January 2017 Grocery Challenge. NEW BEGINNINGS!

FurryBeastOz

£54.81 to date. Been using up lots of odds and ends. We indulged in a takeaway yesterday to cheer ourselves up - DH car is terminal. But we didn't have any last month and we have a budget for indulgences. The cinema today is the same. But that will pretty much wipe out last month and this month.

Suffolk_lass

Returned from shopping and I succumbed to a pork joint in the butcher's and seem to have bought two loaves of bread (a french stick in the butcher's and then another in the sm) - brain dead or what! I also sneaked a massive piece of french brie into the freezer - it was £7 reduced to £2.35 and will stay there until Easter walking holiday with ten chums.

Spent 19% of January's budget so far so not all bad.

SL

WantToBeSE

Tealmummy wrote: »

so this week i have spent £9.00 in aldi and thats it!!
im so proud of myself- i have usually been spending £40 a week to get an asda delivery and running out of various things or treating us to a takeaway so was easily spenidng over 50 quid a week.

have meal planned for next week so will be nipping to aldi tomorrow- according to mysupemarket my shop will come to £14.39.

so over 2 weeks i will have saved £56!!!!!

following week will be slightly more expensive as i will need to buy dog food- any tips on where is cheaper but nice quality?

Well done, that is great!
Re the dog food, it may be worth asking over on the pets section, here http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=143

pavlovs_dog

WantToBeSE wrote: »

Does anyone know how to make bags of salad last longer? i find it all goes mushy and 'bad' after 3 days.

a piece of kitchen roll in the bag to absorb excess moisture can help buy an extra day or two

Wysiwyg49

Florence_J wrote: »

...Something you don't need is a waste no matter how cheap it is.

How true - now I am sooo pleased I put back the electric steamer in Ald1 really felt I had saved the £17.99 by not buying it!! (I know this is not very logical.)

Spent £20.02 in there mostly on pasta, fruit, veg and frozen stuff. Then £3.60 on 2 large gammon steaks from butcher. Need to do a meal plan before heading to Sainsbobs for the rest.

This may be a dumb question. How do I find my posts on a thread? Sometimes I lose track of whether I've added a receipt to my signature so looking at previous posts would be useful.

greent

Quick update - both Ald1 and Tesc0 food shopping done and £47.96 added to sig as a result. Also added £1.90 which OH spent on lunch whilst he was out the other day as it doesn't fit any other budget category of mine
x

WantToBeSE

pavlovs_dog wrote: »

a piece of kitchen roll in the bag to absorb excess moisture can help buy an extra day or two

Thank you, I'll try that

pinkypig

Hi everyone. My first shop of the month is done. £26.25 in Aldi which included dog food and a restock of fruit and veg. Another £3.25 in Home Bargains on tissues, kitchen roll, chopped garlic and chopped ginger.
That gives me everything I need for breakfasts, lunches and dinners until next Saturday so I'm determined to stay completely away from the shops. I'm setting my sights on a summer holiday so every extra penny I have at the end of each month will be topping up my holiday fund:)
Have a good weekend.
PP x

meg72

Wysiwyg49 wrote: »

How true - now I am sooo pleased I put back the electric steamer in Ald1 really felt I had saved the £17.99 by not buying it!! (I know this is not very logical.)

Spent £20.02 in there mostly on pasta, fruit, veg and frozen stuff. Then £3.60 on 2 large gammon steaks from butcher. Need to do a meal plan before heading to Sainsbobs for the rest.

This may be a dumb question. How do I find my posts on a thread? Sometimes I lose track of whether I've added a receipt to my signature so looking at previous posts would be useful.

Click on your user name, top left in bold, it will bring up options one of which is find other posts, click on this and it will show you all your posts lol not a daft question, took me a couple of years to find this out,

Doom_and_Gloom

So far we have spent a total of £47.97/£155. So we have £107.03 left.
For breakfast I had an apple crumble crisp/mess kind of thing I made in the slow cooker the other day with apples that were looking sorry for themselves. Had it with a bit of alpro yogurt (on offer for £1 at the moment) and strawberries I bought reduced. Very nice.
Have vegetable stew in the slow cooker for dinner. That used the reduced parsnips I bought before Christmas and a bag of ready diced swede and carrots I bought for 14p the other day, as well as a bag of leeks I had in the freezer (cut up and frozen a while ago, bought reduced). It smells beautiful. Will have over a jacket potato (free as ma sent me back home after Christmas with a bag :j).