December 2013 Grocery Challenge

Annie_99

£30 a week is low.. How many are you feeding x

[Deleted User]

Hi Annie, I am feeding 2 of us.

Ladyluck1

Over by a couple of £ so not bad at all!
£30 for 2 for food only is very doable I can manage on £30-40 for 4 (one being only 3 an one a baby but still!)
I do a lot of reduced meat shopping and lidl/aldi shop, bulk cooking etc.
I also usually do a tesco shop with a £12 off £60 spend once a month too and stock up on deals.

craigywv

shortie I too got same as yourself over 120 quid of meat/veg/fruit for just under 20 quid freezers bulging even got a turkey down from 46 quid to 4.60 so its been boned and froze in segments. couldn't get too much bread stuff as took meat as its more expensive obviously to buy. grapes/10p a box also chopped veg soup veg/onions/broccoli/carrots/peppers/mushrooms. all 10p tubs of freah cream 3p got loads as will make butter .did this last year and froze it and it was really lovely. so I intend to buy milk and that's it for as long as I can. so hope for many nsd here for a while xxx

mooomin

Morning all

I've done my final count and so far I have spent a decent amount of January's budget (my month starts on the 18th) and I have £154.99/££225 left.

I nearly bought a turkey in M&S last night but it was still a tenner (although a good size) and I thought practically about it and decided that, for me, it wasn't a bargain. I normally won't pay over a fiver for a decent sized chicken, so I would have been buying for the sake of it.

I had a good run at the sales yesterday though, spending around £45 for £111 of stuff for next year's Christmas gifts :rotfl: It's good to know it's already begun

meg72

craigywv wrote: »

shortie I too got same as yourself over 120 quid of meat/veg/fruit for just under 20 quid freezers bulging even got a turkey down from 46 quid to 4.60 so its been boned and froze in segments. couldn't get too much bread stuff as took meat as its more expensive obviously to buy. grapes/10p a box also chopped veg soup veg/onions/broccoli/carrots/peppers/mushrooms. all 10p tubs of freah cream 3p got loads as will make butter .did this last year and froze it and it was really lovely. so I intend to buy milk and that's it for as long as I can. so hope for many nsd here for a while xxx

Well done, have to agree with you on getting meat instead of the bread stuff, makes more sense when struggling for freezer space.

I had a loaf left over from mu haul as just could not fit it in not even split and packed in slices, so I made some tiny croutons and dried them and breadcrumbs also something I haven't tried before,I have dried some whole slices which I am hoping will do for bread pudding. Well I thought the bread is soaked anyway so should work. Will have to see how long it keeps though.

Shortie

Wow people are getting some fab bargains :cool:

I have 2 pots of extra thick cream sat in my fridge that I picked up for 5p each yesterday - no idea what I'm going to do with them but they have tonnes and for 10p I thought I'd pick a couple up. Not sure if I can make butter out of the extra thick stuff...? Or really, how I'd even do it! What have others done with extra think cream?

Actually, as it goes I've just realised we also have some double cream in door that didn't get used up over Christmas.... oh 'eck...

We never have any luck freezing cream so at a loss what to do with it...

CariadsNewStart

Hiyas all has the Jan thread been started yet please x

K9sandFelines

13.63 in Mr A and Mr T whilst taking some bits back; and yesterday 5.63 in Mr M, so £19.26 to add to sig

helencal80

Is the January thread going to continue here? Thanks x