January Grocery Challenge 2015

dreamingofmoney

Hiya all
Declaring at £255/£240so £15 over the target, not very happy and will try harder in feb I promise. Am popping over there now to put my target in.
Take care all
Xxxx

wishus

Declaration time: £103.83 out of my budget of £175.

I'm over the moon! :j:money:

I spent £5.90 this week, instead of the fiver I intended, but hey ho.

I can't believe we've done so well. And what we have eaten has been healthy, varied and yummy!

A few things really helped:

• we bought a big sack of potatoes and one of onions in December for £8, and we're still ploughing through those. some of the spuds are probably good for planting in their own right now... mmm.... idea!
• Waitrose had a half-price sales of stuff just when we really needed to stock up on those things.
• I had a good go at using up leftovers to maximize efficiency: extra mash went into potato cakes and gnocchi. Extra haggis went into pasta sauce (oh my life, that is lush!)
• Not drinking meant I never wanted to buy high-carb snacks from the train station to perk myself up in the mornings.
• I banned OH from shopping with me. Mostly. Once a market trader has caught his attention, he feels bad about not buying from them, and tends to dash round a supermarket seeing things he wants right now, rather than needs or can plan a meal round.

I've been doing this challenge for a few months now, but it's taken this long to properly crack it. I feel like I've learned a very big thing indeed.


Yay us!:T

xx_Jo_xx

:hello:

Hello all, Hope your all ok...

Im sorry, Ive been really busy and haven't been able to keep up with the thread! I do hope youre all doing well...

Ald £18.78


Mr A £3.50
T-away £8.50
Coffee £1.50
Mr A £22.00



£213.43/£300 (£86.57) - NSD 11/31 - Lost track!!


I needed a few things and almost submitted an online shop... I noticed that when doing the online shop, I have become guilty of adding things on since it is being delivered (I live in a top floor flat and hate carrying my shopping home!) When I had added on all the things I wanted and needed, it was almost £90!! :eek:


When I went to Ald!, I actually spent less than £19 on the things I actually needed! I will have to buy some of the other items at a later date obviously, but my hoarding tendencies definitely kick in more, when I am not faced with having to carry it home myself...


Have a good day all!


Jo xx

gill5blue

wishus wrote: »

Declaration time: £103.83 out of my budget of £175.

I'm over the moon! :j:money:

I spent £5.90 this week, instead of the fiver I intended, but hey ho.

I can't believe we've done so well. And what we have eaten has been healthy, varied and yummy!

A few things really helped:

• we bought a big sack of potatoes and one of onions in December for £8, and we're still ploughing through those. some of the spuds are probably good for planting in their own right now... mmm.... idea!
• Waitrose had a half-price sales of stuff just when we really needed to stock up on those things.
• I had a good go at using up leftovers to maximize efficiency: extra mash went into potato cakes and gnocchi. Extra haggis went into pasta sauce (oh my life, that is lush!)
• Not drinking meant I never wanted to buy high-carb snacks from the train station to perk myself up in the mornings.
• I banned OH from shopping with me. Mostly. Once a market trader has caught his attention, he feels bad about not buying from them, and tends to dash round a supermarket seeing things he wants right now, rather than needs or can plan a meal round.

I've been doing this challenge for a few months now, but it's taken this long to properly crack it. I feel like I've learned a very big thing indeed.


Yay us!:T

Well done, I started in January, and it took a few weeks to get in to the swing of things.
I was brought up not to be wasteful, and actually I prefer it, when I was wasteful I did give a little mental telling off!
When I was flush for a few years, I was wasteful, throwing away food, terrible really.
Gill

scotmumof3

wishus wrote: »

Declaration time: £103.83 out of my budget of £175.

I'm over the moon! Extra haggis went into pasta sauce (oh my life, that is lush!)

Well done you :T:T That's really good I am struggling a bit to stay within budget because I have to take DH with me as I don't drive . He is a nightmare with his "we need this, we need that " I get home and we already have it :mad:
Haggis in pasta sauce sounds very interesting. What do you serve it with ??:)

scotmumof3

Need to pop to the sm today. Don't really want to go it's quite snowy here but I need milk. Dinner tonight is a YS pizza I got last week and french fries from the freezer with salad for the guys and mushroom risotto and salad for me. Will update my siggy when I get back

Mrs_Cheshire

Been to A!di with my 2nd voucher, spent £48.82 but most of it is for next week so only counting £4.19 for bread, milk and salmon. Doubt I'll be shopping again as the fridge is full so will declare £254.86/£300

dawn_rose

My final spend tok me £7.00 over my £260 target which all in all 'm quite pleased with.

Islandmaid

Hi all,

Spent £14 in Ald! today, pretty basic stuff, bread, milk etc

I still have a freezer full of meat from my first Waitr@se shop, so even though I will start my Feb GC having 'spent' £45 (split the delivery between 2 months GC), I don,t think I,ll need to buy alot during Feb.

I had a minor tiz at DS2 (16) as he,s been moaning about dinners, now I cook from scratch most days, and if its something he genuinly doesn,t like, then I will sub it with something else, ie we had fish pie, he doesn,t like wet fish, so I gave him a HM shep pie from the freezer, however, he said I don,t cook 'proper' food like his friends have, when I asked him to explain, he said thinks like burger and chips, pizza etc - I will teach him to cook a HM pizza, that should be a compromise, but today he took for lunch, HM soup, HM bread roll with HM butter - why can we never win with kids??

wishus

scotmumof3 wrote: »

Well done you :T:T That's really good I am struggling a bit to stay within budget because I have to take DH with me as I don't drive . He is a nightmare with his "we need this, we need that " I get home and we already have it :mad:
Haggis in pasta sauce sounds very interesting. What do you serve it with ??:)

I made the pasta sauce out of cooked haggis (broken up), onion, garlic, chopped tomatoes, mushrooms and dried oregano. Served with spaghetti and the last bit of my YS Parmesan.