January 2013 Grocery Challenge

Pixie_Fairydust

I'm determined to do a full 12 months/52 weeks of the GC, I have a summer holiday to pay for!

Could you put me down for £75 per week I'm going to try weekly during Jan and see how I get on. This is for 4th Jan - 11th Jan. We are away until New Years Eve and have meals out on the 1st, 5th and 6th so I should be under budget hopefully, but my cupboards/freezer are fairly empty as we have not been at home!

This is for me and DS (16) and 2 cats, includes all toiletries & cat food. I would like to reduce it to £50 per week, but I don't want to set myself up to fail!

Thanks to all who run this forum for all your hard work and all who post, I read regularly but tend to fall off the wagon really easily, must be more determined in 2013!

Happy Boxing Day and here's to a brilliant 2013 :beer:

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ange903

Please can you put me down for £150 for Jan challenge please. Month runs 28th Dec - 28th Jan for me, OH and cat.
Thanks x

couldsavemore_2

I would like to join in with this challenge please.
for January (1/1 until 31/1 )

I Will aim for . I£120

empy

Hi Zippychick and all fellow Oser's
I hope you have all had wonderful and restful Christmas. Now the fun starts eh I did go over my budget last month by loads and did not cook very much of it It was an awful month with many terrible family tragedies, which left me turning to the takeaway and eating out. On the up side I will not have to spend as much this month- every cloud and all!

Therefore may I please set my budget for January at £200.00 thank you.


Have a lovely Boxing day all and I hope to catch up later.


Emma

Thriftkitten

Hi and Merry Xmas to all, I would like to join the grocery challenge please and seeing as this is my first month, I would like to guestimate
£200 for the budged, this includes£50 for DD1's school dinner money but does not include any cleaning products as I have a seperate amount put aside for that. I'm hoping for Feb I will have a more realistic idea on a grocery budget, Thanks and happy saving xx

thrifty_bell

Forgot to mention the £200 is from the 1st till the 31st and is fo me and dh an 2 step kids every other weekend , and includes , food , booze , household n bath stuff , ive got some home made wine on already to get ahead start :beer:

ruby_eskimo

For Christmas, my parents bought me a soup maker, so you can guess what a lot of my food is going to be from now on!

nicolula87

Hi I would like to join again please!

I am going to aim for £300 again but this time including dog food and meals out so will be much tougher!

Got OH on board as well so that should make things easier. Month runs 25th-25th for us.

RevolvingDoor

ruby_eskimo wrote: »

For Christmas, my parents bought me a soup maker, so you can guess what a lot of my food is going to be from now on!

Weird, I've never heard of a soup maker.:)

cw18

RevolvingDoor wrote: »

Weird, I've never heard of a soup maker.:)

I bought one a few months ago - made by M0rphy Rich@rds.

Can't say I'm greatly impressed with it though. The instructions are bit lacking (first I hit was that they don't say whether the water you add to frozen veg should be hot or cold for), but that one worked out OK apart from the fact I could still tell I'd used frozen carrots (which I hate the taste of!)

Then tried using fresh veg, but it's really hard to judge how much liquid I need to how much veg. And one (very big) portion of my version is too little for the machine, while running it at max barely makes enough to fill my food flask for work twice (cook up 2 lots, put one into flask and other into tub in fridge to reheat in pan and put into flask the next day). Doing this also means I need lots of space in my freezers for bags of prepped veg (one session of prepping is about enough for 10 portions) which takes more space than portions of made and blended soup.

I'd probably make more use of it if I were making soup every day for myself and an OH or a couple of kids to be eaten at home.