January 2013 Grocery Challenge

Gracie_1827

I made some of this in November 2011 and am just about finished the last jar....in Feb I'll look for some more cheap mangoes and fill some jars:j

pinkypig

Hi everyone. Loads of snow here and getting worse so we are having a nice night in by the fire.

NSD today and hoping this will last until at least Friday.

Stay warm and safe PPxx

meanmarie

Spent another €17.36 on visit to Asian shop so really need to stop spending.

Marie

quintwins

£19.80 spent on 20kg spuds, 2 loaves of bread, 18 toilet roll and 2 litres of milk, i owe the school £4 aswell but i've no change

xxlouisexx56

Just checking in to say last week I spent £35 on the weekly shop and an extra 5 pounds on milk. Kids go through it like no ones business!

I get paid on Friday so will do another weekly shop then or on the weekend.

Ham for DP and DD's school sarnies seems to be getting really expensive I won't buy square ham and only get carved stuff but the prices just keep going up!

mossy

Just had to go on a mission of mercy for DD as she was complaining of a toothache, bought some calpol melts which were £3 which means that's all my budget for this GC gone!! No more shopping until the weekend!!

I've done it, go me, first target hit what a great way to start the year!! :dance: :T :dance:

fluffpot

Been an interesting exercise this, so far.

Mr Fluffpot managed to spend £40 on some Spanish sausages and British steaks for dinner guests - EEKK. I don't even eat meat! The carnivores did say they were fab though...

That is a bit of a one off - and he's been told...

With that slight bump, our fruit and veg is about 1/3 of the overall spend. Without that bump with would be over 40%.

I'd be interested to know if this is roughly the proportions for other people?

Fluff

sjprmc01

Grr! I'm annoyed with myself! I've lost track! I know I've failed the challenge because I'm on or around the 250mark and it isn't even halfway through the month

It is really hard to keep track of it all if you don't write it down straight off and it doesn't help that I am only in charge of the house 5 days out of 7 (work 12hr shifts at weekends with 2hrs travel time either side) and OH is THE WORST PERSON EVER for keeping track of outgoings

Must try better in Feb!

lizalloareds

65p spend today.
finding it hard to stick to meal plans, bought a slow cooker from tesco on friday planning to use it tomorrow for the 1st time, to make sausage casserole.

nicolula87

Well it's been an expensive week to 10 days ish, not quite sure how long since I updated my sig but since then £72.05 spent on groceries!!

£63 of this in the planned weekly shop but it did include stocking up on Weetabix (on offer in Lidl making proper Weetabix the same price as the Asda ones we normally get so got two of the big boxes for £8. Also bought a kilo gammon joint and a kilo of extra lean steak mince (also on offer in Lidl). This is the first week I have really done a two shop grocery shop, and it went well. I am planning on taking it one step further this week and writing down a list including all Asda prices before then going into Lidl and seeing what I can get cheaper.

Anyway total up to £210 now which is awesome as it includes dog food which we have never included in grocery budget before. £90 left to last us till the 25th and we should only need one shop between now and then I think.

OH is still the biggest downfall as he tends to buy bits and pieces all the time and doesn't keep receipts etc. Drives me mad!!