January 2016 Grocery Challenge

sammiell

I'm not doing to bad
nothing spent yesterday
£2 the day before
dog food the day before £72. ish
today i need milk
I've batch cooked bolognaise and chicken casserole three lots of each and used up a lot of bits and bobs in the fridge So far £74 from £400

Suffolk_lass

Just shopped for the first time this year and added some stock items that were on offer. I have split up and portioned the chicken thighs so that we don't pig out (another story), freezing the surplus and have defrosted one of my homemade turkey and sweetcorn pies ready for tonight's easy meal. Just bread to bake now, and a bit of repeat vacuuming to get the rest of those pesky Christmas tree needles out of the carpet, and then my chores are done for the weekend.

I might get my sewing machine out and make a couple of hot water bottle covers from the old cashmere cardigan with a massive hole in the elbow, now it is clean and a bit felted (deliberately washed one setting too warm so it will not unravel and fray when I cut it).

I spent a total of £55 but have plenty of food and store cupboard ingredients for the next week and a half, with the exception of dairy items I shall need.

You all sound very focussed, keep it up everyone - well done and keep the faith. My spend used to be 3 times bigger than it is now - the methods on here really do work
SL

mummytogirls

Afternoon Diary,

Just updating my spends from today:

Spent
£80 - 5th Jan - Mr T (£79.75 + 25p OP to CC)
£7 - 6th Jan - Mr A
£9.40 - 9th Jan - local butchers
£4.49 - 9th Jan - Mr T's

Budgeted for next 3 weeks
£60 - 12th Jan - Mr T or Mr A (incl DD2s birthday party food)
£45 - 19th Jan - Mr T or Mr A
£50 - 26th Jan - Mr T or Mr A
£35.60 - butchers and farmshop as and when
£8.50 - top up shops

Mr T's didn't have everything I needed today so will try another one near DD's swimming tomorrow.

Everyone seems to focussed, lets keep it up! xx

Islandmaid

NSD today . Not hard it's cold and tipping down, and I,m cozy in front of the woodburner LOL

Savvy_sewing

Over spent this week. I have a friend coming over tonight, and just found out they are eating with me, so on the way home from work I succumbed to a meal deal from MR T. So I spent £10, unplanned.
And I think I only had about £2.44 of the proposed budget for this week left. So next weeks budget will be reduced if at all possible. Although I do have a £15 entertainment budget I can use if needed.

lynnejk

XSpender wrote: »

..... I am tempted to buy DH some SW ready meals as he likes them and he is a bit bored with my limited repertoire. Each box comes with the recipe to make it yourself so I can recreate it. This will take a chunk out of budget though.

Maybe you could buy a different one each week but keep the recipe and note the ingredients on the back of it. That way you would build up a repertoire of those meals and be able to recreate them, and maybe be able to tweak them to include different ingredients for a change

Having another NSD here today but will have to get weekly F & V, milk and pack-up stuff the morrow.

I've pulled a pack of smoked salmon off-cuts (£1.99 Morrys) out of the freezer together with 1/2 tub of YS cheese sauce. I have a jar of artichoke hearts in stock and will make a kind of cheesy/wine sauce, chop up the salmon and artichokes and add some lemon and dill and have over tagliatelli with a sprinkle of parmesan.

Hope you all having a lovely weekend and staying warm and dry
Lx

mrs_motivated

Hi folks, just done the big shop today which has taken my total spend to date to £201/£350....but only 2more Saturdays left is this month so I'm sure we will manage on £75 per week.

jacci45

Just made my first order with Muscle food, a huge amount of meat for £55.00, so now on total of £115.96/£225.00.

jacci45

Iceland online shop £36.25 so now on £152.21/£225 and really will not have to buy much now before the end of my month (payday!) on 22/1.

maria3104

Hi

Just had an emergency whizz round corner shop pre church. £5 on bacon and bread, Managed to resist Anything other than that on my list.
Menu planned for last week worked.

I am so glad I have made one expedition without impulse shopping groceries.

Menu plan to do now for next few days.
Sewin
Fish pie with left overs
beef stew
meat balls with pasta
potato tray bake
Lunch at work tins of soup in office ready. Just need bread!

All from freezer and stores.
Wonder how this will work?

Maria