January 2013 Grocery Challenge

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Went to Tescos today armed with my shopping list. Only picked up a basket, as didn't need a huge amount, and I find I'm less tempted to pick up extras with an increasingly heavy basket! I hardly ever use a trolley these days.

Anyway, mostly tinned stuff today. Tuna and soup mostly! I'm trying to cut some calories, so have been rotating round tuna salad and soup for lunch lately.
Tesco were doing a 5 for £3 deal on Heinz soups, but Tescos own brand (which taste just as good were 59p each. I'm afraid I had to get my phone out to check the sums on the calculator. Only a penny in it, but every little helps, so I got the own brand.

Checked the reduced to clear section, as I always do. They were selling sausages for 45p a pack. Grabbed 2 packets and separated them into portion sizes for the freezer, keeping one portion for today so I can do bangers and mash for tea.

An £8.43 spend in all, so I've updated my sig.

Redouble

3 weeks left of the months and I have spent over half of my budget... Oh crud!! Serious belt tightening about to happen. We are just to lax about it all. Oh well, we'll just put it on the CC. ARGHHHHH
It's so much easier when DH is away (I know, it's awful to say...)

Peanut2013

Redouble wrote: »

It's so much easier when DH is away (I know, it's awful to say...)

Oh hun say it, my shopping bill would be teeny without the OH. Lol

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Small spend of £4.01 today in Sainsbobs. Got potatoes, brocolli and sprouts. Sausages, mash and veg for tea!

Off to update sig.
Coxy

Island_mum

Peanut2013 wrote: »

Oh hun say it, my shopping bill would be teeny without the OH. Lol

I think it's a man thing - mine would be smaller and without a scrunched up nose when he asks what's for dinner :rotfl:

I've spent just £34.02 this week (mine run Friday to Thursday) which I think is pretty good for a place where a litre of milk is £1.08 and you'd be lucky to get a loaf of bread for less than £1.40 :mad:

As Marks is a franchise over here, we've got £5 off when you spend £25 vouchers for each week in January so I'm buying the fresh food I need for that week to go with older freezer food then using the rest of the £25 for fresher food to go in the freezer (if that makes any sense at all) for February onwards.

Need to make some soup batches for the freezer as well as stock up on tinned goods.

ButterflyBee

Well I went to Tesco last night and did my small weekly shop which also needed to include the cat food for the month as it saves to buy in bulk and was a total spend of £17.03

£58.79/£150

SAVVYMUMMY_2

Good afternoon all, I ended with going to MrT today instead of MrA, due to timing and wasn`t sure i`d be back in time for the school run.

Spent £55.45, which is a BIG difference, if I wasn`t on the GC this would have been over £100:eek:. So really please, although I will have to pop out for milk, bead, f&v and meat during the week. I`ll update in a mo.

MrT has an offer of BOGOF on 1kg flora if this is any good to anyone.

Billie-jo

Hope you feel better soon suze.

Good to see lots of NSD happening unfortunately not here as spent £45.17 Out of this £25.04 was on fruit & veg. Picked up a large cauliflower for just 49p I thought it would be rude not to at that price even though hadn’t really planned on getting one this week. Also brought a sack of potatoes, celery, leeks, mushrooms, bananas, satsumas, grapes, sprouts, water cress, spring onions, tomatoes and apples.

Meal plans this week are now -
Chicken breasts with fried sprouts, bacon and potatoes
Pork chops with leeks, carrots and mash
Spaghetti bolognaise & salad
Sung choi bao
Cauliflower cheese
Sausage or bacon with mushrooms, tomatoes and toast
Curry or risotto

Peanut2013

Hi billie, what's sung choi bao? Sounds interesting

jumblejack

Aargh. I have to report a spend of 2p!!

I bought milk, potatoes and washing up liquid but used some apgs that I wombled leaving only 2p to pay!

Itvwas so very nearly another NSD too!!

I defrosted some whoopsied sausage meat and rustled up a scotch egg pie (for want of a better description for my old style concoction):



Have a great day peeps x