The Final Food Shop of February ...

 

So Sue in Suffolk yesterday used the title I had planned for today, to quote John hey ho ... I'll still use it anyway.  😃

Now this shopping looks a lot different to the other shops as it includes things for the dogs, Alan and my Mum.  The reason for this is because I wanted to use some of the Nectar points that I accrued over the whole of last year.  I had just over £40 worth and by stocking up on the dog food that we needed and that Alan usually buys, as well as getting a couple more things to take to Mum's this week, I managed to spend £30 of them.

I did not want to risk anything going amiss with my points as it did for Ali recently, so spending a big chunk of them seemed very wise.

Here is my receipt ...

... and here is my part of the Nectar point shop, and I only had to spend £1.54 of this months money to get all of the food.

I have shopped eight times this month, weirdly I bet this is going to be the most shopping trips in one month over the course of the year, and ironically in the shortest month.

My total spend for February is surprisingly just £57.45.

I'm really happy with that and it means along with last months carried forward amount of £14.79, I now have £42.55 from this month to carry forward.  A total of £57.34 unspent in the first two months of the year.  Now it's obviously not going to be this good later on in the year as I will have to start buying more and more as the stocks in the cupboard and freezer start to dwindle, but it's getting me ahead nicely and I hope to be under budget each month for at least the first half of the year.

Oh, and I have to mention that it was buying the single courgette the other day for 73p that made me check through my seeds to see if I had any seeds for planting this year.  I found some but only for yellow courgettes and I much prefer the green ones.  So now I have a packet and with up to twenty seeds in the packet for just £2 it's a lot cheaper than buying a courgette every week. 😀

Sue xx