January Grocery Challenge 2015

Caterina

Timetrade why not make your own yogurt, there are a lot of links on this forum on how to do it, easy and healthy, and incredibly cheap. And you can control what goes in it, instead of being tied to the sugary and starchy filling with artificial flavours etc!

redmel1621

Back from shopping and spent £17 in S*insburys, £22.34 in F*rmfoods and £55.19 in A*di which is a total of £95.03 spent today.

so that takes my total for the month up to £165.84 which seems quite high seeing as we are only on 7th:huh: I need to go through my meal plan and see what else is left to buy. I am hoping I have bought most of what I need for main meals:cool:


*Just looked through and added up before posting and I think I will be spending around £120 for the rest of the month although that doesn't include the 2 takeaways I have allowed, and I want those to come out the grocery budget

Mel x

First_Trouble

Spent £8 and something pence in Mr T on Monday (don't have the receipt in front of me have rounded it up to £9 for sig) on 3 packs (YS) finest carrots 24p each, 2 packs (YS) celery sticks 15p each, coffee, olive oil, veg medley pack & cornflour.

Will use the celery to make cream of celery soup for the freezer and carrots for veg and snacks.

Also spent £1.40 on market yesterday on half kilo of mushrooms.
Sig updated. Hoping for an NSD today as will need a few bits tomorrow or Friday if I can put it off until then.

Mrs-s_4

spent £20.43 at ald* last night, on apples, bananas, strawberries, grapes, blueberries, lunchbox biscuits and drinks, sandwich meat, yoghurts, wholegrain micro rice, baby wipes, crumpets, cherry tomatoes, cottage cheese and Jaffa cakes.
doing quite well in this challenge so far I think! normally given up by now.

miss_try_to_save

hi all good luck kiwi blue hope all goes ok for you I would like to post a nsd for me today that's 4 for Jan so far im having piri piri chicken tonight and my shopping day is tomorrow however it will be minimum amount as I have most of stuff needed for week lidl are doing some gluten free stuff this week so will stock dd2 up with lunch box stuff as shes back to college now I intend to only spend about £20 this will include cat litter and cat food dd2 s stuff and fruit bread and milk unless its a bargain I would be silly to pass up on I will not buy any more freezer stuff this week as my freezer is stupidly jammed packed

First_Trouble

To update I also found 21p on the floor think some people call this roadkill or womble? Also DH has been given a £10 sainsbugs voucher from his work valid until april 2017 so have put it aside for a rainy day.

Soworried

A spend of just under £35, I now only have £50 to last until the 23rd. We should be able to do it though as I have in everything that I can think of that we'll need. It will just be a case of replenishing the fruit, veg and milk etc.
I might need help with meal ideas as it gets to last few days though:o

meg72

kiwiblue wrote: »

NSD yesterday, 6th of the month, but have to go into the city today, so will probably pop into the restaurant supply store and see what they have reduced.


Am having an MRI scan to see if the chemo is working, so fingers crossed.

Thinking of you hugs.

icontinuetodream

Just a quick one - don't know if anyone else loves the whole 'olives, breads, oils and vinegars' thing but just in case.....I used to buy lemon oil from m&s at quite a hefty price - I recently decided to chop up some unwaxed lemons and put them in a jar with extra virgin olive oil; opened it last night to have a try and it is fabulous!!

It costs a fraction of the price to do, is wonderful drizzled over salmon or any type of oily fish and good for gifts too!! :T

LESLAMP

Am hoping for another NSD today which will make 5 this year but that all depends on whether my son went and bought the milk and bread he needs or if I've got to go pick some up later. Had a small spend sunday of dog food, sandwich bags and managed to get some YS roast potatoes in goose fat for 49p and 2 x 4 deli sausage rolls for 41p per pack. Total spend this month £55.32/£310. We do need some fruit but am trying to hold out for a few extra days as have no car till Saturday and its a fair way to walk when its cold and dark and the shopping is heavy.