January 2022 Grocery Challenge

pamsdish

£4.50 In town on Tuesday,
 had to go to physio for assessment on my painful hip, exercise and if still painful by the time you get to the top of the list we will treat you, so picked up a friend to go to town as she needed her bank, wandered into a few shops, hip hurting from being pulled about and the hard floors, went home to my wheat bag and my ever present friend paracetamol.

mumtoomany

More milk. Another £1.62, this should last till weekend. Hoping to not need anything else, other than more milk, this month. Total to date £127.76/£2640. Very pleased with how January has gone, I doubt the rest of the year will be so low. mumtoomany.xx

pamsdish

 A further £5.71 in Asd* will try to go as far as I can in February with zero spend.

joedenise

Another couple of small spends of £2.98 in Farm Shop and £1.80 in Mr Ts leaving me with £84.20; really pleased with that.  Some will be moved to the Bulk Fund and some as spending money for a holiday DH booked recently for my 70th birthday in Devon at the end of March.

nannygladys

Very small spend of a pound in the community shop on some marmite peanut butter, I'm one of those people that love marmite and love peanut butter so together I'm hoping for big things!!!!!!

esjw

Oh how time flies, I can't believe we're at the end of January already, have just read through 30 pages of comments

@cw18 - DD1 is similar in that she can eat something one day and be fine and another day she's in agony. It's easier for me to shop based on cutting lactose out completely for her and if she chooses to chance it then it's her choice. Hot butter is a definite no go - only takes a few bites before she's suffering. Thank you, will get her to keep track a bit more of what does and doesn't affect her. Hope your son is better now too.

@mumtoomany - we go through 4pts of milk a day, it really would be easier to put a cow in the back garden as there just isn't enough room in the fridge for a once a week shop and the top up shops are what I'm finding shoots up the monthly spend (OH can't just buy milk) We used to have a milkman but they cut their delivery days and upped the price  but may need to review this if we don't get the spending under control.

@PipneyJane - I was today years old when I learnt pilchards = sardines!

This month has been a bit all over the place. Our local O!io FWH has stopped so that's been a bit of a blow. Car has been off the road since Christmas Eve so have been more careful on what I've bought knowing I'd have to carry it on the bus. DD2 had her birthday and we splurged on a meal out, she was the last to recover from Covid and had been feeling pretty miserable but came out of isolation the day before.

Declaring at £509.83/£550.00 (underspend of £40.17 which I am very happy with)

See you on the February thread.

mumtoomany

Hi, @esjw. When we first moved here we had a goat. Didn't need to buy milk, but did need to milk her twice a day. Add to this the cost of feed, vets bills, etc, it's cheaper to buy milk. Top up shops, when buying milk, was my downfall last year. But DD3 has now passed her driving test, so picks the milk up when working, if we need her to. We are over eight miles from the nearest supermarket. 
Slowly eating our way through the food mountain here.

zafiro1984

Last posting for Jan

Budget £250, came in at £7.13 under so quite pleased as I also managed to bulk buy coffee, stock cubes, and gammon as they were on offer. I should have enough of our instant coffee to last about 4 months, the gammons are in the freezer. I know I could buy cheaper stock cubes than the ones I use (kallo) but DH has a reaction to some of the others and I'd rather spend the extra money than have him ill and asleep for 24hrs.

diminua

Another 47.03 spent. About half of which was the veg box, and another quarter drinks with dad. I've got 2.22 left. 

QueenJess

Another £3.80 spent on milk.  Total spend now £523.65/£575.  Big bulk shop due tomorrow, but that counts as Feb spend as it is the stocking up for Feb.

Hopefully it'll only be more milk to get for the rest of Jan now.  Happy I'm under my target of £115 a week, but slightly disappointed I wasn't just under £100 a week (currently stands at £105 a week).  Definitely spent a bit more than I needed this month (although was also using up freezer stuff) and I do have a tendency to want a big food buffer in.  As I now have a more and more stocked pantry ready to go, I am hoping to come under that £100 a week barrier for Feb.  Really hoping that eventually I can get to £80 a week even with organic milk deliveries, expensive organic veg/fruit box deliveries and a DH with expensive habits!  If I can get below that I would be very happy indeed!  All differences can be funneled off to mortgage overpayments and maybe even a holiday..