February 2013 Grocery Challenge

lizalloareds

spends today
£16.14 Mr S
£13.15 Aldi
£4.06 Mr M
£3.00 Mr T
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mrs-moneypenny

just spent £10 on lindaMc sausages to fill a little gap in the freezer while they are still on offer

Bluegreen143

Another £3 to add - OH spent £2 on coke and £1 on rolls.

Have one more weekend shop in this month so have meal planned using stuff we already have due to the small amount of budget left. Here's what I've got (items in blue are from freezer/stocks):

S - Leftover HM chicken pie with potatoes, carrots and green beans

M - Veg stirfry with cashews, noodles and black bean sauce

T - HM Vegetarian moussaka with salad do have most of the ingredients but will need aubergines and salad

W - Mac and cheese with broccoli and salad Have all the ingredients except the veg and milk which I'd buy anyway

Th - HM Chicken jalfrezi with rice and naan

F - HM burger for OH (have the mince and bun in freezer and onion etc in stock) with chips and salad; HM fishcakes with salad for me

Sa - Vegetable arrabiata with garlic bread have most of the ingredients in except need to buy peppers and fresh basil

Shopping list for the weekend:

Value bran flakes
Whole milk 4 pints
White bread (for OH's lunches, he's not a big fan of HM)
Ham
Cat litter
Bin bags
Food bags
Crisps (for OH)
Coke (ditto)
Tinned peaches
Salad x2
Spreadable butter
Value frozen peas
Peppers
Broccoli
Value stirfry pack (cheaper than buying veg at 50p)
Aubergine
Onions
Value mayonnaise
Face wipes
Value chopped tomatoes
Bananas x6
Apples

We'll see if I stick to it :rotfl: really do want to stay in target this month!

pinkypig

Did our final shop of the month which really was just fresh stuff and some essentials. Doesn't half add up though:(

Total spend £23.15. Will really have to just stay away from the shops as we have gone from looking comfortably under budget to being just under budget:eek: However, this month was a real challenge for us as it meant reducing our spend from £50 a week to £40 a week. This has been for four of us and a cat and includes all toiletries and cleaning stuff so I am actually quite pleased. Just got to get through until next Tuesday...

Have a good weekend.

PP xxx

p-pincher

Hi Everyone

£1.10p spend today in m&s for a lovely bunch of bananas. Only have £3.50 to last til Monday night as I spent £2.00 in Iceland on 12 brown cobs and a 4 pinter. On the plus side we dont need anything to buy for any dinner so in town tomorrow i'll get another 4 pinter, a box of eggs and a thick slice brown loaf from Greggs which should leave me 10p. Phew its close. Still got a lot of stuff in the freezer to go towards next month.

Meal planned are egg and bacon for tonight, Lasagne for tomorrow and BBQ brisket for Sunday. Freezer surprise for Monday. Dh gets paid on Tuesday so i'll be joining the March thread then.

NickJW

So cold today!

Bought ingredients at Mr S today - am now £6.25 poorer.

Have everything I need in for tomorrow so that should be it until next week until Monday starts.

Think I'll manage it again this month! :j

lizalloareds

another £2.12 in Mr T to add
off to update

Kitchenbunny

Another NSD to report today - I'm getting better at this. Tea tonight was just a spaghetti carbonara. The mealplan is now done for next week, along with the shopping list, and while I might need to get some bread & milk over the weekend, I think we can hold out until Monday for the rest.

Have a lovely weekend, everyone.

KB xx

Florenceem

NSD here.
We had prawn curry and basmati rice with naan bread for dinner.
Having fish again tomorrow for dinner.

tessie_bear

hi...been to leicester today and had a good look at the market...spent a tenner and when i got home we had enough fruit and veg to cover the dining table we got;
x 3 mangos
x2 trays raspberry
bag apples
punnet cherries
bag peppers
x3 heads broccoli
i cauli
bag grapes
bananas
blueberries
10 oranges
x4 beef tome
huge bowl cherry toms

also caught the reductions in m and s...so all in all money well spent
have a nice weekend tessa