February 2024 Grocery Challenge

lovemula21

Weekly supermarket shop completed. 

I spent £86.01 today. I’d put £80
on my totem pre pay visa card and it topped me up with my cashback balance of £6.04. 

I took my son with me to help and we managed to get everything on our list plus some extra biscuits and an extra noodle pot for him. All within our target of £86.04, we even had 3p to spare. Apparently the extra noodle pot gave me extra mummy points 😁. He is so easy to please, bless him. 

My total is now £339.50/£500 this leaves me with £80.25/shop for 2 more shops. I think this will be fine if I carry on with meal planning and only top my totem card up with my target amounts. It will be £80 again and any cashback from the week before will be automatically topped up too so I’ll probably add that on like I did this week. 

I’m not going to worry too much about going over budget if it’s by a few pounds a week due to the cashback being added when I top up. Overall, I’m doing a lot better than previously and we are spending a lot less than we used to so I’m happy with the progress so far. 

JingsMyBucket

Morning folks, just a couple spends to declare. 

69p at Savers this past Saturday for matches. £6.94 at M & S yesterday for milk, brown sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and bananas.

We've finally run out of some baking items after a few years since we don't really tend to bake. The baking soda and powder actually expired and I think that's why the blueberry muffins I made this weekend didn't rise as they should have.

We're going to keep the baking soda for scrubbing and cleaning but does the expired baking powder have any use? I was just going to toss it. 

£160.50 / £340.00 spent. £187.13 remaining. 

JingsMyBucket

lovemula21 said:

Total to date £253.50/£500
  
This includes an online bulk shop of grass fed beef that cost £138.80. 

This leaves us with £82.16/ week for 3 supermarket shops.

This should be possible if I shop from my stores, meal plan and stop sending OH to the shop for goodies. 

@lovemula21 which online shop did you use please? 

Crazycatlady2

Not an exact amount but I think I'm at around £280. Will just need salad and bread tomorrow to get us through to next delivery on Sunday 

Suffolk_lass

JingsMyBucket 

We're going to keep the baking soda for scrubbing and cleaning but does the expired baking powder have any use? I was just going to toss it. 

@JingsMyBucket Baking powder is a mixture of sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) and cream of tartar, a dry acid, activated when you add wet ingredients to the dry ones. Some have cornstarch (cornflour) added too. After a number of years the CoT can lose its potency but the bicarb part should be good to use for cleaning. I would just try it for cleaning, eg sprinkle a little on half a lemon and use it to clean a stainless steel sink as though it were a sponge

Money_Choices

Hi Elsiepic

I have £36.86 out of my Grocery budget of £150.00

Money Choices

JingsMyBucket

Wonderful @Suffolk_lass, thank you for that insight. I'll add it to the cleaning supplies then. 

SausageDogSandwich

Spent 86.81 on the Sunday sains delivery, should have enough to last until Sunday again unless I stumble into farmfoods again when husband is off work lol.

£123.21/350 spent so far

thriftwizard

Well, it's all gone a bit bonkers here; I was away for the weekend and had spent £92.83 on various supplies before I went, leaving the assembled company (5 adults) £50 cash grocery money, just in case. But evidently I'd done a reasonable job of anticipating need, as there's still £50 tucked into the spice shelf! So the £92.83 has been added; I also spent a little bit this afternoon (beansprouts, mushrooms, sour cream, beans) but need to find my receipt to disentangle it from Valentines & my mother's birthday! Currently my target is looking perfectly do-able, but who knows what's just around the corner...

London_1

12/13 NSDs First shop of February as I've been really busy decluttering and also using up stuff in the cupboards I spent a total of £27.90 this morning in a quick shop to get all the essentials I had run out of plus fresh fruit and veg I'm hoping I have more than enough for well over a week to 10 days before I need anything else.

 I'm really making a good dent in the frozen stuff, as my freezer was pretty full, and the tinned stocks are reducing fairly well also.

In  a way its been really useful shopping from my cupboards as it means I have more time to declutter as I'm hoping to move by the summer as my house is on sale. I'm running the freezer down as I want to defrost it before I move

Onwards and upwards . 
JackieO xx