January 2017 Grocery Challenge. NEW BEGINNINGS!

medsdemon

Could you please include me for this month ( a little late !).

I'm going to try for [COLOR="rgb(139, 0, 0)"][COLOR="rgb(139, 0, 0)"]£250[/COLOR][/

This is to the 31st and to include all household items and pet food ( I think our biggest spend is maybe the cat food 😳). I am trying to save for a holiday and moving house and we have slipped into lazy habits spending on easy dinners so I hope this might focus me and keep me cooking healthily and properly now my DD has gone back to uni ( have been good cooking properly and healthily since she turned vegan for her New Years Resolution).

So more veggie meals, try and make lunches for work, do a prescription order for GF, and shop YS is the plan.

My cupboards aren't that full but do have a few things I need to use up in the freezer.

Will do an Aldi shop on Monday to top up for the week and hopefully not need to go to the shop the rest of it!!

t14cy_t

nsd yesterday, but out later for ys bargains to restock!!xx

littleskintdragon

Managed to stick to my £50 budget for this week. I used an £18 off £60 shop for sainsbobs, total spend £45 including delivery (£1).
I ordered a large chicken, which has already done two meals, and theres plenty left for another.
I don't usually shop there because it takes half an hour to get there, but im really pleased with all that ive had.

ancientmum

Morning all
I have decided to start doing my main shops at DiAl and DilL, went to DiAl last night and it came to £21.26, which I was pleased with.
I do not have a freezer so will need to buy extra during the week for dinners and lunches, but am also using up stock from cupboards. I like the way so many of you on this thread are really inventive using what you have available.

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£29.42 spent to date - next week my monthly payment is needed for the fruit & veg box which will add quite a bit to my running total!!;)

Caterina

Good morning,

Hoping in a NSD Today.

Can't vouch for DH but as I am in charge of grocery I doubt that he would buy anything grocery related.

Have a good day.

snowfox

Morning all! Yesterday's delivery was £51.78, a bit more than I wanted but we were out of some essentials like loo roll, so I stocked up. Signature has been updated.

We get our deliveries from Oc*do because I really like them, but it is pricey sometimes even if I hunt through their offers. I'm thinking of using them only every other week for the heavier and specialist items and then going to L*dl the alternate weeks. Bit of a pain because we don't have a car and it's a 25 minute walk (or bus ride for the way back) but the exercise would do me good. I'm going to do a comparison on My Supermarket today and see if it's worth it (probably ).

lynnejk Thanks I'm going to make a broccoli and stilton to use up some leftover Christmas cheese.

Poor_Single_lady

This thread really helps me in my decision making and my behaviour. And makes me feel less alone in my battle of spending less on food.

I haven't tracked to the letter -a bit annoyed with myself as I could have easily. But I was at £30 and then didn't take lunch in for a few days and had a bacon sandwich at work but I think £40/60 is accurate.
Not sure £20 for 3 weeks is achievable but I have been emptying the freezer a good bit, make soup this week for work plus 1 lunch out with friend (not this budget), breakfast all sorted and one dinner out (not this budget) so this week is starting to look a bit lighter.
7x ceareal and toast for breakfast
4x soup, 1 lunch out and 2 wkend lunch at home
5x normal dinners, 1x beans on toast, 1x dinner out.
Plus snacks. Need to go to
Lidl.
Thanks to everyone. Plus the lady that posted about the woman putting the discount stickers to other products. That made me cross. I hope they have her on camera.

Cappella

Pennygrabber posted

While I was in a@da, stocking up on Allen lights which are only £1 atm, I saw a lady being really naughty... She picked up a few packs of mince, which had been reduced to £2.89, and then went over to the veg section, peeled some 10p labels off the swedes and put them onto her mince!! What a cheek! She was strutting round, with her expensive coat and posh handbag...

That's not cheek. It's theft. And people behaving like that are the reason prices keep rising as the stores cover their losses (well, there are other reasons too ut theft is one of them) I would have found a staff member and reported her, but I'm a crabby old bat these days. Hope her cheap mince gave her stomach ache.

I spent £31 yesterday, less than half the amount I usually spend and am very :j Still on target, food mountain slowly becoming a hill and finally feeling that I CAN do this.

zafiro1984

Poor_Single_lady wrote: »

This thread really helps me in my decision making and my behaviour. And makes me feel less alone in my battle of spending less on food.

Me to, reading what everyone does help me to stay on the straight and frugal. My willpower has never been good and this thread certainly gives it a boost.