January 2025 Grocery Challenge

Suffolk_lass

Are you popping over to the February thread to track the rest of your month @Ecointent? It gets awfully quiet here after the month ends

CRANKY40

January total for me isn £293.46 which is under budget but also assissted by the cheese that was left over from Christmas. 

JingsMyBucket

Happy Saturday everyone. I’m declaring at £174.23 / £300.00 spent. £125.77 remaining including the £30 bulk fund. 

I didn’t end up going grocery shopping yesterday so that’s my final total. Instead I put in a Tesco delivery which will arrive in a bit. Well done to everyone this month. It’s been great to see the collaboration and savings going on. See you on the February thread!

nannygladys

After my no spend January I ended up spending £29.82,   some was on a few bits I ran out of and felt I needed and the bulk was on fresh food for the doggo. 

Suffolk_lass

nannygladys said:

After my no spend January I ended up spending £29.82,   some was on a few bits I ran out of and felt I needed and the bulk was on fresh food for the doggo. 

don't be sad @nannygladys - that is a fantastic effort. My low spend was just over the £150 I was aiming for

t14cy_t

last spend of the month at morrisons took me to £2 over my £100 budget. this was due to the face they had lots of reduced cheese down to 30p instead of £3. i am now well stocked with cheese....never overstocked! olio has been good and varied this week to freezer is full. see you all in the feb challenge. xx

Nelliegrace

I have added up the receipts for December 30th, when I bought a lot of reduce priced baking ingredients from Aldi, and from January.
I make the total £131.55. DH has fetched extra milk several times. With the weather, and being under the weather, I have struggled a bit. 

We had 64 eggs from the four hens, which is very good for January. 

I used up the Christmas special offer root vegetables and cabbages, which we stored in the garage, none was wasted. Unwrapped and allowed to dry, they keep better there than in the pantry or the fridge.

K9sandFelines

Spends today £8.60 at the Oriental supermarket.
Two trays of tofu, seasoned soybean paste and vegan oyster sauce. Not really urgent spends; but I'd not been in this particular shop before, and don't know when I'll next want to go. 

Also, added to signature; spend on toilet rolls. I've started ordering bamboo ones for between £30-40 for 48 (3 ply/300 sheets). These are lasting me four months, so £7-£10 for the month on toilet rolls and they are nice quality. I don't think that's bad at all. Thats including using them as tissues sometimes or for visitors too. I was buying W@itrose ones for a long time with discounts on my Waitrose card, and they were good value for money until they changed them.Then I tried a few supermarket ones, which I didn't like. So for now, this is what I'm going with.

Current ones are called Wearth it.
Previous ones were Master roll which were nice, but the Wearth it ones are even softer 

Thistimenxtyear

I all went wrong. I dont actually know what the final total was. I will try again for February

K9sandFelines

I think I'm on my own here now til Weds.

A few updates : 

Feb 4th spent £4.40 in HB on a toothbrush set for DGD, 3pk of toothbrushes for myself and two packs of chocolate ricecakes.
Then an £11.91 spend in @ldi on mostly fruit and veg fresh and frozen - blueberries , cauliflower, cucumber, bananas, grapes and peaches. Two items on there I can't decipher what they are, but it's food.

Today another spend in @ldi of £6.26 on peppers, YS mushrooms, butternut squash, carrots and tomato purée (does anybody remember when it is was 29p!!?)

I'm pretty sure thats it for spends this month now, and I've come under this month. Think I've spent about £100.

Off to tot up!!