January 2014 Grocery Challenge

Ali-OK

Main weekly shop done in Aldi this afternoon and spent £13.60. Only problem is that I did my meal plan before I went and they didn't have a couple of items I needed, so going to have to change it a bit.

No big bags of dog food either, will try and get one next week. Extra milk gone in the freezer, as that's usually the one grocery item I end up buying more of during the week.

I've ordered 3 bottles of Flash liquid from Wilkos, so another £4.50 to add to total as well. Spend today £18.10, total for month so far £37.71 - still on track with another 3 weekly shops to go.

A great idea to make dog biscuits, my two love gravy bones and pretty much anything else they can get their paws on :rotfl:

Upsy_Staffordshire

jammy_dodger wrote: »

hi kiwiblue
#your not alone i too make dog biscuits for my er...dog
when i have the time i have little bone shaped cutters . much cheaper than those boxes of gravy bones that you buy and gotta be better for them

i bag some up as presents for my friends pets for their birthdays ( thats the dogs birthdays i dont give dog biscuits to my friends:rotfl:)

i basically use a little stock cube flour , bit of milk powder fennel seed a little olive oil and water to make the dough

upper staffordshire Mr T should give double difference if youve been overcharged so £1 would be correct theres a thread aboutt it somewhere

JD x

Thanks jammy dodger I've had a search and I've found the thread you are talking about, I never knew this! I will definitely report any mispriced items there in the future :T

Ali-OK

Anyone seen the supermarket sales figures for the last quarter in the news today and yesterday?

SB up 0.2%
Mr T down 0.2%
Morries down 5.6%
M&S food up quite a bit (can't remember the figure), but down overall due to clothing/houseware

An acknowledgement of people shopping around, using several stores and less loyalty and more using the 'discounted' (word being used by the media) Ald! and L!dl, plus Morries lack of online presence and convenience stores. Will be interesting to know their figures when they are released. Asda not mentioned yet.

Certainly describes me to a T. An Ald! convert using a few SB Basics and FFoods.

mooomin

I agree with you Ali - I'm similar. We get most of our stuff from Aldi and Asda now with some stuff from Sains, but mainly because our local has some cracking reductions so I only shop there at night!

I do prefer Morries for fruit and veg compared to my other local stores and am interested to see how they compare when they finally go online later this year. I love their fresh fish and butcher counters which I find far better than my local offerings. Mr T doesn't even come on my radar thanks to bad experiences with quality of fruit and veg and rubbish YS reductions

kayester

I cant wait for morrisons to deliver, meat and veg all fresher, and will be nice to compare prices online between them and asda.
middle of year in my area for morrisons. they will offer a £1 delivery slot aswel.
be nice to hear if anyone can order from them quicker!!

mrs-moneypenny

spend £5.50 today on cocopops, 6 eggs. some bananas, and a couple of little gem lettuce.

out tonight for DH's birthday meal, glad its out of a different pot as 11 of us are going!

jammy_dodger

sorry Upsy staffordshire i got your "location" wrong
i called you "Upper staffordshire That'll teach me for not reading properly
JD xx

debtdawg

95p on a teacake at soft play this morning with the teeny terror, then £1.64 in tescos on lots of stuff, but I actually had vouchers to get the spend down from £17.14, result!

Total spend today £2.59

Dinner tonight is hm beef burgers in buns made with .5lb of steak mince, an egg, breadcrumbs, onion, a mini truckle of cheese my mum gave to me that she wasn't going to use (grated up and added to the burger mix), a couple of teaspoons of red onion chutney, seasoning etc, alongside hm sweet potato fries and bbq beans (baked beans with bbq sauce in them) mmm, yum!

merzal

I'm not doing very well!
Spent another £10.73 on persil, gravy, bread, cabbage for the bunnies, ice cream and a few bits for the freezer! Think I need to stay out of the shops. Only really needed cabbage, bread and gravy - ooops! Should only need to buy milk this weekend though as have everything I need in for meals till Sunday and I'm going out on Saturday night!

kayester

today was a successful NSD.
BBQ Chicken Fajitas tonight with salad and soured cream.
I literally cant wait for OH to come home, I am starving!!!!