January 2020 Grocery Challenge

GalwayGirl19

My first time doing this can you put me down for £180 - 2 adults and a dog. 3 meals a day 7 days a week and the dog food.

Gluten and Lactose intolerant both me and OH.

Herbyme

miss_empty_piggy wrote: »

The other main win of the day was that we were headed out just before lunch so I suggested we eat before going out. I felt DOH's heart drop as loves to eat out but it's so expensive even in a cafe.

I bought some dried chickpeas on BOGOF for £1.29. Never used them before but going to give a chickpea curry a go. Also picked up some omega mix of seeds which look fab. Love putting these on soups and salads and even on breakfast cereal or with oats.

Also, I had to make up some milk today as our usual delivery is on a Thursday but due to the holidays it is on Friday. I always keep dried milk in for baking and so made a pint up and poured it into a cleaned out milk jug. I've done this in the past also to save on plastic, but also to keep me out of the shops as it's never just a pint of milk is it?

Will update figures later. Hope everyone's had a good day.

MEP I so agree with you re men and milk! My DH is the same, any chance to eat out. Like you, I try to eat BEFORE I go out! and isnt it interesting how often milk gets mentioned on this thread? 'popping out for milk' has ruined many a good intention of mine.

BBCGood Food has lots of good recipes for chick pea dishes, often very simple and yummy. I mean to use more dried pulses and I WILL get round to it in future!

Surprisingly small spend in Ald1, about £30 which should keep us in meals til Monday. Including a huge pack of toiler toll, great value - but turned out to be strongly scented, wish I'd read the label properly!!

thriftwizard

£4.32 spent this morning on a couple of loaves of "artisan" bread (a large long-fermentation white and a French stick) and a small hand of bananas. Most of the bread vanished at lunchtime, along with a vat of turkey noodle soup. But DS1, his lovely lady & the puppy have gone back to Town now & DS3 is off tomorrow afternoon, then we'll be back to the usual 4 adults, the menagerie, plus various poppers-in & weekend guests to feed.

We're still running mostly on leftovers, but the last of the puddings have just vanished, and I'll be replenishing the fruit & veg stocks at the market tomorrow morning. There's turkey & ham in the freezer, and half a salmon yet to be eaten up; DS1's given me an interesting idea for that. I've baked some savoury flapjacks & Norwegian buns today as we're down to the last of the Christmas cake, mince pies & butter tarts. However there's still a ton of cheese to go! OH will sort that out...

And in other news, I made some sourdough blinis for our New Year's "murder mystery" celebration. One of our German student guests taught me how a couple of years back - bless the lad, he was actually half Russian & loved cooking; the other lads just wanted to play computer games & watch American TV shows - but I hadn't made them since. Delicious! And very versatile; you can eat them with sweet or savoury toppings. A great idea for "exercising" a sourdough starter when you don't actually need to make bread, rather than just throwing the excess away.

frugalhome

Hello! First time poster long time lurker here

Please can i join the challenge, i would like to be put down for £450 a month please, this is for four adults, a part time girlfriend of youngest and a dog (two of these adults are hungry young men in their twenties - my poor fridge!) Also includes my daughter popping back from uni for the occasional weekend. This includes all food, household products. No take aways this month.

My month will run from Friday 3rd January to January 31st.

Thank you

C x

Doom_and_Gloom

So OH went out £10.08 spent.

1kg butter, 1 litre whole milk, 4 tins beans, 4 tins tomatoes, block of organic tofu, diet lemonade, deodorant and 2 pack toothbrush.

£29.73/£240.
£210.27 left.

miss_empty_piggy

carolinerunner wrote: »

BBCGood Food has lots of good recipes for chick pea dishes, often very simple and yummy. I mean to use more dried pulses and I WILL get round to it in future!

carolinerunner thank you for the tip, I will keep you posted. I have intended on using dried pulses forever, but never got around to it. Let me know how you get on too

fairy3

Small spend to report - £8.10 mainly on milk bread and fruit although bagged a few 'seasonal' reductions - pigs in blankets, sausage meat and a truckle of star shaped cheese. My lot would eat PIB's at every meal given chance!
Still working through the vegetable mountain - made baked spicy rice and chicken curry for last night meal with raita and YS nan bread - all leftovers packed and gone today for two lunches.
Popped a couple of jackets in oven with a frittata whilst rice was baking so lunch sorted for couple of days.
Good luck with the chickpea curry MEP - be aware it is addictive!

elsiepac

Welcome back Saver.The.Taste, getmyacttogether2016 and bett_rhy

Welcome griffinpark, good luck with your first month and keeping track of spends!

sarahj1986 that sounds like such a lovely NYD and yum, churros!

miss_empty_piggy

fairy3 wrote: »

Good luck with the chickpea curry MEP - be aware it is addictive!

I remember having it on holiday about 20 years ago - we went back to that restaurant 4 nights in a row. I'm very excited.

£61.76 on last two months milk delivery as I messed up the payments. Now we're back on track so it will be half of this in future.

boultdj

Another £16.47 spent, usual suspect's bread and milk joined by butter and fruit.