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February 2023 Grocery Challenge
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Huge shop for the month from various places to get deals, offers and a cheeky Mcd breakfast. Enough to meal plan for the rest of the month, might just need milk and fruit in a week's time. Freezer is now full, cupboards fully stocked and fruit bowl full.
I've decided to try a monthly shop rather than weekly so I'm not tempted but things I don't necessarily need lol. Wish me luck lol.70.39/100
LLMWhen life throws you a curveball, learn to catch it and throw it back! Feb Grocery Challenge/£10011 -
First Feb big shop done. £73.05p spent, which was most of the budget (6.95p left)
I know costs are rising rapidly, but was absolutely aghast that the cereal I bought for £3.50 a few weeks ago, was £4.60p today… Needless to say I did not buy it, absolutely ridiculous money.
Anyway, on a brighter note we have some really good food in this week and shouldn’t need anything else.
have a good one, everyone! Good luck for the week aheadDebt Free Journey started 21.05.20179 -
Spent £115 so far10
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note to myself - budgets update to page 7! lost all my post because i didn't save - so saving as i go!!
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mfwin2019 said:First shop for the month 39.61
Happy with this and still working my way through stores.
I pick a couple of older cupboard residents a week to use up in meals.
Last weeks were half a box of jasmine rice (made a green thai curry) and a spice kit with the roasting bag (elderly veg roasted very yummy and served with mixed grains and some frozen cod steaks)
This weeks items will be half a box of lasagne sheets and then half a box of paella rice39. 61/280Follow here for the daily life of an ADHD mum with 2 children and a new mortgage to pay
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6570879/life-in-our-forever-family-home-and-the-mortgage-that-came-with-it#latest11 -
Thank you everyone for your advice about what you include and exclude in this challenge. It is great to see how everyone makes the budget work for them. And yes, I am learning so much just by being here, thank you.
Just bought milk today (£4.70). I do need to do a proper shop- am just building up a meal-plan/shopping list at the moment, will probably go tomorrow.£25.40/300
SPC #36 :staradminx 8.SPC7=£751.10 SPC8=£651.04 SPC9=£843.00 SPC10=£872.76
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Done big shop for month combination of Ldl/Ald/Sainsbugs/HB comes to £149.74 horrified at amount should only need too too up milk and bread for next few weeks but still a lot by day 5.Frugal challenge 2025
Feb Grocery Challenge £25010 -
Morning all, didn’t get round to shopping yesterday. Husband collected a tgtg budgens bag which is usually really good but a little disappointed this time £3.34, then he spent 76p on something else. Then whilst collecting bag picked up two bottles of milk as we’d run out £3. Did manage to get some apples and veg from olio non Friday night so should be ok here for a few more days now have milk.£9.70/2009
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It's been an eventful weekend, mostly because I was working, but also because of a possible alteration to household numbers (I think DD1's BF may have become an XBF, temporarily at least) so I'm late adding my market spend from Friday, which I'm delighted to say came in at £37.20, so I'm on target so far. But I've had to re-arrange the meal plan for this week - do-able, luckily. Worse things happen...
Angie - GC Aug25: £106.61/£550 : 2025 Fashion on the Ration Challenge: 26/68: (Money's just a substitute for time & talent...)9 -
This year I moved to buying non bio washing powder instead of tablets mainly because shops seem to be stopping their own brand tablets. I was reluctant initially, but a box of powder is cheaper and I have discovered that if I use less for just freshening up and more for a deeper clean, I can get 31 washes out of a 25 wash box. Does anyone else have a tally chart on the side of their washing powder box? 🤔. Another sad fact that i have discovered is that used sensibly 1 x double wound tesco toilet roll lasts one person one month. Cheaper Aldi ones dont last long at all and work out much more expensive so the outlay is worth it. What have I become? 🤦♀️😂craft stash 2023 =161, 2024 = 119 2025 = £25.96 spent, 128 made and 5 mended,
GC 2022 = £3154.96
2023 = £3334. 84
2024 = £.3221.81
2025 = £2254.03/£3300
Jan 413.77 Feb £361.32, March £192. April £438.06 May £261.66 June £204.54 July £260.95/ £250 August £246. 70 /£650
Decluttering campaign. 2024= 78 and half/52 bin bags full. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🏅💐DH ⭐12
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