February 2023 Grocery Challenge

Soontobeoap

@smudgybunny welcome. I love your name. You are doing really well. I think tbat i stayed in budget about 50%.of the time last year. (my first year). A combination of unexpected family visits, overly anticipating my budgeting skills and price rises catching me out. This year I am trying to stay within last years totals and come in £400 under last years anticipated overall totals. I found it really hard in the beginning to get my head around what i would normally spend. It takes some getting used to.

 

mfwin2019

No main shop this week, hopefully pushed it to Tuesday. Had to get milk etc and weekly veg box so total so far is

75.04/280

sarahj1986

sarahj1986 said:

sarahj1986 said:

£142 spent 

this includes a big Tesco shop today online and a shop in Lidl on Tuesday, which I’m counting as February as everything will be used in February. I got diced beef for 90p a pack, chicken fillets for 90p and third off chicken goujons and sausages. The above will pretty much do 2 weeks of meals. I shouldn’t need a lot next week at all. I’m going to try and only do 3 big shops this month. Next week I’m gonna try and do a bigger shop to make it stretch 10ish days and take it from there. I’m going to utilise Lidl more for reductions too 

£22 in Lidl on Monday. It was £21 something but I’ve lost the receipt 

£164 spent which means £86 left. My next big shop is on Sunday. I’m undecided on if I do one big shop or make it a smaller shop and then do another. I’ve still got a lot of freezer stuff to use. 

£68.50 spent today 

I got a few non grocery items which bumped it up so removed them. 

My freezer is absolutely jam packed of meat, fish, batch cooked meals, veg etc so I’m not too worried for now.

£17.50 left

i think it will be tight however I’ve easily got over 2 weeks worth of dinners here. Admittedly I’ll need to buy milk, fruit and yogurts maybe another bag of spuds but that should be it for the month. 

joedenise

Another £6.18 for 2 TGTG bags from Morrisons which we'll collect this afternoon.  Hoping for plenty of fruit and veg again.  Will go to Lidl while we're in that town (it's not our local one) as need to buy our milk for the next 3 weeks or so - we drink UHT so buy 12 litres at a time but this comes from our Bulk Fund not the GC.  GC now stands at £75.54/£200 leaving £124.46; happy with that as almost half way through the month and over half the money left.  It really helps with the budget using up some of the freezer stuff!

SausageDogSandwich

Can’t remember where I got to on here but have been writing my spends down. Well there’s only been two 10.15 that I can’t remember if I logged here or not, on toilet roll and not sure what else husband bought. Then Friday night £33.05 at Tesco,was 43.55 but discovered I had 10.50 vouchers. This did include pjs and bottle of wine but it will have to come out the grocery money. Other than that was mainly fruit, veg, milk and a few frozen items. No shopping today or tomorrow but may get some stuff Tuesday when daughter is at gym. 

£52.90/200

FoxFace

Big shop done, and money collected… sadly in that order, as we turned up to the supermarket and the singular cash machine was out of order, so I had to be well behaved using my card. Spent just under £70 for everything we need this week, and nipped into town centre afterwards to take out the remaining £50 (weekly budget £100, plus £20 G refund, less spent).

There’s about £52 in my purse, but to be honest I am cosied up in a blanket on my sofa and can’t bring myself to move, just to count pennies

Caroby

Small spend yesterday in Home Bargains, £2.48 for a pack of fig rolls and some paper cake cases.
£101.30 / £180.00

KajiKita

Struggling a bit more this month. It’s been a scrappy month and with a lot of waiting around in hospitals not knowing if hubby is going to be nil by mouth or not and then having to buy food at the hospital, that bumped the spend up quite a bit. Plus my head has been in the shed. 

To stick to target we need to only spend £92 next weekend for the rest of the month. We might manage this - we are having our once a month takeaway on Friday night which will come out of our personal spends and I have told hubby what we are aiming for and he is up for eating out of the freezer as much as we can. 

Crossing my fingers ….

KK

otb666

414/600  Managed to spend £40 at fruit and vegetable shop. Plan to do a few soups and Spanish omelettes and salads with this.  Cant quite believe cauliflowers £2.50 each needless to say gave them a miss.  12 days left one more veg shop and a normal shop. So doable.  I am trying the 30 different plant based food a week diet. This is quite hard going but was getting stuck in a rut and looking forward to carrot and suede soup and broccoli and blue cheese and then pepper and tomato soups 

Saver-upper

A NSD today, but yesterday I had to go to 3 different supermarkets for just a few bits (HOW HARD IS IT TO BUY BABY POWDER THESE DAYS???!!!  It was a special request by 16yo daughter. Tried B and M, One Below, Aldi, Iceland (was not, for 1 second, expecting to find it here, but was going to check our YS stuff anyway, so checked). Finally bought in Morrisons. 

Went out for milk and apple sauce, came back with those, plus two loaves of bread, milk, baby powder. Total spend £7.40

£152.52/£300