January 2008 Grocery Challenge

cookie9

Going to try to stick to a £60 budget. Have done my menu plan for this week and shopping. Next week will just buy milk, fruit and vegetables and use up freezer food - have £11 to spend on this so should be ok.

juliejim

Okay, I'm late as usual, £300 for the month for me, DH, 2 kids & 2 dogs. So far I've spent £76.29 so we'll see how I get on.

Jue

jackiegibbo

Hi everyone
just back from asdas and spent the grand total of £1.67:j on 3 loaves of bread and 2 bottles of water and i used my jar of 1p and2p pieces to pay for it:rotfl: at the self service counter i just fed them all into the machine.I feel like a real mse now,i actually got the idea from another post on here i think.............brilliant idea
many thanks

FRUGALPIE_2

Hi All,

Going to try this again - going to do this from now till 30th Jan - my next pay day. Going to go for £300 - that's £60 for my veg boxes and £50 per week.

Hugs to all

Frugalpie
xx

Skint_Catt

£11.98 top up shop today - even though the weekly shop was yesterday! Damn me taking OH with me! :rotfl: I only wanted carrots and leeks!

Catt xx

sweetpea03

kiwi88 wrote: »

I know someone mentioned bread flour on offer/cheap in one of the shops but I can't remember where? Does anyone have any ideas?

hi kiwi, it was MRSMCAWBER who mentioned the bread offer, it was in Lidl for 48p no idea if its still on offer (does anyone else know?) I will check for you when I go there this week if you like

kiwi88_2

Thanks sweetpea
Might pop in there tomorrow afternoon then and stock up as that's a good price.

JoJoB

Spent another £10 on groceries today which could have been avoided really. As could the lunch in a greasy spoon and cab fare and cokes in a pub! Still, it's a learning experience and I am becoming a lot more aware of where our spending habits lie. Still on course re grocery budget, but could do better with silly "treats" we don't really need.

bails

No spending for me so far today so looking good. Have menu planned til the end of the month now, off to Sains tomorrow for most of it then will just need fruit and veg, milk and bread (she says optimistically). It's going to be v difficult to stay under budget this month (got to buy hay and cat food as well as all goodies already bought) but I'm confident we will spend a lot less overall this year. We WILL!

lingojingo

Thank you very much Waddy80 and Mollymop5 for making me feel welcome.

What a lot of tips and advice there is on here, it's just taken me half an hour to read them all and note down some good ideas. I'm sure we'll all benefit even if we don't quite manage our targets.