January 2023 Grocery Challenge

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Spent 7.98 in aldee today 

Total spent so far 42.97/100

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LadyWithAPlan

FoxFace said:

LadyWithAPlan said:

@FoxFace you bean burgers sound great - do you use a particular recipe ? 

Not really, I just worked with what I had in… I’ll try to summarise though.

1 Tin Kidney beans
3 carrots
1 onion
gram flour (reg flour would be fine)
Ground coriander, cumin, paprika and oregano
panko breadcrumbs (optional)

- finely dice onion, fry in oil until softened.
- grate the carrots, add to the pan and mix until carrot softens
- add about 1/2tsp of each spice and herb (start here but add more to taste)
- Drain, rinse and finely chop kidney beans in a food processor (or by hand)
- add the beans to the pan and mix everything together, take off the heat
- mix in 2tbl gram flour and mix until it is a firm paste

Divide into 4 patties. I also pressed them into some panko breadcrumbs that I had lying around.
popped into the oven on gas 6 for about 20 minutes, but they could easily be fried or grilled.

Tx for this recipe - I will give it a try

£67/ £145 + £12.10/ 30 spent Grocery Challenge 

£20.26 inc £5.50 bulk
Third day in row to shops as on hunt for a FR chicken - Lidl £11 for a 2.3kg corn fed FR one - expensive but Sains ones were £20!
 I also had a voucher for 15% of DF stuff including the milks so just bought loads of those for stores and some vegan shredded cheese also with 15% voucher to try.
Just cooked the chicken in the halogen with roast potatoes and onions, served with steamed kale and peas.. So delicious and healthy. I will later make a curry and a stock with the leftovers but as I bought the biggest bird they had I will get at least 3 more meals out of it plus scraps.
I went to the gym and also swam as well for a second day in a row... 

lynneee

A small shop at A1di today so brings my total to £77.77 / £500. Pleased with our progress. We are working our way through the freezer although there are still plenty of meals to be made from the remaining contents. Still have quite full cupboards too so I'm happy! 

StickyTheStickInsect

Forgotten from my last update, £9.85 for compost bags from Amazon but they'll last us about 14 months, if the last purchase is anything to go by.
Today £17.10 for cat litter and cat treats online with Wilko which should come on Wednesday, I don't like to pay the delivery charge but the cat litter is out of stock almost everywhere and the Wilko own brand one is nearly £3 cheaper per bag. I also did an online Boots order (£26.51) for medication and toothpaste but no delivery charge there, I can collect it from our local pharmacy on Tuesday.

Current total = £256.48/£6,760 Annual (January £256.48/£625)

Gettingmyshiztogether

£1.50 spent in our local shop; mushrooms 65p, leeks 35p, c@dburys cakes 50p all reduced to clear 

£167.27/£250

2Scratters

Still not withdrawn the House keeping money 
We are now starting to run out of some things - dog food will need a purchase tomorrow, even the dogs are on a little reduction of that. Don't get me wrong they do share hooman tit bits  1 dog is a bit overweight (ah hem 3kg! - the female one of course! Boy is only interested in his ball) as per the week before Christmas when we had an emergency trip to the vets for the pair of them.
I've run out of porridge oats, so today we had dried up a bit bread as toast for breakfast. DH happy with doing it a bit differently. We are down to £36 in the shopping purse. It will drop rapid when the dog food is purchased at £23.

2 Scratters xx

sams247

Spent £22 at Mt T today, but well pleased with myself as I got lots of reduced price things, and it amazing how good at tetris you can get when you only have the freezer box in the fridge, not a full freezer.  I saved over £8 from reductions and offers so I am hoping that will see me through this week.  

£107/£160

JingsMyBucket

Evening y'all. I've just returned from a rainy walk to and from Tesco for some groceries. I spent £26.18 on YS avocado, YS baby plum tomatoes, a YS 3 pack of red bell peppers, mushrooms, arugula, bok choy, chiles, ginger, 2 eggplants, a red onion, strawberries, blueberries, bananas, a 2 for £2 deal of a pineapple combined with a bag of mandarins (easy peelers), YS pork belly slices, a smoked gammon joint, capers, and mozzarella.

