January 2012 Grocery Challenge

Redouble

Just realised I was overcharged by £2 on my shopping today so have emailed, plus we never received our coop vouchers in november so my husband is contacting them about that (they won't speak to me!) I also have about £6 in Tesco vouchers and some food vouchers I got from emailing companies on their way too so hopefully next week will feel really good! I am not shopping for a week, I am determined, and a tad obsessed :cool:

elly2

Florenceem wrote: »

Can I ask - what is the personal challenge please?

Hi florenceem its just a personal challange to put at least £10 a week into a sealed pot to help for birthdays,xmas and hopefully some trips out with the kids.

Pixie_Fairydust

rosieben wrote: »

click on the orange balloon at the bottom of each post you want to reply to;
when you're read to reply just press the Quote button

Spiggle wrote: »

Hi Pixie,

At the bottom of each post there is, going left to right, the thanks button, the quote button and then the 'double balloon' button. The double balloon is the multi quote button. You can only quote up to three posts at a time though - well it won't let me use more than that anyways! If you tick the balloon a little white tick will show, when you're ready to post click the quote button on one of those you wish to reply to and you'll be taken to the advanced post screen. Once in there you can edit or reduce the quoted post as you wish. Make sure your cursor is not inside anything like this

when you are typing your reply. HTH.

Wow look at me I'm so clever !!!!!!
Thanks for taking the time to help me :T
Pixie

Florenceem

elly2 wrote: »

Hi florenceem its just a personal challange to put at least £10 a week into a sealed pot to help for birthdays,xmas and hopefully some trips out with the kids.

Oic. I already put £7 a week into a pot for Christmas/Birthday presents and cards - try to make as many presents as I can though and I make all the cards. No children at home now - just the two of us - I do put £4 week into a trips pot. I have SO many pots! A friend was telling me to buy a TV guide - 42p a week - the cheapest one apparently - mean me - thought put that 42p in a pot - look at TV guide on Internet - another £21.84 a year saved. Don't know what I shall use it for yet.

rising_from_the_ashes

On my way through a mamoth catch up:D ... around 7 pages since last night!

helen_jelly wrote: »

Rising - thanks hun - you were the "oldie" I was thinking of hehe

Awwww, shucks

Rosieben also a huge thanks - the recipes are flowing thick & fast too!:D

sproggi wrote: »

Wow, it has taken me 3 days to finally catch up. I could have just skipped through to the end, but I do love reading how everyone is getting on.

Me too!:D I love hearing about the bargains people are finding ... and seeing how their budgets are doing!

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

We did a lot of bulk buys. We have enough toilet roll to get us to April (at least), enough vegan marg for 4 months put in freezer (I have 2 months in fridge so 6 months in all), enough cereal for my partner for 6 months, crisps that will last my partner at least 3 months (4+ if lucky) etc. All in all a good shop.

Quick question .... where do you keep it all?

I've very limited cupboard space in this house which limits the amount of stocks I can build but would love to be able to get more when there's fantastic offers on!

rising_from_the_ashes

Pixie_Fairydust wrote: »

Thanks to you too, I couldn't work out how to put 2 quotes in 1 reply , help please!

Sorry if someone's already replied but part way through the catch up!

Next to the "quote" button at the bottom of the post, there is another one that looks like ballons - you use this to multi-quote (up to 3 - although you can be sneaky & do more if you need to - do a new post, copy the text of the 3 multi quotes you've selected, hit your "back" key, untick them, tick 3 more and post reply - the 3 new ones will appear - and then paste the other 3 in - IYSWIM:o)

LondonDreamer wrote: »

I would love to see the banana bread recipe. My usual one has milk so I can't eat it. Not entirely a bad thing, but it would be nice to indulge sometimes! :j

LondonDreamer wrote: »

I can't have soya either, have tried various grain/nut milks and do not like the flavour which I find will come through even in baking.

Have you tried Lactofree? Tastes as nice as "real" milk and I haven't noticed any difference in cooking HTH:)

rising_from_the_ashes

cw18 wrote: »

I actually have an annual budget, which I split into monthly amounts according to the days in the month. If I have anything left out of a months 'allowance' it stays in my annual pot - which means that if I underspend in the early part of the year I can stock up on bargains later in the year without having to rob other pots to do so.

That's what I'm hoping to achieve too!:D

If there's anything left at the end of the year .... I'll treat myself to something nice!;)

Florenceem wrote: »

I have been saving left over shopping money - started twelve weeks ago - got £130.29 so far in a pot.

Wow Florence - that's great :T .... and in such a short time!


Phew! made it to the end! Sorry about the couple of other posts, but if I didn't do them then, I'd never have remembered!:) NSD today which is good (and very unusual on a Weds as finish at lunchtime).

However, I really did need to get some bread for lunch tomorrow ... so maybe not such a great thing!:eek: Will hunt the cupboards shortly and see if I can find anything else that will do instead.

kerri_dfw

Can I be added please, I have 3 grocery shops to do between now and payday and would like to pledge £60
This might not work, but at least I'm trying and I don't seem to be able to reduce it by myself.

JillD_2

Asda shop today. Ttal was £58.60. More than planned but unplanned things were:
£4.50 on batteries that husband needed
£8 on packs of quorn pieces that were £1 down from £1.78 or smtg
£2 on Covent Gdn soup for hubby, down from £1.50 to £1 a tub. He's got man flu
£3.95 on sudafed for him
£5 on foot cream for me. My feet are a mess. Maybe I should try vaseline?

Totting up actual exact spends:
£47.82 (Tues 27th, Asda, husband, I forgot about this one :mad:)
£70.60 (Sat 31st, Asda)
£8.78 (Sat 31st, Boots)
£8.15 (Tues 3rd, Asda cafe)
£58.60 (Weds 4th: Asda)
£7.70 (Weds 4th, Asda cafe)
Total: £201.65

As we have 3 weeks to go and are nearly half way I'm not impressed AT ALL. Must. Try. Harder.

Ninno820

Sadly not another NSD today - couldn't find my tin opener so popped in to local shop for one and also picked up a whoopsied ,muller rice for 30p so another £1.80 off the total