February 2019 Grocery Challenge

piglet27

Feel like I've blown the budget this week.

MrM Main shop £71.71 YS (fresh fruit/veg saving £4.20 + £2 cb)
BnM Cleaning items £8.98
Birthday cake for DD £3.99
Local shop for Coffee £2.39

Total of £87.07 with £6.20 going to savings.

Very large delivery with mu$clef0od coming on the 9th to stock freezer with meat. £69

£156.07/£250 :eek::eek::eek:

I also forgot it was half term this month so really need to try and save now for extra spends then.

Wysiwyg49

Totted up and I’m on £87.96 so far and have promised DS a Chinese meal box this week which is another £9.50 I think :eek:

Must put date to current total in signature as I always forget where I got to!

Also good job I’m not including logs in this as we are getting through them at quite a rate...can’t beat a log fire for cold evenings though.

I am a bit lacking in inspiration for meal plans, must look at the lists again.

Esthermate

£18.27 at Aldi
£18.27/££120

£4.30 pub.

pamsdish

Had a problem with rear tyres on car, kept losing pressure, went to tyre dealer and it was the seal/valves on both tyres £28.80 for resealing replacement valves, ecstatic as was expecting at least one new tyre at £75ish per tyre,
in my euphoria I called into Morries but only spent £5.60, 2 packs y.s. bacon chops, 2 y.s. wonky caulies, y.s. sprouts and my t.v. magazine.

PipneyJane

Afternoon All

I have two spends from the weekend to declare: £6.50 for veggies and eggs from the farm shop and £9.89 spent on two large blocks of cheddar, soft dark brown sugar and 6 bags of pasta quills. A total of £16.39/£142.20 leaving £125.81 for the rest of the month.

I was reminded today about one of the blogs I follow, Less is Enough, which started because the Blogger decided to prove that you could eat healthily for a month on a dollar a day, after getting all ranty about a Californian couple who tried doing the same thing and lived mainly on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. (Here's the link to her original experiment. Start reading from the bottom.)

I can appreciate her frustration. My personal red-rag-to-a-bull are those cookbooks that claim to contain £1 recipes, which turn out to be recipes for £1 a portion not recipes that create an entire meal for £1. Any idiot can create a meal for four for £4 - it doesn't require much cookery skill or intelligence. Creating a meal for a £1, which feeds 4, is a different matter. (I could rant for hours.)

Over the last decade, I've done different versions of the £50 February Challenge; feeding two adults for virtually every meal in February, without spending more than £50 on groceries for the entire month. I don't have the brain space to devote to it this year but it is possible and we've never starved.

- Pip (apologies for ranting)

GotToStopSpending

piglet27 wrote: »

Feel like I've blown the budget this week.

MrM Main shop £71.71 YS (fresh fruit/veg saving £4.20 + £2 cb)
BnM Cleaning items £8.98
Birthday cake for DD £3.99
Local shop for Coffee £2.39

Total of £87.07 with £6.20 going to savings.

Very large delivery with mu$clef0od coming on the 9th to stock freezer with meat. £69

£156.07/£250 :eek::eek::eek:

I also forgot it was half term this month so really need to try and save now for extra spends then.

Piglet27, I have seen the ads for Mu$clef00d and wondered whether it was good value. Would you recommend?


Thanks, GTSS x

VickyV

Couple of spends to report. £3.87 on a reduced whole chicken, reduced bbq drumsticks and tortilla wraps in Ald1. Further £3.65 in t0sco on bread, tofu and yet more milk.
Total stands at £53.96/£65
Even though I'm still under for the week, it feels like I've overspent because this is the most I've spent all year I think. Hopefully no more spends now til Friday's biggish shop.

Vicky x

Merlin's_Beard

PipneyJane, I got one of the £1 a meal books for Christmas and even with just one of me to cook for it's a disappointment. Portions are tiny!

So, first shop of the month and £61.80 out of £100 gone already.

There is now a LOT in my cupboards, and my freezer is starting to be restocked after a big defrost, and a lot of what I bought was meat, but :eek:

And £20 is already spoken for because I've got a delivery coming later in the month.

So... 23 days left and £20 left. Gonna be interesting! :rotfl:

Saver.The.Taste

Hi,I might be a little late to this but just stumbled across this thread and its exactly what I need in my life to help me reduce my grocery spend. I kept all my receipts in January and thought I'd been good, that is until I added everything up and realised I had been anything but!!

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this thread and If possible could I join with a monthly budget of £110.

Thank you again!!

K9sandFelines

£4.20 spent tonight at work.