January Grocery Challenge 2015

MissOrganised1972

savingpennies wrote: »

I caught OH about to throw a few peppers in the bin because they were a bit wrinkly! So I cut them up and roasted them in the oven whilst the pizzas were cooking. I've added them to a screw top jar, filled the jars with oil and put them in the fridge. They'll be great added to tomato based sauces or for toppings the next time I do pizzas.

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Thinking of you Kiwiblue. Hoping it's good news.

Freezer finally defrosted, with a little help from the hairdryer! The items stuck at the bottom were no good! 4p onion bhajis & 7p Thai chicken wantons were all too soggy & had crumbled up. So, we had to have other freezer leftovers - Piri Piri Pork with rice & veg for DH & spicy beans with wraps & cheese for me. DDs didn't eat because the jet lag meant that they both fell asleep on the settee by 6pm & wouldn't wake for food! Is it wrong to be chuffed with the saving??!:rotfl:

Went out late in evening for remaining big shops. Spent £24.67 on groceries in Aldi (also bought reduced Christmas cards for next year & 2 soup cups for mine & DH's lunches) -I was the only customer in Aldi! Then I went to Tesco and spent £27.09. There were a few things missing that I couldn't get but otherwise, sorted for a good week-10 days

frugalk15

Sorry to be a pain does anyone know how I can add my budget to signature plz I would like 200 for this month thanks x

redmel1621

frugalk15 wrote: »

Sorry to be a pain does anyone know how I can add my budget to signature plz I would like 200 for this month thanks x

Hi along the thin green banner there is an option called user cp. Click that then down the left will be a list of options, edit signature is about halfway down.

Tidy_Up_Tash

Good Morning!

Managed another NSD yesterday. That's 50% of this year now. If we can keep that up then we'll definitely be winning

Today will also be NSD. Eating from the freezer tonight (something and chips, probably, as we've eaten healthy for the last few days, and I didn't get round to meal planning this week). Tomorrow, I get the feeling I will have to top up on a few of the basics. I'll have to spend ten minutes checking supplies later.

Tiffany_Aching

Had to go shopping yesterday for milk, went to all the usual places where there is usually a bargain to be found...Heron, YS sections etc... came home and realised that I had bought everything but milk! I was hoping for a NSD today, but I don't think I have any UHT Milk left in the 'Emergency Cupboard' so it looks like today isn't going to be the NSD I had planned.

Found a bit of a bargain in Sainsburys yesterday. They were selling off packs of their Taste The Difference Mixed Fruit pre-soaked in congnac for 20p each. I bought seven packs for £1.40:o No idea what to do with them yet but they have a couple of months before sell by date and Im sure I can find a use for them

Rest of the shopping was some YS bargains in Morries, a sweep on the Aldi super 6 salads, and in Heron they had an offer of £1 for two packs of Jus Rol Apple Danish kits (Mr. T sell these for £2 EACH!:eek:)

Total spend yesterday - £24.19 Five pound of that was a voucher so I will count that as money spent and chuck a fiver at the debts

Caterina

Good morning,

Kiwiblue thinking of you x

Hoping for a NSD today so even if feeling a bit wobbly due to yesterday op (under general but thankfully all ok, day case), I got up and made DH's packed lunch. If I hadn't he would have spent a fiver on the same thing, felafel salad.

As it happens the whole lunch cost me max. £2 including the salad veg, one orange, one banana and 2 slices buttered bread, and a few Brazil nuts (as a snack to deter him from buying a kitkat! ). This is one of the more expensive lunches because of bought felafel at £1.99 (makes 2 lunches), together with tuna salads or smoked salmon sandwich (rare).

They are compensated by the thermos soup lunches, the cream cheese sandwiches and the leftovers lunches, all works out at the end of the day.

When I think that my aim is for £10 per day for 3 adults and a cat (plus £60 of specials, diet stuff and bulk buys), I am awed by people like Thrifty Lesley (http://www.thriftylesley.com) who does it with £1 per day, and the £20 per week for 4 challenge. Impressive.

