February 2013 Grocery Challenge

meg72

Florenceem wrote: »

They don't make 'em like they used to!

How very true love,I often think what my Nan would have had to say about my gadgets, bless her she resisted electricity as long as she could, , nasty sneaky stuff, held onto her gaslights and coal range ,outside wash-house and loo until the late 60`s when they demolished her house an moved her into a flat. She was not impressed.

Newbie_here_2

Hello everyone can I set a budget of£250For February please? Thanks x

MadamMim2013

I'm back :wave: .. (impressed with myself for keeping up budget plans!)
£300 again for Feb please x
Good luck to everyone :T

debbym

First spend of the month -£27.80. Should have been £25.40 but I forgot to pack the kids snacks for after swimming lessons and had to resort to the dreaded snack machine with chocolate bars and crisps 80p each:( I should be able to do a carton of juice and a snack for that! Off to do some maths.....

lushlifesaver

With me starting a new job on Monday we have decide that whilst we usually break the monthly budget up in to weeks of £30 each we will flex it this month, two reasons:
*I won't be shopping every week as I do at the moment
*we will be going out for a celebratory meal Monday night

Also, a few changes due to needed to adapt the meal plans to include me eating outside of the house (no more poached eggs on toast haha!) and not resorting to Subway

There's £12 left of this weeks rough allocation - he wants to order pizza on Saturday night so that will be that gone plus some from the fuel budget that we won't spend.

Next week:
Going out for dinner on Monday, should be £25 for 2 carveries, 2 deserts, 2 drinks.

I need to get bf hair gel (something he didn't tell me he needed this month grrr) so that's £1.09 x 2
We will need Yorkshire puddings £2
I want oats for my breakfasts before work £0.79
Bread £1
Ham £1
Cheese £3
Milk £1

Think that's everything, might add some golden syrup if I can find some for less than £1 and some icing sugar to make some cakes for lunches too

All in all less than £15 and then that should stretch 2 weeks(more for some of it), well apart from the ham/bread/milk as will need a top up of those a week on Saturday so we have fresh for lunches

So really just a change to the distribution of funds - manageable though with my pay day being tomorrow and my carers allowance comes through on Monday plus bf has been paid already

Just need to get in to a decent routine with regards to shopping and work I think

NickJW

Hello everyone

I'm going to go for £130 again in February. I came in way underbudget in January which I was pleased with, but just in case it was a fluke, I'll set the same amount for this month.

Good luck all!

lovelife79

okay so £2.05 in work today on milk n some beans n mushies, (they looked so good) plus a sneaky can of juice

then £11.79 in ald* on odds n ends for work meals - been reading a snack thread so got some nuts n dried fruit to try n help curb the mid afternoon snack attack!

will update sig when i get a minute

Florenceem

Dinner -



I think I am losing the plot. :eek:I was making a syrup cake - thought the mix was not right - no syrup added! :oI wasn't going to throw the mix away so instead of creaming sugar and syrup - I added it at the end of mixing. Well - it smells like syrup cake - see what it's like when I cut it. :cool:

Scuff

Just back from Sains where I spent £6.49 on some pop, milk, soured cream (these three I went for) and some chorizo / bacon lardons that were on offer (2 for £3, the chorizo on it's own was £3 & use by is June so will defo get eaten)

Total now £87.52

Meal plan has gone to pot this week - people keep offering us free food (so not complaining!) and everything keeps shuffling on - only prob is spinach is looking past it's best, definitely will be inedible by Fri (when we can eat it) - if I blanche it can I freeze it?? TIA

feefeelalabelle

hi all

seems like some of you are doing really well with this challenge, any room for a little one ?

ive been thinking about joining this thread since last year but i always put it off ! im not going to save my reciepts for this month beacuse i always forget half way through. roughly i spend just over £100 a week i dont mind spending it but it still seems like theres not much there for the money:o

im going to try top be more organised £200 for february please (thats if you allow me to join )
it will be from 1st feb to 28th