January 2022 Grocery Challenge

joedenise

Did some shopping in Morrisons and DH popped into Sainsbury's to get some veg which we'd forgotten.  We now have £166.71 left of £250 budget so have spent a little ore than I would have liked by this time of the month but it should still be doable within budget.  Bulk fund a little overspent by 32p so next month's budget will be reduced by that amount!

Soontobeoap

 Spent £30.60 on 6th December and £50.36 today which is not bad. However we did have a lot leftover from Christmas. DH is not too keen on meat free dishes but I did make the chicken work for a 4th day by making up a chicken pasta dish.

writing everything down, meal planning and batch cooking is definately making me think more about what I spend. Thanks guys.

just one thing. Not very tech savvy. Don’t understand signature. Could someone explain please.

thank you all for letting me join.

Suffolk_lass

Soontobeoap said:

 Spent £30.60 on 6th December and £50.36 today which is not bad. However we did have a lot leftover from Christmas. DH is not too keen on meat free dishes but I did make the chicken work for a 4th day by making up a chicken pasta dish.

writing everything down, meal planning and batch cooking is definately making me think more about what I spend. Thanks guys.

just one thing. Not very tech savvy. Don’t understand signature. Could someone explain please.

thank you all for letting me join.

Top right is profile, from drop-down choose edit profile then left bar has signature settings. There is a limit on how big (can't remember if this is lines or characters). Don't forget to save. It might be that you also have to post a certain number of times or be a forum-ite for a certain amount of time before you can set one up. You can also add a picture to your profile (mine is my Stealth Cat), but not your face I suggest. Hope that helps

rtandon27

rtandon27 said:

First grocery spend of the new year - £102.44 on weekly grocery delivery - this includes pantry items we have run out of (sugar & rolled oats), vitamins, non-food household items (soap, toothpaste & ibuprofen) and all of our normal food for the weekly shop. (OH's wine & the monthly delivery fee come out of separate funds.)  Over the past couple of years we've fallen out of the habit of top-up shops & in-store shopping in general so fingers crossed, next spend should be in a week's time.

Spent £102.44
Budget left for month £397.56/£500

Second week of the month - £133.15 spent in total - this includes a veg box, bulk buys (kitchen & loo rolls, long-life juice and milk  and ground coffee), more vitamins, non-food (bathtub drain unblocker & mould remover for window seals) and all normal weekly food purchases.  Happily we avoided any sort of top-up shop, so aiming for the next spend to be in a week's time.  Also contemplating reducing the fortnightly veg box to once a month with the remainder of our veg purchase shifted to weekly delivery.

Total Spent £235.59
Budget left for month £264.41/£500

ancientmum

I bought a pack of local sausages and butter from the market today for £6.  Two of these sausages will be tea tonight with one of the YS sweet potatoes I got yesterday (2 for 39p).  I'll probably only eat half of the potato as they are big, and save the other half for tomorrow.

MissRikkiC

Still wading through the 2kg of sour cream picked up from Olio last week, having had stroganoff, fajitas, chili, nachos and adding it to literally everything I can think of, the tub still looks untouched 😂 currently eating it on top of freezer surprise (some type of curry!) and not sure if I will ever see the bottom of the tub. It’s like a duluxx 5l paint tub 😂

Hardly touched the budget this week with very small exceptions so clearly the liddl shop at the weekend did as expected. Will need milk tomorrow so will probably get that plus a few other bits today. 

Need to reverse meal plan for the weekend really to start dwindling down the freezer supplies. Off to do that now

DanielleNic87

A few spends over the last week which I have added up. So far this month I’ve spent £96.48. 

Snacks have been the majority of my spending this month but I stocked up for the kids whilst they were on offer and will last a couple of months. 

£96.48 spent so far this month. 

Still working our way through the cupboards and freezers… although doesn’t look like I’ve made much of a dent in it 🤣 

Doom_and_Gloom

OH went to L!do and spent £21.20.
£3.90 of that was on 10 loose persimmons that are soo large they will each be halved so 20 portions.

£118.73/£250.
£131.27 left.

We have an O~box coming next week with an add on totalling £14.44 so I'm keeping that in mind with budgeting and meal planning.

dollypeeps

£12.00 on 4 dozen eggs ( we eat a lot!!!!)
taking total to £206.14 against total of £70 per week £303 per month 

thriftwizard

£40 added, spent at the butchers & Grape Tree this afternoon, on meat for the coming week & some nuts for the girls. There'll be more spent at the market tomorrow; I'll aim to keep it under £60. Last week I was offered - and snapped up - half a box of tomatoes for £1; we've had tomatoes every day since and I've just roasted the last of them tonight to pop into a soup or something tomorrow. Although they were beginning to soften when I got them, I kept them in the conservatory & not one has been thrown away. Money well-spent!