My £10 spend per day is a massive improvement on the past, when I would easily spend double! Baby steps. I can go much lower and it would to me good for my waistline to eat less, but DH and DS need a lot of food, they are both very thin with fast metabolisms, good for some! DS needs plenty of fuel as he goes for 4 long paper rounds every day and no matter how much he eats he cannot put weight on. DH does 2 long martial arts sessions and an outdoor bootcamp a week and really need his fuel, too.

girlsmum

Morning all I started my own thread, but moved it here

I am new to this board and i decided to post as i am terrible and over shop for food, then eat the same old stuff...

I want to see how long i can manage to feed myself and my 2 teenage daughters without going to the shops (exception will perishable things like milk/cheese/bread, although i have the ingredients to make bread and a breadmaker lol plus bread in the freezer - see i am shocking

Anyway i had a look in my cupboards and freezer i have odds and sods in there. this morning i took out 2 small leg/thigh joints and 1 breast of chicken. I have potato's, Pasta and rice

so i am thinking tonight will be a chicken and pea risotto... , I am trying to loose weigh too so it is making this challenge even more complicated. I will just have to have a teeny amount of the Parmesan on mine

My freezer is full of odds and sods i have some Tuna steaks, 1 slice of beef steak, some Quorn sausages, that is just what i saw at a glance this morning. its a large chest freezer in my garage and i want to see the bottom of it (it needs defrosting anyway)...

So i am counting on you all to give me tips and keep me ou tthe supermarket


XX

Solstice_3

Caterina wrote: »

Good morning,

Kiwiblue thinking of you x

Hoping for a NSD today so even if feeling a bit wobbly due to yesterday op (under general but thankfully all ok, day case), I got up and made DH's packed lunch. If I hadn't he would have spent a fiver on the same thing, felafel salad.

As it happens the whole lunch cost me max. £2 including the salad veg, one orange, one banana and 2 slices buttered bread, and a few Brazil nuts (as a snack to deter him from buying a kitkat! ). This is one of the more expensive lunches because of bought felafel at £1.99 (makes 2 lunches), together with tuna salads or smoked salmon sandwich (rare).

They are compensated by the thermos soup lunches, the cream cheese sandwiches and the leftovers lunches, all works out at the end of the day.

When I think that my aim is for £10 per day for 3 adults and a cat (plus £60 of specials, diet stuff and bulk buys), I am awed by people like Thrifty Lesley (http://www.thriftylesley.com) who does it with £1 per day, and the £20 per week for 4 challenge. Impressive.

My £10 spend per day is a massive improvement on the past, when I would easily spend double! Baby steps. I can go much lower and it would to me good for my waistline to eat less, but DH and DS need a lot of food, they are both very thin with fast metabolisms, good for some! DS needs plenty of fuel as he goes for 4 long paper rounds every day and no matter how much he eats he cannot put weight on. DH does 2 long martial arts sessions and an outdoor bootcamp a week and really need his fuel, too.

Great post Caterina, am now busy looking through the website you linked and have already found a bunch of useful recipes ^_^ I hope you are feeling better after your op.

I hope your scan goes well Kiwiblue.

I think I'm going to try for an NSD today, just realised I have £70 left to last me until 23rd Jan and roughly £7 of that will be on DD's soya milk and another £3 or £6 will be spent on wet wipes! Plus the joint of meat on Saturday (ordered) leaves me £40 :eek:

Yesterdays spend was £4 something, will update signature later

timetrade

Spent £3.75 on the way home yesterday, on milk, yogurt and grapes. Unfortunately, my partner ate the whole tub of yogurt and punnet of grapes before the evening was through, so I'm going to have to get more today Really wanted another no spend day.

So, today I'll get 2 tubs of basics plain yogurt, a pack of 6 muller light (half price at the moment - I would downshift brands, but my partner isn't keen on anything else), and some fruit (grapes, apples and bananas)

Total for the month currently £44.95/£200

bestill

Eeek, spent quite a bit already! Don't quite know how, have stuck (almost) to shopping list and kept to menu plan. However I do have everything for this week and most of next week.
However, I've just said I'll do a buffet for MIL'a birthday next weekend so I'm off to plan a budget buffet for 10 that can all be prepared the day before as it will be at lunchtime Sunday, just after church, so won't have morning to cook.