January 2023 Grocery Challenge

KajiKita

Spend v. budget running at £199.30 out of £500, with two weeks to go until I am paid again and my cash cycle starts again.

Sainsbug delivery: £84.99 minus £3.30 for tomorrow-dated sandwich filler and stood-on easy peelers that I sent back! = £81.69
This was as good as it was, as for some reason they gave me a £12 money off voucher for a delivery taken before 7th January and worth more than £60. I have another one for next week, so overall my spend should be no more than £476 this month (i.e. with £24 money off!). 

Tess-co - £1.27 - I actually got £10.35 worth of food (easy peelers and sandwich filler to replace above returns, along with 3 x pasties for an unexpected lunch guest and some almond and oat primula (this last was a bit indulgent!). The rest was paid for by a 'gift card' that was actually a TCB value. 

Whole food shop £11.57 - Vitamin B, garam flour and vegan liquorice sweets.

I can see, looking at this that I have indulged myself twice here - vegan cheese and vegan sweets. Patterns, patterns ....

Ah well, I am on track and I will keep learning.

KK

mumtoomany

Hi all, been bargain shopping again! 12kgs grated cheese, 5 x 2.55 kg tins tomatoes, lots of cakes, biscuits etc. Total spend was £33.43. Total to date now stands at £72.16/"2640.

Hugs, mumtoomany.xx

Crazycatlady2

I’ve so far spent 125 and have a Tesco delivery tomorrow I’m hoping is under £60

nit sure why I’ve spent what seems so little compared to normal other than I’m stocked up on big items like pet food wash power etc from last month and no booze on it 🤷‍♀️

SecondStar

2nd shop of January done at Te$c0, bit more costly at £41.

£120 left out of £200 budget.

I know it’s expensive everywhere, but does anyone have recommendations for cutting the cost of dairy products? I get through 4l of milk each week, at least 12 fromage freis, and at least 500g of grated mozzarella.

I’m already buying value-brand yogurts, but the price of cheese is extortionate - £4 for 500g of grated mozzarella at Te$c0 (if it’s on offer, otherwise it’s £5). I would scrap the mozzarella and just use cheap cheddar, except that I make a lot of pizzas and cheesy flatbreads.

Does any supermarket do a cheap, value-brand mozzarella? 

joedenise

Aldi do a grated mozzarella for £2.50 for 500g so 50p/100g, definitely much cheaper than Tesco!

Could you just buy balls of mozzarella and pull pieces from it for your pizzas and flatbreads - would be much cheaper.

Think you can also get mozzarella/cheddar mix grated - would that be any good?

Chelleybee

£82 spent in total this weekend. Mostly at Aldi then popped into Tesco for cat food and a couple other things we couldn't get. That's £10 less than last week and we have enough for about 10 days of meals at least.  
I discovered that Tesco own brand cat food and Aldi own brand cat food appear to be the same thing judging by the pouches inside the boxes and the Aldi version is 51p cheaper. 
This challenge is really making me use up ingredients we already have and plan a menu.

MissRikkiC

herebeme said:

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

We buy kitchen roll when feeling frivolous however otherwise we’ve purchased extra tea towels and use them instead. Might be an option? 

Soontobeoap

@SecondStar, i can only eat lactose free cheese and like you have noticed the price shooting up. I buy a lot of it when it is on offer and then if i run out before next offer I use alternatives. Same with margarine. It took me about 12 months of doing this challenge to get in the groove but most of these things are on offer in the big supermarkets every 4 - 6 weeks. 

StickyTheStickInsect

Today I had a Morrisons delivery (£104.51) and catching up from the beginning of January, a Co-Op top up shop (£15.08), a Tesco shop (£67.84) and some extra sausages, butter and bread from Little Waitrose as we had family round for dinner at the last minute and I didn’t have enough to feed all 9 of us (£15.59)

Current total = £203.02/£6,760 Annual (January £203.02/£625)

Elisheba

Hi, could you put me down for

£1200 for the year, please?

That's just for me and includes food, toiletries and cleaning products.

So far I've spent £29.50/£1200.