January 2023 Grocery Challenge

Ginmonster

Thanks for setting this up @elsiepac.

I skipped December as I knew it would be a bit chaotic but I'm back in sensible mode again for January.

£200 please for the month for 2 adults and a child and some very full cupboards! 

ancientmum

Thank you elsiepac.   I'm going back to an annual budget so please can you put me down for £1200 for the year.

try_harder

I will be cutting right back next year so please could i join in with £55 a week starting in January ..Thank you

elsiepac

Budgets updated to here

MellyMooCow

Hi,

Could you add me to the annual list please. 

Target £6500 per year.

My budget is for 2 adults, 2 teens, a large dog and a guinea pig. It includes cleaning products etc... I also sometimes feed 2 adult children and their partners when they unexpectedly drop in and 'surprise' me with a visit

It works out at £125 per week, which should be manageable. 

I'm back to meal planning as soon as we hit 2023 and will be using a combination of Tesco deliveries and Aldi.

Here's hoping I can get myself back on track.

Mx

Sayschezza

Please put me down for £3120 for the year which should work out at £60 per week. OH drinks quite a lot and as he cannot go out to shop all his booze goes on my weekly Mr S delivery. He gives me £100 per week to pay off the CC which covers all his booze plus a lot of the food etc. I buy top ups with cash. I therefore have to separate the cost of the booze from the delivery cost and add the top up spends to get the true cost of groceries. I think it may be easier to do with a yearly budget as it does fluctuate quite a lot week by week. Hope this makes sense.

atrixa

£205 for Jan please

I've got a 37 day month as I budget between paydays. I've included an extra £20 for Christmas food in there (already spent).

I'm up to £70.34/£205 so far.

PipneyJane

Count me in, @elsiepac. Thank you for the new thread and for all your efforts on our behalf.  I hope 2023 treats you kindly.

My budget will be £140.

That's for two adults and covers all groceries, except for spends at the butcher's shop (for which we have a separate budget).  Our month runs from the 1st to the 31st.

 - Pip

KajiKita

Joining for the first time this month. 

There’s just two of us and La Belle Floof aka Monkey-cat! One awkwardness I struggle with a bit is that I am primarily plant based but hubby is omni. Along with working full time, it means I default way too much to bung-in-the-oven food options rather than cooking from scratch. However, we have lots of hubby’s batch cooking meals in the freezer so I will aim to batch cook for me at the weekends and for no more than 1 ready meal each (e.g. a pie for hubby) each week in January. I have joined the vegan store cupboard  challenge, which has prompted me to start tidying my stocks of ingredients and making a list of what I can make meals from. 

I would like to aim for £500 this month.

This is not an ambitious target, yet …. Anything left over will be swept across to my emergency fund in the short term and eventually OPs to our mortgage. 

KK

sams247

Hello, Can I join please? I have no idea what I spend on food but I am certain its more than I think.  Its the one area of budget I havent tackled yet.  So here goes.  I'll start with £40 a week, so £160 for Jan.  I may adjust as I go once I settle into this.