January 2008 Grocery Challenge

kiwi88_2

Update as promised on Mr T's delivery today.

Not too bad but I had to add some items I'd forgotten :doh: and a couple of offers had finished by the delivery date and they had subsituted 4 items and only one was cheaper but did get a code for £7 off soooo

Total spend £108 exactly £108 how weird :rotfl:

tattycath

Hi everyone. Been really busy today (not just on MSE either:D )
I have to add £8.78 to my sig before I start for grocery spends the other day. Called at Morrisons tonight. and spent £20.70.
£5.00 of that was for savings stamps. A break down of the other £15.70 is:
1 dozen free range eggs £2.45 (+ 6 extra free)
Long life milk x 2 @44p £0.88
Teabags Tetley 80 £1.56 (100% extra free)
Teabags Tetley 80 £1.56 (100% extra free)
Teabags Tetley 80 £1.56 (100% extra free)
Value bacon 300g £0.96
Value bacon 300g £0.96
Can't blve not butter £0.98 (bogof)
cream buns 2 £0.59 (reduced)
Heinz spaghetti x4 £1.60
Heinz spaghetti x 4 £1.60
Peppers x 3 £1.00
I've just 'phoned morrisons as the spaghetti was supposed to be 2 pks for £2 and I didn't get the discount. They were very polite and apologetic and I will be reimbursed next time I go in the store. Makes me wonder how many other times I have not received reductions, because it's only since being on MSE that i actually check my receipts. Anyway I still have over £160 to spend for this month's challenge and another £1.20 to come back from Morrisons. And I also have a total of £10 in savings stamps towards next christmas.

frankerooney

My Mum came today and went to Mr T with my shopping list. She knows I'm trying to spend as little as possible but when I pulled the food out of the bags I could tell she's not used to budgeting herself! I asked for the cheapest carton of apple juice and she got the cheapest fresh apple juice rather than the long life stuff, for example... And Bisto Best gravy granules instead of ordinary... This is only my 3rd month doing the GC but it really made me wince to think of the pennies I could have saved if I'd done the shopping myself. Oh well it was nice of her to volunteer!

cheerfulness4

Just popped to Tescos and spent another £8.49 which I've added to my sig.
Only went for loo rolls but noticed Tescos own milk is £1 a bottle.
So shop consisted of:

5 x 2l milk £5.00
3 x v toilet roll £1.14
60 cocktail saus 75p (reduced)
seasonal veg box 10p " "
2 x fresh fruit salad @10p each (reduced)
feta/coscous salad 10p (reduced)
Lrg peanut butter 90p
cointreau d cream 30p (reduced)

The veg will be frozen, the sausages will make toadies, battered sausages, sausage pasta bake and maple sticky sausages (among other things)

Not a bad shop, me thinks.

miecherox

Hello all,

Been thinking money saving all day, although hasn't stopped me buying!!

Received my monthly tesco order last night (mostly cupboard stuff/cleaning stuff etc) - came to exactly £99.04 including delivery although...my delivery was twenty minutes late - very annoying. Does anybody think I have justification to ask for delivery charge back? Please let me know.
I shopped about a bit today and topped up on fresh stuff and spent...
Asda - £23.17
iceland -£3.60
QS - £3.00 (hat and gloves for me)
Card factory - £1.00 (10 cards for a Pound - brill!)

This takes my monthly spend so far to £152.31
I have meal planned with what we in already and have told OH that we will not be having anything other than on the list. I have managed to "make" 19 meals which takes us to the 22nd - fabulous!!

P.S how do i start the sig? ie keeping a tally for all to see on my profile?

littlemissclumsy

thanks for that tip 'lil me. the mozzarella pizza pies sound yummy!!

and the fact they freeze well is great!!

now off to check Tesco for reductions...may not be a no spend day after all!!!:rolleyes:

Mollymop5

woohoo Asda order arrived tonight.Lots of food in my freezer.I was hoping £54 might do me 3 weeks but I may be able to stretch it to 4.Think it will be a sausage casserolein slow cooker tomorrow.The cold and snow makes me want something like that.

VickyA_2

I'm a lapsed challenger, so I think that DH and I need to hop back onto the wagon. We're normally quite good, but need to get things in check - especially with the announced gas and leccy price rises.

We do normally meal plan and I do have a freezer stacked with meat and frozen portions of spag bol etc. We'll have a go at spending £120 (just the 2 of us) for a calendar month - we both get paid on the last day of the month, so this is better for us. We try to buy all our meat at the farmers' market and/or at our fab local butcher.

Here's hoping!

Sassamac

miecherox wrote: »

P.S how do i start the sig? ie keeping a tally for all to see on my profile?

along the top row you need to select either User CP from where you can edit all your profile stuff including your sig, or choose quicklinks from the top row and edit sig from there.

well done on 'creating' 19 meals from your freezer. I need to do the same its bulging.

scotrae

"Does anybody think I have justification to ask for delivery charge back? Please let me know." (thought that would show as copied from another post but it doesn't .. not sure how to do all this yet)

I'd definitely call their customer services line and make the point that you had to rearrange your day owing to waiting later for your delivery. (No matter what you had to do and whether or not you had to go out, you didn't get chance to put your shopping away at the time you'd planned to so this is not untrue.)

Ask them to refund the delivery charge at least. Sainsbury made no quibbles about their their late policy and issued a £10 voucher to me once for being only a few moments late. Actually, the BBC 1 o'clock news started about a minute before their van appeared speeding into our road and several minutes before the driver rang the doorbell. If Sainsbury can manage that on a 60 minute time slot Tesco ought to honour their two hour window.

Good luck.