January 2023 Grocery Challenge

bupster

Hi @elsiepac and everyone - 

£200 for me please

I lost track entirely in December - think I scraped under if you exclude Christmas spending but I have been sick since Christmas day and fell back on Deliveroo for ready meals to get me through. Back on the horse now. 

First spend today on a Sainsbury's order to fill up the empty fridge: £80.60

cherry_22

Hi can I join you all?

I am going for a budget of £300 for January for 2 adults. Our food spends have got a bit out of control lately especially last month. Hoping to start reducing this slowly and keep going from there. Our downfall has always been snacks and junk food so hoping by reigning these in it'll reduce our spends too. 

Thanks

Ainsty

In October I started a challenge which involved spending £10/week on food. I did this to pay back a debt due to a friend and to help get my spending under control.  I managed to successfully complete the challenge never spending more than £10 per week on all groceries (Christmas week was not included).

My debt is now under control and has been or is in the process of being transferred to a 0% credit card but I want to keep going as long as I can on £10 per week. In hand, there is,

• stored goods like pasta, rice, chickpeas, oats, lentils, flour, sugar, tea/coffee, herbs and spices
• some tins including tinned tomatoes 
• biscuits and sweets left from Christmas
• frozen HG fruit,
• frozen cooked turkey and stuffing from Christmas,
• frozen HG veg mainly beans and beetroot
• loads of potatoes, some onions, carrots and squash
• leeks, parsnips, kale, sprouts and cabbage in the ground
• milk, bacon, cheese, yoghurt, lettuce, peppers, tomatoes and chicken breast.
• 1 part white loaf.

My goals are to,

• eat a healthy balanced diet 
• save money towards my debt 
• eliminate food waste
• slow weight loss

My week starts on Saturday so normally there would be 4 weeks in January but because of the holiday, I did not go shopping yesterday so there are 5 Saturdays in January in this house.

Weekly £10


Thank you

Herbyme

£600 budget for Jan 2023
I’m trying to get back on the wagon. Chaotic multi adult household with multiple different cooks. Aiming for £600 for all food, cleaning, alcohol and pet food etc

Blackcats

Happy 2023 everyone

we have been very fortunate with Olio this week - 3 avocados, 2 punnets of mushrooms, 2 boxes of clementines (yum yum), spring onions, corn on the cob, 2 bunches of fabulous bananas, bread, rolls and a v posh stuffing ring 😊 which was originally £12! We also have Christmas/New Year uneaten food - crackers, cheese, sausage rolls, crisps, chocolates and wine.  

Knowing we've got fresh fruit and veg stops my urge to go to the shops.  We've got plenty of milk too.  I've updated this week's meal plan to include mushroom risotto and nachos which will use up leftover bolognese sauce from today's lasagne - I'll spice up the sauce and bulk it out with a tin of mixed beans and make guacamole with the avocados and serve with corn on the cob.

so .... after that ramble what I realise is that I don't think we need to go to the shops this week.

JANUARY BUDGET £280 please

MissRikkiC

@Blackcats   We too were very lucky over Christmas and NY with olio and came back with 4 boxes full in total. I had to gift some to the neighbour as we couldn’t fit it all in the fridge/freezer. However we are a bit sick of party food now so need to save all of that for another day I think. 

I will need to do a freezer inventory asap however I’ve tried to take a few bits out today on account of making more space. Only some bread rolls for breadcrumbs as the oven was on and I used the last of the shop bought breadcrumbs but it did allow for some bagels to go in! 

Our cupboards are stocked with certain things, approx 5kg of oats as we get through over a kilo a week, some pasta, some rice, some noodles but most dry beans and pulses are depleted as are tins. 

Im trying to use what we have before spending so better get creative. 

No further spends to account for but trying to stay accountable by posting daily. You’ll have to excuse my boring rants. 

Money_Choices

Hi Elsiepac

Please may I join this challenge? My January grocery spending limit is £120.

Money Choices

snowbird20

I'd like to join as well!  My goal is $400 USD.  Things have become SO expensive here.  We're eating more soup these days (plus it's soup weather after all).  

cinnamon123

Thank you @elsiepac for running this thread - it is very much appreciated!

Happy New Year to all! My budget for a household of one (me!) is $150 this month. Need to tighten the belt (literally and figuratively).

Good luck everyone. 2023 is going to be a grand year!

PipneyJane

Happy New Year All and welcome to the Newbies

Apologies @elsiepac, but I will need to change my budget.  We had £8.40 left from December.  (DH decided that the party food/treats purchased for NYE would come from our Date Night Fund.). Therefore,

please change my January budget to £148.40

Thank you.

- Pip


PS:  If anyone is wondering about JackieO, she posted earlier that she’s in hospital.