January 2013 Grocery Challenge

m155piggy

Well...
Went to the dentist and spent £2.50 of car park which I will not count.
Afterwards spent £15 in Primarni on some jeans I had promised DS2 for his B'day yesterday - so that doesn't count towards GC either!

Managed to avoid all £shops and HB on the way back to the car and came straight home so no spending!

DH has just taken me out for a carvery as he is home so that came to £7.88 which I WILL add to my total as it was food! No drinks with dinner and came home for coffee.

Not a bad day at all so far being as I had temptation well and truly in my way this morning!!

meg72

katholicos wrote: »

Grrr DS17 has this annoying habit of coming to me and saying "is there anything to eat?"

So annoying!

I am writing up a list for him of snacks he could have /make for himself instead of asking me to come up with something for im.

Just off the top of my head there are:

5 different cereals in the cupboard.
Bread sliced for sandwiches or for toasting.
Egss to make omellette or boiled egg on toast etc.
Couscous, flavoured...only has to add ot water and cover it for 5 mins.
Oven chips.
Cheese for sandwiches, on toast etc.
Tinned soup
Baked beans
Yoghurt
Apples, pears, clementines and red grapes
Sundried tomatoes, olives, antipasti type things.
And loads more proper main meal stuff!

Surely he has enough nouse to conjure up a quick snack with some of the above ingredients?

Grrrr....

This used to drive me nuts when my two were young. Like you I wrote a list and stuck it on the fridge door. Word of warning though if we ran out of anything on the list you can bet your boots thats the only one thing that they fancy. Mums cant win:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Simo429

Is there a thread to go through the abreviations for things becuase I am finding it difficult to follow the thread

princess84

Got a spend of £5.20 to add to my total and another NSD yesterday. Went to the coop not last night but the night before for reduced bargains but it was actually quite disappointing. Got some bread for 39p and a roast chicken down from £5.55 to £2.65 amongst other things. This might sound astounding to some haha but I have actually never done a proper roast dinner so I have made it a New Years Resolution to do a roast dinner every sunday for the family and i am so excited to start! So if anyone has any recipes or tips for a roast chicken dinner this sunday it would be much appreciated oh and i wish i had found some cheese for 25p! I find cheese soooo expensive but i will keep my eyes peeled now because funnily enough i never thought about freezing it! Will update signature now

Coxy11

cattysmum wrote: »

Ill be taking some of my leftover xmas gammon out today for lunch ...

Me too! Great minds think alike!

Simo429 wrote: »

Is there a thread to go through the abreviations for things becuase I am finding it difficult to follow the thread

Hi - some of the more obvious ones are:

NSD - no spend day
YS/RTC - yellow stickered/reduced to clear items

HTH (hope that helps!)

Small spend of 89p in M&$ on wholemeal rolls. I was collecting an online order so it made sense to grab them there. Will update sig in a mo.

Budgets done to here

Welcome:
Purple kitten, savvyshe and Simo429

Simo429 I've put you down for £200, let me know if that's not right.

Coxy

ButterflyBee

I used to love taking part in these challenges when I was a "active" member a year ago. Now that I have taken up the reigns again I think I will get back to posting and making PROPER grocery list.

So far this year I have been very good (9days and counting)
Tonight I must get sensitive cat food and loo roll and that is all I will buy.

ButterflyBee

Can you put me down for £150.00

katholicos

meg72 wrote: »

This used to drive me nuts when my two were young. Like you I wrote a list and stuck it on the fridge door. Word of warning though if we ran out of anything on the list you can bet your boots thats the only one thing that they fancy. Mums cant win:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

@meg72, oh yes, i couldn't agree more. Mum's can't win at all. When they go off and have their own children, i believe that is called 'payback'!

@dizzylizzy, thanks for the get well wishes

Solstice_3

Quite chuffed went to Lidl before Sainsbob and found quite a few cheaper items so saved some money there. Picked up a few non essentials for the cupboard in both shops but it's stuff I know I'll use and will be factoring them into my menu plans. Spent £3.58 in Asda, £4.94 in Lidl and £15.16 in Sainsbob bring the total spent to £23.68. Bought some pre cooked pastry tart cases to make some Jamie Oliver style puddings and they were reduced, didn't realise until I checked the receipt as it wasn't showing on the tickets so yay for that!

MissOrganised1972

NSD for me today. may have to grab couple of bits tomorrow but hoping to limit the damage before weekly shop on Friday