January 2013 Grocery Challenge

cornishchick

hi all... sorry but decembers spends has flown out of the window and is currently heading south....... i know I over spent, but no idea how much... in my defence we moved house, hubby forgot to unpack the freezer stuff and some defrosted, I was getting my head glued together after a silly hoovering accident, and trying to stand up under a shelf on the wall... result= hole in head and blood gushing down face,, got me out of the last of the packing and cleaning though.....
anyway all ok now.... just need to rein in the spending , so going for £180 this month, trying a differnt tack, taken out the spends in cash, hiden the plastic and only taking cash. at the end of the shopping, returning all change to the jar,and trying to plan every shopping trip to co incide with work day,
along with meal planning , I hope to do so much better this month.....
:cool:

Rachel021967

Please can I have go. My target is £400 for this month.

couldsavemore_2

morning all

Thriftkitten . I have started weighing out the food for my dog i just used to put some in bowl but every little helps. I buy it in bulk when I see it at a good price.

dizzylizzy I hope you dont mind but i have used the links for those websites they look really useful thankyou

today we are having macaroni cheese with hot dogs all store cupboard items and quite cheap per person but will keep an eye on portion size so none is wasted.

I'm hoping we wont need shopping before Sunday have a small list at the moment want to try and use my nectar card!!

have a good day everyone

JackieRHE

I spent £8.96 yesterday - mostly on vegetables but also bought some body scrub as this is something I didn't get for Christmas.

Next time I need it I will make some myself. I just didn't think of it when in the shop.:mad:

sweetpea26

Good morning Zip

Could you please put me down for £300

for January.

Thank you

Lovethenight

Small spend of £4.87 yesterday in Mr T on some fish and reduced sausages.

Have booked a delivery for Friday, but am going to go back and revise it before tonight as it's coming in at over £67 and doesn't seem to have many planned meals in it!

camNolliesMUMMY

Please log my spend of £44.33 under target and very happy.
Got a new bm so this has shaved a couple of quid off for us.
:j

craigywv

good morning all wats up with the weather its warm here 11 on thermometer!! anyway managed 2 nsd so far but will be venturing out deffo need fruit and veg and milk and a loaf as they sick of my hm bread too heavy....i agree so will see wats on reduced tonight in mr t, i have found hm breads good for baps and the odd crusty or wheaten loaf but crave light toast with marmalade so its shops own for a while.hopefully will be a very small spend about 8-10 quid ,will update sig tonight when i do my frugal shop good luck all xxx

lottie3000

Stocking up the freezer again so a little bit more spending I'm really hoping I can get my spending down. Have to agree there's a lot of pots on this thread already, Wow lots of people trying to reign in the spends

Market 30 and Ald's 27.40 and hoping to stop there until end of next week, really hoping OH will try re introducing wheat these wheat free products are sooooo expensive

sjprmc01

Aah! Sin of the GC, I've not counted up what I spent yesterday or kept receipts

I'm going to say I spent £20 yesterday in a combination of Sains and HB

I think next month when I get my money in the one go (this month has a combination of early pay early OT pay etc in it) I'm going to put the shopping money in another purse entirely so I can keep track a bit better