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February 2018 Grocery Challenge

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  • Mrs_Cheshire
    Mrs_Cheshire Posts: 1,252 Forumite
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    NSD for me today. Will need milk and some wraps/bread for over the weekend so will probably pop there tomorrow evening.
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  • Mrs_Cheshire
    Mrs_Cheshire Posts: 1,252 Forumite
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    £21.50 spent at the county town market this morning, on meat for us 3 omnivores for the week, cabbage, spring onions, peppers & mushrooms for all 5 of us. A little more was actually spent, on food for my Mum, but that's her budget not mine! Though I did rather enjoy a gorgeous crab sandwich with her at lunchtime... fresh local Lyme Bay crab dressed with lime mayo, on lovely still-warm malt bread from the local bakers, with a rocket salad - doing her shopping's not all hard work!

    The sandwich sounds lovely. I've never had crab, next time I'm buy the sea I'm going to buy some!
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  • VfM4meplse
    VfM4meplse Posts: 34,269 Forumite
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    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 :D
    Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!

    "No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio

    Hope is not a strategy :D...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!
  • Chloris
    Chloris Posts: 720 Forumite
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    First shop done at a!di, £67.86. Over what I'd like but we did need a few long life items like chutney, mustard and the like. Will need to do the sa!ns shop tomorrow for the vegan and meat stuff.

    Good luck all! X
  • XSpender
    XSpender Posts: 3,811 Forumite
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    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
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    Pay off £7000 - £1743 - 19.4%
    Make £2021 extra income - £99.75
  • Glenda
    Glenda Posts: 150 Forumite
    Some spends for me this week £50.37/£150. This includes £15.00 for my daughters school lunches for the month. I was also lucky and bought some YS chicken, bananas, peppers and potatoes.
    I have enough food in the house to last until next Friday...hopefully.
  • 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:
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  • klbooth
    klbooth Posts: 221 Forumite
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    Start of the new month and have set my meal plan for the month, T delivery today with all the store items needed for the month and this weeks fridge items.

    £58.65/£430
  • cw18
    cw18 Posts: 8,630 Forumite
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    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 :o



    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......
    Cheryl
  • Not a brilliant start to the month. We have already spent 25.44, leaving 148.55 to last the month!

    On the other hand, I did buy a lot of household bits and a massive tub of cola cao which will let the month or longer. Meals are sorted until Monday but I'll probably buy a few nibbles tonight.

    Hope everyone has a good weekend!
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