I'm really proud of how well I stuck to my list, only deviating with a few items which looked good or were YS. My goal was to come in around £20 – £25 and I'm pleased with the results. 

There was no parsley which was on my list. The herbs section was totally obliterated and in general there were a lot of empty spaces on shelves throughout the store. Later this week I'll stop at M & S for milk and parsley. 

£90.00 / £300.00 spent so far. £210.00 remaining. 

I need to remember to keep some money back for next week Friday when head to a larger city for the weekend. There's an Asian store where I'm planning to stock up items like sesame oil, tamari, curry paste, kimchi, ramen, etc. and there's an Italian store where I'll be stocking up on Italian sausage, a particularly hard to find pasta, etc. I'd completely forgotten about them when setting my budget for this month. If I set my regular budget to about £25 per remaining week in January, that should leave me with enough bulk buffer for the special store shopping. Let's see how we go

Ainsty

I've been shopping for this week

Shopping 

1x Sweet potato  59p

2x Natural yoghurt 2 @ 45p each

1kg Wonky carrots 58p

7x Bananas  88p

500g 10% Minced Beef £2.65

1x Red Pepper 29p

1x Bag of spinach 76p

= £6.65

Carried forward - 18.35 - £6.65 = £11.70

The menu for this week is 

Breakfast

5x Porridge with 80g frozen HG fruit 

2x Porridge with a banana 

Lunch 

5x Carrot and lentil soup

2x Leek and Potato soup

Dinner

1x Potato, leek and bacon bake, with cabbage all veg HG (made last week)

1x Roast turkey dinner using frozen leftover turkey and HG veg, Yorkshire Pudding and gravy

2x Squash stew, chickpeas, onion, tinned toms, HG squash with potato wedges.

2x Turkey and sweet potato curry with yoghurt Naan

2x Cottage pie minced beef, onion, HG potato and veg, Yorkshire Pudding (1 portion for next week)

Snacks/Desserts

5 x banans 

Rice pudding

Yoghurt with a teaspoon of honey, jam or golden syrup 

All the sweets and biscuits from Christmas have gone as have most of the homegrown fruit. There is no need to eat fruit because there is plenty of veg in my diet, but I like it. The cheapest fruit I can find which can be eaten as either 80g or 1 piece as part of five a day is ALDI banans.  These cost 12.6p each, does anyone know of a cheaper fruit?

white-rabbit_2-2

Ainsty said:

I've been shopping for this week

Shopping 

1x Sweet potato  59p

2x Natural yoghurt 2 @ 45p each

1kg Wonky carrots 58p

7x Bananas  88p

500g 10% Minced Beef £2.65

1x Red Pepper 29p

1x Bag of spinach 76p

= £6.65

Carried forward - 18.35 - £6.65 = £11.70

The menu for this week is 

Breakfast

5x Porridge with 80g frozen HG fruit 

2x Porridge with a banana 

Lunch 

5x Carrot and lentil soup

2x Leek and Potato soup

Dinner

1x Potato, leek and bacon bake, with cabbage all veg HG (made last week)

1x Roast turkey dinner using frozen leftover turkey and HG veg, Yorkshire Pudding and gravy

2x Squash stew, chickpeas, onion, tinned toms, HG squash with potato wedges.

2x Turkey and sweet potato curry with yoghurt Naan

2x Cottage pie minced beef, onion, HG potato and veg, Yorkshire Pudding (1 portion for next week)

Snacks/Desserts

5 x banans 

Rice pudding

Yoghurt with a teaspoon of honey, jam or golden syrup 

All the sweets and biscuits from Christmas have gone as have most of the homegrown fruit. There is no need to eat fruit because there is plenty of veg in my diet, but I like it. The cheapest fruit I can find which can be eaten as either 80g or 1 piece as part of five a day is ALDI banans.  These cost 12.6p each, does anyone know of a cheaper fruit?

This is seriously impressive! I bought a sweet potato in Tesco the other day and it was £1.28! I nearly died…