February 2014 Grocery Challenge

Ladyluck1

Soworried wrote: »

Does anybody have anyrecipes for the oxtail? I've never cooked it before.

I'd probably just do it the same as I do any other tough meat stew in the slow cooker, veggies, stock and herbs.
Lid on, sc on low for 8ish hrs

Ches

NSD again today.

Tillytrotter1

A spend of £38.10 today in Home Bargains but a lot of this stuff will last a while. I now have a good grasp of supermarket prices so was quite surprised at how much cheaper a lot of things were. Have used it for some time now but today was the first time i've had a proper look without my 2 year old dragging me around the shop at high speed!

superrhinos

The is the first time I have manged to get on this week to update. Basically I have £19.01 from Aldi, ASDA and Waitrose to add to my total. With four days left until payday and only one or two bits needed in the meantime I shall be coming in significantly under budget this month.

cw18

Did a quick grocery shop on Saturday (A1di for bread flour, tortillas, garlic baguette, lettuce, cucumber, radish, spring onion, tomatoes, mushrooms and milk), then Mr M for a second set of tuna.

Now at £52.71 of my £220.55 budget for the month.
Should be OK, but I've still got a big trip to Costco planned (stewing steak and mince) which will make a serious dent into the rest. However I still have £110.87 left from January I could dip into if needs be (I hope not to have to, but it means I have money I can dip into for stockpiling special offers without needing to cut back on other budgets).

Florenceem

NSD here.
Mr F got a pack of 12 chicken wings whoops - £1.06 today but he paid for them.
We had HM BPITH + roast potatoes/parsnips + cabbage + carrots + gravy for dinner.

jammy_dodger

leaving my purse at home is really helping me not to spend, ive at last found the secret
working over the weekend and am gonna do my best to resist over the next couple of days i am off as t here is nothing i actually need
thanks to all who post here its very motivating
very impressed that someone has a budget of £40 a month(sorry cant remember who that was )

mine was £80 last month now £70 and thats for me and 2 cats and 1 dog and 3 hens
would like to get it lower

will have to work on it

JD xx

mags50_2

NSD for me

Been out for dinner to some friends Ruby Anniversary and it was lovely we had the same menu as they had had on their wedding day!

We weren't going to bother celebrating our Ruby next year, but with the last couple of years we've had, we have decided to have a party of some sort...so have decided to save like mad for it hopefully that will give me an even bigger incentive to keep tabs on the housekeeping.

Keep safe x

Frugalsod

marris wrote: »

NSD here today.fridge is full so don't need anything

I am also endeavouring to empty mine for the veggie box arriving on Friday. No point allowing anything to go to waste.

joedenise

Now up to 11 NSDs this month!

Denise