January 2013 Grocery Challenge

elizabunny

Another NSD to day! I've a Chicken Curry to make for dinner tonight and that's probably about it for today.

Lots of weather warnings appearing folks, so I guess we'll need to be stocked up and ready. Keep warm, safe & well everyone.

m155piggy

Weekly big shop done today - just as well really as no milk left for the kids at breakfast!

Really pleased with my shop - £1.99 at Al*i on 9x toilet roll, £3.67 at Li*l on mince, ham and bread flour.

£29.84 at MrA including bread, milk, coffee, biscuits, yoghurt, freezer meats, fruit & veg etc etc - should see us through the snow and all next week.

Technically £200 still do-able but not going to push it too hard!!

lizalloareds

m155piggy wrote: »

Weekly big shop done today - just as well really as no milk left for the kids at breakfast!

Really pleased with my shop - £1.99 at Al*i on 9x toilet roll, £3.67 at Li*l on mince, ham and bread flour.

£29.84 at MrA including bread, milk, coffee, biscuits, yoghurt, freezer meats, fruit & veg etc etc - should see us through the snow and all next week.

Technically £200 still do-able but not going to push it too hard!!

what the the toilet rolls like from Al*i, I normally buy kleenex quilted

m155piggy

lizalloareds wrote: »

what the the toilet rolls like from Al*i, I normally buy kleenex quilted

Not opened them yet but they feel quite nice through the packet - the rolls don't appear to be any smaller or lighter that the "good ones" so I am hopeful - they are Saxon brand 1.99 for 9 rolls.
Fingers crossed!!!!!

lizalloareds

Coxy11 wrote: »

Done - have changed you from £60 to £70 on the weekly list (at bottom of my post on page 1)

Coxy

thanks,

need to get on with meal plans for next week before I go shopping tomorrow, glad I have joined in now.

Billie-jo

A!di, local greengrocers and B&M this morning and have spent £32.84 in total.
This includes toilet rolls, kitchen roll, eggs, juice, bread, fish, lamb mince, cheese, a bottle of wine, butter and tons of fruit & veg. If I have worked it out correctly 35% of the total spends so far has been on fresh fruit & veg. Fairly happy with that so far plus we also buy some frozen veg as well mainly sweetcorn, peas, broad beans when we can get them and diced swede - we pay the same per kg for the swede which comes peeled and diced as we do for a swede that has just had the soil knocked off.

No milk in our local A!di so if daughter goes on Saturday will ask her to pick some up, we do have enough in for a week if we are careful though so not too big a problem and I think there is some powdered milk in which is ok for custard, sauces or milky drinks just not for drinking on its own.

meanmarie

Silently screaming as have just spent €107.08 between Aldi and Lidl....took my eye off the ball and OH must have been hiding things in trolley as didn't realise what was there until I came home...so am not going near a shop again until 1st Feb...have a few cents in a jar which will look after milk if we need it...am so mad at myself! Just shows how easy it is to get into a mess.

Marie

mrs-moneypenny

had to nip in shops for bananas and ryvita last night but apart from that still managing to avoid shopping.

the leek and quorn pie i made last night was too big/filling so DH had what was left warmed up with some veggies for lunch today and i had a potato/veggie fritter left from when i made them tuesday.
will snack for tea tonight probally toast/sarni as weve got free cinema tix.

its just started trying to snow here

GreenFairy

No grocery spends today, though still an expensive day. Ink for the printer (the joys of Uni), petrol and a car wash (MOT tomorrow, at which am going to get a big list of repairs ). Had a look in the reduced section of Mr T while was in there. No more than 30c off anything under a fiver.

camNolliesMUMMY

Please add £35.90 for this weeks shop.
I'm feeling really good I've Got it this low for our family of four and a cat....what an eye opener!
I o however buy my meat at the beginning of the month and the rest are staples that I need in to cook from scratch.