January 2017 Grocery Challenge. NEW BEGINNINGS!

Islandmaid

NSD here - have spent the morning de-Christmas'ing the house and writing a meal plan for the week, won't need to go shopping till Wed, and then hope to keep it under £20 for essentials.

thriftwizard

Sigh - £10.33 added on a run around town - I'd not noticed that we were almost out of instant coffee. So two big jars on special offer bought, plus some naans & poppadums; it's curry night tonight & the last one before DS3 goes back to uni, so a couple of his favourites are called-for. When it's just the girls, OH & I , I make gram-flour flatbreads instead of naans. But DS3 is notoriously unwilling to try anything new...

missyp123

1st shop of the month and my first real go in a long time at budgeting for food.
Id say its the 'BIG' shop of payday.
I usually spend at least £150 so £75.95 isnt bad going :T

would like to try and do a few NSD now if its at all possible!

dreamingofmoney

Good afternoon,
1st spend of the year today, needed washing tabs so nipped to Asda for some of their own and got much needed bread, and coleslaw too. 1st spend = £6.19
Big thanks to all who run thread
Xx

Doom_and_Gloom

Soo sorry for those going through a bad time right now, hugs to those that need them. Hoping things will get better for everyone.

I'm putting us down for £155 starting 1st and going until the 31st. This is going to be just for food for 2 people. We have no need for cleaning items etc at all at the moment. Chinchilla budget is separate now. I have the money out in cash already.

Yesterday we had a NSD. OH may go shopping later when he gets home, will post if he does.

Tealmummy

8.37 spent today so 71.63 remaining for the month technically.....

ended up taking daughter to greggs for lunch and getting a taxi home would you take these out of your grocery challenge budget or a seperate one?

fairy3

First spend of the year - small one at £3.84p on top up milk and bread - menu plan done for rest of week will just need veggies at the weekend.

Florence_J

50p on a loaf of bread this afternoon.

freyasmum

Unintentional NSD here too.

I have a cough which has kept me up for the past few nights and, being pregnant, I am unsure which, if any, cough syrups are ok. So I went to our Tesco extra looking for pineapple juice, or even fresh pineapple - but they only had whole, fresh pineapple and they were all really under ripe So no pineapple for me today!

I am going to have a hot water with honey (don't like it ) and lemon instead. Hopefully I can sleep tonight, 'cos I have clients first thing!

Hopefully, I can hold off going to the shops till Friday as that's when we get paid.

pajama

Sent Hubby and 18 year old daughter to Aldi this morning for the weeks shop. Armed with a list they managed to get everything except courgettes or bananas (all bananas were too ripe for how we like them).

This was Hubby's first proper big shop in years. He hates shopping and I knew he would stick to the list and whiz around Aldi at lightning speed to get the chore done haha. He was only going to nip to Aldi to get a box of tea bags and I jokingly said, you might as well do my shop for me and save me doing it tomorrow