white tv and power cuts :rotfl:, and menu plan and go each day to buy what I need for that evenings meal. I shall probably regret it, and overspend wayyyyyyy too much, but as we only have one car and DH has it during the day, I can only buy as much as I can carry .

Thankyou for all the terrific inspiration on here, I do think I am becoming rather addicted

SueP19

Just had my S@inby delivery, first time I have used them and was impressed.................very nice

The cost was £67.66 close to budget but I saved £35.90 :eek::eek: Did include a voucher for £10 off still fab though

I did meal plan so only need a pizza and some juice...........on offer elsewhere:D

p-pincher

Wow this thread moves so fast.

Hugs to everyone who's having troubles at the minute xxx

Updated my total as had a £9.00 spend today in co-op, 3 packs of low fat cheese and mugshots for lunch next week at work. Had 2 NSD on weds and Thurs though these were unintentional, seems to be when I set myself a proper target for NSD I just become disheartened that I dont seem to stick to them so ive decided not to habe a target but just take them as an unexpected bonus. Probably be spending tomorrow as I might have a nip up Aldi when the kids are at dancing. Dinners are planned for the next week and a half and just need a few bits for them probably less than a £10 spend but need a few bits for pack up especially as hubby has joined me back on slimming world so need plenty of fruit and veg in.

tracey12_2

p-pincher wrote: »

Updated my total as had a £9.00 spend today in co-op, 3 packs of low fat cheese and mugshots for lunch next week at work.

I don't know if you have a L*dl near you but from 12th January they have mugshots 4 for £1.96 either creamy cheese, roast chicken, thai style and spicy sweet and sour. This was over on the food shopping and grocery thread.

HTH

Tracey

Herbyme

Thanks to Mrs MP and Meadows for butter info!
Grr, another £10 at Ald! on juice, veg, tissues, cat food etc. It's the little bits that blow it for me...

Linz4383

SO ive changed my mind ive decided to join but am goin to use a annual figure rather than a monthly as i dnt tend to do much shoppin and pick up lots of offers from work my annual figure will b £1020 which is a weekly figure of £20 although i have enough food in the freezer to last me a lifetime.. theres only me and my little girl (whos at her dads half the week) think ive got 3 whole chicken (88p EACH!!!), 3 pks of pork loin steaks (£1 EACH), 3 packs of beef mince (50p EACH), lots of cooked chicken packs, lots of sausage (richmond for 15p a pack) so have plenty of food to go at jus want to try new things as i get bored easily, have found a few recipes to try
thanks good luck

sistercas

spent a further £66 in @sda , more than i anticipated but some of it was stuff that will last for the month

so total up to now £125.22 :eek: