January 2024 Grocery Challenge

Finstickle

£0 spend on bread today.

Organised myself to put a loaf in the breadmaker.  I have bags of bread flour in the cupboard, it took no longer to do than popping into the shop and as that shop would have been Co-op saved upwards of £1.80 :-)

No change

keggie

First shop of the week/month after 3NSD.
All amounts rounded up as bought on Chase DC and also get 1% cash back.
Aldi £25 and Coop £4.

Aldi shop will make 4 double portions of Chilli and 3 double portions of Chicken, lentil and spinach curry. Also topped up with some staples like coffee and porridge oats.
I make my own kefir and have to buy organic milk at the Coop - also get points or cashback on coop card but letting that build up.

January W1 29/80 29/320

lovemula21

A little update, I spent £31.20 bringing my smol order forward so I’m going to add £18.80 to my next weekly shop so I can buy flour at the supermarket instead of ordering online this month. This will keep me within my £50 budget for that category. 

£31.20/£500 for January 

Pennypincin

A £4.25 spend yesterday on a cucumber, 1iceburge lettuce, baby plum tomatoes and bananas.
Edited to add that I've managed a no spend day today.

London_1

Food budget still not touched ,sausages mash and veg from the freezer tonight 4 NSDs  

JackieO xx

Couldsavemore

Ohh my first shop of the month

£47.88 / £300 

Nicely under my £75 per week budget

LadyWithAPlan

Soontobeoap said:

Thank you all for your tips for fish cakes without parsley. I was determined to make do and ended up using 2 medium potatoes, 2 tins tuna, a small red onion finely chopped, 1 dspn of mayonnaise and 1 tspn mustard with a little salt all mashed together. I formed mixture into shape and coated with hm bread crumbs made from slightly ood bread. This made 5 but I could easily have made each one a bit smaller. They were really tasty. 

This sounds delicious - I have some left over YS smoked mackerel and half a cooked sweet potato so I will have a go at making a fish cake tomorrow - got some French Mr Lid Dijon mayo thats amazing (think only sell in French Lid but if you see it let me know)- no breadcrumbs in as GF and need to go buy some eggs but maybe I can roll in oats instead - I like parsley but none in so may grab some fresh herbs in next shop as not having any sweets this month so making extra effort to make dinner tasty.

@Soontobeoap hope your mouth heals quickly...

Dinner was Defrosted YS beef mince fried in a chermoula spice,  harissa paste, tomato puree, chicken stock, YS mushrooms and pink onions with brown rice and peas and some HM pickled pink onion and sliced cucumber. My freezer has a lot of YS meat in from Coop shop and HM stock and got HellFrsh arriving Sunday so will aim to make do from fridge /freezer til them

As I am doing decluttering again using the minimalism game which includes the fridge I popped on neighbourhood whats app I had some spare plant based Alp**  desserts I am not that keen on and breadcrumbs (normal as came in HF ) and I am GF... Neighbour is picking up tomorrow and swapping some bacon left over from her parents visit and she is vegan so an unexpected result!

Hope all are doing well and finding Jan food and life budgets not to difficult after Xmas ... hopefully we all getting thru leftovers.

JingsMyBucket

@Finstickle well done resisting the urge and using up resources instead. @StickyTheStickInsect I'm so glad you're back. The profile pic of Dougal from Father Ted always made me laugh so much. 😂

This afternoon Mr. Jings spent £16.43 at M & S because I called him and asked him to get something for dinner from there. I've been feeling dizzy all day and couldn't face cooking. He bought a hodgepodge of items but so it goes. SIGH.

£40.73 / £330 spent.  £264.97 remaining

The Morrisons order is coming tomorrow. I added a couple more items like brown basmati rice and black peppercorns because we're completely out of both. Let's see what shows up tomorrow. Similar to @BudgetingBelinda, I'm also planning out my online shops for the rest of the month. It helps me know how much wiggle room there is for incidentals like milk or yoghurt. 

lianne1984

Hey all!
Happy New year!!

I'm back in with a £250 budget for January.
£80 / £250 so far

Good luck all

BudgetingBelinda

224/400 🥴 need to be very careful now!