February 2014 Grocery Challenge

aimeemum

My month starts on Monday. I have just done my online order - £72.15 for I reckon 9 days. Includes a couple of 'incidentals' like foil and also includes £9.50 of baby formula and £2.40 of nappies. Being delivered Monday afternoon.

Meals this week -

Monday: Sweet and sour chicken
Tuesday: Salmon (in freezer) and noodles
Wenesday: Macaroni Cheese and sausages (freezer)
Thursday: Steak with Mushrooms (hubby's birthday lol)
Friday: (out for hubby's birthday) Pizza for boys
Saturday: Paprika Chicken (leftovers)
Sunday: Chilli with rice and salad (in freezer)
Monday: Stew and mash (freezer)
Tuesday: Paprika Chicken and rice (slow cooker)

Lunches/snacks for each day plus breakfasts and a stock up of cereals/jars/fruit pots for baby too. Ingredients also bought to make a batch of Minestrone soup for lunches over next weekend/week.

Meals still in freezer - fish fingers, 2 mackerel fillets, 1 gammon and 1 breaded chicken.

Bear in mind we're following the hairy bikers diet plan (loosely at times I'll admit) at the moment so it's quite fun meal planning! lol I also only have a freezer compartment (no actual freezer) so space is limited lol.

chirpycheap

Well my month started on the 20th and I have done several shops so that I am hopefully pretty well stocked up for the month.

Asda-£12.26
Tesco £23.24
Lidl- £30.21
Costco £38.45
At Costco we spent £38.45 and bought 48 loo rolls for £16.19, 6pack of rubber gloves (£5.63), 3 x 6 pack milk (£9.75), 12 tins chopped tomatoes (£3.99) and 2 x 12 packs Oatso Simple (£2.89)

Menu plan sorted for the week:
Saturday - Roasted Swede, Potato, Carrots, Peppers and Onions with veggie sausages.
Sunday- Courgette and Lentil Loaf & Swede
Monday - Bean burgers, Rice and Peas
Tuesday - Out the freezer
Wednesday - Pasta Bake & Cabbage
Thursday - Mushy Pea Curry and Rice
Friday - Home made pizza

Our spend so far is £104/£300 and our budget includes all groceries (food, cleaning stuff and toiletries). We are a house of two adults with a son at university who if not bouncing back home is heading back to his flat with a food parcel provided by mum and dad!

Kittenkirst

We've spent £5 this week so far but off to Saino's I'm a bit.

£3.80 at fruit & veg market (pomegranates, Pak choi, lychees, blood oranges and Savoy cabbage)

£1.20 sainsburys on bread as Boyf has hurt himself and wanted comfort food (beans on toast!)

So now at £96.80 for the month.

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Just updated the budgets list

Welcome to:
lonewhitewolf and flosspixie

Good luck all
Coxy

Florasaurus

Hey everyone!! I've never done this before but can you put me down for £130 please??

Upsy_Staffordshire

I think we're going to be over budget for January but hopefully will do better in Feb due to it being a smaller month. Can you please put me down for £160 for the month again please? This is for 2 adults and I won't be starting until 1st Feb.

Good luck everyone :j

lushlifesaver

mooomin wrote: »

I think that seems really high, at least for our household. We're two adults and a fussy, spoiled cat and we're down to £200 for a month now. I can see how people spend more though, especially if they aren't used to cooking from scratch and whatnot. It's taken us a while to get to this point.

Flip me that would mean that they were suggesting that I use 40% of my take home pay per month just on feeding bf and me! And there was me think I really should be able to get down from £100 per month...well at least it's made me realise that to say I feed us both (bf being an athlete and therefore near bottomless) three meals a day plus snacks (mostly bought in currently) and a shih-tzu for £100 I'm not doing so bad!

MrsCautious

Hello, thanks to all who run and contribute to this thread, I'd like to aim for £150 in Feb for the three of us and our daft dog. Thanks and good luck everyone.

mooomin

I have £103.60 left from my £200 budget after a top-up shop yesterday.

23 days till payday :rotfl:

Florenceem

Just declared on Jan GC - had really good 4 weeks.
Still working on £100 for 4 weeks in February - as per my pension payment.
Still have spends to do on the house renovations so frugal ways continue. Any money left out of the £100 this challenge will go towards paying a carpenter to hang new interior doors.