January Grocery Challenge 2015

Bobarella

Hi All
Still hanging on by my fingertips. Found a £2.84 brand match coupon today so used it to buy a loaf, some fruit & lunchbox items. A nice surprise indeed.
Bob

Soworried

Today is the last day of my Jan GC and I couldn't be more pleased that we made it with such a tight budget for the 4 of us :j

A big first shop will be needed in Feb GC though

Solstice_3

Well time to declare. I ended up buying some cookies for 50p and a bottle of wine for £4 as well as needed items. Changed dinner plans as my brain went into panic mode at doing the menu planning so kids are eating now and DH and I are having a 2 for £4 pizza each later. The chorizo I was going to use up is now being used for a recipe for tomorrows dinner. Once my meat delivery arrives I [STRIKE]can[/STRIKE] will panic again and then attempt a menu plan.

So my final total for January is £256.44 which is under. I can't help feeling I missed a receipt somewhere as that's just over £60 under budget. Hey ho we shall see

BrassicWoman

3 NSDs

I don't think my freezer has gone down *at all*!!! Would all of you like to come for dinner at the weekend?

Mrs_Cheshire

Popped into the local Mr T Express to get the mirror for the A!di voucher and they had loads of good reductions.
Got 6 packs of 500g lean steak mince for £1.68 each, they should have been £4.20 or 2 for £6. Was hoping the extra reduction might come off but it didn't.
6 packs of ham 5 slices, 40p each should have been £2.10
3 punnets of nectarines 18p each should have been £1.75
5 packs of 6 wildlife choobs 10p each should have been £1.00
pack of courgettes 66p should have been £1.50
innocent smoothie carton 25p should have been £2.50
and the mirror I went in for.
Should have been £45.40 after multibuy discounts I paid £14.98
Popped to aldi afterwards to get chips, gherkins and cheese, spent £3.19

The mince will do 12 dinners, so I've separated it and frozen it all, will last the 4 of us 3 months as we don't have mince more than 1 per week!

islandhoppa

NSD for me, my lovely dad always buys the daily mirror and saves me the Aldo voucher, today he came round with 2, he'd bought an extra paper to give me 2 vouchers. Love my dad :A

Will do main shop either tomorrow night or sat morning, then will save the other to use on Thursday for next weeks shop

pinkpixie274

Evening all :j

Still working hard at my first ever grocery challenge...have £60 left for the month & 2 weekly shops still to go so cant see that I am going to come in under budget this time But the challenge is really helping me to focus on my spending, so overall I defo think it is helping the cause :rotfl:

Keep going guys...we're on the final stretch now :T

Smoosh

Got a lot of updating to do!

£1.20 on 2 energy drinks & a big cake (YS). The cake was originally £6 alone so I was pleased with this

£13.26 on 8 tins of cat food, a bar of chocolate, a tin of coconut milk, a jar of peanut butter, a bag of Quorn fillets, a pepper, a bag of sweets, a bottle of squash & a pack of vegetables.

£13.24 on 4 litres of Pepsi max, 12 tins of cat food, a bottle of shampoo, 2 small bars of chocolate, a block of cheddar, a tub of gravy granules, 2 bananas & 4 pints of milk.

£5.50 on 9 rolls of toilet roll & toothpaste.

£6.23 on 2 litres of lemonade, 4 litres of Pepsi max, a bag of Quorn meatballs, 8 cookies (YS) & a loaf of bread (YS).

Missing a receipt from last Sunday, a few YS bits, calling it £5 as that was about right.

Adding £44.43 to total.

bmma

Hi spends today = £1.69
total spends to date £175.13 x

Mrs_Cheshire

pajama wrote: »

Can someone please tell me which newspaper is doing the Aldi voucher and how much is it for? Thank you

Louisec83 wrote: »

Daily mirror 55p.

Normally every third Thursday in month I think.

It's usually the 4th Thursday of the month, this month there are 5 thursday's so it feels like it's slightly earlier. Its for £5 off when you spend £40.