February 2013 Grocery Challenge

GreenFairy

Florenceem wrote: »

Cheaper to make yourself a hot lemon/honey drink and take some paracetamol - that's what is in Lemsips. If you have a cough this drink soothes it. I also sleep with socks on and my soles laden with Vick.

I'll be doing that this evening. I blame the headfog on my low willpower Even have a bit of fresh ginger to add to it.

lushlifesaver

£17.25 on dinner out to celebrate my first day in my new job
£3 in Morrisons on bf's Monday present (not usually from GC budget) and 4 sachets of hot choc to keep in my desk

Will add todays spend to my sig now. Not sure if I will get a NSD tomorrow but if I don't I will definitely get one in on Wednesday this week!

cw18

Chellie1964 wrote: »

I'm not sure how to work my budget though 4 weekly, monthly? I shop on a Saturday as I work during the week, one pay day is 24th and one is last day of month. I would love to hear what others do and look forward to joining the challenge properly next month!

at one point I was getting Tax Credits and Child Benefit every week (on different days), Widowed Parents' Allowance every fortnight (same day as one of the others), a Widow's Pension (from a company scheme) on the next to last working day of every month, and salary from a part-time job every 4th Friday - so it was possible for me to have 12 'pay-days' a month :eek:

I had a devil of a job keeping track of all that, so I just ran my grocery budget on a calendar month basis. I actually worked out a daily amount, so my monthly budget was that figure multiplied by the number of days in a month.

I now have just the Widow's Pension on the next to last working day, a part-time salary on the last working day, and my son's "keep" (he's almost 24 and working full-time) on the first working day of the month - so they still work best to a calendar month budget. But I feed me every day, my son roughly 2 weekdays a week, and my OH on a Saturday - so I've figures for each of those and work out my monthly budget according to how many days (me), weekdays (son) and Saturdays (OH).

Works for me, even if it confuses the heck out of everyone else :rotfl:

Nicky_Noo_Na

GreenFairy wrote: »

I'm on my 5:2 day today as well, so had some pumpkin ravioli and salad for dinner. Very nice it was too!
€23.43 to add to total, unfortunately. Dried fruit and pulses, tortillas, bin bags, baked beans, ice cream (naughty!) and a stock up on original source shower gel and handwash as it's half price at the moment. No more toiletries or pantry bits (apart from a bag of brown rice) needed for the rest of the month.

In other purchases - when did Lemsip get so expensive? Picked up a small pack of lemsip max as have a horrible cold and it was around a fiver! That's nearly a euro a sachet! If I wasn't feeling so miserable I'd have left it on the shelf.

If you have an Asda where you are their own brand lemsip drinks are very good and about half the price!

In_it_not_to_giveitaway

Well, came in quite a bit over budget for January, but have quite a lot of good quality meat and fish in the freezer so I am hoping to do better in February. Nevertheless, I will maintain £300 for February.

I hope most were more successful in their budgeting endeavours for January.

An NSD today has, at least, got the week off to a good start. It is surprising how heartening it is to get through to Thursday/Friday with a good result so that something in the way of a reward can be offered to oneself at the weekend. Especially when the rugby is on!

Best of luck all.

maximus_leeds

pinkypig wrote: »

Managed to get 6 HM burgers and a huge cottage pie out out one pack of £2.49 mince by padding out with breadcrumbs and onions.

Pinkypig - is that the mince from Aldi? Is it about 800g? I looked at that today but thought I'd get a few reviews about it first - is it tasty then? Such a good price

Lolkat

A NSD for me. Rather pleased as rejigged the menu plan and it looks like there's an oppertunity to use all the veg in the bottom of the fridge. 3 hm ready meals in freezer for hubby next week and 3 lots of fresh pasta and sauce.

I've Enough soup for the 4 days of this week and 2 more portions so no panicking when I get home that I have loads of cooking to do. On the whole, this month is going well.

JellyBox

Another £5 spent today, and roughly that on Sunday (so much for the expected NSD), need to keep a better eye on receipts for exact figures, but am still wearing my GC L plates! Still over budget, more and more every day, made a mess of this! Still... This week will be not as bad I hope, I'm eating from the freezer and only need to buy potatoes, bread, milk and sultanas now!

nicolula87

Just not going to be able to keep up with the thread this month, a bit manic in general! However I will still keep track of my spends and hopefully end up under my target!

lizalloareds

Spends today
£3.82 aldi bought milk, sausages, passata and potatoes
18p Mr A, carrots

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