February 2016 Grocery Challenge

lynnejk

Evening all


Managed another NSD today.


This week's 'new to us' dinner was salmon fillets with lentil dahl. I did the salmon in the micro as usual, with white wine, lemon and dill and the dahl in a pan. DH thought it made a nice change but I wasn't impressed with the dahl - oh well, at least DH was happy


Need yoghurt the morrow but think rest can wait until Saturday so DH can carry :rotfl:


Hope you all have a super Friday
Lx

t14cy_t

spends of £1.46 yesterday, used coupons and vouchers to get my two bags of goodies!!!

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FurryBeastOz wrote: »

Jackie O I bow down in awe at your yield. Both in terms of the will-power for NSD's and the way you seem to make a penny squeak.

:rotfl::rotfl:Blimey Thanks my kids used to say Mum can make a tanner squeak and yell for mercy :):)
My late Mum was brilliant at it, and she is the person whom I learned my frugal ways from:)

I just like to get the best value for money that I can .I tend to think of housekeeping almost like a business and my budgets are treated the same way.

But if I saw something I really wanted or was going to buy for one of my family then I would splash the cash, but I just hate waste of any kind, whether its time or money. To me, wandering aimlessly around a shop or supermarket is not only a waste of potential money , but time as well. I am a great multi-tasker and very organised

I go through my accounts at the end of every month and they come out to the penny as I keep receipts in a box so I can do a tally with the accounts.

Perhaps if the country was run like this there would be more cash available for other things. men don't seem to have don't a great job so far of the country's housekeeping.

I also like to pick up recipes and tips from here for different things .At the moment I am toying with the idea of buying a big 1kg drum of vegetable bouillon powder from Amazon I do make and eat a fair amount of soup and from other posts it seems to be good value to buy a large box rather that buying those small cubes .but I shall ponder over it awhile as spring is on the horizon and its possible they will reduce in price once the warmer weather gets here, and I will check to see if they have come down in price because of that then who knows I may buy one for next winters soups.Just a bit of forward thinking that may save a few more pennies for the pot :)

Suffolk_lass

JackieO - It is good to see you back posting on this thread of Old Style. I learned lots from you when I joined over four years ago. My housekeeping was consistently around £700 per month then and is less than £250 normally now. There is lots of wisdom on here and it remains a good educational feed of ideas and insights.

It really sounds as though it's going well for everyone. I shall go for just bowl fruit, green veg and milk this week and use up my fridge and break out some of my meat from the freezer. I have given up desserts and chocolate now until April (except for 3 special occasions - my birthday, Mothers Day and Easter Sunday - well rude not to if someone treats you!). I might sign up to the British Heart Foundation no chocolate thing for March to keep my will-power going!

Keep going everyone
SL

lollyfin

I am amazed . I've done my weeks shop and using vouchers I got in, planning around food I already have and sticking completely to my list my shopping today came to £7.16!!!!
I was £2.94 in lidl, 72p in tesco and £3.50 at the farm shop. I forgot to update last weeks farm shop which was £11.50 so I now have £154.28 to do me the rest of the month

DuranGirl

£15.81 in Aldeee for top ups over the last few days (and a very naughty, lazy lunch in the works canteen for £4!). £160.52 spent so far this month.

candygirl

Spent £21 in ALDI yesterday, which should last me till mid week. Got super 6 leeks , so will be making leek n potato soup

mrs-moneypenny

Spent £17.23 during the week do need to update my sig total.

Effyb4

NSD yesterday. I spent £7.58 today. I'm still pretty on target for this month.

XSpender

Mr S delivery last night to cover the next 2 weeks. There were a couple of frozen items (e.g. leeks, cabbage) I need for the meal plan Sains don't do so I will pop to Mr T to get these tomorrow. I think we will also need sausages. We certainly don't need peas as I messed up the order and now have 4 kilos!!!!!:eek:

Total now £226.80 leaving £58.20 for top ups although DH picked up a YS loaf last night so I have 2 loaves and 10 rolls so will try and squeeze some more into the freezer. Also have 12 pints of milk and apples and oranges for the 2 weeks. DH now has a tenner of nectar points, I won 1000 points and have £1 voucher for Mr S so that will help with spends in March.

DH has scoffed the chorizo that was in the fridge so I will need to replace that to stick to the meal plan. I think I will cut in half and freeze as this is the second one he has eaten before I have cooked the paella!

I was really pleased when I worked out tonight that due to our holiday there only 3 shopping weekends in March so I may try and get away with 1 delivery as we will do a food shop when we get to Somerset for our holiday food.