January 2013 Grocery Challenge

Bluegreen143

Well I'm very surprised to report a NSD today, as it's the first Sunday I've not done my grocery shopping on since I starting the GC in June, except when away :eek:

Only had a small list as we're off on holiday early Thurs morning (going to Prague with OH on a romantic holiday, can't wait and please all keep your fingers crossed he might pop the question lol ) and I'd meal planned last week to use everything up rather than buy new stuff. But had a really busy day today and we didn't need anything for tonight's dinner, so just skipped it.

Used the free range sausages I bought at Mr W last night to make sausage and mash, it was very yum. Apart from the sausages, quite frugal as I used potatoes I got half price to make the mustard mash (and chucked in some spring onions getting past their best), YS red cabbage and fried up some mushrooms in thyme to go with it as otherwise both the mushrooms and the thyme would have needed chucked.

Bit p***ed off though, as I also served with green beans I only bought on Wednesday (best before date today) and they were so off they were inedible, even after cooked :mad: I would normally expect to be able to use veg even after the best before date so not happy at all!

Used the other half of the red cabbage with the last three carrots and a couple of onions to make coleslaw to have with my lunches for the next couple of days, it's delicious. Also planning on making scones tonight if I can be bothered, as I have so much milk to use before we go away.

Will need to go to Mr M tomorrow as we need cat litter and also washing liquid if we are to wash the clothes we need on holiday.

frankerooney

Seeing that a few of you on here get Riverford veg boxes, I am tempted to try one to encourage us to eat a bigger variety of veg but wondered if it works out much more expensive than buying from a supermarket?

frankerooney

Does anyone have the link for the thread that updates on the Aldi Super 6 please?

jem1980

I only have the link to the super 6 on the Aldi website, not on MSE forums:
http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/product_range/4862.htm

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frankerooney wrote: »

Seeing that a few of you on here get Riverford veg boxes, I am tempted to try one to encourage us to eat a bigger variety of veg but wondered if it works out much more expensive than buying from a supermarket?

We are getting our first one delivered on Thursday so will weigh/price everything for comparison

theshinyone

been in to Asda today for milk, bread, fruit, cheese and eggs... updating my sig, giving me a total spent of £24.41 / £60.00

jumblejack

Another glorious no spend day today

Whoopee!

Kittenkirst

We are not faring so well on out challenge. Following todays shop for the week we are at £130.06! Eeek!
We spent an additional £8 as friends were visiting (with only a few days notice- in honesty it was enough notice but I wasnt organised enough to plan a dinner!)so we all had pizza, potatoes, garlic bread & cheesecake from M&S- yummy and much tastier/cheaper than eating out or a takeaway! So we have £30 to last the rest of Jan (in Sainsbury vouchers) so next week it will purely be a £10 milk, fruit & veg shop and emptying out crammed freezer!

Will continue reading through the thread to help us be better!

jem1980

Spent a chunk of monthly budget today, and am slightly traumatised but have lots of storecupboard / freezer stuff in so might need to run that down later in month.

- £28.07 in Sainsburys on reduced meat, 5 packs of basics nappies and Heads for elec toothbrush (half price). Don't do Sainsburys v. often tho so like to stock up on nappies when I'm there as they are fab for price.
- £4.38 in Home Bargains on Yorkshire Tea and dumpling mix (not to be used together, lol!
- £46.29 in Aldi on weekly food shop. This is above average for us, but lots of fruit and veg and school lunch stuff as kids go back Tues.
Today's total £78.74 - eeek! Monthly total updated on sig at £85.36. Will have to plan next week's meals around what we already have to compensate.
Does this whole sticking to budget thing get easier????? I thought I would do better but think I don't always remember the "extra" shopping other than weekly Aldi... Until now :-)

Lovethenight

Another spend to add - went to Horrorsons last night to pick up the bits that the Mr T shop didn't deliver or substitute (like a whole chicken!).

Spent £32.78 - went late in the evening to try and pick up some whoopsied items but really disappointed - the only things in the reduced section was an open leaking pack of sausages that looked like a trolly had run over them and some fancy hummous that had been "reduced" to 75p!! Shelves were all half empty and the massive freezer section was completely shut down due to a fault.:( Store was half-empty, guess people really are staying in trying to save!

Don't seem to be having much luck with the whoopsies at the moment and its getting harder to fit behind the wheel and trawl around the supermarket for an hour now I'm over 6 months pregnant:rotfl:

May have to stick to getting it all delivered to the door and just concentrating on wasting as little as possible. Haven't used my supermarket yet, so that's also an option. Have updated signature - only £39 to last the next 3 1/2 weeks:eek::eek: Have done a plan of all possible meals and have 2 weeks worth for the 3 of us, so should be interesting to see if I can make it to the end of the month and stay in the budget!