January 2014 Grocery Challenge

Faete

Weekly shop done - really pleased! Aldi £13.09 which included two jars of Alta Rica Coffee knocked down to £1.49 each and some 30% off mushrooms. Asda £23.84 which included YS free range eggs (boxes had got soggy from egg breakage from other boxes) and YS plums. This week has made up for my over spend from last week's non-appearing guests

Fae xx

meg72

Florenceem wrote: »

Spend of £3.40 today. They were selling packs of Shortbread reduced to 50p at Asdo so I got 4 packs - BB Nov 2014. I put them in my store box upstairs.
We had HM Fish Pie + LO baked Beans + Mushy Peas for dinner.

Ohh shortbread, my favourite, really admire your will power in stashing these away, I cant do it, not with biscuits cake chocolate or sweets, no willpower lol. I Would just eat the lot.

Mrs-s_4

NSD today and tomorrow, Friday was a £3.70 spend on a loaf, some bakery crusty bread and some leek and potato soup iv been craving. Will update sig.

dingdongsaving

Weekly grocery shop (including a work 'bring and share' meal and my work birthday fruit platter) and a pet food shop (2 dogs/1 cat/1 guinea pig) all done and signature updated.

Enjoy the weekend everyone!

debtdawg

Spendy day today but I am hopeful I won't need anything until next weekend now, with some careful meal planning
£32.54 in Lidl (which included vanilla pods at 4 for £2, couldn't resist!), £2.48 in Mr T. I have lots of bread, milk, veggies, fruit and store cupboard stuff.
Just made an apple pie with some leftover puff pastry that I used to top a hm chicken pie for tea last night, and free bramley apples from my mum. Also have a fruit cake loaf baking in the oven, using leftover dried fruit from making the Christmas cake and a ripe banana.
I have some chicken in the fridge from roasting a small YL chook (£2 from the co-op after Christmas) a couple of days ago (used to make a pie, chicken pasta bake and enough for a meal for the 5 of us tomorrow). I think I am going to buck the roast trend tomorrow and make a curry!
The two eldest terrors are due back after tea tonight, so it's tomato soup, cheese rolls from lidls, leftover crackers and some double gloucester from my mums for tea, with some fruit. Bit of a picky rubbish one but we've been out a lot of today running errands and taking the teeny to a family adventure park that we have a membership for.
I think that I'm doing quite well with the budget so far this month, tracking every spend has been very useful.

islandhoppa

oops tiny £2 spend on sugar and cordial which I forgot yesterday! Hoping for a few NSDs now

Magpye

NSD again :j Didn't even go out as Himself got a phone call at 7am asking him to work extra, so have generally pottered about.

Cracked open a tiny bottle of Babycham at 6pm (Xmas pressie) to alleviate the pain of having a broken Henry vacuum - carpets full of cat fluff - and cooking in a kitchen with no heating and no running hot water. Fish parcels for tea tonight, done in shortcrust GF pastry as I really didn't feel up to rough puff and I'm out of baking parchment. The cat howled and howled like she'd never seen food until I caved and gave her half a plate of white fish which she scoffed down without even breathing, I think! Little menace. Added a couple of frozen king prawns each to the parcels. Hope it turns out ok, am a bit down today and just can't seem to get motivated at all.

ETA: Here's a photo of tea with my HM tartare sauce, and I have a rhubarb-raspberry crumble about to come out of the oven.

happytails

Not had chance to catch up yet so will read later but a spend at sainsburys today to aid the husbands last minute diet starting tomorrow..

Spent £174.23/£400

Sarah xx

Billie-jo

Seem to have brought rubbish today for some strange reason - 6 cans Fanta zero (I never buy fizzy pop!!!!) some dip that was twice as much as the one I normally buy, crisps, some mince beef (have 2-3 kgs in freezer so why?) and then to try to make up for it a cabbage and some fruit. Oh well doesn't happen often so wont beat myself up about it this time. Forgot to get some celery and carrots so will nip into A1di when pick mum up tomorrow and hopefully just get those two items.
Going to make cottage pie and rice pudding tomorrow as mum here and she always enjoys these. Haven't made rice pudding for ages.

flyinggiraffe_2

Just popped put to get some lemonade for DVD night and ended up getting some butternut squash, courgettes and some muller chocolate desserts.

£4.10 to add to my weekly total, and my meal plan is going to be changed so I can use up the new veggies.