February 2018 Grocery Challenge

TheOhGodOfHangovers

euronorris I’m in awe of your analytical skills! It’s all I can do to keep track of the adding up.

Need to update my signature with spends over the last couple of days. Will do it tomorrow as coping with a bit of a meltdown and a sick kitty today:(

Hope everyone else is ok. Lovely sunny day today but waiting for next week’s big chill...

euronorris

Haha, it's all thanks to excel. I keep a tally of everything I spend in an excel spreadsheet over the month, and I put the shop name in the column to the right of it as I do so. At the end of the month I tally up for each of the shops, and then I can compare to the previous month. It's all formula driven, so I don't have to do much.


Hope you're OK Lalalalindy x

supersaver1000

Hope the sick kitty okay Lalalindy xx

Islandmaid

Well, I blew the budget, spent £140 but I am not too sad.

As well as the weekly shop, I restocked the freezer with a lot of meat on offer, so that should save me in March and most of April.

Glenda

Evening all
So far this month I have spent £149.08 of my £150 target. I have 92p left to last me until Monday which is my pay day. I know I will need milk but I don't think anything else and there is still enough food in the house to rustle up a few days meals for myself and my daughter. I am starting to get the hang of this grocery challenge ...I think! and have big plans for next month re more batch cooking. Looking forward to it.

lynnejk

Evening all

Spends today at Mr T = £8.75

This brings us up to 96.77/200 and 16 NSDs for the month

Hope you're all staying warm and dry
Lx

pamsdish

Ordered 3 sacks of dog food while got 10% off so took me into the red, plus side, 1 sack lasts just over a month so no more needed until June.

JingsMyBucket

Hi everyone! Quick update: I stopped by a grocery store on the way home to buy stuff for dinner. Last night my OH's nephew strongly hinted at me cooking dinner at some point while they're here since he saw all the contents of our pantry, spice racks, etc. He was thoroughly impressed and wants to move in already. Haha. I made stir fried vegetables and pork belly with (basmati) rice. Success!

€9.72 at Delhaize: pork belly, ginger, and two bags of stir fry vegetables.

These lousy kids, eating me out of house of home! :rotfl: Tomorrow they're taking a train to town about an hour away so they're on their own for food for the most part.

Totals So Far:
€215.83 / €450
10 / 10 NSDs

Tales17

euronorris wrote: »

Haha, it's all thanks to excel. I keep a tally of everything I spend in an excel spreadsheet over the month, and I put the shop name in the column to the right of it as I do so. At the end of the month I tally up for each of the shops, and then I can compare to the previous month. It's all formula driven, so I don't have to do much.

I love a good excel spreadsheet! Mine is not sorted per shop but I have been mainly shopping in one place for years and only recently branching out so that info isn't useful to me at the moment! I would love to categorise all shopping so I could work out which areas I could cut down on like snacks, meat, etc. But I think the time taken to go through every item on my receipts would not be worth it at the moment!

Ginmonster

I did a bit of a stock up in advance of next weekend when we have guests coming to stay. Not everything we'll need by any means but I've made a start. £18.63 spent - a lot of it on cheese!

56.39/100