January 2014 Grocery Challenge

mrs-moneypenny

going to attempt to live out of cupboards and freezer for as much of this month as we can.
today going to do toasted cheese melt sarnis for lunch and as we are out to cinema tonight (free tickets) we'll have burger sarnis when we get back.

tomorrow going to be some kind of soup for lunch and a hm veggie lasagne for evening.

Jacksmummy

£3.43 spent on 6 large scoops of dog food from the farm shop so £146.57 left in the pot.

helencal80

£79 in to my budget of £340 for the month. I'm pretty sure I will go over as we have next to nothing in and I can get a massive shop next week to fill the pantry, but if I go over it will mean February is under budget, hopefully.
Even if I go over it will be better than most months as I never know how much I have spent. At least I'm keeping track now :rotfl:

Pennydropped

Can you please put me down for £120 for the month? Thank you!

Chloris

Small spend of £3.78 today, milk, kitchen towel and fruit. Bit sad to break into the months spends. Am aiming for the first proper shop to be Sunday ready for the return to school - packed lunches again!

HM prawn noodle soup/vegetable noodle soup for tea tonight.

Good luck everyone. x

Make-it-3

First shop of the new year today, so budget for remainder of the month now at £173.56. Hardly any food purchased, except for the cat who is now catered for till month end, but dishwasher tabs, oven cleaner, nappies all required.

Thanks for the freezer tips, I was just thinking veg lasagne and then read no pasta or fish (I am pescky so don't do roasts/meat). How about rice dishes?

Off to continue reading the Aldi/Lidl thread - I'm thinking that would be one way to reduce costs - although Sainsburys is just so convenient for me ....

Need2bthrifty

Well my NSD’s didn’t last very long – but I’ve been making so much soup lately ran out of stock cubes, garlic & onions – so nipped into sainsbobs and thought whilst I’m there have a browse in the reduced aisle. Well I couldn’t resist the box of 30 Christmas cards reduced to 0.90p (rubs hands in a miserly fashion) then whilst passing the bread section managed to get a small seed sensation loaf less than half price.

And so, I came out with 5 items instead of 3 and not a massive spend of £2.34, however for that little misdemeanour I’m grounding myself for at least 6 NSD’s.

Nikkiclaire

Just nipped to local supermarket for milk, bread and some cheap popcorn for our cinema trip. Ended up buying more fruit and a few special offers. It came to £12, but feeling slightly guilty as I know I only needed to spend about £4.50. Still its so much better than in the past : )

lynnejk

Make-it-3 wrote: »

First shop of the new year today, so budget for remainder of the month now at £173.56. Hardly any food purchased, except for the cat who is now catered for till month end, but dishwasher tabs, oven cleaner, nappies all required.

Thanks for the freezer tips, I was just thinking veg lasagne and then read no pasta or fish (I am pescky so don't do roasts/meat). How about rice dishes?

Off to continue reading the Aldi/Lidl thread - I'm thinking that would be one way to reduce costs - although Sainsburys is just so convenient for me ....

Hiya - veg lasagne freezes fine - best to do in portions. Any pasta dish the same - I do it all the time
Lx

Islandmaid

Hi all,

Did my first spend of the year this month at Ald!

Spent £65 but that was a trolley full of stuff, including 2 boned lamb joints and a pork joint all 30% off so that will last all month, also bought sausages and burgers for this weeks meal plan, well 9 day meal plan.

I also splurged on an Actify family was £50 off at Argoose, this will come out of a bonus I got at work though, apparently you can cook allsorts in it not just chips, so I hope it will cut down on using my huge cooker so much.

Chilli and nachoes tonight, last of my Mr L,s £1 mince.

I woke up with man-flu today, head is full of cotten wool bleughhhhhhhh

Off to blow by dose.......

Have a fab evening all xx