January 2016 Grocery Challenge

x_raphael_xx

£26.99 spent today. Total now £158.84

maria3104

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Will be struggle to control my grocery addiction to end of January.
77 left for 17 days.
Need to keep focused.

Maria

t14cy_t

total spends to date are £99/£200 for this month. everywhere full!!! phew.xx

jayII

Spent £10.18 in Lidl today on mayo, milk, eggs and yogurt. Total so far is £79.40/£400, which I'm very pleased with.

We still have lots of meat and veg in the freezer and plenty of rice and pasta, so I should only need to buy ready meals (our treat after working all week) and fresh fruit tomorrow.

dingdongsaving

Almost 1/2 way through the month if you run start to end! Stay warm!

HornetSaver

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Therefore my running total is £57.14, which I'm hoping won't change.

It did change slightly:

£1 for some frozen green beans
30p for a lemon
35p for chopped tomatoes

Which puts me at £58.79. On the plus side I'm pretty well stocked now. Also the chicken went further than I thought, and I found a delicious BBC recipe for Moroccan style lemon chicken with couscous - tweaked it with parmesan and mushrooms as I had some for the lasagne which didn't happen.

I have plans Friday, Saturday and Sunday (boss buying us lunch, a birthday at an expensive restaurant even after a large discount, and a meal at parent's). I estimate the middle one will put me roughly £15-20 over my usual personal spend allowance, even after putting my underspend from the previous week towards it. :eek:

As my budget week begins on a Friday, I will not know the exact figure until this time next week so will add the damage to my total then. Because of those plans there's no point buying fresh food until Monday unless I run out of milk, so will do my shop for Monday to Thursday whenever that happens. Meal plan not final but want to use mainly stock ingredients given the free-spending weekend, maybe:

Monday - Tuna burgers
Tuesday - Experimental pancakes
Wednesday - Grilled veggies in some sort of homemade sauce with wedges
Thursday - toad in hole with onion gravy - managed to cook to perfection today

Milk aside, all I would need would be pitta (extra pittas make more sense to me than buying a loaf of bread), potatoes, eggs, onions, and potentially something for the sauce - everything else already in stock. Will post more on the pancakes next time, I like to pull out all the stops with some wacky ones for the real day, which means practising early.

lynnejk

Evening everyone
Great to see all the savings and making-does happening :T
Had another NSD today and hoping for another the morrow :j
I made a Shepherd Spy with frozen minced lo lamb and the last of the potatoes and had with frozen peas. There's a portion left for me for the morrow (don't mind eating the same two days running) and another portion went into the freezer.

Hope you all have a frugal Friday
Lx

FoxFace

Morning all!

I totally didn't realise that I didn't update yesterday... NSD and another today

Yesterday eldest son (11) had cooking class at school and they were making chicken curry. He made ours with quorn chicken style pieces instead and we had that for dinner with rice and naan

Friday is normally pizza night, and we have them in... plenty in to pick from for lunch, so I don't think I'll be leaving the house again (although I might walk the dog later or I fear I'll turn into a hermit).

Have a lovely day everyone!

Islandmaid

Another NSD here - too cold to go out

blue_eyes_2

Hi all, weekly trip to Al£I and the grand total is £34.21!

Pleased with this weeks total. Have invested in a meal planner to go on fridge and shopping list beside it.half way through and doing not too bad.