February 2022 Grocery Challenge

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Took advantage of Sainsbury’s online shop offer for newbies, get £15 off a £60 spend, and chose £1 delivery option. A few items they didn’t have in stock and asked for no substitutions so cost £37 in the end. Bought staples for the month like 10 tins of budget chopped tomatoes for 28p each and tastes good to me. 

Find I’m really looking over my budget this month and worrying I’ll overspend and questioning some of my spending “did I need those £2.75 tulips”. I would like to be a bit less hard on myself here and be more allowing. Going to try a no spend week and maybe promise myself a “treat” at the end of the month. 

Helps to hear that others have similar difficulties at times and finding a balance here, and accepting if do go over budget a  bit as life happens.  

GC Feb 22 £37/£100

diminua

£16.79 spent so far. £2.40 on a French stick, pain au chocolat and pint of milk on Tuesday morning early (our local PO does fresh bread and pastries, but you have to get in early as they’re gone by eleven).  Grocery shop – sliced bread, mozzarella, tomatoes, cucumber, coffee, tea, tinned fish, mayonnaise (supermarket own brand) and toilet rolls (£12.44).

Then another pastry for my office breakfast yesterday (95p) and a can of ‘healthy’ fizzy drink on special offer to go with my home made lunch (£1). No spend today. 

GreenCat80

I’ve already spent £147.08 of my £490 budget 😳 that’s about 8 bags of shopping from Aldi & Tesco, everything seems so expensive right now 😬

Smoosh

£2.68 on sesame oil.

£103.94/£200 spent. 

MissRikkiC

Needing to comment as I have a few posts to mention. 

@JingsMyBucket thank you so much. You really do get loads dont you! I’ve order my first box for delivery next week.. let’s see how it compares. Are the items you have organic btw? 

I also feel your frustration around buying items which are cheap(er) but still spending so much and it caused me to discuss our weekly fajitas at home the other day as it’s quite a costly meal. I was accused by my husband of taking his only luxury 😂

Something which suddenly dawned on my last night (but is probably very obvious to others) whilst making my £5 stretch as far as I could was that 1 red pepper was 45p in Morezsons yet a kg of carrots in most supermarkets costs 40p. Those carrots would feel us easily 4 dinners each where as that pepper would last for 1 dinner each. I know there are wonky peppers and the carrots are probably the cheapest they come but I felt like that was quite a revelation🤓

@elsiepac how do you get on with freezing the tofu? I’ve just picked up a XL block of TofO0 this evening as I’m slowly moving away from meat and whilst it probably won’t make it to its date of the 28th feb, I imagine once it’s open it won’t last that long at all! 

MissRikkiC

Another spend of £13 something tonight in Tezsco on a few YS items for a roast on Sunday, tofoo as I’m slowly moving away from meat (mostly chicken), fruit for the little, some daffodils for the new kitchen, milk, more yoghurt and a big box of weetabix (own brand). 

We’re at approx £120/£300 and I’m totally fine with that. We’re only a week in which average wise doesn’t work for the month but I know it will. Im bound to be tempted to want to fill my new fridge freezer tomorrow so must try and be behaved! 

nannygladys

Very low spend and as I don't have a treat fund anymore (well for the time being) it has to come out of the grocery fund. Eldest dgd and I went to a community shop that has a cafe and I spent £2.50 on toast, coffee and apple cake and custard, the latter being for dgd and bless her she took her own drink!!! Spent £1 on a huge bag of grain soup mix that will last for years, but will get used. Signature updated.

Spent £44.76/£936 Annual amount.

Nannyg

StickyTheStickInsect

The cat litter shortage continues, so I’ve spent way more than I usually would online for 6 bags for £30.98. This was prompted by fat cat doing a protest poo yesterday in the hall in response to the cat litter situation and we didn’t realise and the robot hoover got it. Even bitey bitey cat was offended. I’ll say no more 🤮

£13.54 for a bulk Vanish order from Am*zon, I’ve deferred all our other subscribe and save items but this is cheaper than I can get anywhere else at the moment.

£15.90 at the C*-op for 2 lots of their freezer meal deal and some lucozade. I get the meal deals when I can as it normally works out as the value of one item in the bundle. We now have enough for pizza night next weekend with friends for less that £10. I’ll be feeding 9 so I’m pretty pleased with that.

February £60.42

Annual £651.96/£5,200

peony40

Morning all,

Had a spend of £40.45 today, so with yesterday’s £6.20 a total spend of £46.65.  This gives me a saving of £3.35, to go in my savings pot!

Now, off to write up my menu plan so that there is no wastage.

Take care all.

pamsdish

£12.28 In A1D1, went with the intention of just getting some beef chunks, got 2 packs, the rest was fresh veg.