February 2014 Grocery Challenge

poppycracker

£33.99 spend in ASDA yesterday, but that included a £6.50 meal deal for my birthday at the weekend. Oh and a £4 tub of Ben and Jerry's which is probably all the birthday present I'm going to get from DH .

Ladyluck1

Sneaky £3.28 spent in lidl on a sticky toffee pudding (they are lush!) and done kinder eggs for DS

debtdawg

£2.10 on milk and a packet of sweets for the teeny terror today

marris

spent £6,36 today (£5,38 was on YS yogurts,ham,sausages,cakes, 15 free range eggs, butter - was to good to miss ). more into my freezer

Faete

Third NSD in a row - I've yet to plan next week's meals and write my shopping list for tomorrow - got a big bout of lazyitis

I'll be good and do it in the morning - I think it won't be too large a spend.

Too frugal debate - I don't have any debt but I'm hoping to retire (at least partially) in 5 years, so I'm being sensible with my last 5 years full salary. The key to it for me is zero wastage and planning properly to minimise unnecessary spending.

I'd never resort to being so frugal to be described by my great aunt as, "So tight she'd skin a turd for a ha'penny!" :rotfl:

Fae xx

JIL

I have used Ocado in the past and I found them really good. Their site does state the minimum shelf life of a product and I found that really handy. I always planned my shopping around their offers.

Thats why I am having a break from them......I bought so many offers that the freezer and cupboards are full. I am just doing small shops at the weekend with fresh fruit and veg and other things we may run out of.

Spent £26.75 today in Aldi. Plus £3 on some fizzy pop and diluting juice in the coop.

So far so good.

Fru-gal_2

Had first spend of the month this week £52 at tesco. I shouldn't need to buy anything this weekend. Tonight I'm Going to make a slow cooker leek and potato soup from last weeks old veg. That's Saturday lunch sorted and hopefully one for the freezer.

JIL

BlueMoo wrote: »

I have some pork belly that I need to use up - does anyone have any recipes that they wouldn't mind sharing?

Gok wans twice cooked pork belly. I did the first bit in the slow cooker.

http://www.redonline.co.uk/food/recipes/gok-wan-s-melting-pork-recipes-food

jammy_dodger

a spend of £24.20 yesterday
and though i have spent over two thirds of my alloacated budget am confident i can stay on track s0 £21.79 for the remainder :eek:

i have enough cat/dog food and cat litter to last till end of month
i have tried my dog on a brand downshift challenge and he doesnt seem to mind it at all:D
updated sig with new total
working all weekend:( but have some yummy h/m cheesey tear n share bread to take with me with h/m soup tomorrow and i'll take a portion of casserole out of the freezer for sunday
have a great weekend
stay warm and dry
JD XX

Florenceem

NSD.
We had HM salmon fishcakes + HM wedges + veggies for dinner.