January 2024 Grocery Challenge

Finstickle

Two spends so far, £3.50 on an emergency loaf of bread and sausage roll and £30.48 at Mr T.

I just got the bits I needed for the next couple of days as will do a weekly shop on Thursday however I did succumb to a 'too good to leave' YS deal of 2 packs of Fish Pie Mix down from a total of £9.10 to £2.28.  They have gone straight in the freezer and I will make a big fish pie at the weekend which will do 2/3 dinners.

£30.48/£350

Mamaofmanybudgets

£23.04/£400

Ds1 is making dinner tonight from some cookbooks he got at the library 😋 👨🏼‍🍳
So just a few quid spent in the corner shop for missing ingredients. £3.70 

SausageDogSandwich

£51.69/300 spent, that was Tesco delivery on 30th dec but taking it from January budget. Will be having another delivery on Sunday this week so will update again then. 

Soontobeoap

£11.90 spent on cooking marg, ham, juice, milk, bread and Jam. Should have everyrhing we need untim tesco order on 11th January. 

Florenceem

Just a spend of £1.45 on milk today.

Mamaofmanybudgets

£33.34 /£400 

Another £11.29 spent at the corner shop. 

😬😬😬 I will reign it in now. 🤣🙈

lovemula21

Hi 👋 

I’d like to join in please.

I have 2 adults, 3 children and a cat to feed. 

**£500** for Jan. 

My Jan goal is to spend no more than £100/week on our supermarket shop this includes cleaning stuff, pack lunches for outings and toiletries. I usually go Monday’s so I’ve missed the first Monday of the year with it being New Year’s Day. So I only have 4 shops to do this month. 

£50 for the month on Cat food this includes delivery. 

And I am budgeting up to £50 on other items (this month it will be bunk buying flour and getting my smol delivery) this is usually £100/ month but I have some extra things in the freezer/ cupboard so I’m going to use them up. 

We have a bread maker which is really useful. I will meal plan more regularly and create some new dishes. Fc my fussy children will like them. 

TheScarletPixie

So far I've managed to not buy anything :-) 

sarahj1986

sarahj1986 said:

sarahj1986 said:

Good evening 

I’m starting this again. Things have been all over the place! Moved home in August, daughter started school in September and our son was born in October. I’ve let things slide and honestly when I look at my bank transactions I’m disgusted in our food shop spending. We have a holiday booked for August, we need to cut back in order to pay for that 

As I have a newborn, he is breastfed but his nappies, wipes plus all our toiletries, household cleaning are included on this budget. We start giving him solids in April. 

Factoring all that in I’m going for £360 a month, ideally less but I think around £80 a week is right, some weeks will be more, others less. I’m determined to do it 

so @elsiepac I’m down for £360 per month 

First spend today 

£13.52 spent 

made up of the following 

£2.25 in Poundland on Barney and Party rings, neither on CC so cheapest in there

£4,90 on toothpaste and a new toothbrush for my daughter. I always let her pick her toothbrush and the toothpaste for her is safe price as Tesco and the sensitive toothpaste is cheaper there than Tesco 

£6.37 M&S. I find their beans are the nicest, 50p a tin but still decent price, plus bread and milk (same price as Tesco) and some tea cakes I found reduced to 92p a pack 

£346.58 left big shop due tomorrow 

£73.43 spent

£12.69 in Morrisons. My daughter loves the weetabix melts, only place I can find them locally. They aren’t cheap either £3 for a small box. Plus I’d forgotten to order honey, soy and cornflour 

£60.74 Tesco delivery due shortly. My husband is doing dry January so about £15 of that is a few packs of 0% beer for him that will last a few weeks. Plus nappies, wipes, some household items, 

£273.15 left 

Blackcats

Happy January everyone.

I'm feeling enthusiastic about managing our grocery spends this year - let's hope enthusiasm translates into competence! 

December was a bit wonky spending wise but has given us plenty of bits and bobs of leftovers for this month.  Cheese and crackers again for lunch today - yum, yum.,
I'm going to do a weekly meal plan that includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.  We are usually fine with breakfast and dinner but often find ourselves foraging around aimlessly for lunch ideas.
also going to take £10 a month from groceries for the Christmas meats, treats and drinks spending.

JANUARY BUDGET £350 please