January 2020 Grocery Challenge

lantanna

Spent £66.85 today in Asda, that was a stock up shop, toilet roll, kitchen roll, diluting juices,tin foil, tinned tomatoes etc. Washing pods and 2 bottles of alcohol. Meals planned for tomorrow and for work lunches this week. Also had to buy cold and flu meds, yes I’ve been hit. All in all no unnecessary buys apart from a block of my favourite cheese which disappears after Christmas.

Got a load of Ys red peppers, plan to make roasted red pepper soup with lots of chilli and garlic, hopefully it will help this cold along.

Undecided on whether to get a takeaway on NYE or not so other than that and potentially fresh bread I won’t need to be in the shops again til next weekend.

Tink_04

We are a family of 4 + 3 pets!

We aim for £350 per month, our month begins on 25th but started early this time as we are paid early for Xmas so did a big shop so we don't have to go out for things like dog/cat food (bulk buy for the month) etc.

I have £200 left and a house full of food so aiming for a month on budget (fingers crossed)

I do struggle with cooking and having meals ready for everyone eating at different times etc but funds are limited and we need to make this work!

Off back to read the thread from the beginning

Tink

Kinga

Can I join please? I'm aiming for £500 for the month (29th Dec- 29th Jan)

Suffolk_lass

Hey elsiepac, I think we may have posted at the same time. My post number 46 sets my target for 2020 please (but not included in the budgets for everyone yet)

welshcake58

Hi,
Please could I join in please? I have been a member for a while, but mainly only lurking. Please put me down for £350, that's for food/household stuff for 2 adults and a daughter who is returning to Uni on Jan 9th and adult son who visits at weekends. Making a promise to myself to ONLY use Lidl, quite a challenge, as I've sold my soul to Waitrose over Christmas, buying posh food that I couldn't really afford.

Hettyhound

I’ve walked into town yesterday and spent £2.85 on milk, bread and a discount pizza for Saturday tea. I did an inventory of my larder cupboard yesterday, chucked a few unspeakable but kept the cayenne pepper with a best before 2006; it’s a dried spice it will be fine! Need to do the freezer and update the list I have pinned on the front of it but otherwise we are good to go. Hoping I may be able to get some bargains tomorrow to put in the freezer. If the veg is still all discounted I’ll fashion something out of what’s on offer. Tonight is butternut squash and pepper lasagne

try_harder

Please could I join in ..I am aiming for £3640 over the year and £310 for January ..Thank you

Merlin's_Beard

£1200 for the year for me, which works out to £100 a month, with letting any spare change roll over as an overflow fund.

That's including all food, cleaning products, and any toiletries I buy in the supermarket (which is basically everything except shampoo/conditioner/other hair stuff).

Takeaways I buy because I'm lazy comes from that fund too, normally food eaten with other people doesn't, and comes from elsewhere (unless I'm cooking the figures in another part of my budget).

The other occupant of the house - the cat - has her own separate fund, which I don't include here, as she's on prescription food for the terminally obese, and it costs what it costs. I would say that altogether she costs about £35 a month though (food, litter, insurance, flea/worm, and the rest).

There's a chance I could be moving house at some point this year though so it might get a bit topsy turvy.

elsiepac

Budgets updated to here

Welcome new joiners - Tink_04, Kinga, welshcake58, and try harder!

Welcome back Merlin's Beard and Suffolk lass (yes, we cross posted, my apologies!!!)

lantanna your soup sounds delicious! As does your lasagne Hettyhound!
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No more actual spends from me but annoyingly my Smol comes out on Monday - it won't actually be used yet as I'm still on the last one so I'm going to take it out of next weeks budget instead I think.

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

Week.....................Budget.....Spent
Week 2 (27 Dec - 2 Jan)..£31.06.....£29.10
Week 3 (3-9 Jan).........£40.00.....£3.85
Week 4 (10-16 Jan).......£40.00.....£
Week 5 (17-23 Jan).......£40.00.....£

pamsdish

Sorry Elsiepac forgot to post, £2000 for the year please.