January 2016 Grocery Challenge

TooClumsy

Would love to join (albeit a week late!)

£250

For a 2 person household running from 1st Jan to 31st Jan. Am flat sitting at the moment, so its a good chance to practice food budgeting.

Have already spent £78.62 on a food delivery and then milk, snacks and quorn chicken pieces.

Off I go to add the challenge to my signature!

good luck everyone!

mrs-moneypenny

Just spend £9.93 at Sains getting top up bread milk and a couple of pizzas as ds2s invited a friend round for tea. Me and Dh will still have the mash stuffed mushrooms and veggie sausages I'd planned earlier.
Just remembered I threw 20p in the coffee to at work as my contribution (it's 10p- day to save taking your own)

Just going to edit sig.

Kitchenbunny

Evening Popping on to report a small spend of £5.41 today for a few bits to last us over the weekend - mushrooms, veg oil, a loaf of RTC bread for the freezer, that kind of thing. I'm feeling really positive about how well the first week has gone and hope I can keep it going into next week too.

Curry tonight using 3 chicken thighs which I've taken the bones and skin off. I feel really virtuous as I added the onion ends and a ratty looking carrot from the fridge with some mixed herbs and a bayleaf, etc, and made stock with the bones. It is cooling on the side now. The chicken thighs are cut up ready for the curry and I'll try and save a portion to mix with some mayo over the weekend for coronation chicken.

Hope everyone has a lovely evening.

KB xx

Lauralozzle

4.49 on lunch today

cowboymum

More food today! £3.02 on mainly vegetables for this evening; £39.76 Tesco delivery (food for weekend). Also spent 40 p on yummy rolls for lunch with my slightly tasteless rubber chicken soup for lunch (forgot to put any seasoning in it).

FrugalinShropshire

Evening all.
My meal plan is really helping this week. I made a butter bean and cider casserole in the slow cooker and put some peeled potatoes on top, I did this before visiting OH in hospital this morning and when I got home this afternoon the smell was amazing. It was so lovely to come home to a ready cooked meal. It would have been so easy to pop into the chippy, but I made the effort. I also had the leftover spaghetti dish from last night cold for lunch and it was really yummy. I think the left over casserole will work as a soup tomorrow, liquidized with a bit of stock added:T

selement

Went to Aldi again to day and managed to spend way more than I expected >_<. In fairness I bought too many non grocery items. But I used the grocery card to pay (we have a prepaid card for shopping that we top up monthly) so I guess it still counts. Spent £51 T_T.
In fairness I knew I wanted things like the storage caddys before going so knew I'd spend a bit extra. £30.20 f the shop were non grocery items though... nothing standing out to me for next time though (picked up the leaflet about upcoming special buys) so hopefully the next shop will be better!

Mozzakate

Good evening lovely people. I still haven't spent any actual money yet :eek:I just don't need to buy anything at the moment. I will definitely need to do a bit of a shop on Sunday though as DD will need some milk (she's with her Dad until after school on Monday) This is actually a bit of a breakthrough for me, usually money burns a hole in my pocket but apart from nipping to 'Em & Ess' and using my gift card, I haven't felt the urge to spend :j

HornetSaver

Haven't actually posted on this thread since page 5, and have not set a target as this is a see-how-things-go month, but am very much still sticking to this.

The only other spends since then were £2.29 on a takeaway (it cost more than that, but I exceeded my personal allowance by that much and that was the reason for doing so), and £1 on an additional box of cereal to add variety (muesli is sometimes a bit too heavy first thing). That takes my spend for my first week to £32.31. My stocks are probably worth the same number of meals as before the challenge began, but should be cheaper to replenish (less pasta, no bread, slightly less frozen food though nothing has run out; more cereal and lots more yummy tuna).

Will update next week's main meals and shopping tomorrow. Need to do tuna burgers a couple more times before I post the recipe - temperature and timing are important for top results (you want them to solidify enough to be burgers, but remain moist enough to get the best out of the egg), but get those right and its an amazing little dish.

pollys

Evening all, I've just updated my signature after a trip to Mr A. I shopped according to my meal plan for the next week. I will need to buy peppers during the week as the ones available had a short shelf life.
DS came with me, he's going back to uni at the weekend. I bought him some food, washing tablets, shampoo etc but not from my grocery budget.
We have a fair bit of eating up to do this week. The freezer partially defrosted last week and now needs fully defrosting so a big shop coming up.

Polly