£365 a year challenge

ma-ri-ella

Hello lovely people. I have had a few s[ends the last few days but bargains galore lol

i got 2x4pint milk for 7p each =14p
i spent 98p on 2 cartons of longlife milk which I'm hoping to just need 1 a week and find yellow stickers as top up.
i spent 32p after discount on 2x steak pies (meant to be £3 each ) plus a 6 pack of rolls (meant to be £1 packet)
One pie will go in freezer - i have a visitor next week so will make for him. the other will do tonights tea and tomorrows lunch. 2 of the rolls will do tomorrow for breakfast and 2 for dinner with the soup ive been saving . Will hopefully have a negative spend day soon - going to put the money from shopping apps back into bank account

[Deleted User]

well done ma-ri-ella you are doing very well.Now the challenge is t stay away from shops as much as possible .I shan't go near a shop now until next Tuesday as I have more than enough to feed myself over the next few days

ma-ri-ella

JackieO wrote: »

well done ma-ri-ella you are doing very well.Now the challenge is t stay away from shops as much as possible .I shan't go near a shop now until next Tuesday as I have more than enough to feed myself over the next few days

its working in morrisons that does it. spent 2.73 today on just under 10 worth of stuff.

got some pain au chocolates - 6p and a lemon tart 6p - time of the month so a nice treat

Got a fancy version of wheat bisks- will get most of this back from cashback.Once that's received it will make serving cost 6.0odd pence


big pack of bacon from £5 reduced to 50p - will go in freezer and will make pasta dishes , the odd bacon sandwich and will give half to a friend so will help them out.

ma-ri-ella

no spend day!! morries do have my coffee on offer tho so might buy a few...i quite like the satchets and they are currently 1.50 for 8 (so 1.35 after discount) . I like to drink these on shifts i get a 15m break(or longer breaks when i feel tierd but generally try sticking to herbal tea cause i have longer for it to cool down).work out 17p a drink which is high compared to instant but i no longer buy starbucks,costa or even greggs . I think maybe 2 boxes a month so might buy 4.

Other plans for Feb!
moved a few frozen yellow stickers to 1 drawer in freezer so aim is to use up.
Stuck the open cereals in 1 area so can target these first .
Hopefully have at least 14 nsd with today being one :P

ma-ri-ella

so today had some spends - bought 2 packets of the coffee i like because it is half price. The yellow stickers of the day include 8p for tear and share garlic bread which was dinner and a fish i put in freezer ,not sure how to cook tbh!! . Wed will be my sit down and meal plan day - as well as add up the savings from reduced/what i have actually spent for this month so far plus around £12 as an in from money back from shopping apps.
I think my ins for this week will be
eggs
fruit - most likely oranges/bananas
vegetabable oil
mullers at 12 for £3 = i got a lot of these free recently and have got quite addicted

The next time i see cartons of milk reduced will buy as many as can carry!! I have a lot of cereal/porridge/wheat bisks and i like them with milk

To stop major spends my debit card is out the purse and i just have an emergency £3 - the yellow sticker funds lol

Monday - will be at work over breakfast/lunch period . Might try porridge before i leave and on my 15 minute break i have a graze protein bite and some coffee
dinner - i have half a carton soup plus a roll from weekend. If still hungry i should focus on the packet of bacon i have defrosted

Tuesday - toast and bacon (both yellow stickered products - i quite often get this high protein loaf for 8p - cant believe its supposed to be 1.20!!! i find the value range too stodgy)
lunch - again the bread and bacon. I need to go to post office so will look into Tesco for reduced items.
dinner - at work . Packet of crisps. reduced label if i get any or soup if i don't

wed- day off so will plan rest of week. Breakfast - toast and rest of 1stpack of bacon
lunch-wheat bisks
tea- soup
will try and make this a herbal tea day so don't need much milk

thuur- porridge
lunch - soup
work 30m- graze protein square
dinner - unsure

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Ist food shop for February, and spent a total of £12.44 on essential stuff only ,more than enough to tide me over for the next week at least as I am eating my freezer down.:):)

donnajt

WOW Ma-ri-ella and JackieO I have thorougly enjoyed reading this thread and look forward to following your journeys x

ma-ri-ella

hello lovlies/!! have had a very stressful pig out/spend loads of money week!! i should literally buy nothing else for the month apart from fruit!! todays anther day and all that will see what happens !!
Will start off with the good spendsing
over 3 trips spent £12.89 at asda - used £18.79 worth of apg and reeived £12.32 of multibuy savings
i got
14 packets of porridge *around 14 servings)
2x 6 pints of milk
10x litre long life milk and random fruit/sweeties . I do enjoy having this for breakfasr and i have a variety of flavours aswell

3x 34p on crisps (60 packets) these are quavers and wotsits so work out at 2p per bag- still in date but need to watch i don't binge eat

few other things not food so can ignore for now. I mean it hasn't been horrendous. Ive managed to fight the urge to stock up on cheap lambrini and get drunk :P

If all goes back to normal then i really have enough to eat something for about 2 months solid.

[Deleted User]

Well done ma-ri-ella, now be firm, and stay away from the shops ,or at least leave your purse at home when you go to work :):)

JackieO xx

ma-ri-ella

Nothing to report today !! i believe there is a good deal on yeo valley yougurts i might check out tomorrow

Tesco have these at £2.50 for a 4 pack
There is a £1 off coupon in the Tesco magazine
There is £1 back on clicksnap (up to 6 times)
There is a £1 back on cos app (up to 6 times) I would count this as a £1.50 spend then the other 2 x£1 as i get them as money back

Do not need but i do like overnight oats with fruit for breakfast

Other than that my meal plan for week is pretty sorted . Grapefruit/loads of different porridge flavours for breakfast/toast