February 2015 Grocery Challenge

debbym

Big shop today but bought some things on offer from Mr T
Persil iquid 1litre only £8 ; £1 more than half size bottle...
whiskas pouches - pack of 40 for £8 . Looking back at last years price book this is a returning offer from last august so might be back again in six months time; will have to remember to keep a eye out when stocks run low again. In the meantime B and M do 2 x 12 packs for £5 which works out only 1p per sachet more

Just finished watching this weeks Eat Well for Less. £355 per week and 17 trips to the supermarket during a single week???!!! Hands up who engaged smug mode and thought "I'm not that bad":wave:

bellevie

Last Sunday's grocery shop was £21.63 at aldi, plus I spent £10.73 in the week at Wilkinson's on household/laundry which will last the month or more.
Todays order which I am due to collect from Tesco's came to £29.14 - included bag of salmon for the freezer and 6 litres of UHT milk both of which will last a month. Total spend for the month so far £61.50. Shouldn't need to pick up anything else this week so just about on track for 2 weeks!

toddles*

it will be a NSD today, spent all morning with budgets, banking and coffee. I have been very slack the last few months time to get my tush into gear.. I have £50 a week to spend on groceries so a little over £200 a month for 4 of us. I know it can be easily done with some good planning.. looking forward to planning my next few weeks shopping and menus.

NewShadow

Totting up my actual vs projected spends so far this month.

Tesco came in at 50.91
Lidl two trips for fresh fruit at 14.86 and 12.70
I had a graze box at 3.99 (I've started getting one a month)
No eggs this week
Breakfast on friday came in at 1.42 for scrambled eggs, plum tomatoes, and a flat mushroom.

£83.88 for Feb so far.

Projecting less than £20 on breakfast and fruit for the rest of the month. Aiming for no spends until friday.

miss_try_to_save

hi all a spend of £18 yesterday but hoping today will be a nsd as having curry tonight and have all ingredients oh cooking so making his own Bombay potatoes and attempting onion Bhaji s fingers crossed will be ok

jp1964

Hi all,

T*sco shopping arriving in an hour or so, went a bit over my planned £60 limit, it came to £79 instead, thanks to an offer on my favourite wine(!!) but still nicely within my new weekly budget of £150, the week's total came to £146, I have updated my signature, and tomorrow will be a NSD.

New week starting on Monday, the challenge for me will be to make next week's spend even less than this week's!

snowfox

£49.55 for the weekly food shop, and that included stocking up on some half price staples (pasta, olive oil, tins..) This means I should come in on budget this month, as it leaves me with just over £100 for the second half of February

Wooftastic

Hi everyone! Just calling in with my first weekly shop of February which cost a whopping £76.89!!! Over my £55 a week budget but it did include a couple of treats and a tray of eggs and 3 packs of sausages from a local farm which will last through the next few weeks.

lushlifesaver

Well the month is going pretty well so far, well better than the past few anyway! That said we might be about to face a change in circumstances which means our money has to go a whole lot further so I'm facing the prospect of trying to pull in the belt as much as possible in March.

We have a musclefoods order coming on Monday; 5kg chicken breasts and 2kg extra lean mince (they did a 24hr flash sale of extra lean mince at 99p per 400g pack and we usually buy our chicken in bulk from them or Makro)

My plan is to see February's budget out to pay day (Wed 25th) and then rather than set a budget for March I will see how much I spend just buying our essentials and will shop fortnightly with no shops in between!

BrassicWoman

2 x NSD as visiting with folks (and eats on train come from a different budget). Bored, (good heavens how much longer is this rugby on for??) but thrifty.