February 2025 Grocery Challenge

thriftwizard

Dashing through to add £24.87 to my total, actually spent on Saturday on a few baking necessities and the things I couldn't get at the market on Friday! I needed the baking things because I hadn't yet done the monthly non-perishables run down into the city, and it's not looking very likely that I'll get it done this week either as I'm silly-busy again - luckily those were the only bits we were close to running out of so we can keep going for a few more days now. 

Who am I kidding?! We'd have survived ok without scones etc... it just wouldn't have been as cosy!

t14cy_t

yay 5th feb and havent spent any money yet, not sure how long it will last though.!!  im booked in to do collections from olio thurs, fri, sat and sunday this week if theres anything to collect. so hopefullythere will be some bits for us to keep on track with. 

Thistimenxtyear

Hello, 

January went horribly wrong and i couldn't get into the habit of posting (also didn't want to because it was all going wrong), back on the wagon! Another £375 for Feb as on the first page. Its only a 4 week month so i'm reasonably confident this time. 

I may have mentioned in January that through a perks at work scheme i can buy supermarket gift cards which earn me points that i can then turn into a free Christmas shop (hopefully). I started the month by loading the Sbury card up with £200 and the 4sda card with £100. that leaves me with £75 to play with for bargains at other stores if required. 

So far i've managed to spend £68 in 4sda, which i only planned in because the beans/beans and sausage/beans and vegan sausage are on 5 for £5. HOWEVER! i got home and checked the receipt - only 4 of the tins had scanned on the self scan thing, so i ended up paying £7.40! The dilemma then was to go back and admit I'd accidentally nicked a can of beans, and could they add it to my shop and give me some money back, or have a little cry about it then laugh because i am a bit of a prat. I've not been brave enough to go back. 

joedenise

Probably worth emailing Customer Services and see if that produces a result.  You've got nothing to lose and £2.40 to gain!

Nelliegrace

February Budget £140.

That is £5 a day for 2 pensioners.
The shared meat ration is £6 a week.

WW2 Britain. One week's average rations for an adult:- 1 shilling and 2 pennies worth of meat; 4ozs bacon or ham; 2ozs cheese; 4ozs margarine; 2ozs butter; 2ozs lard; 8ozs sugar; 2ozs jam; 2ozs tea, and 5 points worth of rationed foods, consisting of a tin of baked beans, 1 lb. of lentils, or a 3 ozs tin of spiced ham.

DH has fetched milk, £2.90.
We have shopped at Aldi for fresh fruit, vegetables, milk, and a packet of mixed fruit and nuts. £11.11.

The hens have laid 10 eggs so far, we sold 6 for £1 towards their feed. Smallholders layers pellets are now £14.60 for 20kg.
We have had a portion of beef mince, 2 chicken thighs, cooking bacon, and cheese out of the freezer

£14.01 spent £125.99 left. 

Cassingtonbear

£136 spent so far this month of our £720 budget.

It includes one bigish shop, one medium size, and two take aways for my wife and kids.

I need to stop eating out of boredom

JingsMyBucket

Evening folks. I have spends from Sunday morning to declare. 

£20.95 at Lidl for sausages, meatballs, ground beef, frozen gyoza (it’s Asian Week), oat biscuits, their W5 dishwasher tabs, shortbread, and brown sugar for baking. The shortbread was for Mr. Jings to take to a friend he was visiting this week. 

£35.35 in M & S for strawberries, clementines, 2 packs of Italian style sausages, butter, 2 cans of sardines, 1L extra virgin olive oil, baked beans, compost bags, a big block of cheddar, garlic, and YS olive ciabatta rolls. 

I’ll count the £9 olive oil and £2.49 dishwasher tabs toward the bulk line. I actually read the tabs as £4.98 on the shelf so it was a nice surprise when my Lidl’s total came up cheaper. 

£176.34 / £330.00 spent. £153.66 remaining. 

£10.00 to last me through February 7th as I’m allocating about £45/week for the rest of the month. £13.63 of bulk funds left

We may need some more bananas tomorrow. Both of us came down with a bad stomach bug this week and we’ve been eating the bananas at a faster clip as easy and bland food. Those bulk funds will be enough to get us a new giant box of Fairy non-bio detergent for OH later this month.

MissRikkiC

@Nelliegrace unless you’re purchasing the layers with worming treatment in, haygates is £6.75 for 20kg on the bay of E. free delivery too. 

We get ours from a local shop which is about £7 I think but maybe worth it for you. 

sams247

£10 today in Community Food Centre, but stocked up with lots of things that should last me for a week.  Used up prawns for tea, in a tandoori sauce made from a basic recipe.  

Went to Ikea and lovely DIL bought me lunch so that was nice.  

LadyWithAPlan

@elsiepac sorry I am late to the Feb GC

 Feb Grocery £170 target  + £30 bulk

£83.23 spent already  !!! - I do have a full fridge and freezer now and on my second roast chicken of the month 5 days in.
Had no heating for a bit as boiler went down so lots of hot filling stews and soups.

I will need to get a bulk lot of coffee (norm big river) but its really gone up  £42 for 10 and I think I bought it last week for £4.25 so ....I  will shop around locally  and see if I can get points - only really like Lava**a, Illy and a few other expensive coffees. Cheap ground coffee/beans is a false economy as I hate the taste,

I am saving already my Morries fivers for xmas - I have £9 approx worth so far - as opposed to spending it thru the year

(Jan overran   £210  £187  + £23.39 abroad sub - it was more than this but some was covered by per diem)