May 2022 Grocery Challenge

gill5blue

Soontobeoap said:

Welcome @gill5blue. There are 2 of us too and I averaged £50 a month in Jan, Feb and March for all shopping from supermarkets including cleaning products and toiletrys so it is doable. Good luck. Hope you enjoy the challenge. 

1 st week and I achieved the goal set.
£48.16 on food shopping(toiletries and cleaning products)
gill5blue

Suffolk_lass

Just milk to add to my total this week (delivered so more pricey, but better as no shop visits to be tempted by!) - so another £6.86 my total for monthly GC, DD, subscriptions and stores is £88.25.

I know I will need apples, lemons (to make cordial) and salad and I will have a subscription delivery on 18th but this might be all for the next week

JingsMyBucket

@goldfinches thank you for that tahini cookie recipe. That looks promising even though I don't have or like dates. I wonder what I could substitute in there. Some of the comments mentioned chocolate chips. I could just buy a single regular dark chocolate bar and chop it up, I'm guessing. 

JingsMyBucket

Bluegreen143 said:

I’ve lost 7lb the last 3.5 weeks so really keen to continue on with the eating plan - but making some tweaks to reduce costs. 

Well done on your weight loss and your exercise regime! I'm trying to add more movement to my life via yoga and walking but haven't branched out to the gym just yet. Keep going, you're doing wonderfully!

Soontobeoap

gill5blue said:

Soontobeoap said:

Welcome @gill5blue. There are 2 of us too and I averaged £50 a month in Jan, Feb and March for all shopping from supermarkets including cleaning products and toiletrys so it is doable. Good luck. Hope you enjoy the challenge. 

1 st week and I achieved the goal set.
£48.16 on food shopping(toiletries and cleaning products)
gill5blue

Well done. I knew you could do it. 

ragz_2

Can't remember who was interested in the low carb bread/rolls but seriously low carb have 30% off today until 3pm

joedenise

Another couple of spends this morning as needed a few bits so decided to do them as we needed to pop out to the chemist to pick up prescriptions anyway.  Total spend is now £66.02 so £133.98 left for the rest of the month so looks like I should come in under my reduced budget (hopefully)!

EssexHebridean

I too love a Buddha bowl and have Greying to thank for introducing me to the idea! 😁

£2.59 spend yesterday on a Gr3ggs TGTG bag which yielded an egg mayo sandwich, a cheese ploughman’s roll, and two steak bakes. The sandwich/roll have given us a bit of a variation on the usual for lunch today, and the steak bakes will be for lunch tomorrow as we have an online meeting to attend from 11am > mid afternoon so those will be ideal to grab in the 20 minute or so lunch break! 

I’m heading to Al’s shortly for the first “proper” shop of the month - there will be a T’s visit tomorrow as well I think to stock up on some of the things I identified as surely being at imminent risk of price increase. 

atrixa

£5.80 spent in Mr M at lunchtime on frozen veg, cleaning products, ketchup, tonic water, bread and two small potatoes which came to 48p 

My total is now £132.88/£140. Almost certainly going over budget, will just try to mitigate amount.

I'm making a lentil and barley stew tonight for next week's lunches.

Considering growing my own potatoes at this rate.

goldfinches

@JingsMyBucket - any dried and chewy fruit that you like the taste of would be my suggestion as a substitute for the dates. I think apricots, sultanas or figs would all be nice.

I had to go into M*rks yesterday for more milk, cheese and salad items and somehow spent £17.91 which makes my new total £72.60/£124 and my average daily spend £5.58. This isn't good at all and I am resolving yet again to pull my socks up. I do wish that once I've pulled them up they would stay up on their own, it is so demoralising to realise that you've got to do the work all over again. Bah humbug! Back to the washing up mountain, grrrr.