February 2013 Grocery Challenge

Bluegreen143

Hey everyone!

Had a busy weekend as we had a party to celebrate OH's birthday and our engagement last night, plus we went to a wedding fair beforehand and then I had lunch with family friends today before doing the shopping!

Spent £10 of Gc money on party food (we agreed if we went over budget on this we'd split the extra out of our personal spending money, which is what happened) and £13.95 today in Aldi on milk, cabbage, plums, tortillas, lemons, spreadable butter, rolls, aubergine, peppers, salad, ham, frozen peas, tuna, chopped tomatoes and bananas.

Made veg fajitas for dinner - hangover favourite lol

Tales17

Already over budget again this month and there is still another shop and veg box to add in this week Ah well, I'm on a steep learning curve!

First nsd for about 2 weeks but most days were just small spends for me or the other half unable to avoid the vending machines at work!

meg72

Didnt plan on spending today but needed a new battery for my torch, so went to wilkies, cheapest I know, 1.99 and the last one has lasted me 2 years, stood behind a woman who bought 5 packs of cheese and crackers, i.65 each, 8.25 total, had a play when I got home, 2.00 cheese and a pack of 5op asda crackers, gave me 8 cheese and crackers, just over 30p a time,Do some people just hae more money than sense or do they just dont know.

Whilst I was up the town centre called in to Asda and found really big
cauliflower for 50p, bought 2, 8 portions of cauliflower cheese now in freezer, also got 2 packs of ys sausages for 50p each.

katholicos

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

Hey everyone!

Had a busy weekend as we had a party to celebrate OH's birthday and our engagement last night...

Congratulations on your engagement Bluegreen :beer:

skilly

Morning all, small spend yesterday of £1.30 just need more milk today i think, out for lunch later that will be nice. congratulations on your engagement as well bluegreen :j

SAVVYMUMMY_2

Spend of £11.80 yesterday added to total and have until friday, so hoping to make it. I`ve got most things in and just need the basics, so fingers crossed.

I`ve meal planned for next month already and have now started to shop on a thursday, for my weekly shop instead of every other day and just going out when I need milk, bread, f&v and meat. So far it`s going o.k and I feel alittle more, in control of my spending.

I`ve also decided to exclude the dog food from the budget as from next month as I always buy this online because it`s cheaper, so because it`s not brought with the shopping, i`m not going to include this and keep a seperate budget for the dog food.


Congratulations on your good news bluegreen.

nicolula87

Declaring for 273.21/280 so not too bad!

bargain_hunter_2

Sort of lost my way a bit on the last week of the month aargh ! been popping in and out all the supermarkets picking up special offers for forthcoming birthday party but that's coming out separate budget , HOWEVER (!) keep picking up other offers I don't need. Oh we'll - think I've spent about £15 over this month but shouldn't need anything else before Thursday when we get paid and I'll start again. :T

tessie_bear

hi...we have a chicken to roast for tea and then i hope to use the leftovers for a pie and for ds packups for a couple of days...tomorrow i have a gammon joint in a foil tray that i got reduced before christmas so if there is anything left i could use that in the pie as well....very ms

i have some fruit i want to stew to have with yogurt for pudding so need to prep that

hope everyone is well
tessa

liz-paul

Oh bum - am £2.50 over budget 'cos I forgot about DS2s snack money for preschool! Doesn't really matter as I tend to feel £5 either way is pretty much the same as hitting my budget (esp as I tend to round up to the nearest £ so it's not 100% exact anyway). Hopefully won't have any more spends 'til new budget on friday....