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January 2013 Grocery Challenge

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  • Bluegreen143
    Bluegreen143 Posts: 3,722 Forumite
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    Solstice_3, your Tomato & Soy Soup recipe has been added to the index :)
    Part time working mum of DS (2015) and DD (2018).

    NET WORTH Nov 25: £159,943
    Assets: £230,000
    Investments: £70,169
    Savings: £3,288
    Debt: -£143,514 (£700 CC / £16k car / £127k mortgage)
  • Bluegreen143
    Bluegreen143 Posts: 3,722 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    JIL, I have added your link to the roast pork recipe to the index :)
    Part time working mum of DS (2015) and DD (2018).

    NET WORTH Nov 25: £159,943
    Assets: £230,000
    Investments: £70,169
    Savings: £3,288
    Debt: -£143,514 (£700 CC / £16k car / £127k mortgage)
  • Bluegreen143
    Bluegreen143 Posts: 3,722 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Billie-jo, your Chicken & Mushroom Lasagne recipe has been added to the index :)
    Part time working mum of DS (2015) and DD (2018).

    NET WORTH Nov 25: £159,943
    Assets: £230,000
    Investments: £70,169
    Savings: £3,288
    Debt: -£143,514 (£700 CC / £16k car / £127k mortgage)
  • Bluegreen143
    Bluegreen143 Posts: 3,722 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Spent 89p on some milk today, so will update sig.

    Made beer-battered fish & chips for the first time today with some YS haddock, it was lovely :D

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    Part time working mum of DS (2015) and DD (2018).

    NET WORTH Nov 25: £159,943
    Assets: £230,000
    Investments: £70,169
    Savings: £3,288
    Debt: -£143,514 (£700 CC / £16k car / £127k mortgage)
  • storytime
    storytime Posts: 334 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Spent so far this week Iceland £1, Aldi £33.64 and Tesco £31.80. So well in target . Next week will be counted in Jan challenge as I shop on Thursdays but shouldn't be a lot. Will update sig. I haven't found this as difficult as I thought it would be and we have eaten a better variety of food as we seemed to be stuck in a rut before.
    My secret fantasy is having 2 men....
    1 cooking and 1 cleaning.
  • katholicos
    katholicos Posts: 2,658 Forumite
    Spent £ 29.00 on dog food today.not sure if i want to take this out of my grocery budget, but i think i will. Will add it to my signature shortly.
    Grocery Challenge for October: £135/£200


    NSD Challenge: October 0/14
  • Maisie_M
    Maisie_M Posts: 1,524 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    edited 24 January 2013 at 8:59PM
    End of the month for me spent £275.78/£240 budget so slightly over. As we haven't had budget before and had set ourselves an approximate I am quite pleased with this. Now to make sure Feb is under. Off to the new thread.
  • Lolkat
    Lolkat Posts: 35 Forumite
    Another NSD for me. I was home alone and had to fight the temptation to go and get fish and chips on the way home. I knew there was a big pan of home made soup waiting for me so I could eat straight away. And it was delicious. Sweetcorn, potato and bean chowder. Mmmm...

    I really do have to resist the urge to go spend on junk.
    Grocery Challenge January 2013 282/300
    Grocery Challenge February 2013 195/200
    Grocery Challenge March 2013 50.08/200
  • DanielleNic87
    DanielleNic87 Posts: 1,064 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    £3 on 2 bottles of Cravendale. Sig already updated.

    February GC £26.68/£250

  • elizabunny
    elizabunny Posts: 1,030 Forumite
    Evening eveyone. Just trying to catch-up a bit:o 3 NSDs in a row:j
    We had HM chips with HM tuna fishcake for tea. Trying to stretch everything a bit because I'm a little over budget -but there's not too much damage:D Might be able to sort it out next month.

    I will need a trip to the butcher tomorrow, as getting very low on things for meals.

    Nearly at the end of the month GCers:j
    Sealed Pot Challenge 7 Member 022 :staradmin:staradmin:staradmin
    5:2 Diet started 28/1/2013 only 13lbs lost due to Xmas 2013 blip.
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