January 2023 Grocery Challenge

LadyWithAPlan

£145 for food only plus £30 bulk  - I am late joining but finally here 

Happy new year grocery challengers

£47/£145 + £5/£30 bulk spent
Grocery spending was at Lidl, Sains etc - I was away for 10 days so I had an empty fridge., luckily the freezer released some snacks and food for my 1,5 day NYE hangover ..

I have spent £5 on bulk as Lidl has that fabulous DF butter Naturli at only £1.40 so I bought 3 packs - its really the best one I have tried as a butter substitute - plus they also had that Sheese stuff as a DF sweet chilli light cheese spread.. SO GOOD

My freezer had some HM batch cooking plus a fabulous YS pork crackling joint I did in the halogen oven with roast potatoes and roast sweet potatoes. Plus lots of YS  kale as its January 

I am now the proud owner of a mandolin so I will be making more crisps and a ... drumroll please... a cast iron tortilla press - so I will be trying to perfect my tortillas

I have been given my parents old breadmaker they never used - mum managed to make a GF loaf on testing it fine but said it overcooked so to try the lower setting which I did. but I tried following the recipe from the flour packet and I had to throw it away...I hate throwing away expensive ingredients like that .... it didnt mix right,  I had to put it in the oven after and it was still awful... 
I will ask her what she did exactly and try once more or I will get rid of it and buy myself the panasonic one I know is great at GF 

lynneee

Hello, had a food delivery from Morrisons on Thursday which was much smaller than we'd normally order so I'm pleased to say our food spend so far for January is

£56.71/£500

peb

So, this week

Monday cauliflower, lettuce and coleslaw £2.65
Wednesday milk, sausages rtc x2, cream and 12 eggs   £6 plus
Wednesday yogurts X2 4 packs and rtc cheese £3.30

£12 . Blooming heck

Going shopping today with list.  Have a recipe which I'll modify for a cauliflower and mushroom cheese dish which I'm going to add broccoli to.   

I'm cross in that I had to buy a sandwich at work as I dropped my homemade mushroom soup on the floor.  Yoghurt and carrot sticks weren't enough.  I'd have been ok with the sandwich but I got crisps too.   I can't be doing with tinned soup, it's just too processed now for my taste buds and nearly as high carb as a sandwich.

joedenise

A small top up shop of £10.60 so now spent £31.39/£200; not bad for 1st week's shopping.  There are still a few things on my list but need to go to the Lidl in the town the opposite direction to Tesco so that can wait until early next week.  Shouldn't need anything before then.

MissRikkiC

£12 today on water for the coffee machine, 8 pints of milk, fig rolls for my daughters suppers (currently the fave!), 3 red peppers and spring onions. Plus 2 bottles of squash. 

I think that’s all the shopping I’ll need this week, absolutely hankering down and staying indoors I think 😇

Just shy of £64/£150

Ginmonster

I wasn't going to go to the shops until early next week but I had to go to the dentist yesterday so it was more convenient when I was in town already to pick up some bits I'll need next week.
£20.10 spent on fruit, veg, wraps and a pack of Indian snacks which were not all necessary but a result of me shopping whilst hungry! I'll use them tomorrow as an addition to a veggie curry and rice meal.

£28.45/£200

FoxFace

Good afternoon everyone, I hope you are all having a pleasant weekend so far.

I have picked up this week’s food cash and added it to the pot. Husband was in Wilk0 the other day and noticed that they sold the dog food we get, cheaper than our usual shop, so I nipped there and spent £10.50p on food that will last our small Yorkie three weeks!

I was thinking that I might have to buy some bits today, as for some reason I hadn’t planned meals for us. But it turns out when I actually looked there were options. We had some of our Olio wholemeal pitta for breakfast, with scrambled eggs. Lunch was a wholemeal pumpkin spice bagel with banana and peanut butter, and I am going to make some bean burgers for dinner, using a tin of kidney beans and some leftover carrots. Can serve them on some of our wholewheat Olio buns with some random salad bits from the fridge. We didn’t have any cheese to top them with, but I’m stealing the cheese from our G0usto delivery yesterday, and will replace tomorrow.

Speaking of G0usto, we’ve decided to pause the boxes for a while, as convenient as they are, I know I can buy the ingredients cheaper. The main reason we started it, was because it was easier to pick meals from an app, than it was to try to work a menu plan each week, but that is a convenience that I can live without for now.

So from next week our budget will increase to £100, because I’ll be buying main meal ingredients too. 

Current kitty is £75.99p.

Have a great day everyone

herebeme

First big shop of the year. £39.92. Hopefully this is enough for almost 2 weeks. Kitchen towel is so expensive, I need to really restrict its use to absolute essentials only. 

Total now £79.12/£150

thriftwizard

£53.31 spent over the last couple of days, between the market (£35, mostly fresh fruit & veg; no fishmonger this week & didn't need cheese!) the butcher, baker & supermarket. In theory this will do us for most of the coming week, feeding 3 adults full-time plus 2 more part of the time (5 days out of 7, averaged out) and with two different diets, 3 omnivores & 2 pescatarian. I suspect the poor fishmonger's ill, as he didn't warn us he wouldn't be here, and he normally does. Luckily I had various snippets of fish in the freezer so was able to put together a respectable fish & potato pie.

I was lucky enough to be given "for the chickens" a full box of unsaleable plum tomatoes, which had been frosted & split. A few did end up in the compost, half did go to the delighted chickens, and the rest has made a huge vat of tomato soup - it's definitely soup weather! There were also 6 enormous carrots, either split or with carrot fly damage (can easily be cut out, no danger to us) two punnets of green beans, from which about 5 beans had to be discarded, and a load of outer leaves from cauliflowers & cabbages. Oh, and a Pink Fir Apple potato, a little green at one end, which has joined its fellows in my egg-box of chitting potatoes on the conservatory windowsill! 2 of the carrots bulked out the soup, two ended up with the beans alongside the fish pie last night, and the last two will be used up today, alongside tonight's goat curry/El Ful with buckwheat & gram flatbreads. The chickens will get the green leaves, a few each day, which will keep their egg-yolks golden. Free veg are almost as good as home-grown!

Lanky_larry

£3 in coop (we just needed some
bread and teacakes so we did well to just get that and use cash in our pockets) 
tesco shop coming Tuesday and I’m determined to bring our overall cost down (we usually do £150 shops and then top up in the week still!)