February 2017 Grocery Challenge

Fruittea

Just a granary loaf for me today. £1.35 but 50p back from Check Out Smart. I assume we all know about COS - there's quite a lot of free things on there today. So worth taking a look and it's simple to cash out with. I always wait for the £20 to add up before I take the cash.
Well I'm nearly there and I think I'll be on target just need some eggs for breakfast - I have 5 chickens but only 2 of them are laying and that's usually one every other day. So I buy them from a woman down the road for £1 for 6. So not bad and they are always really good.

meg72

Save_Dosh wrote: »

lol - I do that. Never thought of myself as competitive, but have found that I am when it comes to challenging myself. You know you have a problem when your telling people how many squares of toilet roll to use,when your trying to get through the last few days (dum de dum). I literally have squeezed the toilet rolls on the holder, so they judder slowly out when you pull them. Sounds like you have a load of options for people to eat anyway.

Well, I have had a £2 spend in the last 2 weeks, totally unheard of for me. I am using up stores and have made some really 'interesting' meals and tonight I'm going to make a pizza with dairy free cheese, using up some fridge bits. Really looking forward to having a shop tomorrow - missing my salad.

Oh bless that did make me laugh, imaging a "juddering toilet roll"

I am loving challenging myself and fingers crossed think I have beaten the "must go shopping habit" Ive gone from a daily to a weekly and have now set my goal to be a monthly. I have enough in the freezer and pantry to have a real go at it for March and still have Febs budget in my food purse. Nothing in the bulk buy one now as spent the last on 10 jars of peaches, the expensive in juice ones which are reduced in asda to 79p normally £1.79, half price dishwasher tablets in Poundland.

freyasmum

We are currently up to £229.08, which is £50.92 under budget :j

We have 36 individually frozen portions of food, which will last us as dinner for 12 days. We also have plentifully stocked store and stock cupboards.

We are having OH's parents over on Saturday and we will have a roast chicken with dauphinoise and veggies, with an apple cake and custard for pudding. We should only have to buy the chicken, cream and veggies and top up bread and fruit before the end of the month, and DD will need her £5. for her lunches.

I have no idea HOW we are doing it, but we appear to be £13 a week under budget from the start of this year. Now considering we were over every single month last year, we've now moved to being £13 a week under? We are on average £90 a month cheaper this year so far than we were on average last year! That is including groceries and household products (which were a part of the grocery spends last year).

Islandmaid

Hi all,

After a few NSD's I went 'Wild in the aisles' today :eek:

£50 in Aldi and £18 in Booker's buying 5kg of Chicken Thighs.

The Chicken will last through March, so not too bad.

Youngest is back off to Uni this weekend so costs will drop a bit then. Apart from his top up shop, but that's from a different budget (poor student fund :cool:)

thriftwizard

I've just added last week's market spend, plus two small top-ups of milk, apples & bananas, and 2 loaves of bread from DD1's bakery. It's possible I'll actually manage to hit my target this month.

However I hammered the "entertainments" budget last night - 4 cinema tickets (£2.50 each at our county town's old cinema, for myself, DDs 1 & 2 & TDiL, plus £1.20 online booking fee = £11.20) plus a Chinese take-away for 5 (£38.35) eaten at my 91 y.o. mother's - she's up for enjoying a take-away but not for going out to the cinema - equalling £49.55. Which would be fine, given my usual £50 budget, if there hadn't been £20 spent on beer & cider earlier in the month! Ah well... we only spent about £20 in total on "Ents" in January, so I'll call that a roll-over, although of course I haven't allowed for the fuel to get there & back again. Still far cheaper than a trip to our local big screen, at £10 per head, though!

Lauralozzle

Forgot to update last weeks shop. We're now at £286.14/£300 - £10 to spend for rest of the month - we'd be fine usually but we have friends over on Saturday so need to buy some chicken breasts, peppers, salt and pepper, and fruit.

Hopefully the £10 will stretch that far!

JingsMyBucket

Hello all, sorry to have been AWOL for the last couple of weeks. I had a bevy of odd transactions including the Amazon order fiasco and haven't had time to sit down and sort it. I'll have time tomorrow or Saturday to list out all my transactions here. I've had quite a few NSD for groceries as well. I think I'm up to 10 actually. I'll do the official count for that too and add it to my sig. for now, I'll just catch up reading your posts.

oceanspirit

Vegbox today £17.35. May not be able to get away with no supermarket shop - will see what diary looks like for next week and work out if it can be left until Wednesday or Thursday.

Ginmonster

Well, Doris meant that my parents couldn't get their train home yesterday as they were all cancelled so I had to nip out for emergency butter and milk to tide us over. £2.50 spent in the corner shop. I think we've got enough to see us through the weekend but we'll see.


£143.01/£150

pamsdish

Asda shop of £20.35