January 2023 Grocery Challenge

BookWormNotEvenSorry

Planned my meals from yesterday until Friday 6th January using up a lot of what I've already got in. Made soup and bubble and squeak which was portioned and put in the freezer.
Went out today and spent £22.75 to stock up on dog food and filling the freezer for my son, he has sensory issues with food and eats the same stuff all the time. Also picked up some gravy and Mayflower curry sauce mix.


£22.75/£330

shabbychic12

I fell of the grocery challenge 2022 but need to take ownership of my spending in 2023 on all fronts so please add me to the list. Monthly please £250 all in bar alcohol which is paid separately x

Lanky_larry

Shopping yesterday came to £72 (I know it’s December but it’s from January’s budget 🥰 ) 

thinking about switching to cash only for Jan - I usually do online shops due to my husbands treatment and generally avoiding going into places, but we’re considering doing so. May wait until his next appointment (10th) so we know what the rest of the month looks like first but it will definitely help me budget.

we don’t have many shops round us unfortunately so are a bit limited. 

Chelleybee

1st grocery shop for the January challenge came to £92 in Aldi.  I bought enough for a couple weeks of meals and hopefully next weekend will only need to top up on fruit, veg and milk. 

zafiro1984

Can I join in again this year.
Freezers are full so hopefully the spend in Jan will only be for fresh items.

Would like to try for £200

Daywon

£23/week

Freezer stocks to use so hoping to manage on £23 for '23.

KajiKita

Had a chat with Mr KK over dinner and told him about the target I have set us for the month. He was shocked it was so high … and then I told him how much we normally spend! 😂😉 He was usefully shocked and understands that if we can get it down that is more money in our savings (he set up his own savings account for the first time today! 👏🍾😊) or OPs to the mortgage, which means he can stop working sooner! He’s onboard 😊

Shop set up for delivery tomorrow. Including delivery coming in at £91.84 so comfortably within target. 

KK

joedenise

Well done on getting Mr KK on board.  It really helps.  For my DH the savings are for holidays (we're retired and own our home).

KajiKita

joedenise said:

Well done on getting Mr KK on board.  It really helps.  For my DH the savings are for holidays (we're retired and own our home).

Once you’ve got ‘the hook’ every discussion and decision gets a little easier ….

I’d mentioned the not having more than one ready meal type food each per week. Oh says Mr KK, we don’t buy many of those …. We wrote our menu list for next week and *then* I pointed out how many of them we had on that list …. he was quite taken aback, especially as they were all his (purely by chance, I’m eating from stock this week … 😉). This will be a work in progress as we come up with alternatives. 

KK

LLM2018

First grocery shop for 2023 today as it was payday. Came in at £28.51. got lots of food in the freezer too so hopefully this will stretch two weeks. Good start nonetheless