February 2013 Grocery Challenge

mooomin

Can I join please? I am aiming for £50 per week at the moment, but will set the budget at £200 per month for now as I plan to do a Costco trip this month and will have to budget accordingly!

mrs-moneypenny

went to Ts last night for a bike tyre as DS has another puncture, out of stock refusing to buy repair kit at £6.50
but spent £17.50 on RTC bread and veg, pizzas comic and a bottle of wine.

sheeppappar

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

sheeppappar, your Spaghetti Carbonara recipe has been added to the index

woop fame at last!
I've pinched MrsCD soda bread recipe + will try it over the weekend.. also can't agree more with JIL about ham stock cubes.. super cheap way of making it seem like you have included actual ham mwahahah

have a fab weekend everyone XX

lynneee

morning all, can't believe it's February already! Looking to have a better month, overspent in January. So can I be put down for £250 please. Good luck to everyone for this month!

tessie_bear

hi...happy feb to all...we arehaving hm chicken and ham pie for tea and the last of the upside down cake i made yesterday...i made a meal plan for next week and a shopping list to go with it

i am still using up stocks...note to self dont buy so much then u wont have to wade throught it all...shopping annoys me when i run out of something and come home with a couple of bagfuls of food that i liked the look of but didnt need and didnt go out for

oh well as per my sig...up and at it
take care tess

maximus_leeds

Looks like I missed the Ald* voucher - - is it a regular thing then? And, just to check, is it in the Mirror? I'm just about to complete my first internet shop for the month, so will come back with figures once it's finalised. Happy Friday GCers

mrs-moneypenny

i missed it as well if there was one, totally forgot to look yesterday

meg72

Discovered a 15.00 m&s voucher bought on living social deal last year expires today so must go and use it, some nice fruit and a bottle of wine I think, pity the freezer is full as would have bought meat.

adysmum

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

i missed it as well if there was one, totally forgot to look yesterday

Yeah there was one, it was £5 off £40. Its in the Record in Scotland.

Suffolk_lass

:hello: Hi Coxy and everyone.

I didn't post at all in January and February's looking tough so I thought I should go for an annual budget of £3600 for 2013. This averages out at £300 per month but means a little over or under all comes out in the wash. I spent £269.51 in Jan but I like to have a "13th" month for my stock shops (bargains and bogofs and most store-cupboard stock piles) so need to "save" for these.

Based on January I have spent 7.49% so far (8.33% if I were to flat-line profile the same for every month). I'll stop being sad about spreadsheets now...

Good luck everyone (so many new names)
SL