January 2012 Grocery Challenge

mammame

Can you please put me down for £140 in Jan please.
This will be my first time doing this.

That for 1 adult an Child and 3 cats.

I try to do my shopping online every 2weeks with a budget of £70 pounds but have really been finding it hard to do it have been spending £80+ and doing loads of top up shops. And i really can't keep doing that.

So hear it goes... This is going to be tough i think.

tigerfeet2006

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

Happy New Year and hope all your hangovers are starting to feel better by now. I stayed in by myself last night and was quite happy, however at Midnight I got up to answer the phone and the puppies had wee'd on the laminate and I went flying up the hall and have done my leg in - my knee is like a football and all black and blue - no-one will believe that I hadn't even had a sip of a drink all night!!!!

Hobbled into Sainsburys before to get loo rolls and ended up spending £30 but got a good haul - TTD smoked salmon for £1, a big turkey for £6 ,Cif half price (I love cif kitchen cleaner but never buy it unless it's on offer as it's too dear), Clover and bakery bagels half price (got loads and froze) and milk and loo rolls. I also treated myself to BOGOF Appletiser as I love it and almost never have it.

I have made a lovely chicken pie for tea with l/o chicken but both kids are refusing to eat it and want burgers and chips. I will have some but am not sure what to do with the leftovers as the filling will be reheated once in the pie and I don't know if I can do it again. There 4 good servings of it.....

Will put the bm on later but I am getting fed up with all the crumbs that cutting the bread causes - I am a bit of a kitchen neat freak and it is really getting me down!! The bread is lovely but the mess not so much....

Off to do an inventory and make a meal plan for the coming month.

Ouch!! Hope it gets better quickly.

As for the pie, I am afraid it would be they ate it or nothing at all. If they want anything else then they would have to get off their backsides and go buy it from their own money and cook it themselves.

Sit them down and ask them to make a list of their favourite meals and do a mix and match each week with some of your favourites from that. If they don't like what's on offer then they go buy their own and do it themselves.

I have to admit I would reheat the pie and eat it again, though I am naughty like that.

Cut your bread on a bread board and then brush the crumbs in a tupperware box and pop it in the freezer and just add to it as you go.

Brassic_Park

Just did my first ever T*sco online shop (usually go to Sainsbugs as it's the only one close, but wanted to see if T was cheaper).

So around £58 spent but will update tomorrow when it's arrived and I know price for definite.

Rainbow-Brite_2

Hi can you add me for

£400 for January

this is for 2 adults and 3 children.

TIA

medsdemon

Happy New Year everyone. NSD yesterday too so a good start to the month:j. Had lovely HM Spicy Lentil Soup that I made in the SC yesterday for dinner with HM Bacon And Cheese Filled Potato Skins. The plan for today is toast for breakfast, LO soup for lunch and a satsuma then either Chicken Curry and Rice with salad (using whoopsied chicken and LO curry paste and coconut milk from freezer) or Squash, Ham & Pasta Bake ( using LO Xmas Ham portion from freezer). Will see what we fancy and do the other meal for Wednesday. It won't be a proper NSD today as have to visit MrS for sanitory products but will use the £2 pricematch voucher we got when we shopped the last time so should be kind of free:D. Won't need anything else I don't think , will just run in and out.

janiepopps

Hello all & HNY!
I'm in this month too please, aiming for £100 for 2 adults & 1 cat. Loads in freezer and pantry so shouldn't be too tough.
Having a couple of weeks off work so need to keep spending to an absolute minimum.

forever_saving

Please could i be put down for £240 please. Thankyou in advance.
FS

WelshDreamer_2

DH is picking up a bag of pots on way home from work so thats another £4.50 to add but will be right for 6 weeks then, have a fab bank holiday everyone x

XSpender

NSD yesterday and planning one for today too as we do not NEED anything at all.

DH was out yesterday so I had a productive afternoon in the kitchen and made 8 portions of qu0rn chilli and 4 portions of tomato and lentil soup for the freezer.

Also arranged for a chap to come and give me a quote to have proper shelves put in my 2 understairs cupboards. I use the tall one as a larder but the plastic shelf unit in it is buckling under the weight of all the tins and baking goodies and I worry that there will be an avalanche of tinned tomatoes every time I open it. The shelves in the other one will be used to store baking tins and what not and as a store cupboard for bulk buys:D

Ninno820

Just nipping in to report a NSD yesterday and planning for one today. Was invited out to lunch yesterday so saved on a portion of hm soup which will be going into the freezer today. I am alos planning to do a store cupboard list today - its so full that I cant see whats in there!

Hugs to everyone - I feel for you Megs72 - I can sense everyone's determination to suceed leaping off the pages!