February 2022 Grocery Challenge

thriftwizard

I've come up with an idea, as it looks as if I will actually end up fairly well below my target - for once! So whatever remains after the market fresh-food stock-up on Friday, I will put into a "bulk-buy fund" to pay for flour from the mill and oats from my favourite supplier, until it's all used up. So they will be accounted for separately for a few months, which might make it easier to stick to my target for a while!

Saver.The.Taste

Been a bit of a lost month sorry for that!  Have just done a quick tot up and i think (and hope) that i'm coming in with 6 spends at a total of £72.10.  This month has consisted of 3 bigger shops and 3 top ups which is unusual for me as i normally do relatively similar spends. Still unsure how it's gone, but still under budget!! Keep going everyone!

goldfinches

I have rather a lot of catching up to do here as I've got rather behind owing mostly to the recent lousy weather.

I spent £12.44 at M*rks on milk, yoghurt, mushrooms, salad, pineapple and veggie sausages.
Then as an incentive to myself to get outside the front door I walked to a local Indian shop where I'm invariably seduced by the array of ingredients and spent £11.30 on moghrabiya, cumin seeds, ground cumin, deggi mirch, custard powder, coconut milk, molasses, hibiscus and fine semolina. Expensive but worth it to get the sun on my face.
Then again at M*rks I spent £6.84 on puff pastry, salad, potatoes, pears and tinned butter beans.
Then at Sains I spent £4.90 on stocking up with De Cecco pasta that is on offer at the moment as well as tinned tomatoes.
Then last of all, yesterday, I popped into M*rks and the butter that I use for baking was marked down so the baking budget spent £5.28 for 2kg of Lurpack spreadable and I spent £4.82 on milk, yoghurt, a swede and some thyme.

So my new total is £53.01/£112 which is an average daily spend of £2.30.

The new baking budget total is £11.38/£20 but I do now have a stash of butter in the freezer. I made Delia's cake of the week recipe for my Wednesday group this week, confusingly it's this biscuit recipe Cake of the Week: Chocolate Chip Cookies (deliaonline.com) and it was a great success although I stupidly forgot to take a photo of mine.

nannygladys

Another small spend of £3.09 today which included rice, handwash, baby wipes and I know there was something else but can't remember it and the receipt is downstairs! I updated my signature earlier on, but I'm in bed now!!
Nannyg

Soontobeoap

Last shop of January came to £25.43. I am definitely saving on my grocery shop but not quite hitting my target, although only £6.00 over this month so not beating myself up about it. much better than last month anyway.
it has however made me rethink how I shop. Also I have used up all of my Tesco vouchers and discovered that I am regularly spending and average of £50 ish a week.

It’s nice to see the sun shining after all of the storms. roll on March. Good luck all

joedenise

Another £8.xx spent leaving me with just over £66 for rest of the month.  As we're away this weekend in the motorhome I shouldn't be spending any GC money but will be spending from the Eating Out budget, at least for Saturday lunch.  I will be taking our breakfasts and evening meals with us.

I'll also take something for Sunday lunch but depending on what time we decide to leave the campsite we may well eat that at home.

nannygladys

I had to look at my receipt to find out what it was I'd forgot and it was seed potatoes!!!! So not to eat now but my money has to include things like that as I will be eating them when they have grown
No money spent as I've been in today cleaning and baking! 
Nannyg

esjw

Need to declare spending more frequently I think, not posted since 12th and still have plenty of pages to read through, no idea where the days have gone.

After further spends of £223.75 I'm declaring for the month:

Total £441.40/£475.00 with £33.60 remaining

Organising the freezers helped...made headway in eating out of them....then DH refilled with a bunch of pies (easy to throw in the oven when it's been a long day though)

DawnW

Oops confession time, I have gone over my budget by £21.72

This did include a bulk buy of meat however which will last through March and beyond. I shall probably need some bits at the Sunday market (I could manage without till the 1 March, but end up paying more for the same things, and that doesn't make sense).

StickyTheStickInsect

I haven’t updated for over 3 weeks as I’m still poorly with Covid which has meant DH has been doing more of the shopping and he doesn’t follow a list in the same way, so more spends that I’d expected. That said, we haven’t brought anything extra except chocolate but he is being kind because I feel so rubbish, so I’m cool with that.

Top up shops at the Co-Op £20.30, £9,95, £8.00, £11.30. A Lidl weekly shop £140.40, a Savers bulk shop for toiletries and cleaning bits £32.22, a frozen bulk shop with a weekly shop at Iceland £105.93. Kids snacks from Poundland £7.50. Cat litter and dry cat food from Pets at Home £36.66. A bulk shop at Tesco’s £49.79 and a weekly shop at Tesco’s £60.64.

I’m missing two receipts for another Savers shop and an Amazon subscribe and save, I’ll need to find these and I’ll add them when I do.

I’m pretty sure now that our budget of £100 a week is not sufficient for the 5 of us plus the 2 cats, I think I’ll have to amend my yearly total in March. I think £150 a week is more realistic, especially with prices increasing.

February £591.23

Annual £1,243.19/£5,200