January 2023 Grocery Challenge

mumtoomany

First spends of the year. £38.73 across Adli, Iceland, Morrisons and Tesco. almost all of it reduced. So much for trying to empty one of the freezers.
Total to date, £38.73/£2640.

Hugs mumtoomany.xxx

Crazycatlady2

First shop £84.89 it’s very low so hoping I don’t end up needing a top up shop later in week now 

sams247

So good news and bad.

I'll start with the bad.   I had one G&*sto delivery box left from my offer, so ordered that £26.     But for some unfathomable reason they delivered it to an address I moved out of in October.  Despite me updating my address.  And checking.  ANd messaging to say I've moved.  So I have a fight on my hands for that.

Good news is found a lovely lady on Olio not too far from me and collected some mushrooms, wraps, quiche and rolls last night.  That'll help.

Did some small shopping today in plastic free shop for cleaning products so thats on my spend, plus a top up shop brings my total to date to ....... (includes Gu$$to which I hope to get back)

UPDATE - Gu£@to gave me my money back!  Yay.  So I will adjust spend ....

£30 out of £160

sarahj1986

Hello all

kicking off my first spend of the year so far!

went into town today and popped into Lidl. I got some skinny crunch, energy drinks and finally managed to get a £1.50 fruit n veg box. It had a mango, 7/8 apples, a pear, 5/6 oranges, 2 bunches of spring onions”, orange pepper, lettuce, loads of baby potatoes, 3 red potatoes, aubergine, a lemon, a lime and a grape fruit. 4 bananas although I think only 1 of those can be saved. Apart from 3 of the bananas the rest of it is absolutely fine, 1 apple has a bruise but I can cut that off. I won’t need much fruit n veg this week now. Tesco is delivering on Thursday. I’m trying to keep that under £70

£246.67 left 

Doom_and_Gloom

applepad said:

Toilet rolls, we seem to go through so many, can anyone recommend long lasting packs, I have seen ‘What’s the crap ‘ and good reviews and they are 400 sheets, but they are expensive 

We buy Who gives a !!!!!! 100% recycled paper.
I'm home basically all the time but my OH isn't always home. I have hay fever that is basically all year round (different plants with the different seasons 🙄) use the rolls for my nose too. Between the two of us we usually get through a roll a week on average. We find it works perfectly, I don't think they work out too expensive (we get them in our A&C delivery and it works out at £1 a roll) and I really like how they operate their business and the lack of plastic so I'm willing to pay this.

elsiepac our chin is 15, will be 16 in June, so getting on some. Well we put it as that as their 'gotchya day' and we were told they were 3 when we rescued them if you see what I mean. However I'm not sure if the age we were told was correct. My gut feeling was they were older but who knows.

CRANKY40

£42.98 spent on the first grocery shop of the year. I will need milk and a few other bits on Thursday so probably about £10 more to spend yet. I went to the small supermarket close to home today because I didn't have time to go to the bigger one. The small one doesn't stock the same range of things as the big one but I can go to the big one on Thursday after I've dropped the HT at college. 

For dinner we had the pizzas that I bought for New Years Eve that weren't eaten because they ordered food in (and paid for it themselves). That saved me having to but an extra pizza for the person that I look after who was here for the last time on a school night tonight. 

MissRikkiC

applepad said:

We are a family of 4 adults, 2 who take lunches to work, 1 who is home all day.
we have a budget of £425 a month. Already switched from Tesco home delivery to Aldi weekly shop.
 

Toilet rolls, we seem to go through so many, can anyone recommend long lasting packs, I have seen ‘What’s the crap ‘ and good reviews and they are 400 sheets, but they are expensive 

I’ve found that the ‘double rolls’ Tesco sell do last more than the conventional however it’s rare I’d have brought 24 in 1 go so that’s a blip in the plan maybe. I think they last us longer than a month, I’ll keep track this month and see. 

No spends from me today, last 4 Pinter of milk opened so feel nervous that I’ll have none left for my morning coffee although there is really only me that drinks it. Could really do with some almond milk for porridge but I’ll manage with water for now 

Caroby

First spend of the month/year today was at Lidl, £8.49 for two boxes of tissues, two tubs of Vitalite, a loaf of wholemeal bread and some granola bars.

Landgirlinthelittlecity

Welp so spent 29p on bread which brings my total to £17.89/£2100

peb

Hello all, some posters I recognise from my last visits and some new.    I completely lost where I was and what I was spending when I returned to work after time off for cancer treatment and I will be keeping a tally of spends before setting a budget.   I have so far this year bought a cauliflower, a lettuce and coleslaw but need eggs - none in the shop.   Plenty of chicken in the freezer and homemade soup for lunches. I've seen increases in the price of milk, eggs, cheese butter and the frozen veggies I buy such as spinach.  I bought for a food bank when I was away at a rural coop and was gobsmacked at the cost of processed food such as soup.