January 2020 Grocery Challenge

Saver.The.Taste

£2.89 to report on some YS bargains, one being a home takeaway set which will do 3 dinners for me.

£57.74 for the month, genuinely might drop my target to 100 (but secretly will be aiming for £75)

Esthermate

I don’t know how you do it. I am eating baked beans with potatoes, soup and porridge. And other stuff. And chocolate.

Islandmaid

NSD today

Frozen cod and chips tonight, bung in oven job

sarahj1986

sarahj1986 wrote: »

Hello all

Busy week last week but back to normal

€35.77 spent in a couple of little shops (Aldi, Mercadona and Lidl)

I made a cake for my daughter and we needed a few bits of lunches/dinners

€88.83 left

€13 spent

Well actually it was just under but I cannot find the receipt and it was 12 euros something so round up

We had a bad storm here over the last few days. Apparently some supermarkets were low on fresh produce but I had no issues this morning. Needed more breakfast items and bread for later.

€75.83 left

Slowly57

Missed this thread so much! Too late for Jan - but will be back on it for Feb ...

lantanna

£6.50 on lunch out today with a colleague

Slowly57

Esthermate wrote: »

I don’t know how you do it. I am eating baked beans with potatoes, soup and porridge. And other stuff. And chocolate.

Veganuary has a lot to answer for :rotfl:

supersaver1000

Another few bits from Tesco today - cat treats, hummus and bread sticks. Then picked up 6 pints of milk from Aldi. So another fiver waved goodbye to :A

Leek Risotto from the River Cottage veg book tonight. The topping is supposed to be chestnuts but we replaced with sliced chestnut mushrooms microwaved. There isn't any parmesan in the recipe so its healthy and money saving.

thriftwizard

£8.10 spent today on more bread (see what happens when I stop making it!) some pork steaks, broccoli & bananas. In my innocence I thought the pork might do two meals... in a sense, it will; tonight's dinner and OH's lunch at work tomorrow! But that's not quite what I'd meant. Never mind! I'll haul something out of the freezer for tomorrow night's tea.

I baked the pork steaks in some cider left over from Christmas with a shallot, leeks, paprika & salt. Simple and very tasty; I'll do that again.

StripeyTightsSpottySocks

£67.42/£100 spent for Month so far Annual (27 Dec - 26 Dec) /£1,325 to be updated when declare for the month so as not to confuse myself cat food £71.33

Argh just lost my post.

£13.24 spent and added to total - On my list and purchased was veg and also got some reduced veg, herbs, crisps for Mr Socks, herbs, foil, tom puree, dips. Not on the list was the number of crisps i got (due to an offer), a reduced sauce and a reduced pie (53p) for Mr Socks and juices for adding to water.

i've spent a but more than i wanted to this week and have a couple of bits left to buy still.In some ways it felt inevitable after i kept putting off things that i needed the last 2 weeks. But the things not on my list, though they will be used, obviously added to the spends.
Really hoping to stay under budget, Month ends for me Sunday.

elsiepac the jambalaya was great thank you for sharing the recipe. I substituted a few things with what i had in I'll also be making the veg bake at some point

Sorry, i'd posted to others too but can't remember everything now x

Meal plan so far

Monday meal was leftovers for me and Mr Socks had chicken.
Tuesday was burgers -
Today was jambalaya (HM)
Tomorrow is dahl (HM)
Friday - pizza (HM)
Saturday - i think we're out all day?
Sunday - undecided at the mo