January Grocery Challenge 2015

Mrs_Cheshire

NSD for me today! Need to work out how many altogether now

Airthrey

Bobarella wrote: »

Hi All
So today I managed a small shop, butter, marmite, salami for the £5 in nectar points I had left. I am amazed I've managed to go another week on almost no spends.
Now if I can learn how to make nice home made bread that would be a bonus. We go through a loaf a day pretty much on toast for breakfast and 3 people having sandwiches for lunch.
Any good simple recipes people recommend? I don't have a bread maker.
Many thanks
bob

I use the recipe on the side of the packet of Aldi's strong white bread flour but tend to use a little less salt and often use sunflower oil instead of the olive oil in the recipe. It's always worked very well for me and it freezes well too.

Caterina

NSD no. 13 and FF no.5.

Had a difficult day today, emotionally.

Averted major restaurant disaster thanks to DH's saintly intervention as I was in meltdown and craving a Chinese meal, he persuaded me to go home and shop from the cupboard for dinner.

Result: still on course with the FF, another NSDS and a lovely lentil, chick pea and freezer veg curry on millet. HM yogurt with HM marmalade for pudding.

But I fell at the Dryathlon, had my 3rd wine glass of the month. Something had to give, today. Am only human!

CRANKY40

zafiro1984 wrote: »

I didn't manage to stay within budget :mad: £1.31 overspend.

Went to Sains - all went well until I looked for the firelighters, non there, however a very nice shop person offered to go and have a look in the stores. He was ages but needless to say he found some, so I bought 2 pks not one - silly me.

Given the weather that we've had lately I suspect that most of us would have done the same.

katkin

Caterina wrote: »

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Had a difficult day today, emotionally.
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But I fell at the Dryathlon, had my 3rd wine glass of the month. Something had to give, today. Am only human!

It's a hard time of year Caterina isn't it. Hope tomorrow's a bit brighter for you. And 3rd glass of the month! That's great going, i decided to cut down too rather than go for the whole dryathon. There's only so much I can cope with at once Good on you doing so well.

This is the end of my 1st January challenge week and out of £150 I have spent £73.83.

I'm stocked up on all toiletries, cleaning, cat-related things, meat I froze and top ups to the stores. Got a lot of great deals on veg and fruits I'm going to have to batch cook / process so they don't go off. I have drafted a 30 day meal ideas plan that's pretty flexible. There's quite a few veggie (pulse, beans etc) meals in there and I'm going for more lighter and soup type meals this month again. They've gone down well. No crap (pardon my French) at all, which includes no biscuits, crisps, cakes, processed stuff etc

So I have £76.17 to go. This should be easy if I stay on track with my plans and don't go daft wanting a fancy steak out with champagne

lynnejk

Bobarella wrote: »

......Now if I can learn how to make nice home made bread that would be a bonus.
Any good simple recipes people recommend? I don't have a bread maker.
bob

Gosh - you're doing extraordinarily well. Have you looked at the beginning of the thread ? Try post *8* about half-way down the bread recipes start.


Caterina - well done on resisting the t/a. Think you're doing great



I managed another NSD today but am definitely shopping the morrow. I have A*di vouchers and enough vouchers to buy a new wifi printer (at long last) as other one was too old to be compatible with this laptop .


We are also going to pick up my new-to-me ring, which is a birthday/wedding anniversary present from DH. I need to get to the library as out of reading material :eek: We both need to go sort out our phones which are due for an up-grade tomorrow as well. All in all going to be quite busy eh :rotfl:


Hope you all have a super Saturday


Lx

wealthygirl

Good evening everyone.

This evening we did our weekly shop. I made a meal plan and list. so my spends are as follows.

Asda £1.29
Tesco £4.37
Aldi £41.16 - I used the vouchers from the paper, and have another one to use next Thursday.

I am very pleased with how the month has gone, and am sure I can do even better. The problem is that I don't have much luck with YS items, as they rarely get reduced enough for my liking, or are not what I want.

I will definately carry on with the challenge to keep myself on track. Thank you for the thread and all the ideas.

Bobarella, I have started making my bread to save money, and I don't have a breadmaker. Delia Smith has some easy to follow recipes which I find always seem to turn out well. HTH

threepenny_bit

Declaring $150/150 for January. I spent $5 more but it was for an oil filter for hubby and he reimbursed me

In_it_not_to_giveitaway

What a difficult month January is. Started January with 16 days without alcohol and kept spending down too.

The last 8 days have been much less successful; morning remedies meant going down to the local cafe for breakfast on occasion which damages the budget considerably.

Off to the early morning scene at Stratford Mr Ms today in order to avoid the cattlemarket later on. Going to get the 3 for £10 chickens, bone them and put all but a couple of legs in the freezer - these I will slow roast as part of a warming chicken broth with vermicelli rice noodles, lemon grass, galangal, kafir lime leaves, tomatoes, spring onions, crushed garlic, fresh coriander and toasted sesame seed oil plus home made pitta bread.

hex2

Bobarella wrote: »

Now if I can learn how to make nice home made bread that would be a bonus. We go through a loaf a day pretty much on toast for breakfast and 3 people having sandwiches for lunch.
Any good simple recipes people recommend? I don't have a bread maker.
Many thanks
bob

Memory girl does 30 minute bread rolls over on her blog that are simple and don't use a bread maker
http://mortgagefreeinthree.com/2014/07/30-minute-rolls/