January 2020 Grocery Challenge

General_Grant

General_Grant wrote: »

First time with this challenge -
£90/month in January and December, £60/month otherwise.
That's to include all general toiletries and household consumables (matches, foil, cleaning, etc) as well as food.

£2.20 spent today (mince, milk, yoghurt)

AnimalTribe

Hi, I'd like to join in please. I will be looking to spend £100 in January for 2 adults and 10 animals. I bought loads of stuff in December as I live in a remote place and have been snowed in during previous years.

Herbyme

EEEk. Just added up grocery spends Oct - Dec and found that I spent much more than I realised at JS (36%) and much less than I thought at Ald1 - (21%). (The rest at A$da, Tosco, farm shop and bits here and there).

Clearly a shift from JS to Ald1 will make a big difference, as well as better meal planning and fewer trips to the shops to get 'those few things' and coming out £40 poorer.

fizz

Please can I join, need to get back into MS and this is the first tentative step. Christmas was a nightmare, Partner gambled the money I'd put away to finish the kitchen....he'd lost his son in May, had just moved in, self-employed and wanted to make it 'the best Christmas ever'...it wasnt. But New Year, New Start. That in mind, can I set a budget for £130 please, to include 3 adults, 2 dogs and 4 cats, and this will include all pet, cleaning and personal stuff. Thankfully got a bit in.

Happy New Year to you all

fizz.x

MadamMim2013

A spend of £30, though lots of it was YS goodies for the freezer including chicken sausages x 2, a whole lg chicken and a big beef & ale pie.. :T
Made a note in my spends diary (which I did start last year yet fell by the wayside by July! )
Hoping to keep spends to a minimum this month..

Mrs_Cheshire

Hi all, small spend of 88p in C*-*p, a reduced piece of broccoli and a box of reduced price Mr K's christmas whirls for our picnic tomorrow. I also brought a reduced price box of lindt lind*r for my step daughter's birthday but not counting that in our grocery spends.

DWhite

Hi! I’ve just done a SOA and looked at my groceries spend as an average of 3 months. Looks to be around £350 for just 2 of us! This includes the cat but let’s face it, she doesn’t eat that much!

As this is not a figure I’m comfortable with I’d like to join this challenge please.

Please put me down for £300 this month
We’ve got plenty of food in the house so shouldn’t need to buy a huge amount and it will encourage me to use what we already have.

thriftwizard

I'm doing quite well here, "coasting" on festive leftovers & nothing spent yet. This will be possible for some days yet, but I'll need to get fresh milk & bananas tomorrow, having had anything from 7 - 12 people, plus a dog, in the house for most of the last week. I also need to defrost & inventory the big freezer in the very near future, and use up a lot of the stuff in there. OH goes back to work tomorrow, DS1, partner & hound back up to Town, and DS3 back to his seat of learning on Friday, then we can settle back to normal with a sigh of relief! But it's been lovely to have had them all here.

elsiepac

Budgets updated to here

Welcome new joiners - General Grant, Purplebonnie, glass_half_full, newlywed, savingholmes, Fluffy unicorn, miss empty piggy, charlies tribe, Bingbunny, AnimalTribe, fizz and DWhite

Welcome back ancientmum, Doing it my way, fairy3, purpleybat and jam2019

nannygladys sounds like you are organised and off to a great start this week! Anything exciting on the meal plan?

Mrs Cheshire another one who is sounding very organised and off to a fab start! Same question - anything exciting on the meal plan? I love seeing what people have to eat and I think others do too - we can all get ideas from each other!

lantanna a great start for you too! This is exactly the kind of changes that help us keep in budget - finding a cheaper alternative that still satisfies what we want.

H2020 bargain on the tofu! Enjoy your wine tonight knowing you've made a great start to 2020!

Yellow_mango ohh I bet those potatoes were yummy! Anything interesting on the meal plan?

Bake-a-cake please feel free to share a little something (or everything) from your meal plan! Also, what a lovely cheap shop for the week, well done on good voucher use!

PipneyJane I've amended your budget to include your rollover, it's no problem at all

miss empty piggy fresh baked bread is the best! Yummy! Nice to have you with us - do feel free to share meal plans!

purpleybat you can do it! Nice to have you back!

charlies tribe sounds like you've laid down the law at home! You did make me laugh about the Pr1ngles!

fizz what a nightmare. Good luck with the challenge - everyone is lovely here!

thriftwizard wow, it sounds like such a chaotic but loving time for you! I've always loved the idea of a big family!

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£14.09 in total spent over yesterday (flour and spread) and today - a medium veg shop. Totally thrown my weekly planning out of whack, so I've rejigged it all as per my little table below. The stuff I have in now should last until the weekend. My week 3 starts on Friday. I'm aiming for an NSD tomorrow, and I will assess things on Friday to see where I am. The thing is, in my town we only have small ones of the supermarkets, whereas where I work we have the big ones so I try and get stuff on workdays as there's a lot more choice in terms of brands and stuff and cheaper (or loose, in terms of veg) options. That's why I'm leaving Friday open as I sometimes grab a few bits for over the weekend after work on Fridays.

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My Budget so far (Only including weeks 2-5 of Jan)

Week.....................Budget.....Spent
Week 2 (27 Dec - 2 Jan)..£47.04.....£47.04
Week 3 (3-9 Jan).........£34.02.....£
Week 4 (10-16 Jan).......£35.00.....£
Week 5 (17-23 Jan).......£35.00.....£

Saver.The.Taste

Hi please may I rejoin, really need to get into this again as I lost my way. Please put me down for £155 for the month for just me for all food and drink in and out of the house