January Grocery Challenge 2015

gill5blue

Happy New Year everybody,
My first week at this, I put £80.00 per week and spent £73.47 in the past week.
Next week I hope to be better because I wasn't being that careful last week because of Christmas.
Cheers
Gill

pinkpixie274

Happy New Year everyone! New year, new start so here goes! These are my first ever challenges, not too sure what I'm doing but up for trying to save some money Household of 2 adults & a toddler, am aiming for £225 running from 1st-31st Jan. We usually spend around £50 a week so will start with this & see how we go as its a 5 week month. Also gonna go for 15 NSD's. Good luck everyone

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1st day of the new challenge and its a NSD. Back from a night camping in the motorhome and having a lovely New Years Eve with the other campers, complete with a tot of whisky to accompany the haggis (which was piped in as per tradition)


In the past I have made the haggis for New Year, so it was quite nice to just be a bystander. Maybe next year I will be back into it.

moredaisy

Good morning and happy new year everyone:beer:

I'm not really sure if I'm doing this right but am hoping to save this year and de clutter also. I am going to try for £40 a week for my self and my daughter who is 17. My son is here at the moment but back off to uni next week.

good luck everyone x

CAFCGirl

Happy New Year to All,

Popping over to join in from a recommendation - she knows who she is!

£220 budget for 2 adults, 1 child plus £25 allowed for the dog food. He might not need another bag this month, so I put the money into online saver so its set aside for ordering when it gets low.

I'm also attempting a supermarket free January. So butchers, bakery, green grocer, market, local independant, pharmacy and polish and asian markets only :A
Here's hoping I can make it

maria3104

Hi

Just done my first spend in the C))P in our small town, it is the only Sm. There was not one YS. A mystery to me, Anyway. had run out of bread and milk and carrots and onions, so popped in, got ripped off and popped out again. £14.97 lighter. Mr T coming on 3rd I had thought it was tomorrow and was going to wait. If I had driven to a large town with an Alds I would have surely spent £50 and more as I would have had to call into another shop, so really better to just part with £14.97 and try to focus on the bigger picture.
1st spend of 2015 for me.

Snottycat

maria3104 wrote: »

Hi

Just done my first spend in the C))P in our small town, it is the only Sm. There was not one YS. A mystery to me, Anyway. had run out of bread and milk and carrots and onions, so popped in, got ripped off and popped out again. £14.97 lighter. Mr T coming on 3rd I had thought it was tomorrow and was going to wait. If I had driven to a large town with an Alds I would have surely spent £50 and more as I would have had to call into another shop, so really better to just part with £14.97 and try to focus on the bigger picture.
1st spend of 2015 for me.

I use this logic too I live in a village with a corner shop and there are times I use it when I run out of stuff and yes it costs me more but if I drove further afield then I know I would spend double of extras I just don't need!

WantToBeSE

Morning All.
Hoping for another NSD today. I have loads of baking stuff, loads of breadmaking stuff and loads of meat (apart from Chicken).


Attempted to go to Tesco yesterday, but didn't get further than the carpark as it was jammed! So no bargains for me, but that's ok. I have plenty of food and £120 left until 28th Jan.


Having a Dry January, so no spends on alcohol either, saving £7 a week on my usual bottle of red. Trying to not spend anything on mid-week snacks and sweets for myself and the kids either.


I hope everyone had a lovely NYE. I was tucked up in bed my 11pm, reading a good book

bmma

Hello Joedenise -no good at linking but here is where the recipe is -go to first page of the grocery challenge,scroll down to useful os threads,then scroll down to the complete vegetarian collection and it is the second item on the list Happy new year bmma x

redmel1621

Morning. Today was going to be my first grocery spend of the year, however, Aldi is closed!! Haha. I will make a meal plan and shopping list today ready to go tomorrow instead.

The chest freezer is pretty empty so I will need to do a fairly big Farmfoods shop at some point. Although I'm thinking I may empty it and turn it off until I am ready to do that.

Good luck for 2015 everyone