January Grocery Challenge 2015

miss_try_to_save

£280/£330 left for the month on my grocery challenge I spent £9 today in sains on bits so should last next day or so couldn't resist a profiterole gateaux for £3 yum

FlacosFloozie

Hi there,
I found this challenge a great help when I first joined the site. The last few months I've lost focus and the grocery spend has slowly crept up so can I sign up for £280 in January please?

gollysmissus

Just done last shop of year £21.34 - bread and milk for the freezer, potatoes and few bits but haven't kept a note this month but needed to get back into the habit of keeping track.
I know its not grocery but got a great bargain at S******b***ys Cover for my tablet (bought in the sales) reduced from £14.50 to £ 9.99 but till said £19.99 so manager called and it had been priced wrong but he let me have it for £9.99 anyway and I used £7.50 nectar points so got it for £2.49 bargain!!!!!!!!!!

Back in 2015
Happy New Year to u all

bellevie

Semi impulse shop today, well had planned to get a few bits for tonight but saw other things that made me 'oooh' that I didn't pick up over the weekend so spent more than intended, £13 in Mr T and £7 in £land.

bmma

my jan GC challenge starts on the 5th-today was given a gift of 2 bags of organic green lentils from my friend- so that is a good start - I tried the barley risotto from the recipe section- it is very good and very filling- did not have sweet potatoes so just used the ordinary white- will be trying more lentil and bean recipes instead of buying faux meat substitutes-Viola cheese is a good vegan cheese as is Vegusto grated for Pizza or anything else x:beer:

scotmumof3

First spend of January for me. £27.57 in Tesc* which included a birthday cake and nibbles for tomorrow.:) £18.92 in Sainsbobs on pizzas dips and a few YS items. Total spend for today was £46.49. I reckon I can get 5 days worth out of this and as I'm budgeting £12 per day so it's not bad

TryingReallyHard

I would like to join please, as of tomorrow. I'm feeding myself, a 3year old and a housemate for dinner(although this isn't part of the rent arrangement!)

Fully stocked freezers and dry stores so only need fresh bits (although I have enough cheese for 2months!) therefore am breaking myself in gently with an £80Budget

sillyinthepast

My budget doesn't start until tomorrow but I went to Mr T tonight to get milk and I got lots of bargains. Bags of potatoes were 5p a bag - I got 6, I have taken them out of the plastic packaging and have put them in a potato sack I made out if hessian. Bananas were 1p,a bunch so I got 8 bunches. They are a bit bruised but I have put them in portions in the freezer for muffins, strawberries 3p, grapes 10p, posh sausages 45p. This is really going to help me keep costs fown for January.

Islandmaid

Well as promised I withdrew £150 today, this should last me 2 weeks, but I will drag it out as long as possible.

I bought 6 x 600ml double cream for 30p ea - now its 12 x oacks of butter and 3 x buttermilk in freezer

2 x aparagus @ 30p each - now in belly in the form of risott

Then went to bookers for a big spend - 2 x HUGE premium washing powders for £20 (for both) - 2kg decent mince £7 ( now 4 x freezer packs) 12 x kitchen rolls and 48 x loo rolls all for £36 - this will last us ages now.

So now I have £109.99 for 2 weeks - feeling confident at the moment

Bobarella

Wow Sillyinthepast that's an incredible haul. Amazing luck. I wish we had Mr T's in London but we don't.