January Grocery Challenge 2015

scotmumof3

My NSD today means I now have £11.17 left per day. I had budgeted £12 per day and each month I am hoping to reduce this by 25p a day as I think slowly and surely will work for me. I am building up my book of budget (but delicious) recipes so onwards and upwards :)
Hope everyone had a good day despite the weather :(and take care everyone as it's set to get much worse

Mrs_Cheshire

Spent £1.63 in Ald* earlier as I needed Icing sugar for DH's birthday cake. I also got some potato wedges as my app refunds the full amount.

BrassicWoman

NSD, yay for packed lunch

Billie-jo

spent £20.24 today in A!di - brought onions but then once home found 2 kg of them in the shed.
Got to take Mum to Te$co tomorrow but hopefully all I will pick up is some watercress (A!di didn't have any in)
We had a lovely beef stew tonight and some left for tomorrow's lunch.

savingpennies

With the menu planned for the week, we did the shopping. First £44.12 at A***i and then £11.30 over the road at S****burys. Mum gave us a big pack of toilet rolls, she'd got from somewhere on 2 for 1. Living on her own she doesn't need that many and hasn't got the room to store them all so gave them us.
Meatballs in a tomato/spinach sauce with pasta tonight. Meatballs had been a ys, i'd picked up and the tomato sauce was using some tomato passata I opened last night for HM pizzas.

eastville1

Spent £28.23 in Ald! and £0.71 on a can of coke in Mr T (just to get me through long day in work!) but should have food for weekend even with hungry teenagers in house

CountingPennies

NewShadow wrote: »

:rotfl:

REALLY glad to see its not just me. I always schedule delivery days when I'm not at work and have recently started getting dressed (rather than my normal housework clothes) - just in case it's 'the cute one'

This has really made me chuckle!!! :rotfl:

Anyway, popped to the shops with SIL today, ended up spending (whoops!). Finally bought guinea pig food at Home B's, a bottle of pepsi and also needed shampoo so spends of £3.44 in there. Then moved on to Mr T's. DH kindly informed me he needed razor blades :mad: (they are so expensive) so ended up spending £20.44 which included razor blades, some tolietries, frylight (so expensive too!) and some other bits and bobs.

So £23.88 to add to total, but all stuff I needed to be fair (apart from the curly whurlys :rotfl: )

Doubt tomorrow will be a NSD but hopefully the weekend will be a NS weekend!

Will update totals.

CP xx

wishus

Got an email from Waitr*se to say laundry products were half price, and I needed washing powder, so happily I managed to go into the shop, buy washing powder - and only washing powder - and pick up the freebie magazines which I will read on the way to work today, save my brain from the Metro.

girlsmum

just gone through my spending this month so far by checking what has come out of the bank it is about £100 (£99.79 to be exact) i am in that post xmas lack of money due to be being paid early its been a long month and i was naughty for not budgeting properly...
so for the rest of this month (pay day 26th) i have £90 which will be for grocery shopping, I have had NSD for 3 days now and i will manage today another one however tomorrow i will need to go out as i have hardly no fresh fruit and veg left, i have milk and bread
I shall be going through my cupboards tonight and writing out what i have, and only shop what is on my list..I have both L*dl and A*di close to me so that is where i shall start and hopefully finish. as i have 3 weekends before payday i aim to spend £30 max each week and don't want to blow it all tomorrow just in case i need to get some extra bits in the week.

dinner tonight shall be a steak and noodle dish i make, i have 1 steak in the freezer that i shall slice thinly it will feed the 3 of us..

zafiro1984

Did braised red cabbage with apples yesterday, Mary Berry Recipe, bought the red cabbage just before Christmas but never got round to cooking it. Going to have it with sausages tonight and freeze the rest. It's surprising how creative I can be when I set my mind to it.

I'm almost out of fresh veg and fruit but I've decided to use what is in the freezers as well as raiding the veg plot, hopefully it will be enough to last until the end of the month.

Does anyone know how to do those 'crispy potatoes' you can buy in the supermarkets, we love them but mine never turn out the same as the ones you can buy.

No more grocery spends, I hope to get through another week before I need anything.