January 2019 Grocery Challenge

Novice_investor101

One of the things I was going to cook was a curry for tea. Talk of the slow cooker has just given me the idea to get it on now, & then I'll have a lovely tea with no fuss later (& leftovers for tomorrow).

shabbychic12

Please can l join in. Need to pull back the cost of our food this year. I think £200 given how much food is in the freezer should be do able

Wentthedaywell?

Inspired by this thread I've just made some roasted sprout and bacon soup, rather than throwing the ingredients away as waste!

CRANKY40

I've given in and done the first shop of the year. I did go early and Asd@ was very quiet. We'd run out of dishwasher salts so it's been running without for the last few days otherwise I probably wouldn't have gone.
Week one - £34.99 spent, £5.01 carried forward to next week, £5 in freezer shopping fund and £5 put away for celebration meals.

The freezer is full. Very full. I managed to squash in a bag of mini potato waffles as a change for the HT from chips or mashed potato. He doesn't have any of those very often as he prefers pasta based meals so they should last well. The fridge is also full. I'm making a roast dinner later so tomorrow will be fridge picnic meals of leftovers and snacky bits hopefully.

System

Just been reading through the posts on here. What an inspirational thread. Definitely something I think I need to have a go at. I think we are quite good with what we spend, there is only myself and Hubby. But I know we can do better.
The key for me is NOT to let Hubby come shopping with me, he fills the trolley with biscuits and cakes that we don't need. Even if there are 5 packets in the cupboard, if he sees stuff he likes, he will throw it in and if I say no, it just ends up with him getting all stroppy and saying something ridiculous like...."I'll just starve then, shall I?"


I have 2 part time jobs and one is paid in cash, weekly. This is the one I normally use to buy the groceries etc. Would like to try and get it down to under £200 a month, but don't know if that's feasible. I don't normally keep track of what I spend. Will be interesting. I'll start with £200 and see how we go. Have plenty in the freezer and store cupboards to start off with so that should help.


Would quite like to buy a soup maker....I normally use a saucepan and whizz it up and also maybe get a bread maker. Not sure how much I would save using them.
Anyway....lets get started and see what happens.

Wentthedaywell?

ploppy57 wrote: »

Would quite like to buy a soup maker....I normally use a saucepan and whizz it up and also maybe get a bread maker. Not sure how much I would save using them.
Anyway....lets get started and see what happens.

I've got a bread maker and I love it. It saves a bomb, especially when doing fancy breads like walnut and fig, brioche etc. Those are £4 each in fancy"artisan" bread shops near me but cost about 50p to make.

I'm personally not convinced that soup makers do anything that a knife, saucepan and stick blender can't do and which take up less worktop space too up too! But that's just my opinion

System

Wentthedaywell? wrote: »

I've got a bread maker and I love it. It saves a bomb, especially when doing fancy breads like walnut and fig, brioche etc. Those are £4 each in fancy"artisan" bread shops near me but cost about 50p to make.

I'm personally not convinced that soup makers do anything that a knife, saucepan and stick blender can't do and which take up less worktop space too up too! But that's just my opinion

Yes, I did wonder that about the soup makers TBH, its not that its difficult to make it in a saucepan. Also it probably wouldn't save me any money. Might think about a bread maker though.

candygirl

Just been to Farmfoods n spend £28 , on loads of NYE treads, plus a massive sack of dog food that's £7.99 n lasts a month
Happy New year everyone :beer:
£28/120 so far x

chocolatelover93

Spent £4.90 on lunch at work today :O
so £4.90/£40

Graciefields

Please, can you put me down for £125 for the month? This includes, toiletries, cleaning products and dog food and treats. So just for me and my dog. Thanks.