January 2022 Grocery Challenge

Its_time

A few shops to declare £2.88 and £131.70 taking me over my budget

Total £211.68/£200

The cupboards and freezer is full but will need a few odds and ends.  Maybe I need to up my budget a bit, will see how we go.

elbree

Hmmm, have now spent £119.01/£150 with two and a half weeks to go. Stocks are good and meal plan done but even so, I can't see me making it! I think my budget might have been too ambitious..

candylucy

Aldi shop today, spent £58.94. That includes fresh fruit, veg, dairy, chicken, loo and kitchen rolls amongst other stuff. Hopefully that should do us until payday, the freezer is still heaving and we’ve plenty of treats leftover from Christmas ☺️

nannygladys

Shopped at various places today to keep costs right down and managed to spend £16.79 altogether, and it should last me about 10 days, I have enough bread but may need some more milk or fruit before then or I may just be very careful with them! Cupboards and freezer are full and I have found a few more Xmas bits for treats!

Nannyg

charlotte1988

Had to do a few small shops during the week, and expecting to do a big stock up next week. Currently at 99.05/310

Vesmari

I would like to join the grocery challenge too. I will write everything down Jan and set up budget for following months.

Suffolk_lass

MissRikkiC said:

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 😂

Loads of lovely things to cook with Soured cream and you can freeze it (I suggest in smaller portions) - it is perfectly safe to do so but the texture does change a bit. I was going to rummage for my Mum's cheesecake recipe but tried googling for it and the BBC Good Food page has lots of lovely recipe options for soured cream (here's their link), including baked cheesecake recipes like hers. 200g for the caramel one. The salted chocolate cake recipe appeals but lots of people avoid cake in January (but you could freeze the amount needed and reserve it to cook with. I might have to adapt a couple of those recipes myself, to ingredients I already have

pamsdish

Popped to A1d1, not much needed, reduced chicken, pork joint, spinach later, added a pie maker for the sheer heck of it, got battered fish and trying the jumbo fish fingers, eggs, garlic granules and 2 bags of cat litter for neighbours brother, total £18.11 grocery

boxofpaws

Updated to add delivery arriving today. I am going to keep my posts as a running total

3rd Jan £40.33,  Mr S delivery 

4th Jan £10 on shampoo and conditioner on offer in Boots
8th Jan £53.71 Mr S delivery 
11th Jan - Am'n - sauce 4.65
14th Jan 65.70  Mr S delivery 
£174.39 spent of £320

also takeaway 7th Jan- £20
Also FIL spends £13.15 + £24.05

Soontobeoap

just hi all,

thank you so much for letting me join this site. I am much more motivated having put my plan down and sharing with you all.

today I have used up some freezer stuff that I am afraid to say might have been thrown out other wise!

using 2 x500g packs of fresh mince ( reduced to £2.50 each for tesco club card users), a tin of beans and a jar of red lasagne sauce. Oh yes and a single beef burger that has been in the freezer a while. I have made 3 lasagnes, one shepherds pie and savoury rice. That’s 5 for the 2 of us for about £7. 

Very pleased with my mornings work.

thanks again for letting me join. I am being much more careful with every penny now. It seems if you tighten up in one area it helps me think about others too.