January 2023 Grocery Challenge

JingsMyBucket

Morning folks, some spends to declare from the past week or so. 


£5.04 for part of a Holland & Barrett mail order. That covers some pistachios and almond butter 

£32.85 at the Asian store in Edinburgh for egg noodles for homemade ramen, pickled ginger, sesame oil, Chinese rice vinegar, tamari, a block of hot pot stock/grease, Korean meat marinade, 2 different kinds of satay sauce, beef pho base (!!!), chili oil, and chin kiang vinegar. 

£16.53 at M & S for 3 quiches in the 3 for £8 deal, meatballs, bananas, and strawberries. 

£27.25 at Aldi for 2 bags of purple sprouting broccoli, kiwi, mandarins, strawberries, baby plum tomatoes, wonky peppers, 2 packs of ham/deli slices, sandwich thins, ground pork, and several packs of shrimp both fresh and frozen. 

£29.93 at Tesco for dishwasher tablets, blue toilet thingies, ground white pepper, cheddar, 2x Greek yoghurt, milk, a black dhal ready meal, bacon, mushrooms, various herbs, arugula, 2 avocados, cavolo Nero kale, and an eggplant.

£13.60 at M & S for oatcakes, shredded mozzarella, bananas, 15 eggs, a bulb of garlic, red chiles, YS stuff chicken slices, YS sandwich, and a YS bang bang shrimp salad.  


£292.17 / £300.00 spent so far. £7.83 remaining

Well, we would have been fine to eke by to next Tuesday except Mr. Jings decided to have the cousins over for dinner tomorrow evening... 🙄 but wants to do a belated Burns' Night so he's just gone out to buy haggis, potatoes and gravy. There's plenty of food in the freezer but he's on intent on haggis and sides for dinner. I told him to watch his pennies in the store! Let's see what he comes back with later this afternoon... 🙄

Crazycatlady2

I’m at 533 and still need a small Tesco shop on Sunday for packed lunch and veg…will try hard to use rather than spend in feb 

Gettingmyshiztogether

Last spends for January to declare! 

Top up shop for the last few days... although sometimes buying larger packs makes more sense for us over all, so some things will last us longer. For example I got 7.5kg bag of tats for £3, where as a "normal" sized pack was £1.50, and a huge block of cheese also that will last my two little mice, I mean kids, at least two weeks, possibly three. In fact I am only to cut it into three and then hide two of the pieces so will definitely last that long! 

L!dl £30.03 plus sainos £2.50 plus eggs (30) £6.50 (worth checking out local independent shops/ farms. We have an egg vending machine near to us... the doors open like lockers rather than you have to catch the eggs as they drop!)

I am not disappointed by my end spend because the £250 was 1) a complete guess and 2) our budget is usually £460. Although I am dropping that down next month to £420 in a cash envelope to see if that helps. 

Total of £347.16/£250

See you in Feb!

thriftwizard

Well, the weekly shop has left us £97+ over target! £117.42 spent between the supermarket, Grape Tree, butchers, market & bakery, some of it just replacing run-down stocks of essentials. We have averaged 5 people to feed each day this month - sometimes just 3, sometimes 7, but 5 on most days - and will do again next month, although all our delayed Christmas & New Year celebrations are now over! I'm not going to declare for January just yet, as payday isn't until next Tuesday. OH is going Over The Forest tomorrow for football, and I'm planning to hitch a lift over to the big oriental grocers and also the Scandinavian Emporium; things needed at both that I can't source over here. In for a penny... or might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb, possibly!

gill5blue

Hi All,
spent £63.92 just within monthly target, phew.

so declaring for January.   £239.45/£240 gill5blue

thanks to everyones help
gill5blue

gm2917

Last two top up shops - £17.26
Total for January £390.23 - first time I've come in on budget for ages.

lynneee

A few shopping spends to add to my total so now at

 £464.13 for January.

 Shouldn't really need any more shopping before month end on Wednesday (maybe milk and bread) so looking to come in under target! Pleased as this is the first time in a while I've done the grocery challenge and I wasn't really that sure how much we were spending for the 5 of us with all the price increases and the addition of the dog to our household.

diminua

I've been dogsitting at my cousin's since Tuesday so she left me some food - pizza and garlic bread and chocolate ice cream and wine - so not the healthiest, but lovely for once in a while. I bought takeaway coffee and lunch yesterday too, so I'm on £144.08 spent.
I'm back home now and will need to get some basics, including something for lunch on Monday. 

SausageDogSandwich

It got very spendy here the last few days. Between my son being ill, wanting different thing to eat and me not feeling like anything we already had it and not being bothered to cook much. I spent £15.40 when I had to go and collect him from school on Wednesday on ice cream, lozenges, Lucozade, nuggets (I got the £6 deal) Husband spent 1.34 today at work. £12 spent In ice ale and the dated shop on Tuesday night. Finally £43.70 on the main shop at Tesco and £14.49 in Lidl on stuff we didn’t get in Tesco. Hoping to not shop again until Thursday now. 

£183.13/250 spent. 

joedenise

Back from my week away and have just done a shop to tide us over for the next few days until I sort out February's menu plan.  Currently have spent £105.7l/£200.  Anything left after the next shop will be moved to other "pots" in the budget.  I'm in again for February and going to try for £200 again as it's only a short month.