February 2018 Grocery Challenge

lil_me

No intention setting myself up to fail
Heading in for £400 all meals apart for 2 adults, all but 1 college lunch for another and all but 4 college lunches a week for the other. My ‘little’ one is 6ft 5 so they eat as large adults

Including cleaning products but I only need washing machine stuff this month I think. I am including dog food as it’s easier than splitting it

We have less in than January but I have rearranged the freezer which is helping

Including all but OHs meal out for his birthday when it comes to eating out to stop us eating out or take aways

I’ve ordered from muscle food for tomorrow which is from February budget not tried them before

Need to save for the wedding, but slimming world hasn’t been cheap so far

short_bird

Let's go for £130 from Wed 31st Jan to Wed 28th Feb.

I was thinking of dividing that into 2 pots: £85 groceries to include work lunches, OTC remedies, toiletries, cleaning stuff and the remaining £45 to the "social" fund - coffees when out and about and/or travelling.

Just so I become more conscious of where the money's going.

Mrs_Cheshire

I've sat and done a menu plan for the month, only need meat for 15 days out of 28 as we already have a bit of meat in and a few days I can make a couple of meals from a whole chicken or piece of gammon.
Feeling more positive about the month now, as in Jan I had quite a bit more freezer stocks, but the same budget.

starting_again_in_the_sun

Count me in again please.

My budget for February will be 175 euros.

Good luck everyone!

This_times_for_keeps!

HI,

Please can I join you? With a monthly budget of £240 pcm.

I have quite a bit of food in the cupboards and freezers so in theory this should be an easy target this month yet somehow it never seems to happen and those 'just need fruit, veg, milk and bread' weeks seem to cost almost as much as a full shop!

I cooked a big casserole yesterday and served it with Yorkshire pudding and mushy peas so today I was going to make it into a pie but have no potatoes or fresh veg in so the question is whether I go to the grocers and spend a few pounds to see us healthily through the week or just serve the pie with pastry and frozen veg from the freezer so that I can chalk up a NSD which will only work if I can see the rest of the week out without potatoes lol.

MrsPear

Thanks to mods for setting up a new month.

So last month purchases added up didn’t seem right. So i need to get better at keeping receipts for the small purchases and writing down more regularly.

I starting February this week and my budget is 350[/CONOR]

Spent 6.81 already on juice, milk and fruit

Alwaysskint2016

Hi,

I'd like to join this challenge this month too if that's OK.

I'm going to budget £340 for the month of February 1st-28th so nice rounded 4 week month.

We're a family of 2 adults, 2 children and 1 dog. My budget to include all food/toiletries/cleaning products/laundry/pet food/packed lunches. Last month was my first month in keeping track of food spend (usually there is no limit and spending was crazy). January we spent £378.97 and started meal planning/bulk buying/bulk cooking and we got on OK with it. I know we can make a saving so I think £340 for February is a good start (hoping to reduce further in the coming months).

Look forward to keeping up with how everyone's doing.

NeverendingDMP

108.87 / 390 spent. On the plus side have all main meals sorted for this week and am potty training youngest again so that's one less thing to buy x

Merlin's_Beard

Back with £100 for the month.

Real February challenge is not to buy any YS meat for the freezer! I want to start to be a bit more responsible with my meat buying and plastics and try the local farm shop instead of the supermarket, but I need to use up what I've got first.

(And I need to figure out how I'm going to wangle the farm shop's special offers into a bulk buy fund, but that can be March's problem!)

AprilR

Had five nsd’s! I’m just staying out of the shops otherwise I’ll end up buying something. Have to make do until Sunday, for our next shop. I’m off tomorrow, but going to stay home and paint/sort the house, so that I don’t spend anything! Made pulled pork last night ready to eat for tonight, used up a few bits in the cupboard to flavour it, it smelt delicious but quite spicy! Not really into spicy so we’ll see how that turned out, later. (Had a pot of chilli sauce that needed using so that went in the stock with some Worcester sauce!) I also put loads of spices in the rub to give it flavour. I hope it’s nice!