May 2012 Grocery Challenge

NickJW

iQueen wrote: »

No cigs since Sat midday!

I just saw this and I want to shout WELL DONE!

As can be seen from my signature I've quit since the 4th January. I can't deny that I've had the odd slip up, but if you do, don't worry about it, pick yourself up and start again afresh. I've saved about £700 so far which is more than I've spent on food. You can do it!

Okay...enough of me sounding like communist propaganda...:cool:

A spend of £1.84 in the corner shop. Squash and chewing gum (my vices at the moment! ). I guess I had best update my signature.

Barbeduk

NickJW wrote: »

I just saw this and I want to shout WELL DONE!

As can be seen from my signature I've quit since the 4th January. I can't deny that I've had the odd slip up, but if you do, don't worry about it, pick yourself up and start again afresh. I've saved about £700 so far which is more than I've spent on food. You can do it!

£700! That's amazing! Well done both of you.:j:j:j

abitofhelp

Morning all, nsd for me today. Grotty weather outside, hope someone has some sunshine. Dragged myself into work tody, i had to as i am out visiting. Made my lunch though very mse. Enjoy your day.

tessie_bear

hi...we are using leftovers for tea...roast pork i havent decided wether to make a fried rice with it or do slices in gravy....um decisions...need to get something out of the freezer for tomorrow....maybe a chicken to roast
im going to do a meal plan for next week and make a rhubarb crumble later...oh and try and sort out the washing mountain...the glamour

take care tess

mummyyof5

Found some stewing steak in the freezer last night...now in slowcooker with some onions,herbs and oxo...smells delish already.
Going in to town very shortly...some bills to pay and need to get salad and eggs..cant think of anything else we need right now.

166million

Made a lovely Spag Bol. 175g Tesco Meat Free Mince, 1 clove garlic, soy sauce and sweet chilli sauce, dried herbs, 1 tin tomatoes, 40g onions, 40g peppers. Wee bit of gravy granules for flavour

jedi82

Good morning,

was planning on going to town today but it is too miserable out there (the hair wash can wait another day :rotfl:)

Am on day three of my meal plan. For some reason I cannot meal plan but hve made a real effort this week. I did attempt to change it on the first day cos I fancied something different but as I have written the meal plan on the cupboard, my OH knew what we were having and told me that we had to stick to it! He is finally getting it i think.

On another note, we recently were given two chickens and I want two more but DH said no until we reach our target savings. So I went through all my penny jars and bagged it all up to make £23 - the chickens are £26 so I need to find £3 and I can go and get them this weekend :T. It felt really good not just buying them cos I want them but actually working out where the money was coming from

And on that note......have a nice day. Pizza and JPs for tea tonight.

Jedi x

Barbeduk

jedi82 wrote: »

On another note, we recently were given two chickens and I want two more but DH said no until we reach our target savings. So I went through all my penny jars and bagged it all up to make £23 - the chickens are £26 so I need to find £3 and I can go and get them this weekend :T. It felt really good not just buying them cos I want them but actually working out where the money was coming from

Jedi x

Well done Jedi! I've got a 'summer holiday treats' pot that I put odds and ends of silver in and the odd note. I counted it yesterday and couldn't believe how much it had built up. Just think of what you can do with all those eggs!

NSD for me today, have DD home poorly. So am going to make a massive bolognaise with lots of added lentils and veg in the SC and some flapjack. I'm afraid yesterday's crumble was sooo good we ate it all, oops!

quintwins

Morning everyone had a few spends yesterday in the soft play area, i also forgot to add in the £1.79 i spent on food bags on sat from lidl altogether it's £7.24, then £7.99 we spent of fish and chips when we were away on monday, so far i'm at £29.14

Gonna have a quicky tea tonight of sausages, waffles and beans (oh so healthy)

I decided not to include the meat i bought in my 2nd purse, it was bought with abit of extra money we had been given and i already set myself a very tight budget this month the difference in that and my normal budget more than makes up for the meat.

Aldahbra

PennyGrabber wrote: »

I just count nsds as no grocery spending, as this is the grocery challenge, but others do complete nsds. Up to you!!

Ohh I thought NSD was when you spent no money at all. Next month I might try having GNSD (Grocery NSD) and NSD just out of interest.

I'm here to report a £90.12 MT spend. Another big one.

I bought the book that someone recommended, sorry can't find the post again - Low cost living by Jonathan Harrision for my kindle yesterday £4.08 but I'm not adding that to the grocery budget. Don't really know which budget it is going to come out of then. Have only just started it but looks good so far.