February 2019 Grocery Challenge

VickyV

Need to post spends of 35p in Tesc0 for a lime and £3.80 in Ald1 for emergency loo roll, milk and lettuce. Not sure where that puts me for the week (I know I have £16 and a bit left) or the month, will update sig and stash the leftovers in the slush fund.

pamsdish

£7.71 in Tosco, seemed to have given the brandy a bashing this week so bought a litre for £16, bottles 70c just don`t seem to last, at least I had £13.50 in vouchers I have been saving, start expiring in June so used them, some y.s. goats cheese and a dolcelatte, sourdough loaf and some bleach bomb things for toilet cistern.
Saw a horror film on F/B about a snake curled around the toilet rim and its removal, only just, nearly, recovered from my friends rat in the toilet. So loads of bleach/ cleaners anything I can lay my hands on gets chucked into my toilet on a daily/hourly basis, in the hope of repelling any invasions.

Merlin's_Beard

£8.05 in T's so I'm 40p over for February.... you know what, I'll let myself off that. It should be the last shop for the month. I just wish I'd remembered that I had a £2 off voucher sat at home, would have been nice to be under!

I've done a bit of stocking up on tins in the last month or so, but I might do a bit more next month. It probably won't be needed but I won't feel awful if my freezer and cupboards are well stocked for the end of the month, just in case. And if it's not needed, then my April GC will be very, very easy!

Pamsdish... I'm off to bleach my toilet!!!

Wysiwyg49

Somehow my spends this week add up to a whopping £116.64 so I have blown the budget again and there's almost a week to go! :eek:

Made chicken stuffed with Philly and wrapped in a couple of slices of Parma ham dug out of back of fridge last night, with dauphinoise veg (potatoes, sweet potatoes and cabbage mixture). Very nice. Doing a paella tonight with the 1 leftover chicken breast - cooking for 3 is quite awkward for things like that! - plus a few prawns from freezer and some LO chorizo. So all that is from leftovers really.

Must do a good list for this weekend...

caronc

£26 today mainly on veg, bread etc. Hoping this is my last spend before the 28th though might need milk mid-week.

PipneyJane

Spent a whopping 65p in Lidl yesterday on hummus. I’m stalking them for their recycled toilet paper, which usually goes on sale in February but have yet to make an appearance. For the first time in a decade, we have absolutely no spare toilet rolls in the house. Come on Lidl! (Why can’t they stock the damn thing regularly? I have no idea. If you see any, please let me know.)

Tomorrow, when I visit MrT’s for the Sunday paper, I’ll buy a packet of their 2-ply recycled toilet paper, which is OK but not as nice as Lidl’s 4-ply. (Lidl don’t take Sunday Times vouchers.)

Anyway, the above takes our February GC Challenge to £87.33/£142.20 leaving £54.87 in the pot for the rest of the month.

- Pip

Doom_and_Gloom

Since last post we have spent £1.52.

I'm having tofu bean fajitas.
OH is out at a Rugby watching today, so junk food and copious amounts of alcohol is on his menu. That comes out of the entertainment budget though.

£175.82/£182.
£6.18 left

Yep defiantly going to be over budget though as at least £5.30 will be added for food part of an Abel and Cole delivery we need. It's damage control now. Hoping not to spend £200 this month though.
We've really noticed price rises. We've switched some products to cheaper stores but other products we won't compromise on.

Suffolk_lass

Had to buy two pints of milk and a block of cooking cheese but otherwise we will wait for pay day on Tuesday. I am off to make fridge veg curry and hm Naan's for tonight to have with a bit of monkfish tail. I think I will marinade it and then bake it in a foil parcel of steam and a knob of butter

YorksLass

MadamMim2013 wrote: »

Made a random stir fry with bits of this n that.. was very tasty, even DS1 said he’s like that again

I love stir fries and, like you, use up random bits & bobs - maybe that's why they never turn out the same twice! :rotfl: They're always nice though.

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

We've really noticed price rises. We've switched some products to cheaper stores but other products we won't compromise on.

Yup, and that's before B-Day too! Why do I get the feeling some manufacturers/stores are just jumping on the bandwagon?

Didn't do the Sainsbugs run on Friday after all as I decided we could manage a few days more. So, just market spends totalling £7.70. There's now £61.36 left in the kitty and one week to go - really pleased with that as I can divert some extra dosh to the holiday fund. :j

thriftwizard

I've added £75 to my total, which is a bit of a guess but an over-estimate rather than an under-estimate. It's more than it needed to be but I'm on my last week of treatment now & my brain has apparently wandered off to somewhere nicer! It also includes some special offer storecupboard buys for future reference; for example an extra bottle of vanilla extract.

I am sooooo looking forward to feeling better and being able to quaff orange juice & eat marmalade again!