January 2016 Grocery Challenge

jayII

First shop of the year, I've spent £44.24 on fish, fruit, veg and milk. We should be okay for the next week or so as the freezers, the fridge and the larder are all very full.

Total so far: £400/£44.24.

Familyhistoryresearcher

Forum Newbie here - Please may I join

I am fairly frugal but tend to buy too much yellow sticker food
I have 2 huge chest freezers and 2 small upright freezers, totally full, however 1 big chest freezer is for dog food. (3 huge German Shepherds fed raw who won't be included in my budget )

My budget for January is £200 1st Jan - 31st Jan

Frugal_life

A £2 spend yesterday but a lovely NSD for today! Hoping to make it through the next week with 6 NSD's... Fingers crossed!

Wooftastic

First shop of the year done, £40.42 which I'm pleased with.

mothershipton

Hi, here we go again. Can you put me down for £400. I am thinking of giving hubby the money in an envelope for the weekly shop. Not sure if he will go for it thought

rising_from_the_ashes

Popped to town to exchange a couple of things & stopped at B&M to get a couple of bits I forgot the other day (and was really annoyed about at the time!!)

Pack of 9 loo rolls (£2.99) and big tub of Coffeemate for work (£2.19)
Total = £5.18

Pit stop at the C**p for milk & crumpets ..... which they didn't have either of :mad: but got a couple of other bits
Total = £3.50

Jan to date = £27.68/ £175

Walnut

Shopping total today £18.83.

That included mince pies reduced to 42p, cat food, mince for me to do batch cooking for the freezer, 2 jars of coffee, 3 M&S local meals (on offer) for husband's 5:2 days, kitchen towels and and tonights dinner. It doesn't sound a lot for the money, but I will get quite a few meals out of that and I won't need to buy any more cat food for a week.

Tall_order

Please may I join? I may need to amend this but I shall go for £400 for the month but it has to include our diesel as it comes from the same budget!

We've just done a shop but have a lot of meat left over from Xmas. I am going to go through these recipes now as I need a lot of help with meal planning!

nannygladys

Found a carton of milk in the store cupboard, so haven't been out for any milk. I will have to buy/make some bread tomorrow but I'll see what I feel like when I get up tomorrow.
Nannyg

pavlovs_dog

£35.78/£180

More than I had anticipated spending, but I got some bits for stores that I didn't know would be on offer. We have a good stock now to see us through the month. Subsequent shops for January should be predominantly top ups for fresh bits.