January 2008 Grocery Challenge

JoJoB

Right, £8.77 went in waitrose today (I was feeling too tired to walk the extra distance to aldi), £6.64 in Boots on OHs nicotine patches, and £8.00 in Wilcos on assorted toiletries and a cheesegrater. And 50p on a couple of baby vests in the charity shop. So £23.91 altogether today and have about £20 to last me till the 10th Jan. Feel on top of things. :j

Trying_hard_5

Hi,
I seem to have spent quite a lot of my total so far, but keep seeing bargains in the supermarket, so now have a full cupboard and cooked loads of meals for the freezer. Mind you, anythign has got to be better than what I was spending before!!

Frugaldom

Once again, there was no bread left on the shelves in the store! Entire shop for the day - 2 x fresh chickens at a total cost of £4. Signature update, guess I'll be making more soup and baking bread this weekend

EverTheOptimist

Hi all,

Hope everyone is well

I have spent £39.05, not good when my budget is £75 for the month, however in my defence.......

1. My freezer is now soooooo full, i may have to borrow space in my mum's freezer !!
2. The only things left to buy for rest of the month are fruit and veg and rabbit food.
3. Determined not to buy toiletries as got loads for xmas and sure to get more for my birthday this month.
4. Free meals at work, lunch and dinner, so that's 13 out of the 27 remaining days counted for.

And my tea tonight is cheese, onion and mushroom omelette - cheese and mushrooms need using up and eggs were free from the hens at work - Bonus

Bobbykins

Today's shopping extravaganza was located in the highly delightful aisles of Sainsbury's :rotfl: :rotfl: .

Spent £10.41 on the bits I couldn't get anywhere else and have now finished my "big" shop......only thing is that I forgot I needed extra spuds :mad: as my SIL is coming for sunday lunch.

Will try and send DH out later/tomorrow for those (if he goes, he pays, bless him, so that protects my budget - sneaky or what?)

lil_me

:rolleyes: I will not dwell on the £33.22 just added for the meal out.......pleased we don't go as often now, used to spend more than that (I don't know how much really as we didn't used to add it up but had more drinks and food than we did today) weekly going out for dinner, no wonder I was always skint and earned more nectar points in Brewer's Fayre than Sainsburys

dawnylou

Oh dear. Been out today to get some dog food - I'm sure it s more expensive to feed them than us!! Over £20 for 16 pouches and 12 cans. Seems a lot to me. Think they will be eating cheap food like us soon!!!!

Also got 4 packs of herbs each reduced to 20p to freeze to add to pizzas and casseroles etc. Some baby corn and broccoli to bulk up our stir fry we had for tea. and also 2 reduced curries to freeze for a treat next Friday night

Anway I sat down and wrote a list of everythin in my freezer and thinking about it by using up ingredients in my cupboards too we can possibly (POSSIBLY!!) go a week without shopping!

chocolate.orange_2

Right now i would love to have a go at this.

Since its my 1st month i suppose i had better base it off what i usually spend each week/ month which is about £60- £70 a week.
Theres 5 of us. H and i plus 3 boys 17,12 and 8. 1 Dog and a rabbit

So say £260 for the month.But cupboards are fairly full and so is my freezer

All i have spent so far this month is £1.29 for 4 pints of milk.

lil_me

dawnylou I changed my dogs food, I was thinking they were fussy until I was told by someone 'Stop being soft, the only one making them fussy is you!!!' they lasted a couple of days without eating, now are fine with the much cheaper dried food which I moisten for them. Probably cost me 1/4 what they used to do, no longer bullied by my pets Fish will eat whatever they are given, they love a few peas for a treat. Hedgehog tries to be fussy but doesn't get away with it, same with the lizard.

Sassamac

JoJoB wrote: »

Oh yes! I think i will buy one outfit at most. Not knowing if it is a girl or boy is a very good way to curb the spending on outfits too.

Going to concentrate on essentials like a cot mattress, and stuff for my hospital bag like breast pads and maternity towels (oh joy!). I would like a dressing gown and nightie as well. And slippers. These aren't essential but would make me feel more comfortable I think. Don't bother with them at home, I sleep starkers and just get dressed when I wake up.

My friend is dropping round loads of baby stuff today including a moses basket, sheeets, blankets, clothes and winnie the pooh mobile, so i will get a fix of baby stuff later on. Can't wait!

When are you due JoJo?
My DS was born in June and he wore little more than a vest for his first 3 months, DD was born in Sept and had drawer-fulls of newborn / 0-3 stuff. She still has twice as many clothes as him but thats girls for you.