February 2013 Grocery Challenge

NickJW

Hello all!

Spend of £5.45 in Mr S today on things for lunch for the next couple of days. Miss my leftover meals - ready mades just don't taste the same

Housemate is cooking tonight - simple meal (but missing these types of meals) of fish, mash and broccoli. Is also cooking tomorrow and Wednesday, so I don't need to do anything until Thursday, Friday and Saturday (when I'll go to Mr S to use my vouchers and get topped up!).

This month is short, but I've really struggled money-wise (which on the up-side has resulted in grocery spends being low out of necessity). I hope that the rest of the year gets better!

JellyBox

Another £22 to report here, putting me £21 over budget (give or take). Hopefully there will be no more spend now til the next GC, there's basically nothing left in my account, so lets hope this is the case! Still - will try harder next month, was only my first attempt, so I am pleased really to have not got it totally wrong!

Debtbusterintraining

Last weekly shop of feb and came to £80.57,have updated my signature accordingly. I don't think I will need anything before the end of feb so have come a little under budget which I'm really pleased with,will definitely be signing up for march's challenge,this is so good for keeping me on track.

katholicos

Advocado salad for tea, with tuna and bread. Today has been an NSD so no grocery spends, thankfully.

pinkypig

Declaring Feb at £158.10 which is just under our £160 budget. Had to get catfood today and got an economical 12 can pack and also couldn't resist some YS bread and bread rolls for the freezer. I cannot believe how our costs have mounted up in the last week or so. Scary:eek:

On the whole really pleased as we are slowly getting our spend down month on month and are managing to eat really well. Thanks for keeping me on the straight and narrow :T

See you all over on March

PP xxx

Bluegreen143

No spend day today - wanted to pick up bran flakes on my way home, but didn't have my purse lol.

Made veggie moussaka for dinner for the first time and it was delicious! Will certainly be making that again

meanmarie

Spent €99c on cabbage..still have half for another day. Total spend now at €162.08 so might make it!

Marie

skilly

Morning all, Hoping for a nsd today ,just put bread machine on and I have now Realised got the wrong paddle in so not sure whether to just leave it or get in there and change it ?

tessie_bear

hi...im going to roast a piece of gammon for tea today and make an apple pie....havent got much else planned except add up feb spends and put on sig
i thought i might go and have a look at the farm shop but will leave that until next week as dont want to spend anymore this week

take care tessa

cw18

Did a shop at Mr T yesterday - so that's another £29.81 gone!

Shouldn't need anything else before Friday, so I'm declaring at £148.49 spent from a £192.00 budget.

I had £52.98 left of my January budget, which equates to £1.71/day. Given February is 3 days shorter I was hoping for around the £48 mark left, but only have £43.51. However I stocked up a fair bit yesterday on stuff that could have waited until Friday, and as that came in at £13.52 I could have had well over £50 left meaning I'm more than happy with those numbers

Stil need to work out what percentage of my spends went on junk food/treats and compare that to last month though.......



EDIT : done some number crunching, and decided to put potatoes into 'general' rather than veg as they don't count towards your 5-a-day.... so I've also been back and recalculated January's figures which also meant adding in passatta which does count and hadn't been included!

as a percentage of my spend for the month, in January I spent 26.85% on junk/treats, 6.07% on fruit, 19.47% on veg, and 47.6% on everything else (fruit and veg combined = 25.54%)

as a percentage of my spend for the month, in February I spent 10.42% on junk/treats, 7.08% on fruit, 9.23% on veg, and 73.27% on everything else (fruit and veg combined = 16.31%)

Really pleased to see the spend on junk/treats has dropped as much as it has, but was initially freaked to see the veg spend had also dropped by half!! But then I realised that I stocked up on a couple of long-life veg items last month (bought a tray of chopped tinned tomatoes that'll last me several months, and bought frozen veg both ends of the month so didn't need to buy again until yesterday), so it doesn't necessarily mean that I've eaten any less.