January 2022 Grocery Challenge

Pixie_Fairydust

joedenise said:

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Thank you 

mrs_motivated

Hi folks,

Please can I join in, I’ve noticed the shopping bill creeping upwards and would like to get it down.  Most of the time it’s just the two of us, so budget for January is £320, to include food, toiletries and cleaning products.  Pet food isn’t included, it comes out of a different budget.

Doom_and_Gloom

Thank you elsiepac for doing this thread. As I've said before it really does help keep us accountable, even if we blow the budget. 

January 2022! Hoping for everyone it is a better year all around.

Our January budget is going to be £250.
The month goes 1st to the 31st.

This is for two adults, my OH and I, and a chinchilla. Includes all food and drink (except alcohol), cleaning products, toiletries etc and all chinchilla items (food, hay, sand, treats etc.). Really hoping to come in budget or even better lower.

£0/£250.
£250 left.

Crazycatlady2

Would love to join if that’s ok. Will look at setting a realistic budget. 5 of us plus a dog and cat to include. I shop online mostly and hate cooking so it makes it difficult but I’m trying 

PipneyJane

Pixie_Fairydust said:

Happy New Year to you all   

Please can I join for January 2022? 

I would like my target to be £300 this if for 2 adults and our kitten.  I would like to reduce this but I will try do it gradually.

BTW please could someone help me with making the text bigger and can we add in colours?  Plus how do I add in other emojis?  

Many thanks.

Pix
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Welcome, @Pixie_Fairydust.  To make text bigger, you need to use the 6th icon from the left and select either Header 1 or Header 2 from the drop down list. 

HTH

- Pip

PS:  Happy New Year Everyone 

MissRikkiC

Hi everyone and happy new year! 

Does anyone have experience having made soup or something other with frozen veg like carrots or whatever? 

I’ve bought them in the past as an easy grab for my daughter but seems she’s just not that keen and they also have the smoothest texture which I find really odd too! They’re now otherwise just taking up space so would like to use them up. 

Other ideas welcome- I know I should just eat them!

leftatthetrafficlights

@MissRikkiC - I've made soup with frozen veg before 😉 just make sure you use plenty of herbs/seasoning or it can be a bit bland! 

You can also put them in casseroles - veg tends to turn a bit mushy in those anyway so you can't really tell the difference imo!

goldfinches

Happy New Year and new budgets to everyone and thanks to @elsiepac for this thread.

I'm feeling very overloaded with stores from last year as well as the Christmas leftovers and over buys so have decided to try to have a "use it up" January. To that end I'm going to set my usual budget but try to spend far less than that on fresh stuff and dairy bits, I'm not sure I can stick to it but am aiming to keep out of the shops to reduce temptation.

Please could you make my budget £124 for the calendar month for 1 person to cover food and household items as well as a Baking budget of £5 per week, thanks a lot.

I've got an awful lot of ingredients for baking squirreled away in my larder as well as the freezer so I'm going to try and use those up before purchasing anything extra. Famous last words eh! Onwards and upwards!

Its_time

A few things needed that came to £13.99 so total spend for January so far (and it's only day one) is:

£64.27/£200

leaving £135.73 still very doable me thinks.

cw18

esjw said:

Picked up a few treat bits for DD1 to replace all the food gifts she was given and can't eat as they contain lactose.

I count myself very lucky that my intolerance is only mild and I only react to specific things in specific formats or under certain conditions.

Any lactose within 24 hours of a long exercise session (mainly a run) at high heart rate causes me to sounds asthmatic - that was how mine materialised in the first place, and was misdiagnosed firstly as a chest infection, then as exercise induced asthma, and then as an early sign of heart failure

But other than that I can eat most things - the exceptions being hot butter which is my biggest and fastest stomach trigger (even a scraping on a slice of garlic bread), and to a lesser extent hot milk sauces/puddings (so I make from scratch with plant milks).   But I can eat as much all butter shortbread as I like with no reaction at all, so cold butter isn't a problem !!!   I stick to non-dairy spreads for everything apart from making shortbread.

esjw said:

Think the local cows are either in isolation or taking time off for NY - it can't be people stripping the shelves in my local shops yesterday because they're closed for 24hrs right? 🤔 Ended up going further afield today to get milk and a few other fresh bits.

Not just your local cows.   Nipped into A!di after work last night as my son needed milk (he's been feeling very rough since Christmas Day, and is isolating just to be safe although regular LFTs are coming back -ve), and there wasn't a drop of fresh milk or cream to be seen.    I'd been in a couple of times earlier in the week to discover very little milk and no double cream.   Fortunately managed to get milk at Her0n, although that meant a bit of extra walking and time (and slightly dearer).