February 2014 Grocery Challenge

BlueMoo

A friendly reminder to GCers to check your receipts before you leave the shop. At least once a month so about 1 shop in 4 there is an error on my bill and always in their favour. Not had it once yet at Lidl tho.

Nothing to add, just wanted to re-iterate. I often have little mistakes in my bill, and it's definitely worth a check. Especially if you are buying 'offers' or YS things.

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Welcome back Lynnejk!

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Dinners of lamb shanks, mashed potatoes and leeks, also Spaghetti with grilled peppers and onions and GF sausages over the past couple of nights.

Been so busy haven't had a chance to post.

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Still NSD. Haven't bought anything GC related since 2.75 spent on lunch a week or so ago.

Trying now to sort out my shopping for the nest time I go to Costco.

I am making a list of what I want and jotting down the SM prices so I can accurately compare the prices.

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marris

staying in as the weather is horrible so another NSD. working on my meal plan for next week.

Pixie_Fairydust

happytails wrote: »

Hi

Aldi nappies are great, I prefer them to pampers etc and they are good value too, especially when they have the boxes in too as even better value!

Thanks for that, I will call in and see if they have any boxes

Weather has been grim here today, I don't think we've had it as bad as some places though! I had to go to work, so it was a pretty miserable walk home!



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mrs-moneypenny

had jacket pots with beans for lunch

going to make a veggie pie for tonight using up some lo leek and pot soup as the base for it

need to nip sains later for bananas and will see if they have any rtc stuff

HOWMUCH

Pixie_Fairydust wrote: »

Has anyone tried A!di nappies? I thought I would start to buy a few packets for my DGD due in May.

If you have tried any makes that and are good please let me know, likewise with offers atm.



Many thanks.

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Asda nappies are great

craigywv

small spend in corner shop on baps 99p. wont be going out again!

kayester

asda nappies are ok, but my DD got sore if used all time...morries nappies are brill

Ali-OK

Weekly shop done and £20.60 spent. Pleased with this as added some extra bits due to half term when DS will probably be raiding the cupboards more often

But, it is only Week 2 of 4 for me, so my total only leaves @ £10 per week :eek: and I strongly suspect I will go over. I thought £80 for the month would be challenging for 2 and 2 dogs and it certainly is!

Meal plan in place for next week and we've enough main meal ingredients/batches in the freezer to see us to month end. It'll be the fresh and packed lunch items in the shopping trolley only for the rest of Feb!

downshifted

Pretty rubbish week two for me - £67.71/£45. Oooops. We have friends coming for the weekend so have stocked up on snacks, treats and extras that we wouldn't usually bother with. Maybe £45 per week is too optimistic for us! £115.40/£90 sounds much worse than £115.40/£100!

ikesmummy

Spent £6.?? (Need to check the receipt) on some bits for valantines day meal, present and some other bits today. Really pleased with how the valantines gifts (chocolate hearts and some truffles) have turned out and think for £2.50 worth of ingredients I have made the quantity you would easily spend £10-£15 on in the shops, my have to help DH eat them


Also made the muslie bars LittleBill gave me the recipe for - Thank you, very yummy and a hit with both DS's and DH.

We had pie for dinner (filling was left over from a previous roast - some beef, veg and gravy) which is one of our favourite meals.