February 2019 Grocery Challenge

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I'm in again - still on the annual budget

Nothing spent so far out of this months money which I am mighty pleased about and plenty of stuff in so hopefully I will have cash left over at the end of it!!

piglet27

GotToStopSpending wrote: »

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

Thanks, GTSS x

Hi GTSS,
I think muscle food is great value. Chicken breasts especially, they are 100% meat (no gristle, skin, weird veins etc) Each breast is around 200g so easily feeds 2 adults or 3 children. The burgers/sausages are very meaty with hardly any fat (the pan is still dry after grilling) and very filling also slimming world friendly.

HTH

pamsdish

£16.40 in Aldi as needed eggs, celeriac, soup, mushrooms yoghurt, and salad leaves, bought some more 70%moser roth and quite enjoying the little portions, when I was breaking squares from a bar it could be anywhere between 2 and 6 squares.

CRANKY40

I've changed my shopping day back to earlier in the week now Christmas is over. I went yesterday and spent £38.84 (signature updated). Cupboards still full and freezer reasonably so. I will have to replace a couple of freezer things like hash browns and oven chips otherwise the HT won't know what to eat but we're good for meat and veg for a while.

caronc

Two spends this week totalling £12.00 which be enough to keep me going until next week.

PipneyJane

The Grocery Challenge made Martin’s weekly email! :money:

Merlin's_Beard wrote: »

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!

I had a flip through one and wasn’t impressed. I’m certain the members of the Old Style Board could do better (and cheaper).

Two more spends to declare tonight. DH’s car needed petrol*, so I picked up my small shopping list and off we went to Mr T’s. £14.05 spent, mainly on yoghurts, mushrooms and peppers. We did try to come up with £50-worth of shopping, in order to get to the £50 threshold for the coupon for the 5p/litre discount on petrol but couldn’t get close. (The freezer is full and the pantry is too.)

We’re running low on freeze-dried instant coffee, but Mr T did not have the bag refills of their “Gold” coffee, only the much more expensive jars**, so off we went to L*dl. £7.62 spent in L*dl: £1.89 on a large jar of coffee, £3.99 on a Salmon En Croute, with the rest on squash and baked beans. (L*dl’s Simply beans are 22p a can).

The above brings our total spend to £38.06/£142.20, leaving £104.14 for the rest of the month.

- Pip




* We buy virtually all our petrol using my Tesco Clubcard Credit Card. Even if you’re only using it to collect points - and not pay - you still get double the usual points. (1 point per £1 instead of 1 point per £2)

** Haven’t seen the refill bags in over 3 months. Pity.

tighteningthebelt

£1.30 for a bag of sweets. A treat for dad who has been helping me with jobs (various). I ate some too, I won't deny it! Often I can 'pay' him in cold custard... But today the jobs were in the kitchen so it was not practical... Ergo... butter mintoes! Signature updated.

Doom_and_Gloom

Since last post we have spent £23.47.

£68.94/£182.
£113.06 left.

Edit :
OH went shopping. Another £9.98 spent.

£78.92/£182.
£103.08 left.

candygirl

Spent £20 in ALDI today, n got loads, so that makes £35/120 so farc:D

K9sandFelines

£8.00 spent in Morrisons today and 50p in work.