January 2013 Grocery Challenge

mrs_baggins

out of neccessity and no money i have only spent £12 so far. have been eating some weird concoctions out of store cupboard though! but today its chickpea curry and rice. tomorrow sons for dinner (hurrah)!!

MissOrganised1972

KittyFisher wrote: »

(This is sad, I know, but what's helped me keep track is making a spreadsheet to analyse my shopping receipts, showing not only what I'm spending weekly, but also split into different categories. Eventually there will be pivot tables and graphs, when I have more data to play with.)

I'm with you. There's a spreadsheet for everything!:D

I am going to go way over on my GC but I am still happy! I bought a big treat shop between Christmas & New year just for the hell of it & decided to be good & include that! Since then I have been really good.

On Monday I spent ages producing a meal plan for breakfast, lunch & dinner for the rest of the month (on a spreadsheet) made a bit more difficult because I loosely follow the Slimming World Extra Easy plan. Anyway, the last 2 Friday shops have been planned & controlled! :A

What I tend to do is make my list on the T*sco app on my phone, aiming to come in around budget. I then go to Ald1 to do the shop. As I go round the shop, I keep a note of how much I've saved on each item, by buying it in Ald1 rather then Mr T. Then at the end of the shop, when I know how much I've saved, I grab some extra items to take me to my budget amount or buy a bottle of wine or something! IFYSWIM!

Mrs_T_M

KittyFisher wrote: »

(This is sad, I know, but what's helped me keep track is making a spreadsheet to analyse my shopping receipts, showing not only what I'm spending weekly, but also split into different categories. Eventually there will be pivot tables and graphs, when I have more data to play with.)

I do the same thing. I'm such a geek!

Islandmaid

First big shop of the year, spent £58 including pet food, £88 total for the month so far and we,re nearly half way through - quite chuffed with myself and I normally spent £100 per week.

Helsbels8080

Good afternoon everyone

Haven't posted on here for a while, mixture of 'flu bug', back to work and kids back to school.

Anyway update as follows, a further £101.52 spent made up of weekly shop at Mr Ts and bits and bobs picked up here and there. After reading this thread i ventured into £shop, I didn't realise they sold so much food/drink in there! Picked up x3 kitchen rolls for £1 (obviously) instead of £1.07 for two in Mr Ts. :j

So my running total is now £238.52 of £400. Slightly over budget for the month but have OH children staying this weekend so extras were needed.

fedupandskint

Update for me is this

Decided as its a 5 week month for me to have £140 out of the yearly total and so far on £107 for the month which equates at £35 per week and leaves me £16.50 for the next 2 weeks to come in on budget. The freezer has plenty in so I'll be continuing to work my way through what's in there.

This week I used up some chicken legs in there in a lovely chicken stew and will be doing this one again before the end of the month to use up some drumsticks and thighs

jumblejack

mrs_baggins wrote: »

out of neccessity and no money i have only spent £12 so far. have been eating some weird concoctions out of store cupboard though! but today its chickpea curry and rice. tomorrow sons for dinner (hurrah)!!

Cheap day tomorrow then for you!

We are going for Sunday dinner at the in laws so another cheap day for us too

MadamMim2013

hoping for a NSD finally this week!! Making a loaf in the machine & defrosting milk so no need to go to shop which is great as I'm really not too well at the mo, been poorly since just before xmas.. it's time for some nicer weather I feel!

Josslette

Hi everyone, couple of spends yesterday...

£2.69 in Morrisons - Frozen peas, carrots, yorkshire puds, red onions

£2.99 in Home Bargains - 4 tins of tuna

£4.38 in Lidl - Cucumber, Curly Kale, Ham, Mozzarella, Diet Lemonade, Bread.

So that's £10.06 in total Not too bad and some of it was veg so fairly healthy

pavlovs_dog

found myself mentally panic shopping for the snow that is rumoured to be heading our way. A quick look through the bulging cupboards brought me back to earth and made me realise how silly I was being

I will plan more than a week's worth of meals and buy any extras needed for those meals. If they aren't needed I can roll them over to next week's meal plan. I will also buy a carton or two of UHT and a loaf for the freezer. But I will not shop like the apocalypse is coming. We have a tesco express just down the road if we were really desperate. I'm not going to blow my budget for something that may not even happen!