January Grocery Challenge 2015

Islandmaid

Braved Ald! - OMG it was manic whatbwith the poor staff trying to restock the shelves and most of the population of our town in there....

Anyway, spent £23.23 and that included a pack of soup mugs for work lunches and a pack of permenant markers for my freezer packs.

Quite chuffed with myself as I stuck to my list

joedenise

As I had a £65 underspend last month I decided to go to the Chinese & Indian shops and stock up on big packs of prawns, aromatic duck, razor clams etc; basmati rice plus sauces and spices. Just put everything I wanted into a trolley and was pleased to find that everything I bought came in at just under £65! This hopefully means that I should have another underspend this month which will go into my "bulk buy" pot for later in the year when the freezer needs restocking.

Have had the 1st spend of January's budget of £20.16 split between Mr T, Aldi & Icel*nd.

Will update signature shortly.

Denise

tenstonetwowilldo_2

Hi all, long time lurker but really hoping to get a handle on our grocery spend and meals in general this year.


Have been catering to different whims/preferences and dining times for too long and sepnding a fortune as well as hours on end in the kitchen !


Now aiming to rationalise both the budget and time spent making food that may or may not get eaten..... I am hoping to set my annual budget at £5000 and the calendar monthly break down for that is £416.66. Family of five no pets. Would be great to come in under that but trying to be realistic for now.


Amazing resource and thread and look forward to it assisting me daily stay on track.

gollysmissus

Hi all
Had to do a small emergency shop as dd, hubby and gs are coming for tea. Spent £3.75@ A**i and £5.96@ S*****b**s to go with joint I had in freezer. Have also done menu plan for rest of week so should be able to keep to my budget (fingers crossed).;)

pinkpixie274

First shop of the year complete & only spent £42.04! Very pleased with this as I haven't done a full shop for nearly 2 weeks... Lets hope I can keep it up

Wicked_Lady

First lot of shopping for the year and have spent £9.44 in C**p and £5 in the butchers.
Did include some reduced price smoked haddock fishcakes plus a large gammon steak which we can share later in the week.

CAFCGirl

First shop of the year, and with my new budget, and with withdrawing the money in cash to spend from. It was also my first attempt without using a supermarket.
Veg ok, and sundries ok, but biggest disappointment was the butchers. Still there a couple more for me to try next week.

So I'm £47 spent so far

CherryPie

Planned a NSD for today, but then read all the posts on homemade soup! Only needed carrots so thought I'd bung everything else in the slowcooker, nip to shops, come back and add the carrots.


This took me longer than expected due to my hand having an argument with the food processor. Needless to say the FP won! So I stemmed the bleeding, wrapped it up, drove to my sisters (she's a Nurse, but not one that likes to deal with blood apparently!!) and got it all patched up.


Today is also the day I agreed to help my niece with a mass purge on her housework. So with 3 working hands between us, that's what we did. Then to Mr T for the carrots, and treated myself to an iced coffee as I was feeling sorry for myself. Spend of £1.79.


Only just tackled the soup again, so it's all bubbling away in the SC now. Better be worth it! Just want to add that I hadn't even managed to chop any veg before incident, so there are no "added extras" in the soup!

miss_try_to_save

hi all had a spend of £36 in lid and £32 in sains leaving £212 for the month admittedly I did buy a soup maker in lid which was £30 and in sains I got 3000 points £15 to spend on my next shop as I had 5 £30 spends over xmas and new year app offer finishes soon but well worth the spend I got reduced chicken for £3.73which is cooking now ready for dinner and im having it with mash and veg also got another large chicken for £4.44 and 2 lean stewing steak for £2.79 each lactose free milk and free from cakes for dd2 and in lid I got a 6 pint of milk for 98p dated till 4th and fruit I now have enough milk and bread for all of weekend so besides bacon which I forgot im sorted

millionaire_in_training

£10 on fruit and veg today. Cupboards etc full to bursting so my £250 shouldn't even be a challenge. I bet it is though :rotfl: