February 2018 Grocery Challenge

MrsPear

Declaring my end of month total 317.28 Not too bad. I!!!8217;m confident that it is right this month as I have got much better at writing things down plus I have developed an envelope system. I got the money out at the beginning and spent that only.

K9sandFelines

£3.58 spent in work today, got charged full price for teabags that were YS as dates end of Feb, by a colleague. Didn't notice til i got home and not in til the 11th. So just going to have to write it off as a mistake, thought im a bit peed off. If i'd have noticed at the time or been in sooner, i'd have probably said something as it was a £1.20 overcharge :mad:

Tales17

Hi there,

An update from me, managed to get my accounts up to date today!

- Small Tesco shop on the Friday, last day of our holiday, £11.49

- Small top up shop for the next week on the following Monday, £26.76

- Online shop for some perfume (found cheapest shop for my favourite brand with 50% off!), £22.95

- Two small Co-Op shops by the other half on the way to his work - £4.50 and £2.24

- One Graze Box, £3.89

Giving a total of £364.63 so far! Looking pretty good for my budget this month which will help with a bit of flexibility on my annual budget!

Still got a couple of shops to add in that haven't come through my accounts yet so will do final update on Thursday!

lynnejk

Evening all

Last spends of the month and mainly for eating in March, but bought today due to weather forecast

Al*i = £23.34
Morries = £19.03

So declaring for March at £143.21/200 :j Loverly jubbly - that means £56.79 to add to bulk buy at the end of the month.

Meals this week are as follows, though not in any particular order but just as I fancy

Chicken in mustard and dill sauce, croquette potatoes, carrots and asparagus

Corned beef with new potatoes and large mixed salad

Roast beef with all the trimmings

Salmon steaks with stir-fry veggies, bean-sprouts and chilli/ginger sauce

Chilli wraps with hm guacamole, sour cream, grated cheese and beetroot salad

Shepherd's pie with green veggies

Omelettes with spicy potato wedges and avocado salad

All my meals are HM from scratch. We have plenty of hm soups, eggs, tinned fish etc for lunches and fruit and yoghurt for afters. I might make some pancakes or a bread and butter pudding for a treat sometime during the week. Breakfast is usually porridge for me and DH has cereal.

Well done all those coming in under/about budget and that others are starting to get there.

Stay warm and safe peoples - spring's just round the corner
Lx

Itisme_2

Yesterday: £17.33 at Tesco. Would like to get into habit of posting amounts each time, but I do what I can.

MadamMim2013

Was away for the weekend & poorly to boot:mad:
Stocked up fridge for DS1 & his mate,
Bread and mushrooms purchased last night..
Will add up and sort tally in a bit, closer than last month, that said have had more foods things to do this month (taking nibbles to a party, etc) so it evens out:)

purpleybat

i bought breads and some pasties on sunday which takes my feb total to £157.97.
slightly over, £7.97, so not too bad as everything seems rammed full.

pamsdish

£20.19, between wilkos, B&M, family bargains and Aldi, few food bits needed and some cleaning items on offer at wilkos, hopefully this will carry me through the beast from the east.

MadamMim2013

Oops.. Spends today..
Will be over by a few £..
Well, onward n upward to March, I can do better.. :j

TheOhGodOfHangovers

Going to declare this month as £388.40 out of £390. Very pleased with that. We would have been way under but I decided to stock up on several things for next month to give me a fighting chance on the March thread

Hopefully we won’t all be snowed in this week. Very hit and miss here at the moment. Keeps snowing and then the sun comes out and thaws it. I’d be happy for it to stay that way.

Currently got the mother of all colds and not feeling up to doing much cooking from scratch. Think the antibiotics have killed off my own immune system! :rotfl:

Hope the other poorly people get well soon.