January 2018 Grocery Challenge

Mrs_Cheshire

Hi all, spent £5.72 in Ald!, ended up buying a carrier bag to brring the apples, banana's, ham and pasta home in as it was an unplanned but needed stop. Hoping to do my main grocery shop on thursday so needed a few bits to tide us through till then.

I'm trying to use less plastics this year so considering doing a bulk meat order, wondering if I take containers with me whether the butchers will fill them for me rather than using bags or other non recyclable containers. Also thinking about trying a greengrocers again so I can put fruit and veg in paper bags instead of all the plastic that it comes in via the supermarkets. Luckily I live in a big city with options on where to shop!

JingsMyBucket

Evening all. One more spend on Amazon UK before heading to bed. I bought some detergent and a sugar alternative for €24.65 (roughly; the original is £21.88).

That brings me up to €26.03 / €250.

I have some expected spends this week: wine for a dinner party tomorrow; toilet paper and some toiletries on Thursday; veg and meat later in the week. I'll try to keep the rest of this week's amount low.

K9sandFelines

Bought bread for 50p
Also, spent £75.09 on a Tesco order, as had a £13 off coupon, so well stocked up.

Need to add these to my signature.

MadamMim2013

Have updated signature..
Spent £12.46 on nonsense this morning
Hoping for a NSD tomorrow :A

MrsPear

Hi can I join?

2 adults and 2 children age 5 and 8.

Food for us includes take aways, cleaning stuff and toiletries.

The month started on 29 December. I’m stabbing in the dark at £500

angelatgraceland

Annual Target £1500 food only

I'd like to return to this

PennyGrabber

ma-ri-ella wrote: »

£1.09 spent today but i forgot milk. This was using my £10 voucher, £1.23 staff discount and about £5 worth of savings from multibuys/things on offer. need to make up a spreadsheet to show savings from offers as well as bottom line . Might be able to put off buying milk until end of week :P

I always keep a litre of UHT milk in the pantry for just such a occasion. I used to buy the semi-skimmed, but it tasted awful. The skimmed doesn't taste any different from fresh milk really, so always have one in. Came in handy over xmas when there were extra tea-drinkers in the house and all the shops were shut!!

armchairexpert

I did a bulk Costco trip today, which came to a whopping $278. I did stick almost completely to the sensible stuff, though - meat and cleaning products and bulk rice and toilet paper - so I'm hoping it helps throughout the rest of the month.

No yellow sticker bargains at the nearby butcher, though. I'll get the hang of that place one of these days.

RedFraggle

I'm in£350
I need to redeem December's appalling performance!

mrs-moneypenny

Had to nip shops last night for bread and milk also got a few rtc bits so spent £4.10