January 2023 Grocery Challenge

KajiKita

Monthly total running at £104.77 out of £500 for my month.

Tomorrow night is meal planning and online shop for next week.
Aiming to keep it down around the £100 mark again as still have lots in the freezer etc. Have a friend coming for lunch on Saturday - we have lots of leeks in the veggie patch so have found a nice recipe for mushroom and leek risotto - I will have it straight and will slice a cooked chicken breast over the top of Mr KK's and friend portions so they don't feel; meat deprived. I will see whether Mr KK will let me 'steal' some of his Christmas chicken from the freezer for this rather than buying .....

Still got plenty in the freezer and cupboards for work lunches as well, the one thing I will do is cook up a batch of farro wheat for bulking out soups etc.

KK

Ainsty

joedenise said:

@Ainsty - your chicken casserole would be cheaper if you used chicken thighs and also tastier - thighs definitely have more flavour than breast.

Hi, @joedenise I usually buy thighs for those very reasons. It just so happens I had some chicken breast brought for someone who will not eat thigh meat which was left over. He has been a picky eater all his life and I don't suppose he will change now  Because it was Christmas I indulged his silliness. 

Skibunny40

joedenise said:

@Ainsty - your chicken casserole would be cheaper if you used chicken thighs and also tastier - thighs definitely have more flavour than breast.

I avoided using thighs for years, as I thought they had to be less good since they were cheaper. Finally tried them last year and would never go back to breast for those types of recipes, thigh is SO much nicer. Next step is to progress from boneless to bone in and save even more money. That's my task for next week

otb666

we always have chicken thighs as well, I have a fussy 25 year old and now leave him to cook for himself he has his own small chest freezer and we shop for him online twice a month This saves my sanity but know its expensive way of doing it.  I have cut  meat down to twice a week and replaced with vegetables and chickpeas. I also have porridge every morning zapped in microwave for 2 mins which fills me up.

sams247

Spent at M&S today, got two chicken casserole n dumpling packs for £2 each as reduced..... really handy for work nights.  They in the little freezer.  And...... I spent £1 on doughnuts..... just called to me, what can I say? 

Lunch was basic egg n chips, used up last of the 16p bag of potatoes, and last of my eggs
Tea was HM chips from the freezer and breaded chicken I bought reduced last week

So total thus far for this week is

£35

herebeme

First grocery spend of the year yesterday; bought loo roll in bulk £32.50, but was too tired to go to supermarket last night so still eating out of stores. That leaves roughly 3x £35 shops and a few smaller top ups. 

£32.50/£150

pennywisesheeb

£68.83/£200

I've bulk brought a few bits this week and purchased loads of yellow sticker bits, freezer is brimming. 

I really shouldn't need to spend anything now for a week or so with the exception of milk. 

Clutterbug07

Made a little shopping list yday to swing by Sainsb after work (a bit of veg on it, yogurts, it wasn't a crazy list), but then I remembered I have enough stuff in the fridge/cupboards to make a nice veggie stew, so that is what I did and it was delicious!  I felt ridiculously proud of myself for not popping to the supermarket yesterday   Will be dinner for a few days as it made a big pot!

Got friends coming tomorrow that we haven't seen in a while, going to do an afternoon tea type thing with coronation chicken and cream cheese n cucumber sandwiches, so a shop is imminent, but that stuff will last a few days so it won't be wasted.  Just have to refrain from adding too much extra! 

SausageDogSandwich

Went to the local coop on Tuesday to get some veg as we’d run out of peas. Ended up buying broccoli, reduced Brie, reduced Cadbury cakes (that I never let the kids have because of the price but 61p was ok with me!) and some reduced malt loafs for lunch boxes - £3.63. Yesterday went shopping as planned to Aldi, mostly fruit and veg, rice, peas, crisps for lunch bags and a couple of jars of cooking sauce as I know im not feeling well enough to cook from scratch everyday at the moment,so these will (should) help with not completely failing and getting takeaways. - £15.58 spent. 

Have enough in now for my sort of meal plan, will just need milk in a few days. I do have an emergency carton for if im not feeling strong enough to resist temptation going to the shop for some  . 

Total £19.21/250

Soontobeoap

@Clutterbug07 I Know. The little wins like that are the best thing.