January 2026 Grocery Challenge

dollypeeps

Good morning GCers
I don’t think I’m doing too well at all this week
£3.86 at Lidl, £1.89 at corner shop for milk (dh late request) and £1.90 egg delivery Total £ 7.65 
Think I’ll post my totals the end of this week 

joedenise

Thanks for explaining @K9sandFelines, does sound a difficult time for your DD1.

wishus

A trip to the eco shop today and a spend of £21.70. Mostly healthy stuff too!

Brings the total to £54.44 out of £150 so far.

Changeyourlife25

£282.22/£500

itsthelittlethings

I’m determined to keep the food budget stable next month. Big shops Waitrose (1.5 x monthly, £75 each time). Top up shops Asda. I love Asda, their range is great and their prices are good. Tescos are so expensive because they have everything nice. Aldi are not in a good location for me.

oceandreamer

£3 spent on mushrooms and two packets of broccoli  £72.53/£200

thriftwizard

And a slightly random £1.25 added here; I stopped off & bought a small tub of sour cream on the trip down to visit Mum, expecting to be doing a stroganoff with the leftover beef from Sunday this evening. Then got the news that DS3 is actually arriving tomorrow & staying until Monday, and DD2 is also coming tomorrow & staying until Sunday as her fiancé's off to London for a bit. Christmas part 2! Anyway, the stroganoff's been rescheduled for tomorrow as there's plenty of beef, there will be pies made from assorted leftovers on Thursday, & there's one of the enormous Welsh chickens to come out of the freezer for the weekend, so the damage to the budget shouldn't be too disastrous. That said, there will be a trip up to W8rose tomorrow morning... Anyway, it will be fun to have them here!

K9sandFelines

Total so far  is £61.37

Had Amaz@n bits arriving early on Monday (ones a bulk buy, but I haven't figured out how much to set aside for those, so just adding it now).
Then yesterday, Tesco shopping came. Our big store has closed for a refurb temporarily.

Then later today I have an Abel and Cole delivery arriving. As i took advantage of the MSE code.

Thanks @joedenise. It's been a very stressful time for sure. 

 

Suffolk_lass

joedenise said:

Thanks for explaining @K9sandFelines, does sound a difficult time for your DD1.

Yes, and this place is just great if you need to have a little vent of your frustrations - we all do, from time to time and it's a valuable resource in that respect, just for being there and someone reading. Stay strong! x

JingsMyBucket

@K9sandFelines thanks for checking in. I've got you in the list. I was actually starting to get a bit worried about you because I noticed you hadn't posted yet. 🙂 Glad to have you here and sending you some strength during this stressful rigmarole. x

ETA: On my side, we still haven't set foot in a grocery store yet for the past week. We're heading to Edinburgh tomorrow for a day trip and I'll stop into Waitrose to get my favourite Scandi rye crisp crackers. I can't get them around here locally.