January 2008 Grocery Challenge

redmel1621

£319.54 - This is my final figure...

Not too bad only £19.54 over. And this was a 5week month for me, before I joined this challenge I was spending £90 a week!!!! so would have spent £450.00.....That's a reduction of £130.46 yipeeee.

Mel x

oldMcDonald

Spent another £5.89 today, and will have £19 coming out tomorrow for our veg box delivery. I think I'm going to come in under budget this month! YAY!

Spent £158.65 of my £175 budget and only have a couple of things to buy to get us to Fridays new budget

rosieben

theamazinggem wrote: »

just seen the price of a free range chicken :shocked:

you people are going to destroy my budget with all these morals.

the morals you have to live by are yours, you dont have to live by anyone else's

its a case of compromise really isnt it? I'd love to be able to afford free range/organic all the time, but I do the best I can

I am getting s little bit tired of people telling me I HAVE to do this or that, buy this or that, my money gets spent how I want to spend it really.... sorry if that offends, but I dont think people come to OS to be nagged about whether or not they're buying organic or free range anything.

And for those who come here looking for help when they are really stressed out and short of money, being told they should buy organic chicken is one of the least helpful things they can hear.

LouiseJ

I have just burned a whole pan of pork curry as I am loaded with a cold and dozed off in the chair! Take away pizza tonight all round and I am not going to feel guilty about it!.....well not today anyway.

Off to sniff some olbas oil and feel sorry for myself.

oldMcDonald

LouiseJ wrote: »

I have just burned a whole pan of pork curry as I am loaded with a cold and dozed off in the chair! Take away pizza tonight all round and I am not going to feel guilty about it!.....well not today anyway.

Off to sniff some olbas oil and feel sorry for myself.

Poor you. Sometimes there is every excuse to say s*d it. I think that today you have that right

Hope you feel better soon.

BlushingRose

mhe wrote: »

Well done Blushing Rose - you are off to a fine start! Doesnt it feel so good to have halved your food bill this week. Dont forget to put that money straight onto another debt or you may be tempted to spend it!

No danger of that as we already have more going out than we've got coming in!

BlushingRose

belfastgirl23 wrote: »

HI Blushingrose

You've done pretty well on your shopping I'd say. I only have a few comments really. The first is to avoid lidl potatos if at all possible, or at least I know here in NI they are not good quality. The large value bags are £1.98 in asda, sainsbury and tesco (5kg) and are usually much nicer.

We've had some of them as mash, so far, and they did seem a litter 'watery' compared to our usual local produce potatoes.

The only other suggestion really is to make sure you have a plan that will use up all of the veg you've bought or freeze it.

Oh yep, we rarely throw out veg

Finally I'd say just to notice that you spent £17 of your budget on meat. Now I'm veggie so feel free to roll your eyes if you want but it is a very expensive way to get protein in your diet and it is worth thinking about swapping in some lentil and/or pulse based meals as well (though I did see the baked beans in there).

Yeah, all out meals have meat of some sort in there I'm afraid!


But well done for keeping it under £55, it's a good feeling when you realise you can manage it isn't it!

I was surprised, I have to say!

We're planning to shop down the local high street next week, just to compare when we're concentrating on what we're spending!

honeybe21

ok so i have looked in my cupboards and freezer have a list of odd stuff does neone know if there is a thread i can post this list on and maybe get advice on things i can make out of it pretttyyyy pleaseeeee

tattycath

Quote:
Originally Posted by theamazinggem
just seen the price of a free range chicken :shocked:

you people are going to destroy my budget with all these morals.

Hi there. I'm with Rosieben on this. You have to follow your own morals-and/or budget. For example, we buy free range eggs, but then again we don't buy free range chicken coz we just can't afford it-hyprcrite or what. But that is how it is, we buy what we can afford, if/when we can afford/want to be all moralistic we will be. I mean, If you went to a pub/restaurant and wanted chicken would you ask them where it came from? how it was looked after? how old it was when it died? how it was killed? no neither would I. I buy what I can afford, and these challenges aren't about ripping people to shreds for not having the same morals, values, etc its about us all pulling together to save money, get out of debt, etc etc. I hope this helps. The bottom line is, just buy what you want to buy, whatever suits YOUR family needs/wants.

bebee_2

NSD yesterday and did plan for the same today BUT due to another thread i have been reading decided to do a check of my baking store cupboard that i haven't used properly for quite a while OMG :eek: i did have to fling, revised what i needed and went of to the shops for Flour etc etc.
I have updated my total accordingly.
and yes i have done some baking, that has gone down a treat