February 2022 Grocery Challenge

wannalot

I got my second big shop of the month delivered from Morrisons tonight. A fairly decent haul of veg, meat and dairy with very few treats or garbage, which should help my weight and my bank balance! All in all, I spent £37.99 after using a discount code. So I have around £23 left for the month, which I will definitely need. I already know I need bin liners and yogurt, and I’ll look for a few bargains at the weekend.

I’m glad I didn’t actually need to shop in person tonight, not just because of the foul weather here, but because I’m actually feeling pretty miserable both because I was notified that my energy bill is increasing (from £67 to £96) and because a colleague was genuinely vile to me this morning, in a way which I haven’t managed to shake off all day. I’ll never understand why some people set out to upset others unnecessarily.

I’m in a real mood, and if I was in the shops tonight, I know I would buy stuff to make myself feel (temporarily) better, so it’s best avoided! 

Anyway, sorry for whingeing! Tomorrow might well be better! 

goldfinches

@wannalot - sorry to hear about your colleague's nastiness. If you like reading fiction where assorted unpleasant characters get their comeuppance in various ingenious ways have a look at Sarah Waldock's books on the kindle site. I find her books both funny and engaging and very much enjoy the ways she dishes out retribution.

Soontobeoap

hi all. Big shop came this morning £80 spent at tescos which included toilet rolls , dish cloths and dishwasher tablets on offer. The non food items are so expensive! Bought steak and kidney at butchers for £8.83 in the week ( DH favourite) so an expensive week this week. Fingers crossed that I stay in target this month after last months appalling estimate! 😜.
I may be sad but I am becoming consumed by the challenge to be more inventive with meals. At my ripe old age I thought I knew most of the ways to create bargain food, cook meals from scratch, eat at home, avoid take always etc. however this month I am learning how to stretch those ingredients further than ever. Who knew that you could microwave an already cooked leftover jacket potato to do 2 more lunches!🤯. ( I always cook an extra one as you can’t tell if they are bad inside) also I threw a tin of mushroom soup over some pasta added a sprinkling of meat and hey presto a meal for 2. DH doesn’t like a veggie meal but is quite happy if their is a sprinkling of meat I have discovered. Out of 2 chicken breasts this week we had, meal 1, chicken, sausage , jacket potatoes and bubble and squeak, 2. Chicken pasta. 3. Chicken jacket potatoes with curried chicken filling and salad. It’s all about streeetching the ingredients in this house at the moment. I feel that it is giving me some control over the rising prices and we are also losing weight!

Soontobeoap

wannalot said:

I got my second big shop of the month delivered from Morrisons tonight. A fairly decent haul of veg, meat and dairy with very few treats or garbage, which should help my weight and my bank balance! All in all, I spent £37.99 after using a discount code. So I have around £23 left for the month, which I will definitely need. I already know I need bin liners and yogurt, and I’ll look for a few bargains at the weekend.

I’m glad I didn’t actually need to shop in person tonight, not just because of the foul weather here, but because I’m actually feeling pretty miserable both because I was notified that my energy bill is increasing (from £67 to £96) and because a colleague was genuinely vile to me this morning, in a way which I haven’t managed to shake off all day. I’ll never understand why some people set out to upset others unnecessarily.

I’m in a real mood, and if I was in the shops tonight, I know I would buy stuff to make myself feel (temporarily) better, so it’s best avoided! 

Anyway, sorry for whingeing! Tomorrow might well be better! 

Keep your pecker up wannalot. Remember you are doing a great job by taking care of your spending. Hopefully next week is a better one for you.

joedenise

A couple of spends since I last posted including 3 Magic Bags (2 Morries and 1 Costa) for £9.18 plus a spend of £17 something now leaves me with £167.22/£250 for the rest of the month.

mumtoomany

£10.08 to declare since last here. 65p in M&S, plus another £26 in vouchers. Lots of vegi stuff for DD3, reduced cream and parsnips, salad bits pork pie for OH and 2 packs of tacos. Not happy with these as more than half were broken. Email sent off to them this morning. Not taking them back to the store, it would cost 2 litres of diesel, £1.80 parking and a lost morning. Spent £5.28 in B&M, hot dogs, 6 litre bottles of milk, (reduced to 10p each), chocolate biscuits and chocolate! £4.15 at Coop for half price flavoured belly pork, (3 packs). 
Total to date is £180.86/£2640. Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xx

pamsdish

wannalot said:

I got my second big shop of the month delivered from Morrisons tonight. A fairly decent haul of veg, meat and dairy with very few treats or garbage, which should help my weight and my bank balance! All in all, I spent £37.99 after using a discount code. So I have around £23 left for the month, which I will definitely need. I already know I need bin liners and yogurt, and I’ll look for a few bargains at the weekend.

I’m glad I didn’t actually need to shop in person tonight, not just because of the foul weather here, but because I’m actually feeling pretty miserable both because I was notified that my energy bill is increasing (from £67 to £96) and because a colleague was genuinely vile to me this morning, in a way which I haven’t managed to shake off all day. I’ll never understand why some people set out to upset others unnecessarily.

I’m in a real mood, and if I was in the shops tonight, I know I would buy stuff to make myself feel (temporarily) better, so it’s best avoided! 

Anyway, sorry for whingeing! Tomorrow might well be better! 

Don`t worry about her @wannalot, karma is a wonderful thing, and the longer it takes the sweeter it is. I got my revenge on a customer nearly a year later, but all my colleagues were delighted too.

Suffolk_lass

Just milk for me since my big shop at the start of Feb.

I plan to spend tomorrow. We will be going to the market tomorrow as we are out of bowl fruit and we might be tempted by the wonderful artisan baker and the lovely fishmonger. We can live without treats but I will see what DH says - new puppy is consuming much of our energy - we will need  to go to the cafe near the market but there is the question of whether we get crisps, or ice cream, or other naughty things. Although with no other entertainment planned until 19th it isn't outrageous (except for the waistline)

PipneyJane

MissRikkiC said:

@PipneyJane ours is a Samsung RS8000 range Rs67 something which does have the water dispenser plumbed but I’m sure you can get the next one down that’s not plumbed in. I can only vouch for it being good since last Friday but seems you’ve had Samsung before and it served you well so I’m hopeful this will be the same for us. 

Ooohhhh.... thanks @MissRikkiC.  I will see if I can go and inspect one in a shop. 

Now to win over DH.  (He's the expert Moneysaver and won't want to replace something that is still working.)

- Pip

Soontobeoap

joedenise said:

A couple of spends since I last posted including 3 Magic Bags (2 Morries and 1 Costa) for £9.18 plus a spend of £17 something now leaves me with £167.22/£250 for the rest of the month.

What is a magic bag?