January 2018 Grocery Challenge

lil_me

Managed a NSD planned and cooked roast beef dinner with left over beef for tea which was really nice. Done my overnight oats for tomorrow, need to make sure I remember to take a lunch

Mission later in the week sort the other freezer once I’ve rejigged space

MadamMim2013

Busy few days, trying not to eat junk or snack and have failed.. Made crispy cakes and banana loaf (ate 3 slices and 1 crispy cake ) Still onward n upward, no good dwelling on what's already munched!
Small purchase yesterday from local shop, bread, ham, Jaffa cakes (on offer, son loves them.. So put back as a treat when he's not expecting it!) £4.
The boys decided on Saturday night that they wanted pizza so we all chipped in £10 from the grocery budget!;)
Trying to motivate myself this morning into properly sorting the freezer.. The brain is keen, body not so willing:(
Off to wake the eldest and have a cuppa! :coffee:

short_bird

I realise it must sound as if I have a bottomless freezer or an armageddon cupboard! Nope, there's only me and it's amazing how long it takes to get through a bag of petits pois... :rotfl:

Esthermate

£6 last week.
I loved the comment up thread about not storing food for supermarkets.

2018saver

Big shop in Ald! yesterday and top up in T/co today brings my monthly total to 200/300.

Grannymolly

£14.65 in Mr A.... I feel like I’m doing awfully this week. Hoping no more spends now until Monday!

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£14.65 in Mr A.... I feel like I’m doing awfully this week. Hoping no more spends now until Monday!

It doesn't look like you are doing awful, if you last 'till Monday, you will have £100 left for the last week - that's amazing.

I am trying to only buy fridge stuff and use up ingredients here. I have made up a large batch of soup for freezing and am in the process of using nearly the last of the veg on making some veggie burgers, have also made some spicy lentil dip, which is just brown lentils, fried onions, garlic, tomato puree and some curry paste (blitzed). I have done a meal plan, so I 'hopefully' stick to trying to use stuff up.

BREAKFASTS - Veggie Smoothies With Green Powders OR Overnight Oats OR Breakfast Muffins
LUNCHES – Soup, Onion & Garlic Or Spicy Red Lentil & Tomato
DINNER
Mon - Charcoal Noodles, Mushrooms, Courgettes, Onions, Meat-Free Sausage & Mushroom Sauce
Tue – Same as Above (leftovers)
Wed - Veggie Casserole
Thu - Spicy Veggie Mince Wraps With Salad
Fri – Meat Free Meatballs in a Creamy Mustard Sauce & Pumpkin Noodles
Fri - Veggie Mince With Cauliflower Rice

Faete

Shopping this week so far:- Aldi £15.56 and Asda £43.53. This includes all my stuff for work rather than picking up odd bits at the Sainsbury's Local and paying through the nose.

Fae xx

Puddleglum

This week I spent £33.66 out of the £35. There were a few pricey items in there but I found some ys stuff to help stay in budget. Have discovered that Mr S does cans of soup for 50p which are gluten and dairy free so I'm set for the predicted cold snap.

cw18

Spent another £3 - all on junk food I didn't need and shouldn't really be eating as I need to shift some weight! A £1 bag of sweets on Sunday (which got eaten that night), and 2 bags of baked biscuit snacky things yesterday (shouldn't have hopped off the bus home from work for a browse in the city centre )