February 2014 Grocery Challenge

ikesmummy

Wishing you and your husband many healing vibes Kiwiblue.

So sorry to reader about your daughter Billie-Joe.

Did my top up shops between Lidl and Asda yesterday so have updated my signature. Budget still possible if I can just buy what we need!!

Miss our roast today as both boys had parties to go to, one over lunch time and one at tea time so had a lovely stir fry instead.

Think I have everything in for meals this week just home I have enough to keep the boys from eating the furniture during the days through half term :rotfl:

Hope you all have a good week x

marris

spent £3,39. will update my sig

SarahB1989_2

Had a very expensive weekend foodwise - bought cakes for the OH and I to have for Valentines, had lunch out with a friend (used a voucher so only £6), had dinner out with the OH (had a voucher we'd been gifted so only had to pay for wine and the tip), and bought food from Boots tonight as was travelling late. So with vouchers etc and a YS-type discount at Boots it was far better than it could have been, but overall that's £26 added to my total. It'll be lentil soup and anything YS'd this week to get back on track, not completely gone off my budget but would be very handy to have something spare to carry into March.

pinkparrott

Was going quite well on our first month but after a week being housebound with an injured knee , finally got to go out today and went a bit mad in a lovely cheese shop in the Yorkshire dales & spent £23 :eek:
Bread & cheese for tea tomorrow me thinks

K9sandFelines

NSD for me today.

lynnejk

meg72 wrote: »

Back from Asda sitting here shaking, injured and upset at the behaviour of a minority of people
Sorry .I have posted before that I am nervous of a scrum at the YS
but todays experience has absolutely floored me.

Hope you feeling ok now. What an experience. It seems strange that this has happened to quite a few people on here. This sort of thing doesn't seem to happen here thank goodness.

pinkparrott wrote: »

Was going quite well on our first month but after a week being housebound with an injured knee , finally got to go out today and went a bit mad in a lovely cheese shop in the Yorkshire dales & spent £23 :eek:
Bread & cheese for tea tomorrow me thinks

I wouldn't dare going near a cheese shop - I just ADORE cheese and would spend a fortune :rotfl: that will have to go on the 'things to do when I win the Lottery' list.



Spent £18.51 in Al*i today on rolls, pack-ups, milk, fruit and veg.


Had ToadITH today (sausages from freezer) with mash, carrots, Brussels, leeks and gravy. Really yummy


Hope you all have a marvellous Monday
Lx

lushlifesaver

Meg that sounds like a horrible experience! I'm now incredibly put off ys shopping due to similar experiences. Bf can't abide the swarms either as his head/face are at elbow height (wheelchair user) so a normal trip to the supermarket can be hell. I'm now 8 months, or there abaouts, pregnant and finally look pregnant but still get trollies shoved in to me from all angles. I hate people being too close especially with trollies - bad memories of getting well and truly squished between two heavy desk and ending up in a&e when young! I had (polite) words with one woman who elbox bf square in the face and bashed in to me three times in tescos and she told me bf was at target height so should avoid supermarkets at peak time and I had been 'in the way' so should learn and shift!

That said I asked to share a double seat with a rather large woman and he very young son on the bus the other day and was told to "%$&#*" myself as 'if I fall it'll be a little painful but no damage whereas if she fell she could do herself some serious damage' I wasn't asking her to stand I was asking if her son (3/4years max) could sit on her knee so I could sit down! First and last time I ask!

Had planned a NSD yesterday but as we were milling around the shops so bf could get himself a new console I spent £18 from my treat budget and £1.40 from the GC. Need squash which I will buy today and which costs 28p! Will add that now as it will certainly be the only thing bought today!

Fish with rice and veg for tea tonight - bf is having cod so will have tomato and basil sauce with his, I'm having salmon so he can try it (yaaaay for increasing his variety in his diet! Could do a happy dance!) It's fish he bought on 3 for 10 at M's on Thursday :-)

kayester

Had my chicken dinner last night. Chinese fakeaway tonight got lots of different things will take a picture if I remember. Ten pound spend on DS dinner money

craigywv

half term here so food ways it will be nsd, but we off to see legomovie which is from a different budget and will call into poundland for a few sweets which granda gave me for that purpose so I not counting it in as not from my purse. to the person who was mobbed at the reduced section I know what you went through, it happened to me 2 weeks ago I small 4 foot 11 and stocky and was pushed around by a "lady" in business suit near 6 foot tall I just had to voice my opinion extremely loudly for her to back off! literally told her to shove her basket up her ?*%£ or I would do it for her.now I not an aggressive person but we all like a bargain and I was shocked to see this well dressed madam pushing men as well all over the place. I walked away and left them to it,came back 10 mins later and they were gone . up side of being a smaller person I can see the back of large bottom shelves 3 big fat chickens pushed to back for 1.15 each..........karma xxx

jammy_dodger

nothing more to add to my GC total am hoping to last through the week without needing anything else
working the next few days and just hard boiling some eggs (from my hens) to take with my pack ups

made some lovely spicy fruit buns yesterday and have some LO cheese scones which i put in freezer to stop me eating them all so have enough to take to work this week

cant believe its 17th Feb already, time is flying in

have a safe week one and all

JD xx