January Grocery Challenge 2015

Billie-jo

A NSD today as planned.
Good to see some people coming under budget as they finish their Jan challenge.
LO chicken for tea tonight with bubble and squeak, still some left for tomorrow so think it will be soup and sandwiches at lunch time.

NewShadow

I'm still doing okay this month, but can't help but hate Januarys.

I don't get paid until the last working day, and it's been a long time since the christmas advance

MissOrganised1972

Hi all. I'm a little bit behind with the thread (always moves fast in January) as been a bit busy, not least with DD1 hurting her foot in swimming (how did she manage that!!!!) resulting in several hospital visits! Hopefully some sort of normality will resume now that she has some crutches to get around on!

I've had several grocery shops which I am slowly updating my signature with, as I empty my little 'grocery money bag' of my receipts. Must tell you about my little shop in Saturday evening though! We rarely get huge YS discounts by us. However, we called into our local Tesco Express to get DD1's Lactofree milk and a 4 pinter for us. Walked out with

• a Hovis wholemeal loaf
• a pot of houmous (which I have frozen, thanks to an earlier post by a helpful member)
• 6 hot dog rolls
• a pack of mushrooms
• a prepared pack of carrots, broccoli & cauliflower
• 4 deli rolls
• Paracetemol
• Lactofree milk
• 4 pints of milk

All for a total of £3.08! :T All of my bargains were between 12p & 17p!


Used the broccoli & cauliflower for Sunday dinner. Made the carrots into carrot & coriander soup for lunches (5 portions). Going to use the mushrooms for a risotto tomorrow & the rolls can be for DH & DDs lunches.


Very pleased.

K9sandFelines

£6.49 spends today at Lidl om bread and fruit and veg.

DanielleNic87

Checking in with my spends so far. My last post was to say we shouldn't need much food... We have spent over £100!!! Need to reign it back it as we don't NEED much x

lynnejk

Hiya everyone


Well done to all coming in under budget :T


Bought porridge sachets, fruit, yogurts and coleslaw = £8.24. Fingers xd that will do for the rest of the week now


Hope you all staying warm and dry


Lx

Tidy_Up_Tash

NSD on Monday. Tuesday should be too, dependent on YS finds. Weds will be a spend day as I have to grab a few things towards dinner. That should be it this week... Hopefully

Happygreen

Yesterday I marathoned the freezer-defrosting - now I have a better idea what I don't have to buy and can make use of in some way.

Shoppping day today, will update tomorrow.

plymouthscubagirl

Thats it, its payday to day so my final scores were:

G/C Jan 2015 £134.91/£300

Quite pleased with that, although I am still living off freezer/cupboard food rather than buying meat/fish. I'm off to Prague tomorrow so will start again when back on Sunday. Going to go for £200 budget for February :beer:
Will start recording my no-spnends too now as never done that :T

Kahra

Wow plymouthscubagirl, that's less than half of your planned budget! Well done!

Went to Mr S yesterday and picked up a bunch of food that felt quite fancy - burgers, bread, cheesecake , fizzy drinks - as well as bin liners and washing up liquid. Spent £19.42. I found several more meals of leftovers in the freezers, so shouldn't need to get much more this week.