January 2013 Grocery Challenge

catznine

Learn from me folks! It has been said many times "Failure to plan is planning to fail" I have been brought down to earth with an almighty bump this morning! I haven't taken part in the monthly grocery challenge for a long time, just picked a figure out of my head really £200 for the month, thinking oh that's £50 a week - I can do that! then realised it is a 5 week month duh! ok that makes it £40 a week but with all the Christmas food in that is manageable! Then I remembered that I had yet to take off the £50 I save for a quarterly Costco shop! and the £26 for the 2 organic boxes on order!:eek: (actually 3 were due but I have cancelled one of them) so £76 to come off! So now I have £24.40 a week to spend Eeek! I am going to stick to it though as the freezer is full, so no better time really! It will make me use up what we have, maybe trying out new recipes to use things up. I have already popped about 15 home made ready meals into the freezer (using up the turkey) soup, curry and turkey a la king and some sliced meats. Just the 2 of us and our little dog now with odd visits from the grown up kids and dgc so should manage. I have one or two evenings entertaining friends to dinner as well (I love a challenge)

My housekeeping doesn't go in until the 4th but I shall run this from the 1st as I need to start saving immediately!

Good luck everyone!

Catz x

Gorgeestwo

pamsdish wrote: »

I slice them and in zippy bag raw, as going to be cooked and softened anyway I find no deterioration in flavour.

Great thank you very much

KatyReed+5

I've just been sat going through all my money paperwork and i've come across some Healthy start vouchers i forgot i had, YAY, i think i will have these as and extra on top of my budget, so i technically have £124.80 as a budget but only £100.00 cash, so happy, i can use these on Milk and fruit and veg, i really hope 2013 is goign to be my yearto save. I've never been on holiday with my kids and would love to save this year so we can have a really good holiday next year.

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Mamjak

Just got large monthly on line shop delivered and it came to £200.66. The cupboards, bathroom and freezer are full now so hopefully should only need things like milk & fruit plus veg box delivery for most of month now.

Tesco have Pampers Nappies on offer only £6.66 for 52pk!!

mothershipton

hi, can i join in? please put me down for £350 this month. this is quite a bit lower than we have been spending but we do have cupboards full. Im thinking of trying to buy veggies from the local shop and avoiding mr t and m0rrisons but Im not sure thats possible.

sjprmc01

£3.19 over the weekend on yogurts and loo rolls will update later

bossymoo

Just had a £5 spend in market, now got a huge stew in oven for tonights guests. Have ingredients for dumplings and some tinned spuds I can saute so that should feed us all.

Also have a big mince pie left over which we can share, and some cream to pour over.

Hope they bring some beer :beer:

poohbear59

I am extremely short of money this month so I would like to try to keep shopping to an absolute minimum. Yesterday I did a freezer and store room inventory: DD did an A$DA shop for me too. She spent £23 on basics and DS2 is buying me some fruit and vegetables from a wholesaler today. My aim is for £120 in Januaryfor 4 adults, 2 dogs, 2 cats and 8 hens. Not sure how on earth we will do it but do it we must.

lottie3000

Little spend in the butchers £10.56. My NSD's went right out of the window once I finished work for Christmas so hopefully January will be cheaper and more NSD's. Finger's crossed.

fedupandskint

Added up spends so far from 21st Dec - £59.78 leaving just over £60 for the rest of the month to stay on budget plan. Will have to be very good for the rest of the month and stay on list at all times rather than going off list by £3-5 as tend to do before