January 2022 Grocery Challenge

dollypeeps

£2.40 today at Mr T.
This was for kidney beans for dinner and bread rolls for the packed lunches this week.
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ancientmum

Spent £7.20 today on apples, cheese, butter, bread and milk.  Add to this £1.20 spent on milk last Monday and the total for the month so far is £8.40.

burtha

Sunday lunch and top up shop done £38.27 spend 

cw18

Just totted up my spends for the month so far, and done my best to work out how much I've taken from the stocks I had in before the start of the year.

Total gone from grocery budget = £34.47

Would have liked to be below this, but I can seethat I've bought/eaten too many treats so I know what I need to tackle going forwards (£1.77 from shops and £4.50 worth from stocks = £6.27, which accounts for over 18% of my spends!).   However, I am pleased to see that over a third of the total is actually stuff taken from stock or savings made (offers or reduced to clear).

I have 5 receipts since the start of the month (I always take my receipts), which is also good news for me over 9 days.   I had been calling into 2 shops on my way home from work pretty much every day and potentially 3 on Sundays, and rarely came out of any without buying something - so I could have collected at least 15 receipts by now if I'd carried on like that

Hoping to stay out of the shops for most of this next week.   I have the makings of my evening meals for at least the next 3 days (and reckon I can manage until this time next week with the only possible spend needed being a bag of frozen veg), bread, spread and marmalade/marmite for my breakfast for all week, and bread rolls for my lunches for the next 6 days.    Fillings for my rolls could be the only thing I need, as I forgot to look for cooked meats when I nipped into A1di today !!  So I'll have a quick look to see if I have any haslet in my freezer as I head up to bed as soon as I've posted this (sometimes do, as I tend to clear the shelf when Her0n have it at 75% off), and if not it'll be cheese and marmite tomorrow and a very quick dive through a shop on my way home tomorrow.

Suffolk_lass

@PipneyJane I make breakfast bites in mini-muffin tins - use a small cookie cutter to make disks of gammon, paint the inside of the cups with veg oil then pop in a disk and then add beaten egg up to three quarters and give them 10 minutes in the oven. They are usually quite easy to get out and store in a tin (maybe the one that had Christmas treats in). Don't cut the gammon too thin. If you've got any jars of pimentos you could chop a couple up and pop a sprinkle in every cup between the gammon and egg.

I also make a make-do carbonara sauce - or basically a white sauce with chopped up gammon and stir penne through it for a nice easy supper

diminua

Only groceries to report this time. Milk, quorn pieces and toilet rolls bought from Londis - not the cheapest, but I can pop there in my lunch break so very convenient and I needed the quorn for a big pot of vegetable curry I'd made that was a bit lacking in  texture as I cooked the veg too long (it was also lacking flavour as I've run out of chillies, so that's on the shopping list). 

Other than that I've bought clementines, more milk and bread, coffee, crumpets, tomato soup, pecorino romano, tomatoes and a creme egg. 

£139.99 left

CRANKY40

Good afternoon, 

£58.84 spent on food shopping today. I've changed the meal plan yet again as the HT was supposed to have pizza tomorrow night but I have my LAP for the afternoon as he day centre is closed so he and the HT had pizza for lunch. Three of us here for lunch today (I had a bacon and egg toastie). There will only be two of us for dinner so we're having salt and pepper chicken (bought as a treat for the Christmas break but not used) with oven chips and salad. 

I've been given a lot of apples (because they've gone past the date on the packet!) so I'm defrosting some  blackberries that were given to me from a friend's allotment  to make some blackberry and apple crumbles, yum. 

Suffolk_lass

Just ordered water filters, kitchen paper and toilet rolls - does everybody else find they all run out at the same time?! I have added them to a subscription for once every 6 months until I know the re-order intervals better

nannygladys

Popping in to say no money has been spent yet, planning on Thursday being it.
Nannyg

patentgirl

Just reporting total of £76 spent since my month started 31st Dec 7 NSDs so far got enough food for meals planned till hopefully Saturday.