January Grocery Challenge 2015

Cheap_Date

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=751618#post751618

Thanks bmma! I'm going to have a go at the barley risotto too Joedenise. I have a load of pearl barley in the cupboard...

Happy New Year all xx

bmma

yesterday made home made soup, home made bread and the shepherdess pie so off to heat some soup up and a slice of bread for lunch x

GettingOrganised

Back to sign up for January, I'm going to aim for £220.

I now have almost a year's worth of GC history, so I'm going to try to spend the same or less than last year - I picked this idea up from someone on here and think it would be a great additional challenge.

Roundthebend_2

Hoping to get out to the shop to get some essentials today (if it's open) so I did a stock check of my freezer. Should be okay for food for a while!

3 packs of chicken thighs (each pack is good for 2 meals for us)
2 packs of mince (each pack is worth at least 2 meals for us)
Small back of chicken breasts
2 small packs of pork belly slices (husband won't eat these so these will make a meal for me and the kids)
A whole dinosaur/Turkey leg (bought before Xmas in a lapse of judgement!) will make at least 2 meals
Medium whole chicken - 2 meals, 3 if I make soup out of the bones
Pack of frozen fish (enough to make a decent fish pie)
Pack of 10 sausages
Small pack of sausage meat
2 Turkey and ham pies (might stretch to 2 meals each)
Sliced roast pork (not sure if I froze this in time so I mgiht have to chuck it...)
2 loaves of bread
Pack of 12 bread rolls
2 packs of ready rolled shortcrust pastry
Pack of ready rolled puff pastry

So that's at least 20 meals!

Not buying any meat in January (unless it is yellow snickered and a massive bargain so will go away for Feb) and will make it all last. Certainly don't need any junk food for a few months anyway!

Happy new year all! (It's also my birthday so hopefully off to ride my friends horse in a bit too )

scotmumof3

Happy New Year Everyone !!
NSD for me today. Leftover soup and a HM loaf for lunch and then DS1s birthday choice (pizza etc) for dinner tonight.
Pretty sure I have enough food in for at least 4 days except for milk and bread so I am hoping not to have to go to the shop for a couple of days

scotmumof3

roundthebend Happy Birthday !!! Hope it's a good day for you.

juliejim

Can I join in please with a monthly budget of £450 and then hopefully I will get it down?

I have spent £31.75 today at Mr As which included a birthday cake for my DD which was £16 (it should have been £10 but she wanted one with her photo on and when we ordered it they hadn't got any of the small cakes left so we had to have a large one!)

Roundthebend_2

Thanks scotmum!

Just been to c* op, it's more expensive, but to get to a cheaper shop is a 15 minute drive so not worth the savings unless we need a bigger shop.



Also gave hubby £10 for any food bits he needs when he goes back to work, (told him his hair cut is to come out of that too )

So that's a total spend of £23.06

(I took £70 out in cash, have £53.50 in my grocery pot though as had some left over from December. I'm going to make this £70 last 2 weeks instead of 1, and if I have anything left after the 2 weeks it will go into my sealed pot.

Money, money everywhere

timetrade

I'd like to join in with this challenge - I realised yesterday that we spent more than £450 in December for 2 people (and one cat), which is ridiculous. I think the problem was that I didn't keep track as I went, and I would go and pick up something ever day after work.

My budget for January is £200. We're running 2 freezers at the moment due to a new kitchen, so I should have plenty of meat to use up and can keep track of what I'm spending.

I'm also aiming for 18 no spend days this month - and I didn't buy anything today, which is a good start.

£0/£200 1/1 NSD

miss_try_to_save

happy new year everyone im declaring my 3rd nsd of jan as no shops open near me and im to tired from Nye anyway to even go out lol must admit my plan of a roast went out window when I forgot to get the joint of beef out freezer so no idea what to cook may have a look at recipe list or one of the many cook books I have and never seem to use anymore may have something simple like ham eggs and chips