January 2012 Grocery Challenge

Florenceem

Mr F asked me if I needed any shopping today - definitely not! Another NSD here.

LittleMissHappy_2

Small spend of £3.13 on toilet roll and whoopsied bread from Mr T Still well under budget x

helen_jelly

Post 2723 - budgets done to here :]

Can I please remind everyone;

Please post your new budget in large and red font - thank you [any colour apart from black or blue will do]

When we have so many posts I have to skim read to get to the budgets [apologies if I have missed you] so its a lot easier if I can quickly spot the budget posts :]

Thank you

Helen

JIL

FEB £180 for me please

Thank you for all your hard work in keeping the thread going, its an inspiration and a help to so many people.

Suffolk_lass

cw18 wrote: »

The only tinned toms (chopped) and red kidney beans I ever buy are the value ones.
I also buy value baked beans, but I cook them in with mince to pad it out. When I tried serving them to the family with sausages etc they all turned their noses up at them.

I never buy value tisssues or toilet rolls - have to use more than twice as much at a time, so no real saving.

I also don't like the sauces (tomato and brown). Have used the mayo, but use so little I tend to wait until a 'label' is on special offer.

Can't stand the value tea bags - can't get a strong brew from them

Dried milk powder for bread machine is always the value one.

I've used value frozen peas and sweetcorn before - saving was worth it when cooking for 5 - but tend to use the own label these days.

I get the value cheese and tom pizzas and add my own toppings

LisaJane - re value items - I buy Aldi tissues and toilet paper - the Aloe Vera paper is thicker and better than most and tissues are excellent and pretty cheap.

We tried value oats but they were only good for birds - too gloopy for us. Gravy granules were fine though.

Suffolk_lass

medsdemon wrote: »

Am cooking baked bean and sausage shepherds pie for dinner tonight I think.

I have a chunk of LO Pork joint but am unsure what to do with it?? Any ideas. We had roast pork last night which was lovely and something we hardly ever have, but OH picked up the joint as a whoopsie so it was a cheap meal actually with roasties, yorkies and brocolli. DD hated it of course:rotfl:.

Could mince (or chop) it and stick it in the shephard's pie mixed with onion and breadcrumbs (instead or as well as sausages)

Suffolk_lass

Catwoman103 wrote: »

Still have two freezers full of food and a well stocked larder. It helps that I am on a diet and not buying naughty food.

Well done with the diet - you are doing brilliantly :T:T - and so are a number of others I notice (somewhat enviously)

supersally01

Hi,
Hope all are well. Just popped in to catch up, and to declare for January.
Weekend spends include,
£16 x 3 in M&S = £48. This is because I have been using the £5 off £25, and Mums Staff Disc, making each shop £16.
Morrisons £7, on 1/2 price offers.
Asda £4, used some MOCS to get free clover.
Lidl £19 on beans, pasatta, coke, veg etc.
Total £78, so spent much more than planned, however 2 x freezers full and lots of wine/store cupboard stuff so not to bad.
Declaring at £241.50, which is good, as I thought I would be over.

I would like to go slightly lower for FEB, at £220, as I MUST use up my freezer stuff, as some of it has been it it since I moved in!!!!:eek:.
Not sure how that will pan out, as I want to get more meat/meal/wine deals from M&S while I have the coupons, and am quite interested in getting the £5 off ALDI coupon on Thursday.
Gonna see how I go, and will report back as usual.
Sally.

debbiedeejay

Need to add an extra £10.13 to total - went to Mr M's with DD1 to buy a couple of counter salads for us both as a luchtime treat (both on a rare day off together) and bought a few other things too. Whoops!

PennyGrabber

NSD as planned today. I find that I am able to talk myself out of going to a shop much better so far this year. Long may that continue! Prob won't have time to even think about shopping tom, as I start a diet on weds, and I need to eat all the rest of the christmas choc! Hehehe! I figure if I eat it all now, I'll not be tempted with it in the house while I'm dieting - crazy logic for an excuse to binge tonight and tom I think!

Dinner tonight was the rest of the turkey pasta for me and ds, dd said she didn't like it yest, so I gave her some cheapo noodles with salad. Don't normally do two diff meals when we're eating together, but I didn't actually have enough for all of us anyway, so that worked out ok. Dinner tom, apart from chocolate, may be bendy soup, which will then work really well for the rest of the week with ww.

Not looking forward to seeing how much I weigh, but proud to be doing something about it. I'll have around 45lb to lose. Hmmm...

PG x