February 2017 Grocery Challenge

t14cy_t

spends of £13 yesterday, a few esssentials and 6 packets of smoked salmon, 2 joints of lamb, kippers and some belly of pork, ys goodies from morrisons! yipee!! good start to the month, oh and 4 pints of free milk!! xx

millymouse

Hi everyone, first spend of the month £12.28 lidl mostly on fridge stuff salad, butter etc and fruit and £26.40 in home bargains on toilet rolls, kitchen rolls, softener, washing powder etc for the month. Freezers and cupboards are well stocked so I hope I'm off to a good start.


Budget £200 spent so far £38.68

Fruittea

I've spent £26.08 on an Ocado order bringing my spend up to £43.32 and I still need butter and eggs. I'll pop into Farm foods for the butter - hopefully it's a reasonable price and then the farm barn for eggs at £2.00 a dozen.
After the fridge audit I see I have at least 50 meals in there and that £1 cauli has made 4 charred cauliflower, coconut and squash curries. 3 of which are added to the freezer stash. I still have half of it left for cauli-cheese and side dishes etc for this weeks meals.
I'm not including household products in my total - just food as I buy in bulk and it would be hard to price the laundry stuff etc up now.
I must start using more from the freezer.


Edit: Just back from the shops with eggs, butter so that's another £7.27. I'm all set up now with a total of £50.59
Oh and cauliflower cheese for lunch.

XSpender

£9.90 spent in Mr S last night on turkey bacon x 2, GF sourdough bread and almond milk.

I will be doing my weekly shop on Friday and have estimated my spend at Lidl (based on Aldi prices as Lidl has just opened and I don't normally shop there) at £25 but as DH has decided to do his body building high protein diet for another month I probably need to add another £15 for meat just for this week :eek:

Total £78.89/£320

Mrs_Cheshire

Just totted up my spends in the first week of the challenge and I've managed to spend £102.90 already. I really need to get a grip of my spends as I don't have much to show for it.
I've got some bits that need using in my storecupboard so if I list a few items here could you all give me some ideas.

Red lentils - I don't make soup very much due to lack of time, although I do have a slow cooker, so could pop the ingredients in over night.

Gram flour - I bought to make onion bhajis which weren't very successful. Any other ideas?

suet and pre made dumpling mix - we don't have stew very often due to the children not eating it. Any other uses?

Sachets of bread sauce mix, other than making up to serve with turkey, is there anything else I could do with it?

leaf gelatine????

Islandmaid

The cats and I refuse to leave the house today due to the weather..

NSD - Have dug out the chicken pie I made last week from my 'Rubber Chicken' (made 2) and froze, will have with Mash, carrots and gravy - comfort food, no effort :T

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*Margaret* wrote: »

Spent £1 on milk this morning. Digestives aren't going to last til the weekend but that's entirely my own fault. So far have spent £9.39.

Dunno if it would help but Tesco's have McVities choc digestives at 57p for an extra large packet yesterday, my DGS Mikey told me via a text he is only 12 but quite a budding MSE'er as he walks past MrT's on the way home from school and sticks his head in to see what bargains there are to tell me :):)

So far still have my £60.00 in my food purse, and no spending today either so 26 more days to go :j:j:j

2 NSD's and £60/£60 :beer::beer:

meg72

Mrs_Cheshire wrote: »

Just totted up my spends in the first week of the challenge and I've managed to spend £102.90 already. I really need to get a grip of my spends as I don't have much to show for it.
I've got some bits that need using in my storecupboard so if I list a few items here could you all give me some ideas.

Red lentils - I don't make soup very much due to lack of time, although I do have a slow cooker, so could pop the ingredients in over night.

Gram flour - I bought to make onion bhajis which weren't very successful. Any other ideas?

suet and pre made dumpling mix - we don't have stew very often due to the children not eating it. Any other uses?

Sachets of bread sauce mix, other than making up to serve with turkey, is there anything else I could do with it?

leaf gelatine????

You could make a sultana suet pudding with the dumpling mix, I jus add a few sultanas and a bit of sugar, make up as normal and
cook in microwave, lovely with custard.

kkffoo

Missed out posting most of January due to stressful stuff going on, but did keep the budget monitoring going.

This four week month we have £284 to spend, and we've used up £52.55 so far.
I'm continuing my 'shopping in my garage store-cupboard' at the weekend technique, and then only keeping the food for the week in my kitchen cupboards.
It's not over strict, and I do swap stuff about.

I am now using a week to page diary for menu planning, and have simplified our menus so that we have very similar things each week day, (if it's Monday it must be chicken ).
My brain has difficulty working in a straight line, so things seem to vary on their own and having a structure helps me know where I am.

freyasmum

Well a shop to restock our store cupboard again today and it was nowhere near as bad as I was expecting - but then, we didn't go to Farm foods!

We went to the farm shop and aldi and stocked up on 25kg potatoes, rice, trays of eggs, tins of chopped toms, pasta, rice, etc. Lots of store cupboard fillers.

The farm shop had 5kg of mature cheese for £19.50, which I thought wasn't a bad price - sadly, we have no room to store it

Spend this month so far - £46.73 (£339.63/ £3650 year to date).