January 2014 Grocery Challenge

K9sandFelines

samtoby wrote: »

I have made veg cassarole with dumplings for dinner. Cost around £2.00 to make so a bargain.

Never done this challenge before but very proud of myself.

Total spend: £74.78/£150.00

Do you have a recipe please? This sounds lovely.

I have spent £1.00 odd today on garlic bread and YS bread. Will update when I have rechecked receipt.

* Edit* £1.88 spent

Soworried

This was our meal plan for this week, I always base our plan around what ever we can get cheap, so last week it was turkey, this week gammon.

Sunday- Gammon dinner
Monday- Gammon and egg quiche with salad
Tuesday- Lo turkey curry with turmeric rice, well it had to make an appearance somewhere
Wednesday- Beef and mushroom pie with chips
Thursday- Gammon carbonara or gammon with cauliflower cheese
Friday- Pizza and garlic bread
Saturday- Gammon and king prawn stirfry with home fried prawn crackers

We then switch things depending on what we feel like, so tonight should have been curry but we fancied king prawns. We find it saves a fortune. The meat is always YS or the li dl weekend offer. This gammon was 3k and cost just £4:j









Sorry for the long post Our curry will now take the place of the stirfry night unless we switch anything else

Soworried

Well done moomin:T

samtoby

K9sandFelines wrote: »

Do you have a recipe please? This sounds lovely.

I have spent £1.00 odd today on garlic bread and YS bread. Will update when I have rechecked receipt.

I used patatoe, carrott, swede, couple of spoons of stuffing and gravy granuals. I made the dumplings from self raising flour and suet - very basic but it was very tasty!

samtoby

And well done Moomin!

XSpender

Well done Moomin:T

I spent a bit more than planned today, £22 instead of £15 as I needed nappies, cheese and basic freezer bags I hadn't put on my list when I posted this morning and DH asked for crisps and luk o zade.

I was uhming and ahing about the food bags as I have a catering pack of foil, cling film and plenty of plastic boxes and I use them mainly for lunches and covering stuff in the fridge and would like to do without them. I thought I would get some today and wean myself off them. I got the sains basics as they are cheaper then Aldee but thought the pack was a bit thin when I picked it up and then noticed that they now come in packs of 40 not 50. When did that happen? I am definitely doing without them now:mad:

happytails

islandhoppa wrote: »

NSD here and this is a triumph as it is DHs birthday and we would normally order a takeaway, however I am dieting and we are saving for our upcoming holiday so decided not to, DH got to choose tea and he picked cheesy beans on toast!!! Really good for us as takeaways used to be a big problem, not had one at all this year, going to try and keep this up:)

We were terrible with takeaways, spending £200-300 a month :eek: happy to report NO takeaways at all so far this year :P

Sarah x

mooomin

Thank you for your congratulations

I'm setting my February budget as £200. My plan is to go to Costco on Saturday where I'll get teabags (Mr Mooo pays for these as he insists on Yorkshire Tea!), binbags (super strong and they last for AGES) and chicken which I'll portion up and use over the month.

I'm also going to get a meal plan done for next week and work out what toiletries and cleaning stuff we're going to need for the coming month. That'll be one big shop this weekend and then small top-ups for the coming weeks.

I have a weekend away in London next month and need to save money from this budget if I can as I'm off to the Middle East on holiday in March Every penny saved on the grocery budget will let me do fun things while I'm away!

samtoby

I wish we had a Costco but you can't have everything... Aldi to me has been amazing so I will look at other places too.

meg72

Billie-jo wrote: »

Froze 3 portions of lobby (beef stew type dish) today and have another 3 portions left so will take mum one down tomorrow and we will have the rest for lunch.

Made a Lamb rogan josh but did cheat a little and used a jar of sauce on offer cost £1
Added to it a stick of celery, onions, mushrooms, red pepper, some cooked potatoes, and 5 cherry tomatoes that needed using up. Would have put some broccoli in but didn't have any left.
Plenty left to go in freezer once its cooled am thinking at least 5 portions left and has cost less than £5 to make including rice and naan breads.

That looks lovely.