February 2013 Grocery Challenge

meg72

GlasweJen wrote: »

I've had an absolute disaster of a week and as a result have only the contents of my fridge/freezer and £4.25 to last me until Monday. Anyone ever had a no spend week?

Sorry to hear you`ve had a bad week.

I often have a no spend week to use up what Ihave already got in.

If you do alist of everything you have in and post it up I amsure the lovely people on here will help you make a plan to get you through.

sheeppappar

GlasweJen wrote: »

I've had an absolute disaster of a week and as a result have only the contents of my fridge/freezer and £4.25 to last me until Monday. Anyone ever had a no spend week?

What's in your fridge/freezer? xx
There is a thread on here for feeding a family for really small amounts of money if you have a search that might help.. but echo what the previous poster said - if you let people know what you have in, they will definitely help out with ideas x

NickJW

Hope everyone is well...I've had the flu and it's now an annoying tickly cough :mad:

Onto spends:

£8.29 in the butchers on just over a kilo of chicken breasts on the 16th
£5.27 in Co-op on the 16th
£2.70 in M+S on the 16th
£1.05 in Mr S on the 17th
£6.45 in M+S today

So £23.76 in total. I didn't include cough medicine in my total - and being ill has saved me money going out, because I just can't face it

GlasweJen

Oh dear lord, thought I would be ok with this no spend week until I went into my cupboard to inventory what I had and saw that a tin of morrisons savers tomatos has exploded causing a mess and ruining some of my cupboard items!

Stock cubes are beyond salvation, as is my flour, sugar, bag of porridge, and some other "bits".

I've face booked Morrisons with pictures but upon inspection another tin of the same product don't look great either, the tin looks rusted and is crooked when sitting on the work top. I will inventory when I've cleaned the mess!

GlasweJen

On the bright side I have almost a full load frozen in portions, 8 eggs and 18 home made ready meals so even with the cupboard disaster things won't be desperate!

Billie-jo

NSD today thats the 11th this month
Have one of the grand children today and we have made leek & potato soup and two pizza's, one of which we had for lunch with the soup. We also made a loaf and when his mum comes to pick him up she will be having some soup with a slice of his home made bread as a surprise and then they can take the rest of the loaf and pizza home. Also made two small loaves which we are having.

We were having jkt potato for tea but dont feel like it now so will probably just have a salad with some ham followed by some fruit.

Florenceem

NickJW wrote: »

Hope everyone is well...I've had the flu and it's now an annoying tickly cough :mad:

Onto spends:

£8.29 in the butchers on just over a kilo of chicken breasts on the 16th
£5.27 in Co-op on the 16th
£2.70 in M+S on the 16th
£1.05 in Mr S on the 17th
£6.45 in M+S today

So £23.76 in total. I didn't include cough medicine in my total - and being ill has saved me money going out, because I just can't face it

I have had an annoying tickly cough for ages - got cough medicine from Dr but didn't sort it.

Florenceem

GlasweJen wrote: »

Oh dear lord, thought I would be ok with this no spend week until I went into my cupboard to inventory what I had and saw that a tin of morrisons savers tomatos has exploded causing a mess and ruining some of my cupboard items!

Stock cubes are beyond salvation, as is my flour, sugar, bag of porridge, and some other "bits".

I've face booked Morrisons with pictures but upon inspection another tin of the same product don't look great either, the tin looks rusted and is crooked when sitting on the work top. I will inventory when I've cleaned the mess!

Never had that happen and we have had really old tins around.

GlasweJen

Florenceem wrote: »

Never had that happen and we have had really old tins around.

These tins are only a month or two old! No other tins are affected either.

Kitchenbunny

Afternoon! Just popping on to update with today's spends. Main shop of the week at Mr M and spent £33.93, taking my total for the year so far up to £285.43. Not bad, but could do better and need to start drinking less fizzy.

Tea tonight will be sweet & sour chicken with noodles, although I don't have much of an appetite at the moment. Have a nice night, everyone!

KB xx