January 2021 Grocery Challenge

pamsdish

£11 in Sainsburys, not often near and urgently need Flora cuisine, non in stock, it`s so difficult to get hold of, so purchased a flash mop and some refill wipes, used £5 of nectar points to get to £11.
My car tyre woes continue, tested tyre pressure this morning,zilch, so tried everywhere to get 17" alloys, nope, spoke to Mini/BMW dealer and he tells me, "alloys must have been changed as should be 16", so got a set of 4 local £120, with 4 decent tyres, will attempt to sell my 17" on facebook as 2 have done less than 100 mile at most, cost £167, the other 2 have decent tread, took to local backstreet tyre place, as I am only looking for someone to switch the wheels and balance, wrong size,,,,,,, the 16" bit is okay but the tyres are too big, 55 instead of 45 or something like that, he was quoting so many numbers my brain died, he phoned a friend and he agreed they would not work, so he is going to supply and fit 4 correct tyres tomorrow, at a cost of £120, he quoted me £40 to fit and balance, so expecting £160. 
Leaving me with 8 tyres, 2 nearly new, and I assume 3 goodish alloys. Who knows losing the will.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

pamsdish - now I understand ☹️

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Money_Choices

Hi
Today I spent £10.47/£120. This was a top up shop at my local shop.
Money Choices

BrassicWoman

First of the year, and only because I had to pick up a prescription. £8.30. Loads of YS scheese, which lasts approx forever and was 60p a pack; pudding rice as I have longlife mylk which needs using up before April; and some fresh fruit. 

Doom_and_Gloom

Spent so far £76.26.
Most, if not all, the bulk items are in so it isn't as bad as it looks. 

Skipped the oddbox this time. Instead bought specific produce in our A&C delivery to use up produce we still have. 

£17.10 for the following 

3kg oranges
5 bananas
3 persimmons 
500g red onions
1kg onions
200g chestnut mushrooms 
1 head broccoli 

I have a meal plan for the whole week. 
Monday : Green Thai curry. 
Tuesday : Vegetable stir fry with rice. 
Wednesday : Vegan okonomiyaki. 
Thursday : Shepherdless pie with steamed vegetables. 
Friday : Shepherdless pie with steamed vegetables. 
Saturday : Shepherdless pie with steamed vegetables. 
Sunday : Vegan toad in the hole, roast veg and steamed vegetables. 
Breakfasts - porridge or pancakes. 
Lunches - creamy rainbow vegetable noodles, red cabbage salad, potato and leek soup, vegan inari sushi and miso soup and vegan sushi/onigirazu. 

OH is currently making bread for himself. He prefers home made bread to shop bought. 

£76.26/£150.
£73.74 left. 

Porridgecat

Another spend today £3.99 on a big block of 'cooking' cheddar from Lidl and 79p impulse buy of bang bang cauliflower.  So a total of £59.77 so far.

Pixiehouse55

£15.68  spend today. Our month was Dec 15th to January 12th. So big shop December and gone over my budget big time, with our man J that lives with us and on liquid diet/ full fat milk/ cream and soups, custard ice cream and yogurts its all adds up. Hopefully no shop now until after Tuesday next week. Dog food separate budget and on raw meat, plus Harry ate something that disagreed with him that was £73 vets bill, plus rice chicken and white fish for 4 days. Its been an expensive month. On the good side Harry is a lot better now.  X 

Doom_and_Gloom

Just thought I'd show the bread just out of the oven.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

I’ll be round for a slice - I will bring butter, some cheese & hm tomato chutney 😉

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

KatyLovesCats

First spend of the month yesterday but it was out of the the 'extras' budget, not the food one. I put £10 in my mums car but I will have to put some more in at some point this week as it didn't touch the sides! So as of now my totals so far are £0/£140 - food and £10/£60 - Extras.