January 2017 Grocery Challenge. NEW BEGINNINGS!

Franalamadingdong

No spends from us. I think we will be ok until Wednesday. I'm thinking of picking up a couple of chickens from the new butcher.

We might go to the butcher earlier in the week depending on what fresh stores we need to get based only on, and I must remind myself of this, what the menu says we need! There's a small Xpress store in town, but not a proper supermarket. So I can buy yogurts, but not my 35p ones, so if we need much I'll be doing two shops next week!

medsdemon

Spend of £5.99 on a bottle of wine and a packet of crisps for 'starters' before going out last night.

I think I'll need to do a shop at Aldi today/tomorrow with a list as out of quite a few basic ( cat food, kitchen roll, dishwasher tabs etc). And fresh stuff as we're trying to eat healthier and more than 5 a day��.
My other plan is to get my OH more organised to take food to work instead of buying it everyday. ( I don't include his lunches in my budget though if he does buy it)

Cooking wise I am wanting to make a batch of gnocchi, cook a veggie shepherds pie and make bean burgers/falafels ready for next weeks dinners. Might treat my OH and cat to a roast chicken today though ��.

t14cy_t

nsd yesterday, hoping to do a ys shop today. xx

Suffolk_lass

Bought lots of laundry detergent (on offer) from my stores budget. I realise it is the first time I have bought any for a year(!). Also expanded my stores by buying some condensed soup tins which are good for quick pie-filling with l/o chicken pickings. I bought two - one for the pie I will make this week and a spare, because they were on offer at 78p. So far I have spent £102.02 this month on day-to-day stuff which is more than I hoped but less than my budget.

I am also trying to reduce my freezer stores but the butcher's is so good and tempting, and yesterday I bought enough for the week for us. I also bought some bacon and cooked pies for DS (new job, trying to live on 2 weeks money across 4 weeks) which I have included in my spends. He is my one and only so I do help where I can.

Head down indoors here while DH is outside, planting the new cherry tree we bought yesterday with a Christmas gift-voucher. It is cold and raining but snow is forecast and the tree is bare-rooted so cannot wait. I must go and put the kettle on so there is a hot drink waiting. I can't help today as I slept awkwardly and my back is twingy and jumping when I don't move slowly .

FurryBeastOz

Way under on budget. £97 out of my £250.:j, and NO unnecessary spends or wasteage. Had to throw out 1/2 a blue lemon yesterday. I used the juice I could rescue on some rissotto, but not completely.

My freezer I stuffed. And I've still got to get yesterday's cooking marathon in there. Tetris here we come.

zafiro1984

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

Bought lots of laundry detergent (on offer) from my stores budget. I realise it is the first time I have bought any for a year(!). Also expanded my stores by buying some condensed soup tins which are good for quick pie-filling with l/o chicken pickings.:(.

Your stores budget sound interesting. Do you use 'leftover end of month money' or is it a specific budget, I'd be interested to know as i'm thinking of non-perishables and how much I could save over a year

Islandmaid

NSD here - because I am not leaving the house, if you need me I will be in the kitchen

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Sounds like everyone is doing amazing. I have had 4 mini spends, amounting to £13.57, have added to my sig. I am hoping to do some batch cooking for freezer today, but Mum is in hospital, so have to fit around that. Have a lovely rest of w/e everyone.

medsdemon

Well, I've done the weeks shopping at Mr A and B&M. That's everything for the week except maybe a milk top up at the end of the week. ( total £70.48 and £10.17). A bit more than I planned but includes a bunch of reduced lilies, cat food for the week, dishwasher tablets, toiletries and some store cupboard staples. Also bought Haggis very excitedly ready for Burns Night as they had Gluten Free for the first time. Will add to total.

Going to do some cooking for the week now. A chicken cooking in the oven ready to pull apart for dinner tonight and the cats dinners for several days. Making 2 recipes from Rick Steins Long Weekends book. See what else I have time to do. An afternoon cooking is my favourite thing. Find it so relaxing.

CRANKY40

£77.64 spent and added to signature. Apart from a pint of milk later in the week I can't think of anything else we may need. I have plenty of cat fud and cat litter in just in case we have snow at some point, and the freezer is full. I've had 3 A$da deliveries this month for the price of my £2.50 delivery pass so I'm happy with that. There shouldn't be much need for shopping next week either. Probably just bread, bacon, beans and fruit. We'll see......