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January 2018 Grocery Challenge
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Please put me down for £250 - for 2 adults and 2 cats. Used to be really good at batch cooking etc but have gone over to the dark side of meal deals every work day and need to cut down.0
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Another spendy day as I bulk brought some SW bars (they’re a treat and make SW easier to stick to!).
So, now at £99.83/£275
Shouldn’t need anything else for a while - plenty of food in now, enough fir dinners and lunches in the week. Should collect a few NSD now.February Grocery Budget: £190.75/£350.00
NST no. NSD 4/150 -
I'd like to join again please! Could I please set a January target of £220 as the freezer and cupboards are empty!0
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Okay first spend of the month was £51.72 which included Lidl, Morrisons, M&S and Iceland so fairly well stocked up.
Haven't got round to doing an inventory yet but I will get that dones tomorrow.
Some of what I bought this week is to make four different batches of soup which I will then use throughout January for lunches. I have some soup in the freezer left from the batches in October so hopefully with the three new flavours I will have one for each day apart from the day that my work does Baked potatoes which I love.0 -
Well I’m on a very tight budget this month. £83 to see us till 24th jan! It’s me DH, DD8 and DS4 :0
Luckily we have a lot of Xmas food still in and some decent stuff in the freezer. I blanched loads of veg and have lots of potatoes still so hoping for good things.
The kids will be back to school soon so will get school dinners (£10.50) a week for eldest but free for youngest. DH takes sandwiches and I take some left over bits into work.Living the simple life0 -
It should have been a NSD today but DD fancied some strawberries and they were cheap so ended up spending 1.98€.
Amount available to spend: 273.02€0 -
SaveDosh I don't know how on earth you manage to keep your budget so low each month. Only £80. That's amazing.0
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Can you please put me down for £300 for January. This is to include all food, drink, toiletries, cleaning products and nappies/wipes. There is me, DD1 and DH.0
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OK, I'll be brave & go for £380 please! To feed & clean up after 5 (sometimes 6) adults, two cats, two cockatiels and 11 assorted chickens. I need to rein the budget in for a few months and could possibly go lower, but that - looks - like I could still achieve it even if we end up with my 91 y.o. mother in & out of hospital again & me hurtling up & down to our county town on a daily basis. Sigh! But certainly not her fault...
ETA: £52 spent already, £11 at the market & £51 on an unanticipated trip to L!dls in the next town north, so that DD1 could practice her very-new driving skills. Hopefully I won't have to darken their door again for a while, but you know how it is...Angie - GC Jul 25: £225.85/£500 : 2025 Fashion on the Ration Challenge: 26/68: (Money's just a substitute for time & talent...)0 -
£21.28/100, and we'll pretend that I spent it on Monday... Most on a recipe for the new slow cooker, so we'll see how that goes.
The recipe book I got given for it is slightly frilly for my cooking ability (there's nothing like wandering around a supermarket looking for "okra" when you don't know what it is and the supermarket doesn't turn out to stock it :rotfl:), so if anyone has any places to get slightly more simple recipes I'd be grateful - the more idiot proof the better!Start mortgage date: August 2022; Start mortgage amount: £240,999; Original mortgage free date: August 2056
Current mortgage amount: £226,957.97
Start student loan 2012: £29,750; current student loan: CLEARED July 20250
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