January Grocery Challenge 2015

Solstice_3

Thanks for that recipe NewShadow - added to the index

Caterina

Yesterday £25 at Marks with voucher, today £30 online for cat food stock up. Updating sig and facing a week of NSDs from tomorrow.

Mrs_Cheshire

NSD for me today, was given some apples, bread and a small amount of milk so that will keep us going for a few days!

dawn_rose

Just popped in to update my signature. I have £76.59 left for next weeks big shop plus any fresh shop mid week. Will I make it.....hopefully. X

redmel1621

CountingPennies wrote: »

Online shop results..... £35.25!! So buy shopping at Aldi I saved £7.32!!

Things I noticed, cheese from Aldi is smaller block. Tesco didn't sell that size. Aldi free range eggs are in 15's, whereas tescos are 12's. 20-odd cheaper at Tesco, but less eggs. Muffins only in 4 packs at Aldi, 6 packs at Tesco. Few other differences but nothing major. I could never do a "full" shop at Aldi. Our store isn't huge, and there are a lot of value products at Tesco which we like and are much cheaper than Aldi, but I will try to go to Aldi for some bits but it all depends if I have a lift or not. Too far to walk with heavy bags and no bus route there.

Interesting to see the results tho.

CP xx

Interesting comparison I do pretty much my whole shop at A*di, a little bit at F*rmfoods and then a couple of items at A/M/S namely milk and marge and any herbs/spices or random articles I can't get at A*di or F*rmfoods.

Can I ask how much the cheese is at T*sco and for what size block?

CountingPennies

redmel1621 wrote: »

Can I ask how much the cheese is at T*sco and for what size block?

Of course. for the cheese I bought at Aldi, the similar Tesco one was 450g, £3 or to blocks for £5.

Another NSD today, so that is 4 for the week. Not going out today because of the snow. Really happy with that! Will try again next week!
CP xx

scotmumof3

£28.51 spend at Tesc* today. Fridge and freezer are full again so hopefully still on target for the month.

Soworried

A spend of £7.53 today on milk, pop, spring onion, soap powder and a whopping big bag of smoked haddock, down from £9 to £1.77 :j

That leaves me with £9 to last the week for the 4 of us. We really won't starve as we have a full cupboard and freezer, it will just be a case of "If we don't have it you don't get it"

redmel1621

Declaring a nsd today.

I have just updated my sig for yesterday's spend. Slightly less to add on than I thought as DS2 brought me £2 change from his cinema trip.

I have already written the shopping list for Wednesday and although I may add a few extra items on (namely dh's ales) it is looking good.

BrassicWoman

Still agonising over emergency spend!

Petrol £14 cheaper than expected, new contacts £7 cheaper as I only need one complex lens and I thought it was two. Plus no electricity DD this month while changing suppliers and a quidco payment due. When I add it all up I actually have more extra than my shop cost!

I think I'm going to leave as is, and tell myself there's no spending the extra bits and bobs on treats like I usually would, as my treat was instant food from a packet vs actually cooking

I think over the next few months I might start reducing cash spend by voucher spend and see if I can build up an emergency £50 for next time.

Staying in until payday, mind you! Getting bread out the freezer for a pack up next.