January 2018 Grocery Challenge

SarahB89

Please put me down for £250 - for 2 adults and 2 cats. Used to be really good at batch cooking etc but have gone over to the dark side of meal deals every work day and need to cut down.

Lauralozzle

Another spendy day as I bulk brought some SW bars (they’re a treat and make SW easier to stick to!).

So, now at £99.83/£275

Shouldn’t need anything else for a while - plenty of food in now, enough fir dinners and lunches in the week. Should collect a few NSD now.

debtfreeforlife

I'd like to join again please! Could I please set a January target of £220 as the freezer and cupboards are empty!

Maisie_M

Okay first spend of the month was £51.72 which included Lidl, Morrisons, M&S and Iceland so fairly well stocked up.

Haven't got round to doing an inventory yet but I will get that dones tomorrow.

Some of what I bought this week is to make four different batches of soup which I will then use throughout January for lunches. I have some soup in the freezer left from the batches in October so hopefully with the three new flavours I will have one for each day apart from the day that my work does Baked potatoes which I love.

Tink_04

Well I’m on a very tight budget this month. £83 to see us till 24th jan! It’s me DH, DD8 and DS4 :0

Luckily we have a lot of Xmas food still in and some decent stuff in the freezer. I blanched loads of veg and have lots of potatoes still so hoping for good things.

The kids will be back to school soon so will get school dinners (£10.50) a week for eldest but free for youngest. DH takes sandwiches and I take some left over bits into work.

starting_again_in_the_sun

It should have been a NSD today but DD fancied some strawberries and they were cheap so ended up spending 1.98€.

Amount available to spend: 273.02€

JingsMyBucket

SaveDosh I don't know how on earth you manage to keep your budget so low each month. Only £80. That's amazing.

2018saver

Can you please put me down for £300 for January. This is to include all food, drink, toiletries, cleaning products and nappies/wipes. There is me, DD1 and DH.

thriftwizard

OK, I'll be brave & go for £380 please! To feed & clean up after 5 (sometimes 6) adults, two cats, two cockatiels and 11 assorted chickens. I need to rein the budget in for a few months and could possibly go lower, but that - looks - like I could still achieve it even if we end up with my 91 y.o. mother in & out of hospital again & me hurtling up & down to our county town on a daily basis. Sigh! But certainly not her fault...

ETA: £52 spent already, £11 at the market & £51 on an unanticipated trip to L!dls in the next town north, so that DD1 could practice her very-new driving skills. Hopefully I won't have to darken their door again for a while, but you know how it is...

Merlin's_Beard

£21.28/100, and we'll pretend that I spent it on Monday... Most on a recipe for the new slow cooker, so we'll see how that goes.

The recipe book I got given for it is slightly frilly for my cooking ability (there's nothing like wandering around a supermarket looking for "okra" when you don't know what it is and the supermarket doesn't turn out to stock it :rotfl:), so if anyone has any places to get slightly more simple recipes I'd be grateful - the more idiot proof the better!