January 2024 Grocery Challenge

nikki2002-2008

Can I join please my budget is £25 per week for just me, need to start tracking my spending. Started envelope stuffing in June and doing really well. Food for this week:-

NYD spaghetti carbonara with green beans
2/1 Lamb roast dinner 
3/1 Lamb roast dinner 
4/1 Chicken egg fried rice and roasted peppers
5/1 Pasta bake with salad
6/1 Cottage pie and broccoli
7/1 3 bird roast dinner

Using up meat from Christmas this week

Frugalistamama

Accidentally forgot to cancel my HelloF subscription and they charged me £35 which is annoying and put up my spend this week even though I haven't gone to the shops. more than I would have spent for three meals but never mind. I'll cancel and wait for the next discount offer. Spent another £5 at the corner shop so so far have spent half my weekly grocery budget of £80 and no main food shop. Not started off too well.

K9sandFelines

Happy New Year everybody 🥂🎉

£150 for me please

This is for all food and cleaning products and toiletries.

Thanks @elsiepac

basketcase

Frugalistamama said:

Accidentally forgot to cancel my HelloF subscription and they charged me £35 which is annoying and put up my spend this week even though I haven't gone to the shops. more than I would have spent for three meals but never mind. I'll cancel and wait for the next discount offer. Spent another £5 at the corner shop so so far have spent half my weekly grocery budget of £80 and no main food shop. Not started off too well.

How annoying that somebody else (effectively) got to spend almost half your grocery budget! I've been caught for an extra month by remembering to cancel but giving notice on, say the 1 just after the DD's been taken to be told that they'll take 1 March because I should have cancelled on 31 Jan!  Not sure which irritates me more...

Which reminds me, I've got a magazine sub to cancel!

Angelica123

I would like to join. I am aiming for monthly budget of £250. This is still excessive for me but last year I was averaging £300 because of lack of meal planning, and I would love to slowly move in right direction. 

otb666

117/600  Got 3 weeks left until 23rd so on target. Spent a lot on xmas presents for family but that comes out of annual budget it was swimming subs for grandchild and shoes and clothes for fast growing grandchild there is only 4 people buy for and spent 500 but know they have shoes coats and clothes. i know this is a lot but i like to help out and can afford to. Does mean i have to scrimp a bit more.

Finstickle

Hi @elsiepac can I join at £350 please

I don't think I did much in 2022 as work was so hectic that cost control seemed to go out the window.  I'm leaving my job at the end of January and taking a break so really need to keep on top of shopping as a big area of spend right now.

I've gone low on my budget this month as I did a big stock up at CostCo before Christmas so don't need any meat or fish, hopefully keeps snacks and extras to a minimum focusing on real food.

LotsOfTea

Like a lot of people I'm recovering from the excesses of the festive season and determined to get back into good habits. My freezer and cupboards are full and I'm going to concentrate on using what I have before buying anything else. 

I'm setting a budget of £250 for the month for 2 adults & 1 child.

I'm hoping to keep spends low in the first few weeks as we have visitors coming to stay at the end of the month and it's nice to have more treaty food then. Good luck everyone!

purplefran

Good morning!  I have just been shopping and spent £24.90 on bits which should mean that I won’t have to spend anything else for the rest of this week and hopefully into next. I have realised that I spend more when I go to the supermarket as I get tempted by the goodies and so called bargains.  So for this month I am going to try to use the smaller local shops eg local farm shop, health food shop, refill shop, animal feed shop for dog food etc to see if that actually saves me money.  This will be on top of eating out of the pantry and freezers.  The freezers are full of homegrown produce from the allotment that needs using before the next season starts.  We still have a fair bit still on the allotment such as brussels, parsnips, kale, tree cabbage, celery, winter radishes, carrots & celeriac, so that has to be used up too.

charlies_tribe

Good morning. Thank you for all the tomato soup comments. @weenancyinAmerica I was going to try it but when I went in I didn't have the tomatoes I thought I had. I will definitely give a shops own a try but with DD2s eating disorder she can sniff out a change a mile off and don't want to put her off.

Just fetched the click and collect shop. I did accidentally order a gammon for 3 so DH will have to fetch another in the week.

£152.50/£762.60