January 2012 Grocery Challenge

NickJW

Morning all!

A spend of £8.20 to update today in Mr S. Got some prawns out of the freezer and I'm having a stir fry with spices in stock. I needed to get veg for the stir fry and noodles as well as some stuff for lunch today because the party food is over, and squash.

Have updated signature.

Noticed that Mr W have a £15 off £75 spend for the first online shop so I'll go halfs with my flatmate this weekend and get £37.50 worth of food for £30. Bonus with them is that they always offer free delivery Things are getting bare in the fridge and freezer at the moment! :eek:

CherryPie

I've not done GC for a few months, but I'm a full time lurker.

Got the January blues, well my purse has!! I'll be back into it come Feb. Don't know why I don't stick to it all year, I always feel healthier when I do GC too, so that's a bonus.

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rachbc

£11.77 in Morries on reduced cheese and some store cupbaord bits like anchoivies, pinenuts, wrocester sauce etc

Just done my first approved foods order...mainly pasta and some dreid fruit snack packs and redbush tea...

boultdj

Got another £25.99 to add, detween FFoods and L*dl

kerri_dfw

64p for tin of beans from my stockpile

spendaholic

Managed to come in bang on budget at the weekend, at £30 (and 4p but I'm not counting that ...). I'm really pleased at how I managed to keep to this £30 budget once I'd overspent in wk 1. Just one more week, but I'll be glad to breathe again when I go back to £35 a week - and it's probably helped, actually, because last year I was on £40 a week and thought I'd struggle at £35.

TylersMummy

Spent £5.68 yesterday in Mr T although I was hoping for a NSD. We needed squash and coffee (we only buy Kenco or Nescafe as we like nice coffee and it's the one place we don't scrimp) and we picked up some chocolate too and two Chicago Town pizzas that were down to £1 which will do for a dinner for can'tcookwon'tcook-OH when I'm not around for an evening! Still very much on track for January and we don't really have much money until pay day late next week so I'm thinking we may have some over too

Should be popping to Mr T tonight with my mum for baby formula and to hunt out any whoopsies before closing as they always reduce their loaves to 10p and I've just begun defrosting our last 10p loaf and I have some bread shaped space in the freezer :rotfl:

mandco

well over budget already :doh:but hay ho onwards and upwards

have stocked up on quite a bit this month 1/2 price soap power,baby stuff on offer and 6mths worth of washing up liquid as mr A have persil 625ml at 50p to clear

freayasmum thanks for the heads up re krave cereal have to pop and get some the kids love it but I wont pay full price so they'll be happy even if the budget isnt lol

this threads moving extra fast this month so finding hard to keep up but will try and catch up when i can

elly2

Afternoon all need to declare last weeks budget at £38/60 so the extra £20 went into my bulk buy purse spent £10 of this money on the persil that was offer at mr t. Also need to declare a spend of £20.50p for todays shopping (co-op have richmonds sausage at £1.47 for 12 atm) so picked 2 packs up they also have countrylife spread for £1.50 for 500g (sorry not been able to catch up with the thread to see if this has been posted). My local heron store have 2 x2kilo tubs of lurpack on offer for £5 but its dated till feb am considering buying some and freezing it can you freeze butter? dont need any yet as i have 12 tubs of marge/butter in the fridge but am thinking it may well work out cheaper to buy the heron offer for later in the year. I have done a freezer stock take and i seem to have alot of stuff in there alot are ufo (meat from the butchers) so i must start labelling items i got fed up of counting chicken breasts, sausage,fish fingers and fish cakes, have about 7 boxes of fish cakes :eek: and 9 boxes of fish fingers. I need to meal plan and i must stop buying fish cakes :eek:, think i may try and use up the freezer stuff before i buy any more but i lack motivation and after a while my mind goes blank i know that we could eat for at least 6 weeks from the freezer if i worked it out.

kerri_dfw

Hmmm my 2nd purse is down £70 is this how most peoples start? Or have I overdone it on the loo roll, beans and pasta?