February 2013 Grocery Challenge

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Coxy11 wrote: »

The carrots were fresh, 8 medium ones in a bag for 50p so not too bad. Have finely diced two of the them for the shepherds pie we are having for dinner. I hate frozen veg - totally tasteless

Coxy

Good price for carrots - agree about yucky frozen ones.

katholicos

Roasted butternut squash, potatoes with veggie nuggets for tea.

No grocery spends today.

MavisTheMaven

Well a bit of a fail for me for my first challenge, just totted up - spent £195 on groceries! Don't expect to spend anything tomorrow, that's me for the month.

I know why, though. Had a pushbike accident meaning no more yellow sticker missions to Mr T's, didn't realise how much this has been saving me, especially on bread and veg - had to buy in Lidl and Grocers instead, which, although reasonably priced cannot compete with 90% off.
I plan to fix my bike tomorrow and get back on by March 01 and resume my mission.

I also did a bit of bulk buying in Costco before voucher book expired this Monday. 5 litres of Filippo Berio Extra Virgin Olive Oil for £10.99 and 480 Yorkshire Tea Bags for £5.89 (I bought a years supply ), that dented my budget but worth it in the long run.

elizabunny

Evening all. 3 NSDs here:D, but still spending more than I should. I need to get a grip.

HM beef stew and dumplings for tea tonight and probably something fishy for tomorrow as I will be calorie counting.

Hope everyone is doing well:)

Kitchenbunny

Evening. NSD here again, and one more day until the end of my Feb Grocery Challenge. Unfortunately, a small change of plan means that I'll need to go shopping tomorrow to buy the ingredients for a pastitsio for 4 people so I'll combine it with the end of week shop and get enough to last us the weekend. I was hoping for a cheap end to the month but there you go! March will have to be cheaper!

Mum cooked us fish and chips tonight, bless her. Now I'm going to get a cup of hot chocolate and relax. Lots to do tomorrow!

KB xx

Bluegreen143

Small spends today in Mr M- YS brown rolls 35p, savers strifry mix 50p, broccoli .35kg 86p, milk 2pt 89p.

Totals £2.60 and from memory I have £7ish to play with in the budget, with March obviously starting from Monday, so I should be totally fine as all I might buy tomorrow are some crisps for OH who has been stoically doing without all week :rotfl:

SO pleased that I should be under budget as mid-month I didn't think it was possible, given we made our special Valentine's sushi dinner, had a week off work to cater for with extra treats, OH's birthday and his mum coming to stay. And it's the lowest we've ever spent during a month we weren't away anywhere :j:j:j

Made mac and cheese tonight, with broccoli tossed through and a side salad (forgot to put in the picture):

Miroslav

I've done miserably this month. Must be nearly 50 pounds over budget, but it has been a depressing month. Now i've had my final paycheck I can't afford to be over budget for March!

NickJW

Hello all!

Spend of £2.20 on BOGOF Covent garden soup for lunch. Will have the other one tomorrow (obviously with no bread). Very unusual flavour though - Baked potato with cheese and beans - basically blended and pureed. I liked it once I got over the different taste!

Used the rest of the jar of Nutella on toast this morning - next on the list to use up is a jar of jam...(along with Marmite when I need my savoury fix).

Housemate cooked chicken in a tomato, anchovy and rosemary sauce with giant couscous and tenderstem brocolli - lovely!

Tomorrow I'm going to do chicken in sundried tomato mustard ( got it as part of a Christmas present hamper) and sricaha (sp) chilli sauce with spring onions, mangetout and soy-beans with rice.

Just need mangetout (or maybe babycorn or green beans - depends how I feel tomorrow).

And then that...will....be....it!

skilly

Morning all, spent £2.20 yesterday and that's it for feb £393.00 :j moving over to march now .

tessie_bear

hi mac cheese looking very nice...i love that but the family isnt keen so i dont make it much....we are down to the bones here i made flap jacks yesterday so the kids could have them for breakfast as we havent got much else....might pop to the shops tomorrow but more likely be saturday and will need to get a fair bit so march will start with a bump

see u all in march
tess