February 2018 Grocery Challenge

klbooth

Was meant to be going to Costco today but the car broke last week and is going into the garage tomorrow so not much point squeezing the kids in the little car where we can't actually fit any shopping to speak of. So it was a quick trip to Lidl to grab the things we desperately needed this week. Will try again for Costco next weekend when fingers crossed the car is all better. So just £12.36 to add on.

Feb £126.18/£430

PipneyJane

Afternoon All

I!!!8217;ve got 3 spends to declare for this week:

DH went to the farm shop, bought a dozen eggs, carrots, potatoes, broccoli and purple sprouting broccoli (he knows I love the latter), spending £8.70 in the process.

Yesterday, we dropped into MrT!!!8217;s at lunchtime, buying yoghurts (32), YS cheddar (£1.46) and a YS packet of 6 mini pork pies (£1.20), for a total of £4.66. (The pork pies turned into our lunch-on-the-run.).

Today, we collected the Sunday paper and a packet of Value eggs, spending £1.25 in the process. (We subscribe to the paper, so get a weekly voucher to !!!8220;pay!!!8221; for it. It doesn!!!8217;t count in the GC challenge.)

Anyway, the above brings our total spend for February to £22.34/£50 leaving a balance of £27.66 for the rest of the month.

(No, I can!!!8217;t figure out how to get the numbering right.)

JingsMyBucket

MadamMim2013 wrote: »

I do normally shop from a mix yet mainly Mr L's as we like the food quality (& prices!)
I am extremely lucky to be able to order from any of the big names to be delivered, including Waitrose if wanted.. (I like to pop in and grab the ys sushi from time to time)
Sadly my autoimmune conditions have flared up badly and kicked my butt this month, the will/want is kind of there it's just the body is not..
I have taken your advice (the same that I would give to others struggling) and done an online shop to be delivered tomorrow..
Thank you for giving me a gentle shove in the right direction, it was much needed and I have also stopped mentally nagging at myself so feel less uptight about it! :A

Oh thank goodness, you’re very welcome! I’m glad you were able to cut yourself some slack and get it done. It’s so funny how we sometimes need “permission” from others to treat ourselves properly. Happy the nudge helped a bit. Cheers to you. :beer:


Today, just one item bought. I meant to go out earlier this evening to get some bits for soup and other things. OH easily convinced me to stay home when the combination rain-snow started.

I am still slightly off my cooking mojo but thankfully remembered that I froze a meat lasagna a few weeks ago just for an instance like this. That’s cooking in the oven right now and I have a ham stock going in the Instant Pot which will be the base of ham and cauliflower soup tomorrow.

€4.85 - at the Asian supermarket for sesame oil.

Totals So Far:
€75.56 / €450
6 NSD / 10 NSD

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JingsMyBucket wrote: »

Oh my gosh, SaveDosh, that's horrible. I'm just catching up with posts from the last few days and only just saw how tired, sick, and broken everyone is. I hope you all feel much better starting today.

Yes, loads of people under the weather. I for one am feeling so much better now. Thank you.

First spends of the month - 60p on some rolls, and a couple of things that come out of the bulk fund, some toilet rolls & coffee, which came to £6.85. I really need to get myself back to Farm Foods. I bought toilet rolls there for £10 - 3 x 18. They lasted forever and were amazing quality. Wanting to get a few more bits tomorrow, but nothing major, as I really am trying to mostly use up stocks. Oh yes, and I bought some alcohol - £2.85. Have updated sig.

JingsMyBucket

PipneyJane wrote: »

(No, I can!!!8217;t figure out how to get the numbering right.)

Try the Advanced Reply feature instead of Quick Reply. That seems to work for me.

Mrs_Cheshire

Hi all, treat spends of £5.75 on 6 Kr!spy Kreme doughnuts.
I was tempted by the buy 12 get 12 original glazed free, but with their only being 5 of us thought it was a tad extravagant.
Ended up finding out i had 3 other offers on the app, bogof, save £1 of a box of 3 and a complementary free one, so asked if I could do 3 seperate orders but turns out I could do them all on 1 transaction. 3 of the doughnuts were £2.10 each and the other 3 were £1.65 each so good value.

K9sandFelines

K9sandFelines wrote: »

Need to add a £17.58 Morrisons shop earlier on in the week and £1.40 spent at work.

So £18.98 to add to total

Done.

I now have to add £4.70 to my sig. I bought loo roll (on the last one and by the time i got out of work, all the other shops are shut), YS bread, doughnuts and two pot noodles for a quick dinner (particularly for when at placement). I slipped up with the pot noodles as i thought they were still on offer for a £1, but this particular flavour had come off offer; so were a shocking £1.69 each :eek: I would normally never pay this much.

Off to add to sig ...

lynnejk

Evening folks

Sorry to read soo many of you are unwell or damaged in some way. Sending some hugs and gws vibes

Small spend of £4.12 in L*dl on eggs, milk, apples and cereal just to keep us going until weekly shop in Al*i and Morries tomorrow

Hope you all have a money-saving Monday
Lx

pamsdish

Spending spree today, picked up a part for car £24.... separate accounting, then went Morries £87.83, £30 Amazon voucher, ex O.H. requires me to order stuff for him, and I get extra Morries points, 6 Ariel for neighbours while on 3 for £10, 3 for me, £3 saver stamps I buy for D.D., so actual spend for me was £34.83

Mrs_Norris

Thanks for this thread.

LOVE the recipes- will help my target of £200