February 2016 Grocery Challenge

Pixie_Fairydust

Hello

A couple of quick shops from Mr T! £17.49.

Pepperoni wrote: »

Quick question for you all - how many weeks do you food plan for?

I shop Wednesday to Wednesday, so weekly! I find menu planning easier on a week by week basis!

Happy Thursday everyone!

Pix
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Frugal_life

Evening all,

Happy to report a NSD on this side today.

Not expecting tomorrow to be the same as I won't be office based and the temptation to nip into a shop to buy a sandwich or something to snack on will no doubt overpower any willpower I have.

Pepperoni wrote: »

Quick question for you all - how many weeks do you food plan for?

Still quite new to the concept of meal planning, but we plan a week at a time.

Ch1979

Is anyone else a veggie? I Buy the following but need some ideas
Spinach leaves
Tomatoes (normal and sundried)
Mushrooms
Sweet corn
Feta cheese, blue cheese, cheddar
Olives
Bread
Eggs
Peppers
Courgette
Cous Cous
Broccoli
Cauliflower

lynnejk

Welcome to more new peoples :hello:


Great to see you all jumping in and good luck with the challenge

Pepperoni wrote: »

Quick question for you all - how many weeks do you food plan for?

I like planning for the month. I find it easier to shop and buy, especially from the butcher, or if using an MOC from the sms. Lovely thing is, that if you don't fancy what you had planned for the day, you know that you already have the ingredients in for something else from the month.
Lx

lynnejk

Ch1979 wrote: »

Is anyone else a veggie? I Buy the following but need some ideas
Spinach leaves
Tomatoes (normal and sundried)
Mushrooms
Sweet corn
Feta cheese, blue cheese, cheddar
Olives
Bread
Eggs
Peppers
Courgette
Cous Cous
Broccoli
Cauliflower

Do you want ideas of other things to buy or recipes ????
Lx

candygirl

Please put me down for £120 for feb 😀

wannalot

Hi all

Hmmmm. I'm not really sure how my month is going! I did a smallish shop of £13.87 on Monday, nothing extravagant but lots of fruit and veg and meat. I'm on a diet at the moment and trying to eat a bit more meat and fewer carbs. It seems to be working, but meat is so expensive, so I'm jumping on offers when I see them!

Monday's shop was fine, but then I was at a loose end today and decided to pop into Morries. I ended up doing a full weekly shop there and spent £46.47! To be fair, I did get loads of meat and fish, so I shouldn't have to buy any more this month. I got a huge turkey leg (no idea what to do with it!) for £3, a YS rack of lamb, 2 huge YS fish fillets, a large bit of salmon which I have cut into 6 fillets and frozen, turkey steaks, and loads of smoked salmon.

On the bright side, I was given a £5 voucher at checkout so that can be used this month, and I should only really need fruit, veg, milk and bread for the rest of the month. It's just a bit of a worry to have used more than half my budget and not even be into February yet!

I need a hobby to stop me wandering into supermarkets!

I hope everyone else is doing well. :- )

Zed42

Evening all

Well I almost survived January, but realised that at the end, I need to take into account which day I'm actually going to go shopping for the week .... so this month, I've declared today the end of the month.

So, currently February's GC will run from 29/01 to 29/02.

Please put me down for £615 again, although the split is subtly different:

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less on the groceries than budgeted last month, but more than spent ... whilst less on the takeout which is significantly less than spent and more on the eating out budget which is more realistic of last month.

The big aim however is more home cooked meals and less wastage.

so_very_confused

so_very_confused wrote: »

Hi still working on January's budget which is going well. I'm aware that my store cupboard/freezer could be a bit depleted so I am allowing myself an extra £20,
So budget for 1 - 28 February will be £120.00.:)

Hi again
I'm going to change my budget for February to £140.
Not being overindulgent but have had offer of super meat pack that will go in freezer and last through the next few months, so will be able to reduce budget more in March.
Batch cooking here I come!:)
svc

dumpling

Hi there, I finished January's challenge under budget so I would like to join in again this month but cut my spending down to £550 for the month.

I thought I would try a monthly amount instead of weekly to see if I can reduce it down further. This is to include all groceries, take aways, eating out, cleaning supplies and pet food.

I am still very well stocked up so fingers crossed it should be very possible, even though half term means I will have three hungry teenagers foraging for snacks all day.