January 2023 Grocery Challenge

Soontobeoap

@ancientmum that is amazing. How do you do it? 

MellyMooCow

JANUARY TOTAL £519.56

FoxFace

Clocking in for January.

Got the grocery money out yesterday, only £50 as I messed up with the accidental Gousto order. We had plenty in the kitty though. Spent £10.50p on dog food which will last 3 weeks.

Tesco shop today was £70.46p. So over the weekly budget, but within the monthly. Actually splashed out on some yellow sticker goodies. Finest wholemeal bread, 2x packs finest wholemeal buns, some cinnamon bagels, some quorn pasties, some vegan chick’n nuggets and a finest quiche. I love it when the bargains align with what I wanted to buy anyway, but some of that will go in the freezer for future.

Oh and some reduced to clear Ben & Jerry’s ice cream for £2 as a treat

This evening’s dinner was gorgeous though. I had accidentally ordered two pasta meals in the G0usto box, and none of us wanted two pasta dinners in a week. Luckily one of them was a mushroom stroganoff pasta recipe, so I just made the mushroom stroganoff bit and saved the dry pasta for lunch on another day. Served it with mashed potatoes, carrots and crispy baked kale, all veggies from our free Olio collection. It was vey delicious and made a good use of the food we had available.

So I am declaring a remainder of £32.11p under budget for January, pretty happy with that! I’ll throw the 11p in the spare change bottle, the £32 will be put away for Christmas food savings!

See you all in the February thread

JingsMyBucket

Evening y’all, hope your weekends were delightfully uneventful yet happy. Mr. Jings spent £49.00 between M & S and Tesco the past couple days picking items for the cousin dinner. 

£341.17 / £300.00 spent so far. £41.17 over budget

We have a full fridge and I’m going to brain dump a list of contents then print it out so we can we can see what needs to be used up. Any ideas for excess phyllo dough/sheets?

Blackcats

I think we've made it to the end of the month £44 under budget.
we've been massively helped by leftover Christmas food and drink, olio, meal planning using cupboard and freezer contents. We also had a Tesco voucher but quite a lot of this went on posh cat food and items that aren't available at Lidl.  It doesn't feel like we've "gone without" at all this month and we've eaten a variety of foods.  We've had a couple of fakeaway cooking nights and a Burns night meal (vegetarian haggis)

I think February might be a bit tougher but we are away for 2 nights so that only leaves 26 days to sort 🤣.  I'm hoping it's not a leap year 🤦‍♀️

Well done to all of us - we are all trying our best and we've all had little wins along the way.

see you in February 

joedenise

Final shop of the month done this morning and spent £5.85.   Should have enough to last until at least Thursday or Friday which will of course come from February's GC budget.

Really pleased with a spend of £111.56/£200 helped of course by a week in the sun last week!  The excess will be moved to DH's car budget as his insurance renewal has come in more than £50 more than last year.  Just need to do the comparisons to see how much more needs to be added to it!

ancientmum

@Soontobeoap, only myself to cater for, no pestering children or pesky partner filling up the trolley.  Been there, done that. 

 I do cook from scratch and freeze extra portions, am happy to make do with scrambled eggs or a baked potato and cheese some nights.

And I have learnt a lot from the lovely people on the grocery challenges over the years.

AM XX

Doom_and_Gloom

Doom_and_Gloom said:

£179.93/£248.
£68.07 left.

£62.93 spent since last post between A&C and Mr S.

I'm not going to declare yet incase we need to shop tomorrow.

£242.86/£248. 
£5.14 left.

CRANKY40

Final shop for january will be delivered in a while but the bill is in my emal so £61.79 to add. My total for January is £299.09. I'm happy with that and I've moved the difference over to a savings account. 

diminua

Final grocery shop on Sunday and pastry yesterday - mostly veg and fruit and some staples. Declaring at £163.84 for the month. It's been a quiet month for going out, which has made a difference.