August 2023 Grocery Challenge

Soontobeoap

Grand daughters staying this week. Saw a great idea on instagram for our lunch. Ham and cheese folded into a wrap envelope and toasted.  Yum.quick, easy and slughtly different. 

Herbyme

LittleGem said:

Hi all,

managed to avoid the supermarket this weekend which makes a change, £27.43 spent so far which was a Lidl shop last week, will need to do another big shop probably tomorrow as have been eating out of the freezer and have depleted my stores of bolognaise and shepherds pie for the kids.

Would love some ideas for batch cooking child friendly meals, have definitely got stuck in a rut with dinners lately!

£27.43/£250

Have you come across the batch lady? (Can’t do link). Sorry if she’s already a household name! I only came across her yesterday 

peony40

Hello,

Can I join you all please?

My budget is £40 a week.

This covers all housekeeping for two adults.

Many thanks

elsiepac

Budgets updated to here

Welcome to the new joiners! It's definitely slower at the moment in here, probably lots of people on holidays etc and busy with kids on school hols I expect!

I'm stuck in a real rut at the moment in general, which is affecting me grocery-wise as I just have no inspiration or impetus food wise, so I've been falling into a trap of buying some ready-prepared things like soups.  As long as I don't go mad I'm not too worried, and I've been balancing it with lots of salads which I add a more "treaty" vegan "main" to, for example the Gosh Sweetcorn and Quinoa bites which are incredible when popped in the air fryer for 10 minutes. So my spending is a little high, but also not totally out of control.  Wish I could find some inspiration in me to meal plan but I seem to have lost my get-up-and-go!

Pennypincin

Hi everyone.
I've struggled to stay in budget and am at least £15 over for last week. Mainly due to camping and being a novice camper and still getting to grips with budgeting food wise.
Back fresh this week.
Managed to spend just under £10 in Sainsbury's on some odds and sods.
I'm really hoping to get on top of the spending as it seems ridiculous how much I'm spending on odds and sods.
I aim to use the money not spent from food shopping that I've put aside to do an online shop soon. Mainly to get heavy storecupboard essentials like pulses or washing detergent.

peony40

Thank you Elsie.

I managed to squirrel £8.61 into savings on last week’s shop.  Hopefully, I will be able to have some savings this week too.  I do need to go through my cupboards and use up what we have in.

Auti

Hi, I follow this thread and find it very useful - meal planning is something I find very difficult as me and child eat differently (me GF/DF and veggie) and we both have sensory issues so our food is fairly rigid though I am trying to get child to explore different food but that proves expensive and wasteful as packs are too big to use in date time/i don’t eat the food and freezer is small. I do wish small packs were available  

I also tend to stockpile food that we eat as covid made life really hard as being sensory eaters found changing food exceedingly hard and scared of that happening again with all the unrest/abnormal weather/prices etc - life certainly has got more unsettled since covid came.

thank you for letting me read all your posts - I get a lot from them  

Blackcats

Just back from a whopping big shop at Lidls.  Stocked up on tins, bread and cake making ingredients, toiletries and toilet roll/cleaning items as well as the fresh items.  We also bought a big sack of rice to keep in stock as I've read that there might be a rice shortage and we are down to the last quarter of the current bag.
we did have a shopping list based on food plan and checking cupboards.  

OH nearly snuck in a box of fortune cookies .  I've nothing against fortune cookies but not sure why we might "need" them 🤷‍♀️

I do feel more content when I've got plenty of food in the house.

£250.00 left for the month. 

joedenise

Just a small top up shop of yoghurts and eggs.  Spent a total of just over £7.  Currently on £37.64 so not bad for the first weeks shopping.

Herbyme

elsiepac said:

Budgets updated to here

Welcome to the new joiners! It's definitely slower at the moment in here, probably lots of people on holidays etc and busy with kids on school hols I expect!

I'm stuck in a real rut at the moment in general, which is affecting me grocery-wise as I just have no inspiration or impetus food wise, so I've been falling into a trap of buying some ready-prepared things like soups.  As long as I don't go mad I'm not too worried, and I've been balancing it with lots of salads which I add a more "treaty" vegan "main" to, for example the Gosh Sweetcorn and Quinoa bites which are incredible when popped in the air fryer for 10 minutes. So my spending is a little high, but also not totally out of control.  Wish I could find some inspiration in me to meal plan but I seem to have lost my get-up-and-go!

That sounds frustrating Elsiepac, I hope you can be kind to yourself while you work your way out of that rut 🙂