February 2018 Grocery Challenge

NSD for me today. Will need milk and some wraps/bread for over the weekend so will probably pop there tomorrow evening.

NSD for me today too.

On the downside I’ve got enough milk for precisely one cup of coffee, after that’s gone it’s either open up the dreaded soya milk or go to the supermarket

Small shop in Mr T on crisps, Jaffa cakes and GF cakes for weekend visitors and the weekly shop done in Asda. Spent more than usual as bought extras for visitors coming.

I am planning to have a super low food spend in March but may have a trial run from next Friday to practice and bring me back on budget for February.

Current total£234.36/£407

A small spend of £21.91 in Mr M's & Local.. 2 ys items, fish and mince.. Will freeze both..
Need to go through house and make up a proper list of items needed and from which shops, then I can decide what days best to get what from where!
DS1 arrived home with unrepairable rip in blazer.. :eek: glad that's not out of the grocery budget at £35:eek:

Day off work today. Had planned to use this morning's run to get to to my closest H@lfords to pick up some inner tubes for my bike, but the click & collect order didn't arrive when it should have so wasn't there for opening time. As such I ended up doing my run while waiting to see if the order arrived this morning (it didn't, so the store did me a deal on some dearer ones ), which meant I ended up driving - which meant I ended up browsing other stores on the retail park and doing some food shopping.

Started in £Stretcher with a spend of £3.26
Two boxes of herbal tea bags @ 69p each
A roasting bag with herbs for a chicken - reduced to 10p
Two bags with spice mixes for meat or fish - 29p each
A box of 4 vegetable stock pots - reduced to 20p
6 bags of biscuits meant for toddlers, but good for me while I try to reduce spends on 'junk' - 25p/bag or 6 bags for £1 (140g per bag)

Then another £1 in H0me Bargains for a jar of red cabbage

And then £4.37 in Aldi (after I got 6p refunded as corned beef now goes through the till at £1.45, but the shelf ticket still said £1.39)
Wholemeal loaf - 40p
Stir fry veg (for tea tomorrow) - 89p
Corned beef - £1.39
and my first major blip of the month - a tub of ice cream for £1.69 (very nice it was too!)

So currently at £8.63 / £80



I also picked up some energy gels, but I'm not taking those out of my grocery budget as they're fitness related. I've been told not to consider doing the marathon without using some, so I need to start trying them out as different people have problems with different types. They give out 'freebies' during the race, but that make is expensive to buy to use while training and if the ones I got today suit me it'll be cheaper to use these through training and on the actual day......