January 2014 Grocery Challenge

mags50_2

2 more NSD

Started with a cold on Sunday night, cooked for friends on Monday night, spent the day in bed yesterday feeling awful and have just got up this morning

Hubby has been fending for himself. There's a couple of steak pies left in the freezer from local butchers, so they will be ok for tea, along with mash and veg which I've plenty of still.

Looks like I'm going to come in well under budget, so might buy more meat as we're running very low.
Forgot to add my delivered veg box to sig, so have just done that

Hope everyone is ok

kayester

Just been to Home Bargains as I needed pepsi max, bread and butter.
As im under budget I thought I would take advantage of some of the offer, (beans, noodles, orange juice, curry sauces, naan bread, coleslaw and a few other bits and bobs) also got a scratch card and euromillions for friday (im feeling lucky)

ALL of that came in at £19.46!!

My month doesnt start until 1st feb, but got plenty of everything in the house until then, and along with my asda order on Sunday, I am declaring at £380.54 which is nearly £70 UNDER budget!! :j (will update if my asda is substituted in any way)
Next months budget is £400 (hopefully be ok, short month but not got much left from christmas)

Cya all next month if im feeling creative I may add some photos of my meals this week, also had 23 NSD all being well, :T

debtdawg

Another NSD today

Tonight I am roasting a YS whole chicken, so that will form part of the next 3 out of 4 meals (as a roast, curry and in chicken wraps).
We'll have our roast tonight with roast potatoes, roast parsnips, cauliflower cheese made with a couple strips of bacon, mashed sweet potato/butternut squash/carrot. There will be leftover veggies (cauliflower cheese and 3 veg mash) which will go with our pie for tea tomorrow, along with fresh brocolli. Friday night will be chicken curry and Saturday night will be wraps (served with salad, cheese, bbq sauce and hm potato wedges).

Anzac_Biscuit

Evening all,

Had a NSD today:D and still going well with bringing lunches (and breakfasts on occasion) to work. So pleased with myself! This is a major challenge area normally.

The kangaroo I planned to cook last night was done tonight instead. I think I overcooked it Oh well, I just have to plough through the other serving tomorrow and then will hopefully do better with the next batch!

I made a great culinary discovery last night though. I started cooking dinner at 10.30 pm (not advisable) but I was still determined to make something decent that I could also have for lunch today - so I opened up a tin of lentils, chopped up some anchovies and added some baby spinach. It was delicious!! Cheap as chips and took about 30 secs to make Def needed the veg, but it was great at lunch today too. I'll be doing that again.

Eating out for lunch tomorrow with my team at work :j - we do this fairly regularly but hadn't yet so far this year. I figured we all needed a chance to debrief and reconnect (the managers don't come). I need to pick up a couple of things so I might get one or two things for the weekend as well. We have a bank holiday on Monday and we're having a picnic on Sunday night. I should be able to make something from my pantry but probably need to add something green :rotfl:

maryarm

morning all
really annoyed at myself, completely underestimated how much i was gonna spend on the kids birthdays this month (2 birthdays 3 days apart!!!) and we had visitors up for the weekend as well. im under budget at the mo but reckon its gonna be tight as we dont get paid until the 31st.:(

oh well time to tighten those belts!!!

spendinglikemad

maryarm wrote: »

morning all
really annoyed at myself, completely underestimated how much i was gonna spend on the kids birthdays this month (2 birthdays 3 days apart!!!) and we had visitors up for the weekend as well. im under budget at the mo but reckon its gonna be tight as we dont get paid until the 31st.:(

oh well time to tighten those belts!!!

only 1 more week to go you are doing really well!

spendinglikemad

So glad I started reigning in the spend as unexpected car problems have meant a big spend this month (sigh) plus lots of sport subs due for kids (swimming and golf) plus school trips to pay for and I had shutters fitted today to finish off our home refurb so thats meant an extra £1,500k all told this month so will have to tighten the belt for February and just pay for essentials.
Got a chicken to strip down and make stock for a nice risotto probably on Friday night.
Tonights dinner will be a M&S curry as a treat
SLM

happytails

Great news is I haven't bought anything since Sunday from the shops but that streak will end at school pick up as dd2 needs formula. £8.29 - though she is weaning off it now and I'll need more fresh milk just getting 2 pints to last until weekend when I go shopping.

9 days til payday

We are out for dinner tonight and tomorrow will be more freezer stuff. Running it down to defrost. Friday we have friends over, chicken/bacon/cheese from freezer and mash/veg. Saturday will probably be whatever we can find in freezer/cupboards. Making a mammoth cottage pie on Sunday will all our frozen beef mince. Then we are on the home stretch :T

Sarah x

downshifted

Second spend this week totals £20.63, so the total overall for this week is £45.56/£50 so long as I don't spend another penny! One more week to go :-)

BlueCow1975

Just updating my signature with rescent spends. DH spent £11 something last week and can't find receipt so will round it up to £12.

Spent £3 in Sainsbobs today on stir fry veg and a few other bits. Got all my fresh fruit / veg / milk etc, gammon, toilet roll and a few bits from Aldo and spent £22.95 in total.

Strayed off my list for one item. The Aldoo extra special panatonne was down to 99p from £5.99. I have a real weakness for it and treat myself to it annually. Polished one off this year and it was delicious. For 99p I could not leave it on the shelf(they had LOTS on shelf together with all other Christmas stuff massively reduced) and it is HUGE........so bought to take round to my friends house next week to share with the girls when we have a cuppa and a natter!!

Impressed with myself keeping track of grocery spend for first time. Managed to stick to shopping lists quite well. Meal planning for this week has slipped a bit but we are eating from freezer etc as much as possible. Will get proper meal plan done for next week though :A