Grocery Challenge - February 2012

meg72

tigerfeet2006 wrote: »

Hmm! guess what he is doing tonight . I have to say though it has been a good investment so far in the three days he has had it. He likes the talking book function and puts that on for when he is in the car.

Have been looking at getting a Kindle, which one do you have that has the talking book function please.

totallybored

I'm declaring £281 out of a £250 budget. A bit over but I found loads of whoopsies in W@itrose and M&$ this month so my freezer is stuffed.

tigerfeet2006

meg72 wrote: »

Have been looking at getting a Kindle, which one do you have that has the talking book function please.

It's the £149 one. I ummed and aahed about spending that much and DH told me off for doing so but we have come to the conclusion it is money well spent.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002LVUWFE/ref=kin3_ddp_alsoavail_kinw_kin3gso

LondonDreamer

Didn't end up getting those last few items this month (still need them, just didn't get to the shop) so going to declare Feb just under at £196.70/200. :T

Kylieminoag

Am declaring the month finished at £1.60 under budget:j:j:j..... put carefully in the sealed pot.

Thanks everyone for your support this month:beer:
Well done :T to everyone who spent less than they would have before doing the challenge - whether you are under or over budget .... you deserve :kisses:

See you in March I hope!:D

trulymadlyhannah

Declaring an overspend of £19.82 for Feb. Most of that was on junkfood, and includes £3.98 spent on dinner today as we took the car for tracking near dinner time.

We have just bought a car after being without for 18months and are loving vehicledom:), but its been at the expense of my food budget!:( The full overspend was all car related convenience or junk food!

I am far too close to my March budget, but i will save that confession for the new thread!

Elsiepac, I tried your Honeyed Carrot Soup, and it was lovley, will be a regular in our house, Thank you

Herbyme

Still hanging on in Feb with £20 to go and the cupboards are pretty bare, reduced to wondering what I can do with odd things like sachets of microwavable quinoa (?!:rotfl:) and polenta which I bought to make recipes out of a library book which has now gone back... hmmm...

DH described tonnights supper as 'scratch' (thanks!) - pasta with HM tomato sauce with ham batons (for the DS1 and 2, just sauce for us) from a Mr W YS a while back and frozen, DS1 said he liked it better than bol sauce so hurrah for scratch food :j. Pah! And I made us HM parsnip soup for lunch so I don't see that he can complain too much. Especially as I had a very unjolly 50 mins at the dentists first thing for a complete rebuild of crumbled tooth :eek: (well mainly filling, hardly any tooth - at least it's now a white filling, which is much nicer). So I have not felt quite my usual perky self today...

Debating cancelling the 'big' hol booked for the summer - deposit only paid so far - and opting for a much smaller one - even if we lose the deposit it will still be worth it, given lack of income.:( spent hours on the net yesterday to get a train fare down from £141 to £85 -:money: thanks to split ticketing both ways, and a more convenient route too (one which didn't show up when I tried to book the whole journey in one go, so well worth ferreting about).

So am feeling very MS and am determined not to mess it up by dashing off and blowing my new shiny sparkling March budget on Thursday! All I need now are lots of YS items to refill my freezer with but it's so hit and miss, I'm often green with envy at others' fab hauls!

Gnight all!

DundeeDoll

One more day, £4.98 left. Will she or wont she?! Surplus goes into xmas fund , currently looking bit bare. Looking at spreadsheet, over £300 went on deisel! (fortunately from diff bills budget) hoping this was a one-off as surplus of bills goes into holiday fund...

mummyyof5

Arrgghh...OH insisted on going to MrMs yesterday ..another £54 spent..not happy.also need to declare £6 on a bag of potatoes
Will update sig now..NSD today and tomorrow x

PennyGrabber

I absolutely love my Kindle - I download tons of free books, or ones which costs around a £1, and I find I read much more this way. In fact, I'm off to read it now! I would def opt for the more expensive one, because you can download direct to it via the amazon book store, rather than doing it via your computer. This means we could download a book while on holiday camping last summer!!!