February 2026 Grocery Challenge

JingsMyBucket

Evening y’all. Here are my shopping totals from today. 

£29.07 at M & S for clementines (2.80), 1.6kg bananas (1.58), salad (1.60), 4 avocados (3.00), YS big hummus pot (1.20), green goddess dip/dressing (2.50), 600g chicken leg quarters (1.50), 1kg Greek yoghurt (1.95), Yeo Valley yoghurt (2.10), 2 fancy pots of yoghurt (2.10), 2 cans of coconut milk (2.20), 4 cans of baked beans (1.80), and coffee beans (4.75). 

£6.95 at Iceland for Laughing Cow cheese triangles (2.95), a bag of potato chips (1.50) and ice cream (2.50). 

Total £185.77 / £350 spent. £164.23 remaining. 

Quantaqa

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Thanks for sharing this. I'll look into getting a couple of books as well.

whitecatcreamsofaDOH

Evening GC-ers!

I’ve been recovering from a cold and had a super stressful work week and the comfort eating has been off the scale 😩

Definitely spent more than I wanted to but am back following my meal plan as of today so hopefully next week will be better 🤞

£148.73/£400

LotsOfTea

I spent £4.03 today on some ham for DS's packed lunches, some easy peelers and a big pack of spaghetti.

I'm up to £9.78/£300 for now although I have a delivery coming on Thursday that will bump that up!

jivjules1

@goldfinches thank you for your kind words.

Suprised by DD visiting and deciding a Sunday roast would be nice, also bought a dine in meal deal for valentines but will save on going out. Also had a bottle of wine which isn’t great for my AF challenge on another group! Total was 71.31 Still time to stay in budget there is lots of the roast left!

179.57/350

AnotherNewDay

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First report of the month £13.88/£60 for cats and £175.07/£290 for humans - total is £188.95/£350

thriftwizard

It's all gone pear-shaped again here! DD1 has installed herself for a few days whilst her fiancé's up north for a conference. This is likely to be the last time as she's now found a job down west & starts next week, so not begrudged - it's lovely to have her here - but needless to say the budget has taken a bit of a hit! £32.98 spent at W8rose this morning. Admittedly some of this is supplies for baking for my mother's 100th birthday party next weekend, but I know now I'm going to go over budget this month, as I haven't yet done the non-perishables trip. Ah well! I'll keep tabs & see how little I can go over by instead… sigh!

Blackcats

a trip to MrL today with a carefully curated shopping list which we mostly stuck to except we bought some new clothes pegs. Why am I so excited to have some pretty clothes pegs? I was aiming for £50 and it came to £52 because my bank automatically rounds up all spends. It's a nice little amount at the end of each month. We claimed a free Belgium bun, a free bag of mini cookies (for the grandkids next week) and a free pack of cocktail tomatoes.

£190.00 remaining

Sallyp2

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The m&s green goddess dressing & baked beans are fab! The basic grocery range is really good for the £

Nelliegrace

Annual Grocery Budget £1,825 for 2 pensionners.
February Grocery Budget £140.

The usual weekly shop at Aldi yesterday.

Aldi has split red lentils 2kg at £2.99 in their special buys.

The red potatoes were on offer at £1.39, and the mushrooms at 89p.

Broccoli 79p, 7 bananas 88p, small pears 99p, oranges 99p x2, satsumas £1.19, blueberries £1.09, grapes £1.37.

Milk £1.65 x2, yoghurt 1L £1.65, cream £1.39, evap 55p.

£20.45 spent.

We walked across to M&S. I bought wholemeal plain flour 1kg £1.50, shortbread fingers £1.15, organic baked beans, £1.10, and Only…Ingredients baked beans 75p. DH wanted to try the Only… Ingredients cornflakes 325g and bran flakes 300g both at £2.50!

I hope at that price he will measure the portions! Our usual breakfast is porridge at 85p a kilo, jumbo oats at £1.30 a kilo, or basic muesli at £2 a kilo, served with a bit of fruit, and homemade kefir.

£9.50 spent.

Total £69.99.