January 2016 Grocery Challenge

jayII

Sorry to hear about your dad FrugalinShropshire. I hope it was a mild one and he is home soon.

I spent another 16.19 yesterday in various stores, bringing my Jan spends so far to £162.16/£400.

Rowan9

Hope your dad is ok and has a makes a good recovery frufalinshropshire. He is in the best place for good care. Glad that your DH is home..
Have been reading along this month. I changed my budget ( just in my mind) to £120 for me and DH which was low. Am over it a bit but it has certainly helped keep spends low. The freezer still has lots in it - a turkey, a turkey crown and a stuffed chicken roast plus lots more so this will hopefully keep me on track in Feb. have taken out HM lentil and veg soup and also YS beef for stir frying for tea.
Nearly there everyone....keep going!

Mrs_Cheshire

Hi all did my top up shop yesterday, spent £12.87 in C*-*p, which included the babies formula milk. Then spent £8.92 in aldee as we had family over yesterday for my niece's birthday so we did a pizza tea and cheesecake for dessert. As it was lunchtime I treated myself to a wrap as I was a bit short of time.
May need to buy a loaf of bread but other than that we should be ok till thursday when my new budget starts.
Jan's budget stands at £329.92/£420 so will definitely be under this month

mummytogirls

Afternoon Diary,

Just popping in to update my spending diary.

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
£8.98 - 10th Jan - Mr T's
£41.19 - 12th Jan - Mr T's (+£37 for DD's party food)
£15 - 15th Jan - Butchers
£5 - 17th Jan - Coop
£44.27 - 18th Jan - Mr A's
£68 - 24th Jan - Mr M's

Total £283.33 I need to spend roughly £10 in Mr T's express on fruit and veg for the week so I will be coming in ever so slightly under budget which I'm pleased with!!

Im going to restart my budget next Sunday (going to try Sunday deliveries and see if this reduces the top up shops). Hope everyone else is doing well xx

mummytogirls

Hope you're dad is ok FS xx

Suffolk_lass

cowboymum wrote: »

Thanks so much! Used your recipe yesterday and made an amazing loaf of bread! Now have some dough in fridge (5 min bread recipe - thanks JayII) and will make some rolls later. I have a 3kg bag of flour on order (£2 from tesco) and more yeast as I've run out.

DH has asked that I don't go out and buy a big sack of flour as I have a habit of starting something and then not continuing!

Am definitely going to go over budget this month but I'm still happy as in previous months I've spent a lot more! I'm going to do some planning on my budget on the February thread - it will involve making own bread amongst other things!:T

I am just making a 1k loaf that is 500g organic white flour and 500g mix of Rye (1 heaped cup), Added wheatgerm and bran (about half a cup) and 5-6 tablespoons of the sourdough starter, and topped up with a mix of wholemeal and white. Then two sachets of quick yeast and a tablespoon and a half of flaked sea salt 600ml of cool water and an egg. I line the tin with olive oil and then dust it with semolina for a nice crust. This is the best mix I do and absolutely brilliant tasting - the rye and sourdough means that it is OK for the next four days for sandwiches and then still OK for toast. If I see DS I cut him off about a quarter but if not we pig on it. I make it this size as the tin produces a loaf the same size as a large sm loaf but there is just no comparison. The method is the same as the basic white loaf but takes around two minutes longer for each of the three cooking stages.

Some might say I have gone a bit mad on the ingredients but I have been experimenting for about 4 years now and this one is the best for us. I would say do NOT go out and buy all these ingredients when you are starting out. I read the Doris Grant book and so I am a complete convert to wheatgerm and if I ever buy a sm loaf, it is always the original Hovis wheatgerm loaf.

Ooh sorry everyone, I appear to have gone off on my pet subject :embarasse

SL

mumblingtaff

I haven't updated here as often as I should but I have kept a record of the spends and after my last shop of the month yesterday I'm at the grand total of £130 out of a £160 budget. I can't see me needing anything else between now and Friday when the new budget starts so hopefully that's me £30 under budget for January
Didn't think I'd do so well and there's plenty in the cupboards and freezer.

JAMIEDODGER

Sainsburys again this morning as I had a £5 off £50 spend voucher. Total now spent to date: £342.72 out of annual budget of £3840, leaving me with £3497.28.

This months spends included a £101.69 meat order which should last for the next few months. Got another £5 till spit today, so will be spending that next week.

So far have also managed 13 NSD's this month:D

Attempt2save

Hope your dad is on the mend FrugalinShropshire ((hugs)).

£140 spent this week including diesel so I'm pleased with that and payday on thurs

dingdongsaving

Hope your dad's recovering FrugalinShropshire. Stress is never an easy addition to frugality in my experience so you're doing well. x

Nsd here. Toying with plans to the end of the month.
1) Have everything we need to get through next Sunday (& some food in for meals at the start of Feb) so could stop here and have current total and only 3 spend days of the 31.
2) Even considering 1), could plan a shop to be delivered next Sat. or Sun. making it 4 spend days in the 31. This would let us use a £12 off voucher that expires on the 31st...we'd still be £40 or £50 under budget for the month...and obviously with a delivery date of 30th/31st the food would mean we're looking at a cracking Feb.
Can I get that organised by the end of the week though...enjoying a lazy-family day today. Decisions decisions....