October 2020 Grocery Challenge

thriftwizard

£400 

for us, please, elsiepac, and thank you for the shiny new thread! Sincerely hoping I can behave this month; last month worked out much better than I'd expected, but the previous 3 - just didn't! I'm feeding 4 adults during the week & 6 or more, rules permitting, at weekends, plus 3 cats (one of them a thinly-disguised snow leopard - she's big & always hungry) 15 chickens (which will reduce to 12 at some point, when my friend takes hers on) & 2 cockatiels. Running 2 different diets - omnivore & pescatarian - alongside each other, with as little friction & waste as possible, i.e. same sauce, same sides, different main ingredients, where possible.

PipneyJane

BrassicWoman said:

I am having a RECKLESS EXPERIMENT
One full budget shop
Nothing else at all.
To see if I can break my shopping habit.

Good luck, @BrassicWoman.  Fingers crossed for you.

- Pip

Competsoph

thriftwizard said:

£400 

for us, please, elsiepac, and thank you for the shiny new thread! Sincerely hoping I can behave this month; last month worked out much better than I'd expected, but the previous 3 - just didn't! I'm feeding 4 adults during the week & 6 or more, rules permitting, at weekends, plus 3 cats (one of them a thinly-disguised snow leopard - she's big & always hungry) 15 chickens (which will reduce to 12 at some point, when my friend takes hers on) & 2 cockatiels. Running 2 different diets - omnivore & pescatarian - alongside each other, with as little friction & waste as possible, i.e. same sauce, same sides, different main ingredients, where possible.

Wow!

Finstickle

I'm going for £650 this month.
There's 4 weeks only but I also need to restock meat etc as have none.

A quick stop at tesco tonight to see us through until I can get to lidl on Friday. 
Visitors from today until Saturday and then quiet for the rest of the month.
Looking forward to using the slow cooker more and upping veggie meals 😀

peb

Waves. Never joined in before. I'm single and not currently working, was my choice but had meant to start looking March.  I do have plenty of savings and during the worst of the virus was pleased with my spending on groceries.  It has slowly increased though so I want to keep an eye on it.  I should be able to do £100 or less but I'll allow a little leeway.

£125 please.

goldfinches

Shuffling in shamefacedly from September to have another go.
I seem to have responded to the lockdown by grabbing every reduced item that I see "just in case" so am going to do food shopping online and/or less frequently in order to rein in my impulse purchasing. I will also do more meal planning and am going to use my recipe notes from this time last year for inspiration. 
@Competsoph - congratulations on the house.
@elsiepac Please put me down for £190 this month and I'll stick to the calendar month please, thanks, goldfinches.

bargainhunterss

I’m quite ashamed of how much we’ve spent on groceries during lockdown, so I’m trying to get a handle on our spending for the last few months of the year. I’d like to join in if I can! Put me down for £300 and we’ll see how we get on! 

Good luck to everybody else!

Suffolk_lass

goldfinches said:

Shuffling in shamefacedly from September to have another go.
I seem to have responded to the lockdown by grabbing every reduced item that I see "just in case" so am going to do food shopping online and/or less frequently in order to rein in my impulse purchasing. I will also do more meal planning and am going to use my recipe notes from this time last year for inspiration. 
@Competsoph - congratulations on the house.
@elsiepac Please put me down for £190 this month and I'll stick to the calendar month please, thanks, goldfinches.

You could try some reverse meal planning - rather than shopping for your meal plan you plan from what you already have in (there's a thread if you want to share) - and you could click and collect (Morries, Toscos def offer it) to avoid the delivery fees. I am going to try a freezer-month and get a grip as I keep buying unnecessary (waist and waste expanding) treats

JustMum89

I've ordered the online shop to be delivered tomorrow and it has come in at £70.80 including the delivery charge so im impressed with that.  We have been up to £160 a week in the last few months.  

I sorted through the freezer and cupboards etc and planned meals around what we already had in thanks to the reverse meal planning thread 😊
Just need to stay out of the shops until next Friday when the shopping delivery comes again! Am expecting it to be slightly higher next week as we will need more meat (I'd go vegetarian in a heartbeat but OH and kids wouldn't have any of it) and I'm not prepared to cook several different meals, we are an if you don't like it have some toast and bing it in the freezer for someone another day house 👍

Hope everyone is keeping well x

Narola1976

I haven’t shopped since mid September as I bought enough to see me through...we are now scraping the barrel and not much left in freezer which I am quite pleased about. But budget is so tight this month I am going to stick to staples only. First shop will be Saturday. I am holding out lol