February 2023 Grocery Challenge

joedenise

DH popped into Tesco to pick up some yoghurt and while he was there decided to buy some bananas too, so another £2.xx spent but still not bad for a week's shopping for less than £20.  Will sort out actual figures once I do my next shop and check YNAB actual figures.

Rikku

Can I join for the first time please?

I’m aiming for £200 for February.

This is for me and a 6 year old from Feb 3rd - March 3rd.

Thanks!

Treasurequeen

Can you please put me down for £170 a month. 

My budget includes food for 1 adult,  cat food and litter, cleaning products and toiletries. I stocked up on cleaning products this week as well as tea bags, as all were on offer in Supermarket. Spent so far £73.11/£170. 

Caroby

Quick shop in Aldi yesterday, bought celery, broccoli, 2 oat milk, digestive biscuits, 3 courgettes, a tin of chopped tomatoes, 1kg porridge oats, a pack of silken tofu and 6-pack of ready-salted crisps. Also got a pack of wholewheat lasagne sheets for 70p in Sainsbury's.
£9.90 / £180.00

Gettingmyshiztogether

Another £11.50 spent in Sainos by DH. I asked him to pop in for Cream Cheese, suet, candles for birthday cake and a birthday card 😭🙈

He forgot the receipt/ it didn't come out of the self service... (despite me saying how important the receipt was!) and paid on his card as the money I gave him wasn't enough ... (because he was doing Dale's Supermarket Shop clearly! 😳🤣) i am so annoyed right now but trying so hard not to be 🙈🤣

I tried so hard today! 😭

Anyway, it is what it is, annoyingly I will just have to do it all myself moving forward if I want us to stay in Budget. Even if he is literally driving by....

To be fair on him, he is not on the same page as me and is just still in the "old way" of doing things. Just shows me how much I have changed!  He is a wonderful husband. I just have to keep reminding myself of that right now 🤣

Wildflowergarden

Spend of £25.56 today at farm shop and aldi. I am going to have a root around the freezer as I am sure I have some HM beef pies in there, and a spag bol that needs using. Also have plenty of soups for lunches that just need defrosting. Need to do a freezer inventory before next shop! Hoping to only need milk over the next 7 days.  

Was amazed to find a tray of 30 large eggs for £3.95 at the farm shop. All I can find in the shops are Clarence court eggs and they are just extortionately expensive. First egg of the farm shop eggs I cracked was a double yolker, simple pleasures!

also spent £4.50 from bulk fund for a huge sack of potatoes.

£25/200 spent grocery fund
£4.50/£250 bulk fund 

PipneyJane

Count me in, please with a budget of £142.

That includes £2 rolled over from January.  Not certain that I haven’t already signed up for February’s challenge, so apologies @elsiepac, if this is a duplicate.  I have totally lost the plot recently.  Been travelling for work and got too tired to stop and think.

The above budget covers all supermarket spending - food and household goods - for 2 adults, which normally includes 3 meals a day.  We do have a separate Meat Fund for spends at the Butcher’s (£40 a month), but I don’t track it because we don’t visit him that often.  Also a Bulk Fund for when we stock up in C0stco or Wing Yip.

This month will probably be a bit disjointed because I will be travelling for work on a couple more weeks.  Meal plan for the next few days are:

Tonight - choir quiz supper
Sunday Dinner - Cuban Black Bean Stew in the slow cooker
Monday Dinner - Beef Chilli
Tuesday - Friday:  No idea. I’m away for work. DH is left to his own resources

Both Sunday’s and Monday’s dinners are aimed at creating a lot of leftovers, so that DH’s lunches are covered and there are a couple for me to stash in the freezer.

So far, there’s one shop to declare for February.  DH went to L!dl on Wednesday, to use up the £2 L!dl+ voucher we’d earned and spent £4.77 on ground coffee (on offer) plus haddock fish cakes.

Currently £4.77/£142

Good luck everyone.

- Pip

FoxFace

First grocery money pick up of February done today… £80, to take into account the stupid Gousto box I didn’t want. Should be plenty of money for three evening meals, lunches etc. 

Counting small victories today, as I went into town to collect the money just before lunch, and because I was hungry my brain kept trying to divert me into shops to buy a quick lunch “as a treat”. But I managed to avoid spending,  came home and had the leftover pasta I had planned to have. It was really delicious too, so I’m glad I held out!

Big shop is tomorrow so I’ll be back then. Have a great day everyone!

SecondStar

Crikey, only 4 days into February and already spent £52.

£98 / £150 left.

Got an extra box of prescription gf bread that was surplus to requirements at the pharmacy, which was a blessing. So I’ve got 10 loaves currently put away in the freezer, which should see the month out for packed lunches. Will just have to be careful and plan the next few weeks properly.

Crazycatlady2

Sent DD for shopping asked for a ms mollys cheese cake from freezer 85p…..I got one from fridge £3.90 😱

at least bread and ham was what I asked for