January 2023 Grocery Challenge

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Declaring £100 out of my annual budget in January- I've started spending from my February budget now so I'm off over there! 😁

EskarinaWeatherwax

Goodness me, I go away for a weekend and look at everything you've all been up to!

Misjudged my prep before weekend away so had to do a top up shop last night. I'm at £167.05 of £180 and I am hoping to make it to my Feb big shop on Weds without any further spends. Wish me luck!

CRANKY40

Good afternoon. This weeks spend is £61.38 with no other groceries needed. The monthly total so far is £237.30 with one more week to go (my weeks start on a Monday so I still need to shop for the week starting the 30th). 

The House Troll had 2 teeth out today ready for his brace so I went to buy him some soup for his dinner later. Since when did a can of H***z tomato cost nearly £2? I found a pack of 4 cans for £4 which is slightly better (he has another 2 teeth to be removed in a couple of weeks) and they will be used but goodness me!

Crazycatlady2

Went to Aldi for a rare visit. Didn’t do a proper shop just a few things to try and some stock ups

Now on 493 

Soontobeoap

I agree re soup and beans! 😱

Got another shock when doing my Tesco online order. Hardly any eggs!!
The only ones I could get were £2.20 for 6. Walked to Aldi today and got 15 free range eggs for same price!

It is getting more and more challenging. 

KajiKita

gm2917 said:

£31.05 for Serious tissue toilet paper subscription plus a few items from Lidl (£7.48) and Iceland (£5.75) and a week's shop from Aldi (£41.26), bring me to £372.97/£400.

I do still have a few items I need to pick up, but confident I can keep to budget before Fri which is when I get paid. This will be the first time I've kept to my budget in forever.

Whoop! A truly excellent feeling 😊👏

KK

Ainsty

I've had a busy couple of at work so I haven't had a chance to post. My shopping for the last 2 weeks has been

Milk 2x 4pts - £3.30

Mushrooms - 99p

White bread 800g - 39p

Wonky Carrots 1.5kg - 60p

Onions 1kg - 79p

Tinned toms x 4 - £1.68

7 Bananas x 2 - £1.76

Chicken Thighs 1kg - £2.69

Red Lentils 2 x 500g -£2.70

Green Lentils 500g - £1.35

160 Tea Bags - £1.39

Frozen Mixed Veg - 89p

Toothpaste - 59p

6 Medium Eggs - £1.19

Cauliflower - £1.00

Custard Cream Biscuits  400g - 49p

Natural yoghurt 2 x 500g -90p

= £22.70

Carried forward from previous weeks = £11.70
2 weeks @ £10/w =£20
£11.70 + £20 + £31.70
Spend over 2 weeks = £22.70

£31.70 - £22.70 =£9.00

Carry Forward to next week = £9.00

The squash are really starting to rot now so I am eating a squash based diet with other things thrown in. At the weekend I'll probably prepare and freeze the remaining few. I've changed my week to start on Saturday so January is a 5 week month and there is still one more week, starting Saturday 29th. At that last shop of the month, I'll spend as close as possible to the whole £19.00 to put me in a good place for the beginning of February. 

Saver-upper

It is one of my daughters' 14th birthday tomorrow, so I went to Asda to buy her some sweets/biscuits/treats. Birthdays is a separate budget, but while there I did find myself buying a lot of snacks, sweets, other rubbish that I really didn't need.......There were a few proper groceries (tins of beans, margarine,etc), but there was far too many biscuits, sweets and chocolate.Total £35.32 grrrr.
EDIT: realised I had missed a few grocery spends last week .Corrected total is actually:

£342/£300.00

snowbird20

Saver-upper said:

It is one of my daughters' 14th birthday tomorrow, so I went to Asda to buy her some sweets/biscuits/treats. Birthdays is a separate budget, but while there I did find myself buying a lot of snacks, sweets, other rubbish that I really didn't need.......There were a few proper groceries (tins of beans, margarine,etc), but there was far too many biscuits, sweets and chocolate.Total £35.32 grrrr.

£332.02/£300.00

this is why I send my husband to pick up the few things...HE will buy just what i tell him.  *I* will buy tons of other stuff I don't need.

SecondStar

May just scrape in under budget - my gluten free prescription food is ready to be collected tomorrow, which will help see me through.

Wish I’d kept all my receipts, it would’ve helped to see what could be cut down. Will do that for next month.

£176.25 spent / £200 budgeted.

£23.75 left.