Grocery Challenge - February 2012

sistercas

Bikingbint wrote: »

I bought a meat slicer from Lakeland, the best money I have spent for a long time, worth every penny. All joints go so much further with thinner slices, the machine I have can do wafer thin which is great is stretching the joint to another meal.

i was just looking at the LAKELAND MEAT SLICER i like it , i had a look on @mazon and ebay and some are so expensive :eek: im very tempted but would have to save up for one

NSD today

123budget

ELSIEPAC I have just spent ages looking through your spreadsheet - totally fantastic:T:T
So good I forgot I had got dinner in the oven and burnt it all:o

I'm not very computer literate but think I have got the hang of it. I have deleted your grocery/item list and just started listing mine from latest receipt and am going to try and find receipts from last month to put those on. You have saved me so much time but I think it may become a little obsessive.

Can I just ask one question - On your shopping list page the column in pink with the prices - have you crossed them out as you have bought them also not sure what n/a meant (is that already in your stores?)
Just wondered as when I put in my shopping list the prices came up with a line through them.

Long_tall_sally

Hi all. Declaring at £500 against my target of £450 and have already spent £20.02 for the month of March at Far*foods, Ho*ebargains & the market.

Helen - I am happy to not be on the first page. I never look at it anyway.

Thankyou to everyone for their posts and also to Helen, Rosieben & zippychick for running the thread.

Gorgeestwo

Helenjelly, I'm also happy not to be on the front page and just put my amount in my sig. Thank you for all your hard work.

Declaring £440 ish (:D sort of lost track a bit towards the end) for February, but it was over budget anyway :eek:
Going to aim for £450 in March, did my first March shop today and spent just over £92 :eek: but that includes about £25 of summer school uniform from Mr S, I'm going to leave that in this budget for now.

Suffolk_lass

bodmin789 wrote: »

Could I have some help please?:o

Not sure how to get my posts to look like yours, please can someone advise??

bodmin789 Click on the "User CP" option at the top of the thread and then choose edit signature from the options on the left and away you go - have a play with the style you want and then you can preview before you save it to check for typos and other effects you might not want. When you are happy save it and then it automatically uses it when you post, unless you uncheck the box.

HTH SL

MumOf2Beasties

How fast does this thread move?? Sooo much to catch up on, will go back a few pages after posting!

Very Very annoyed with myself, completely over this month, and I go by calendar month so a few days to go yet!!

So far I have spent roughly £264 of Febs GC:eek::eek::eek:

Didn't get receipts for a few small spends on chocs with the kiddies, so more like £270:mad:

I was so proud of myself in Jan, thought i'd cracked it and took my eye off the ball, back on it now though and i will not be having a total like this in March!!

Hope everyone is well, off to catch up with all you lovely peeps and read back a bit, see what you've all been up to:D

Take Care

Herbyme

PennyGrabber wrote: »

For my dinner tonight, I had lo fish pie, followed by a nobbly bobbly


Off now to check the te$co dtd thread, to see what I can buy tonight...

PG x

PennyGrabber, what is a nobbly bobbly and what is the te$co dtd thread please?!

I can't remember spending anything today so that must mean a NSD - I'm pretty sure...

bodmin789

Suffolk lass; Click on the "User CP" option at the top of the thread and then choose edit signature from the options on the left and away you go - have a play with the style you want and then you can preview before you save it to check for typos and other effects you might not want. When you are happy save it and then it automatically uses it when you post, unless you uncheck the box.

HTH

Thank you so much for the help :T:T

bupster

Right. Have spent just under £40 on grub which is a ridiculous amount for the first week of the month BUT I will only need bread, milk, eggs and fruit for ages. So I might keep it to £60 in total (though I doubt it! ).

Stripping out drinks and entertainment will give me a much clearer idea of what I'm spending on that. Part of me thinks I should not spend anything at all, but when I do that I get terribly isolated. I live alone, and though I do a lot of social stuff during the day and evenings, having to go home when others are off for a well-earned pint gets depressing. And I should be able to do it within my original budget for the month - if you look at January I was aiming at £300 for everything except bills and thinking it might be tight. I've learned so much since I started! Even £100 a month for groceries now seems like a mad amount!

So today I actually looked at the shop I did at A*dis - I tell you what, lads, I'm not shopping anywhere else for basics. I bought a bacon joint, not really sure what it would be, cost £3.99 and I thought 'brilliant, I'll easily get four meals out of that'. FOUR? It's HUGE! I've sliced half of it into this tower of salted meat that looms at me whenever I open the fridge. That's a couple of sandwiches, the basis of my 'bottom of the fridge pasta bake' that I take into work - which itself is going to last until the middle of next week this time as I picked a load of purple sprouting broccoli off the allotment to have with some other veg so I can split the pasta bake into eight, not six - and I'll still have enough for another meal or three. And that's HALF of it! Any ideas what to do with a pig mountain :rotfl:?

I also got a whole free range chicken for a fiver, so that's another lord knows how many meals. And I've finally half-made the cauliflower cheese soup I've been meaning to make for a week. And used my storecupboard stuff to make enough home-made granola to eat for breakfast for a fortnight. All of this would be marvellous - I've enough food to hold out a siege - but I LIVE ON MY OWN.

I think the only way out may be to eat myself to death.

In the meantime, this evening a lovely lady DELIVERED a bookcase that she'd given to me through freecycle! That's the second bookcase I've had from there, and now I officially have no more space in my flat for books (until I shift the sofa forward a couple of feet :rotfl:). Am going to try very hard to fill it with books, not cans of chopped tomatoes.

OK, this is well off GC topic so will finish here - but just to say in high excitement that I am IN CREDIT at my bank this month. Granted, that's due to a one-off work bonus, but it's soooo nice to not have an overdraft, even though I know it won't last.

(and finally - honest - I also don't need to be in a list on the front page, I never really look either. Will update sig).

Herbyme

bupster, I had to laugh this morning, someone posted a want on freecycle for 'a working iphone on Orange':rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Enough of that, huge congrats on your achievement, well done!