January 2018 Grocery Challenge

Grannymolly

Spent £10.60in Mr T.... got what was on my list and some YS pinapple and strawberries for the kids fruit and at 50 and 64p respectively make a nice change from boring banana and apples the budget usually allow!

Mr A shop arrives tomorrow and I’ve meal planned for 2 weeks.... just a top up the week after next so budget should be safe!

Meal plan this week looks like (yes I’m weird running Sunday to
Sunday)


Sunday; Roast chicken, homemade yorkeshires, roasties, spring greeens, carrots and hmgravy.
Monday; leftover chicken chow mein with mayflower curry sauce and some
RTC frozen spring rolls
Tuesday; chicken fajitas
Wed; spaghetti and meatballs
Thurs; Jacket potatoes with tuna mayo and sweetcorn and salad
Friday; hot dogs in buns (real sausages)
Saturday; homemade pizzas with YS
Sunday; Roast Gammon and trimmings.

Lunches;
Hm soup, lentil and bacon and chicken and noodle.

Highland_Fling

hi everyone
just spent another £43.61. Total now £111.21.
Hopefully F&V will last until next week and have also bought gammon joint, chicken, sausages etc. So will make up menu for the next week.

PipneyJane

TooClumsy wrote: »

Hello all, although its late, please can I join in? My grocery spends are a bit out of control. Just for some background, have moved into our first home together and finances are absolutely wonky with paying off loans, buying everything as we had nothing and trying not to go crazy in all the supermarkets. For some reason, my budget is £290.72 (don't know why its so specific) for the whole of January (1st - 31st). We are two adults, who are carnivorous potato couches, attempting to eat more vegetarian meals throughout the week.

Hello and welcome!

Hopefully, you’ll find that first month in your new home is an aberration and things will be easier money-wise from now on. I well remember our first month in our flat, where we had absolutely no food/supplies when we moved in. We haemorrhaged money everywhere. I didn’t know where it went then and I still don’t know. That month was the trigger for our original budget and the reason we keep our grocery kitty in cash, in a separate purse. It made a huge difference.

May I suggest that you read the Lots More Sneaky Ways to Save the Pennies thread and the orginal Sneaky Ways thread. They’re very helpful for inspiring ways to save money.

- Pip

bustiblondilocks

Another no spend day
(Bought petrol but that's included in the bills account as need it for work )
Total 7/12

ceb1995

Spent £2 on pies as I forgot to defrost something for dinner so that's now £49.61/ £190, so going to look through the freezer and cupboards so see what we need to add to make meals for the next week.

short_bird

£104.27...
Invested £1 in milk at the store by work on Monday, lasted till Thursday.
£6 at Icel@nd on Tuesday for cleaning products and faster food as I was freezing when I got home.
£2 at £land on Wednesday, baked beans and cereal
£4.65, late breakfast of posh coffee and toast after the doctors, then needed chocolate and milk... well, OK I didn't need chocolate...
£88.27 left. Need a fresh veg top up and a batch cooking session.

TheOhGodOfHangovers

Evening all.

Yet another unanticipated spend yesterday on water filters - part of our attempt to cut down on plastic bottles. I’ve also realised that I have been thinking we are closer to our month end than we really are because OH payday is on 18th - but I am doing this calendar monthly so running until 31st. Drat!

On the plus side, I’ve finally got a NSD in today at last! My problem is that I run several elderly relatives on errands and shopping trips but they won’t all go on the same day or to the same shops (awkward squad) so I’m in and out of shops all the time instead of sitting at home saving my pennies. I’ll just have to try harder to resist temptation.

Hope everyone has a good weekend.

thriftwizard

LalalaLindy, I know exactly where you are coming from! I do my mother's shopping on a Wednesday, partly at the market in our county town where she lives, and I can't help sometimes picking up a bargain or two...

Happy_Kitties

many thanks to Coxy and Zippy for the new thread.

I'm just catching up on reading the thread. Even though I have not posted I have set £170for the month for me, 6 cats and a DD at uni who is costing me more away than at home!! I buy items for food stash bags to keep her topped up. Even though she is in catered accommodation DD needs a min of 3000 calories a day otherwise she starts to lose weight, not including the extra calories for her sports training so I'm always making up snack bags for when I see her for uni. Have made the most of the post Christmas reduced snacks, so off she went back to uni yesterday with a big bag full of food and toilet rolls, hence I will stick to my normal £170.

Despite increasing my December budget I still overspent but the freezer is stuffed full and I got a slow cooker for Christmas that I have been making full use of.

Will be continuing to follow even if I don't post but would really like to come in under budget, would be a good start to the New Year:)

Grannymolly

Online Mr A shop arrived. Good subs this time so got 2 Avocados for the price of 1 because they didn’t have any loose... and a pack of leeks instead of a loose one again assuming no loose ones. So that makes me happy 😂

£36.95 to add to the budget and hopeful for a no spend week now! As I’m just over half way through budget and half way through the month....:eek:

Have a lovely Saturday everyone!