May 2021 Grocery Challenge

Sallyp2

Tightpants24 said:

Last click and collect of the month today is £64.73.  So I have just made my budget of £350 this month.  I know it probably looks high to some but it was over £500 not long ago.  

Well done you 👏👏
Am jealous mine this month was over £500 and that was with me signed up to this lol. I’m where you were a while ago 

Sallyp2

PipneyJane said:

Sallyp2 said:

Taken from NimleFins website. Very interesting read and suggests the UK average food shop spend per adult each week is £26.50. Well I'm spending over that and my aim for the next few months is for my weekly food spending to be average. Think our waistlines will end up more average as well lol

Average Food Costs per Week

• Per Person: The average weekly food shop is £26.5 per person in the UK—but clearly caloric needs vary by age and gender. When you add £13.8 spent on food prepared out (e.g., restaurants and takeaways), the average weekly food bill for 1 person is £40.3.
• Average Adult Man: The average adult male spends around £32 on groceries, £17 on food out and £49 altogether on food each week.
• Young, active adult man: A young, active adult man around 18 years of age whose caloric needs are 50% higher than the average person would theoretically spend around £60 a week on food (£40 οn groceries and £21 out).
• Average Adult Woman: The average adult female theoretically spends around £25 on groceries, £13 on food out and £37 altogether on food each week.
• Young, active adult woman: A young, active adult woman around 18 years of age whose caloric needs are 13% higher than the average person would theoretically spend around £46 a week on food (£30 οn groceries and £16 out).
• 2 Adults: The average weekly food bill for 2 adults would be around £86 in total—£57 spent on the weekly food shop and £29 spent on food out.
• Family of 3: The average weekly food bill for a family of 3 (two adults and one younger child) is around £119—£78 spent on the weekly food shop and £41 spent on food out.
• Family of 4: The typical family of 4 (two adults and 2 younger children) would spend around £151 each week on food—£99 on the weekly shop and £52 on restaurant and takeaway meals.
• Family of 5: Larger families of 5 (two adults and 3 younger children) spend around £121 on the weekly shop and another £63 on food prepared out, bringing the total average food bill for a family of 5 to £183.
• Family of 3 adults: Three adults (or two adults and one older teenager) would spend around £85 on groceries, £44 on food prepared out and £129 altogether on food each week, clearly with budget varying by the age and gender of the family members.

@elsiepac would it be possible, please, for you to link to @Sallyp2’s post in the opening posts of the Grocery Challenge?  It’s very informative and gives newbies a guideline for their budgets.

Many thanks.

- Pip 

Glad you found it useful. I found it very helpful as a steer towards what I should be spending. I knew I was excessive, but I had no idea by how much 

PipneyJane

Good afternoon All

PipneyJane said:

 £11.50 for the rest of the month.  < cough > 2 days < /cough >. I’m now debating that, instead of the usual, Sunday walk down to the C0-0p for the paper, I may drive to MrT’s.  We need yoghurts and some salad leaves, but really nothing else.  Except for those, we’ve got enough of everything now, to see us through to next weekend.

The only reason we need salad leaves is that I’m now planning on making a chicken, bacon and avocado salad for lunch tomorrow, also utilising some of the spring onion.  I’ve got cooking bacon in the fridge and am defrosting a chicken breast. 

- Pip

Well, I went to MrT's.  Three Yeo Valley yoghurts at £1.50 a pop, a hand of bananas, a bag of spinach and a "family pack" of red and yellow peppers (96p).  £7.30 spent.   Plenty of confusion in store, thanks to them trialling several "Card Only" tills.  Interestingly, the lady manning my till was constantly telling people in her queue that she was cash only.  It wasn't signposted; I think she was just doing it to ensure people could pay in cash.  

Somewhere in store, I managed to lose the shopping bag I had stuffed into the back pocket of my jeans, so I was not best pleased.  No idea when it went missing - I would have sworn it was still there, until I put my hand in my pocket to find it.  Fortunately it was only a 5p bag for life and not one of "the good ones".  Luckily, I always carry a nylon folding bag in my handbag, so I used that instead.  

With the above shop counted,

I'm declaring at £137.80/£142.00,

leaving £4.20 to roll over to June.  See you in the June Challenge.

- Pip

pamsdish

Last shop today, decided salad was needed, £11.29 in A1d1, totalling May total spends to £348.67, I do not include car and pet exes,  forgot creme freche, but next door will get that for me, 

goldfinches

@Sallyp2 - you are so right about M*rks flowers and I find that the £10 lilies last for three weeks whereas the £6 ones only just make it to 7 days so feel that the additional outlay is worth it.  I have also bought from various local florists and found that no matter how carefully I trim stems, change water and so on some part of the arrangement is wilting by the end of the second day so I now only buy from M*rks. 

Tightpants24

Sallyp2 said:

Tightpants24 said:

Last click and collect of the month today is £64.73.  So I have just made my budget of £350 this month.  I know it probably looks high to some but it was over £500 not long ago.  

Well done you 👏👏
Am jealous mine this month was over £500 and that was with me signed up to this lol. I’m where you were a while ago 

I have reduced my budget bit by bit.  At first I went through the cupboard and freezer which made me realise that I did tend to over order some items on click and collect.  Also, took advice from others here about meal planning.  It sounds obvious but I was just in lazy habits.  I am still getting almost all shopping from M0rri3sons because click and collect is so easy.  But I know it can be cheaper if I go to A1di or L1dl.  Good luck with your savings...every little helps;-)

flossyblog

Hello everyone

My total spend for May came in at €224.19 out of €250 which is €25.81 under budget.  Out of that €3.05 was cleaning supplies of 2 x dettol kitchen spray.  see you all on the June grocery challenge.

hikingqueen

Very happy I came in at £20  under budget for May, so reducing by that much for June.

ancientmum

I was overspent on May at £102,84/100. Ah well some you win  some you don't .

K9sandFelines

I havent totted up yet properly, but I will amend signature when i do.
I was quite a bit under,so will go from there with this months budget.
It has included a few purchases of donuts from a new store that do vegan ones; but still under thankfully.
Still bringing food home from work to rejig into more or different meals, and using Olio. Though was locked out of my account for a few weeks, so may have missed a few freebies.
See you over in the June thread.