January 2022 Grocery Challenge

EskarinaWeatherwax

First grocery spend - £3.30 on milk from milk delivery for the week. 

@Suffolk_lass - thanks! Outside this thread I have a huge spreadsheet with lots of tabs, and trend lines, and savings goals in my various savings accounts. I’m incredibly goal driven and get genuinely excited about logging something newly achieved. The extra accountability in the sig is about other people seeing it. I live alone and none of my friends are frugal types so that’s the icing on this very frugal cake.

OLIO fwh near me has loads today but it’s all bread/bakery and my freezer is *full*. I’m going to keep an eye and hope to refill from Olio as I work through stocks 

shabbychic12

Well l got to day 4 without spending anything but had to buy a few bits £7.79 and my OH £18.40 !!!!! so total £33.69/400 lm surprised how quickly things can run away from you especially when lm not in sole charge of the shopping 

diminua

A couple of things out - Kew Gardens Christmas Lights on Sunday, so chips and mulled wine, and then a round yesterday in the pub (£19.50 in total). 
Groceries since the 1st: bread (twice) tuna, pesto, milk, pasta, veg sausages, cucumber, potatoes, sultanas. I remembered to spend my £10 voucher this time, so that was £16.53 in all. 
£163.97 to go. 

Suffolk_lass

Still no shop visits here. I have a 10% off savers butter offer from Morries that expires on Sunday but if I go, there will be much money spent, so, go today and spend when the fridge is just starting to clear, or wait until next week? I suspect the toilet roll situation will drive things as no spares now.

mumtoomany

Mourning all, first spend of the year yesterday. Running out of milk, so asked OH to pick up when DD3 finished work. Also needed onions and eggs. He came home with eggs, onions, chocolate but no milk! Also DD3 did not have her discount card, so no 15% off! Still need milk. £4.65/£2650. Hope the rest of the year goes better! mumtoomany.xx

dollypeeps

Good Morning everyone and a happy sunny Wednesday to you. How lovely is the sunshine?!?!
spent £2.98 in lidl this morning on oranges and spinach 

Total so far 

£115.79

DanielleNic87

£9.23 spent between Lid! And Aldi!

kids needed flavoured water for the bottles for school and we had completely run out of fruit. Also picked up 2 backs of ys meatballs for the freezer. 

I have meal planned and I think I can make enough evening meals for the rest of the month and will only need fruit/veg/milk 🙈 

GreenCat80

I am absolutely loving this challenge, it’s really got me thinking about what I’m buying. 

I haven’t managed a proper shop yet this year so I’ve been getting essentials from Tesco, hoping for a big shop in Aldi this week 😬
 

£40.51/£540 so far (£35.21 humans/£5.30 cats)

pyjamasandprosecco

Two shops for me to report:

£24.25 on Monday, mainly for vegetables, yoghurts, dishwasher tablets and batteries
£8.99 today, fresh fruit, milk, hot chocolate and a couple of rolls to have with soup.

This brings me to £33.24 / £200

Its_time

@joedenise would you mind sharing how your bulk shopping works alongside your Grocery shopping?  I'm wondering whether it might help me make savings?