Grocery Challenge - February 2012

Brassic_Park

£300 for Feb please.

looie

Thanks for the shiny new thread

Can you put me down for £80 for February please. I usually set myself a budget of £100 but there is so much stuff that needs eating up it's bordering on stupid :eek:

mi_jardin

I've been shopping again! Doh! £3.86 in Aldi on super 6 veggies and a few more. Then another 67p in Asda on whoopsied mushrooms. I am only on my 4th day of Feb and I a quarter of the way through my budget! However, I did stock up on meat yesterday, and the veggies should keep us going for bit so that should be it for this week. She says.......:p

LondonDreamer

Thanks to all involved for the shiny new thread. :T

First spend of Feb's budget over the weekend at M&S, £25.38 after meal deal and voucher. Taking off the full cost of a bottle of wine though, as it's a gift. So going to add £18.39 as my first spend, plus £2.29 at Mr T on some whoopsied mince.

Every week I meal plan and have enough for one week's worth of meals. Yet come the following week, I still have a week's worth of meals in there even though I've only added one or two whoopsied things throughout the week. I know it's me stretching things and putting back leftovers, but I still like to think my freezer is magic.

So having said that, this week's menu is...

Sunday: Roast chicken (whoopsied 2kg bird, loads leftover)
Monday: Gammon (leftover) and potato gratin (meal deal)
Tuesday: Chicken curry (using last week's leftover chicken)
Wednesday: Chorizo pasta
Thursday: Chilli con carne (whoopsied mince and sauce - probably have leftovers)
Friday: Southern fried chicken (leftover from a big pack on offer)
Saturday: All day breakfast (promised DH - will need to get bacon for this though)

quintwins

£44.03 on tesco and £4 on the kids snack money for school don't need anything else this week, i will check tesco on wed for whoopsies but not much room for stuff so shouldn't buy much

sabs10

Hello All,

would like to join in the challenge for Feb please. At the mo I will go for £150 for feb please, but may change this once i look at how much i spent in Jan - kept receipts to work out food budget.

will now take inventory of cupboards, fridge & freezer before meal planning & shopping

sistercas

winchelsea i am so sorry to hear your news , my thoughts and prayers are with you xx

( i did post this on the jan gc but thought i should post it here too

Greying_Pilgrim

Thanks as always to the lovely folk that administer this thread and for all the contributors to the GC that make this such a great, supportive place to be.

helen jelly please can you put me down for £140 for February again please. I came a whopping 10 whole .....pennies under budget for January (declaring 1 day early, but won't be shopping tomorrow, so safe enough to do so). Therefore, I think my budget was about right - which I thought it was, but I definitely was spending more than that (and ignoring it) before joining this challenge. The focus has helped me and as the underspend was on the food 'component' of my budget (£60), I'm pretty chuffed.

Greying

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Please put me down for £100.00 for February I am so pleased at the amount I have cut back on for January.One more day then the left over cash goes into my holiday savings account

Gorgeestwo

*note to self* Do NOT take DH and DD into Mr T's when I'm just popping in for milk, spent an extra £6 so £10.06 to add to my total :eek: