January 2012 Grocery Challenge

majjak

First spend of January for me, a few packed lunch bits for the kids, a couple of the frozen whole salmon sides reduced to £2.50 in Tesco and a few other bits and bobs to keep me going. Total £19.87 .

Going to pop to the local small supermarkets later to see if I can get any whoopsies :money:.

Gorgeestwo

Hmmm sent DH out for milk, spent £2.40, think we need our own cow here, the amount of milk we get through

supersally01

Hi, Need to update for the first week of my 2012 challenge.

Spent,
£20 in M&S, £5 in Aldi, £6 in COOP, £4 ASDA this weekend
This is added to last weeks spends of £30 making £65 in total.

Hope to be on target for this month, although OH will be back from The Middle East, so I need to stock up on bacon as he misses this!!!

Hope all had a great new year, I worked a night shift so saved on going out and made some cash too!!! Thanks to all who post and run the thread so well!

twirly09

Spent £14.99 today Shouldnt have to buy anything until the end of next week now. Also going home saturday through to next wednesday so those days will be Freeeeeeee.

Kittenkirst

Had a completely unintended spend today; popped to town to refund several sale buys and popped in
Poundland for milk- spent £8 on milk, crisps & chocs for our homemade milkshakes. So a good £6 on junk food- whooops! Will update sig in a min

(will play wii just dance tonight for 45 mins as pennance!)

valerie57

Today I have been through my freezer and cupboards. I was pleasantly surprised at how much there is there I had forgotten about. Surprises are nice. A trip to S"bugs followed and I spent £54.40 but that included a big roll of tin foil and some other essentials. I don't need anything else for a week or so other than F&V. I am going to make two big pans of soup and portion it up for the freezer. Lentil, ham and veg and Broccolli and stilton. Some other cheese and some bacon has hit the freezer and that just about finishes off the New Year leftovers - except for chocolate which I am trying to avoid with all my willpower!

MissOrganised1972

We live in a nice house in a nice area. We worked hard to get here but find ourselves in a position (due to numerous pay cuts, changes in circumstances etc) where we can pay our bills but not a lot more! This is why I am on a grocery challenge aiming for £30 per week! My neighbour, although she does not know our exact personal circumstances, knows we are not in the same affluent possition they are! Her kids go to private school & they have just bought an expensive house to do up whilst they continue to live in their big house next door to us! Let me just say she is a lovely lady & I feel a bit bad ranting about this but nonetheless I am pretty mad and so here goes........!

Earlier, her daughter came round with a huge bag of 'hand-me-down' clothes for my daughters. How thoughtful I thought. My kids have enough clothes (they got a lot for Christmas). I said to the little girl 'ask Mummy if she wants anything for these'. Some time later she came to the door with the daughter. I thanked her and repeated my offer. If I am being honest I expected her to say 'don't worry' they would have just been thrown out!' Oh no! She said well if you'd like to make a donation to me for them because I have had to buy DD some new ones! :mad::mad::mad: Did I ask for the clothes, do I need the clothes? No! But now I am expected to shell out some money for 2nd hand clothes I did not need & can not afford! Oooh I am hopping! Deep breaths!

Back on topic............
I have got one of my Lidl packs of British Steak Mince out of the freezer (which I bought for £1.34 on one of their offers) & added lots of ingredients to it to make burgers. That will be tea. I am hoping to have 3 left to freeze. Will be serving them in baps with salad.

NSD for me today:)

lemmings1986

MissOrganised1972 wrote: »

We live in a nice house in a nice area. We worked hard to get here but find ourselves in a position (due to numerous pay cuts, changes in circumstances etc) where we can pay our bills but not a lot more! This is why I am on a grocery challenge aiming for £30 per week! My neighbour, although she does not know our exact personal circumstances, knows we are not in the same affluent possition they are! Her kids go to private school & they have just bought an expensive house to do up whilst they continue to live in their big house next door to us! Let me just say she is a lovely lady & I feel a bit bad ranting about this but nonetheless I am pretty mad and so here goes........!

Earlier, her daughter came round with a huge bag of 'hand-me-down' clothes for my daughters. How thoughtful I thought. My kids have enough clothes (they got a lot for Christmas). I said to the little girl 'ask Mummy if she wants anything for these'. Some time later she came to the door with the daughter. I thanked her and repeated my offer. If I am being honest I expected her to say 'don't worry' they would have just been thrown out!' Oh no! She said well if you'd like to make a donation to me for them because I have had to buy DD some new ones! :mad::mad::mad: Did I ask for the clothes, do I need the clothes? No! But now I am expected to shell out some money for 2nd hand clothes I did not need & can not afford! Oooh I am hopping! Deep breaths!

Back on topic............
I have got one of my Lidl packs of British Steak Mince out of the freezer (which I bought for £1.34 on one of their offers) & added lots of ingredients to it to make burgers. That will be tea. I am hoping to have 3 left to freeze. Will be serving them in baps with salad.

NSD for me today:)

hi just tell her no of the clothes fit so you dont want them and just giver her them back,mmm hm burgers sound nice

rising_from_the_ashes

Ohhhhh MissOrganised I'd be fuming too ....... I'd be tempted to send them back and say that she can ebay them or take them to a car boot if she needs to make some money from them!

Herbyme

Aberdeen saver, well done on trying to kick the cigs, and I wish you every success with it. It won't be easy but there is a lot of help available from local stop smoking services and the website (google nhs smokefree). You probably know that already but just in case, thought I'd mention it, research says people are much more successful with this kind of help than without it. Especially good is the trick of opening a new bank account and putting in the price of a packet of cigs every time you would have bought one. It's surprisingly motivating and positive, which is what you need at this point, I'm guessing.
All the best!