2016 Frugal Living Challenge

mumtoomany

Big shopping day of the month today. I have both chest freezers full from the reductions in Aldi and Lidl on Christmas eve and New Years eve. So not much food needed. Spent a total of £48.18, £4.99 of this was on soap liquid for the washers and toothpaste. Asda delivery due tonight too.
I have an Asda order once a month, the price promise more than pays for delivery. They deliver from 40 miles away for £1!
The shop in town today was from Home Bargains, Aldi, Tesco and our local veg shop.
I'm not in town too often, so I try to do more than one shop when we go in.
The veg shop had the best Bargains today. £6 for kindling and fire lighters. £15.50 bought the following:
Bag of sweets
Sack of potatoes
Sack of carrots
23 nectarines
19 large oranges
19 pears
6 punnets of strawberries
and 4 large bags of grapes.
Have had to throw away a couple of the strawberries and one pear, so a good buy.
Also paid our half of the council tax and OH had £10, well it is his Birthday!
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Savvy_sewing

I spent £7.24 in Tesco when I went in this evening as I succumbed to a bottle of wine along with the bread, children's drinks ( DGD going to Brownies even and has to take named drink - that they throw away), and salad for the lunches. But I have a £15 entertainment budget, so the wine is coming out of that one and not the food one!

Did pick up some yellow sticker custard slices for 12p for 2 though!!
So we can have pudding tonight.

lcc86

Checked my energy tariff and can save £100 approx. once my current tariff ends at the end of March. Why didn't I check this last time the tariff ended!!!

I also made good use of a free gym pass too this week.

BettyBoof

Bah! I have failed at my no spend day already today. I did a small food shop as we needed fruit and it couldn't wait until tomorrow - my children are fruit bats and I just started Slimming World so satsumas are my lifeline!

I am determined to introduce at least one NSD per week. How do you guys do it? Do you pick a set day each week or just decide the night before when you know you won't have much on financially speaking?

his_missus

Been really organised this week. Shopping list already written and I've added next to each item the price at Asda. Going to go to Aldi first and see which items are cheaper there, hoping to save a few bob.

FunBrum

Another NSD!
Got 200 free BOOTS points today. Ordered a new card as mine wasn't working. I also have two receipts to validate!:D

It's (free) salad for lunch today and I've taken a serving of Turkey soup and a bread roll out of the freezer for tea. It was yummy when I had some the other day, so will be lovely as its so cold outside!:j

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Afternoon all

I have been naughty, and we have had a few chip shop takeaways..but back on track now, I think it's the fact I was food blind lol.. Looking at the same food over the holidays. And my mind was just going blank!!

Back on track now..

Looking at the meat I have in the chest freezer I could easily go at least 6-9 months without buying any.. Its mainly pork...

On Fb they have a page where people try and feed the family for £20..

I must admit I struggled last year some weeks at trying to keep to £5 a day..but going to have another go this year..

claire1a

Mooloo wrote: »

But I need to do something with my sky package. Research required as no tv aerial and virgin media don't do this area.

Sorry if someone else has suggested this but i'm still working my way through the post! What about free sat???? When I moved into my new house there was a satellite dish attached so picked up a free sat box and just plugged it in! Very similar to freeview! You can also pick up freesat recorders but these obviously cost a bit more.

Wombatchops

his_missus wrote: »

Been really organised this week. Shopping list already written and I've added next to each item the price at Asda. Going to go to Aldi first and see which items are cheaper there, hoping to save a few bob.

I thought I was crazy doing that, so I'm glad there's someone else who does it. I feel vindicated that it is a reasonable thing to do.

his_missus

Wombatchops, I don't know why I've never thought of doing it before! I already know I'd spend £6 on 2 bags of coffee at Asda (Hubby doesn't like Asda's own only Taylors) yet I can buy Aldi's coffee (which he does like) for £1.69 a bag. No longer, will I lazily shop only shop at one supermarket when Aldi is on the way to Asda.