January 2019 Grocery Challenge

PipneyJane · 7 January 2019 at 10:44PM

JingsMyBucket wrote: »

Use Woolite for wool and silk: https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/shop/search?&searchTerm=woolite. This is what I grew up using on clothes that needed either the delicate cycle or the wool cycle. There are also versions of it now for dark clothes as well.

I gave the Waitrose link purely for illustration because they have both the regular and dark clothes formula. Wilko's and Tesco online also carry Woolite but only seem to have the regular/pink kind.

Woolite! Yes, of course! I’ve added it to the shopping list for when we our big shop for the month later this week. Thanks Jings.

I have two small shops to declare from yesterday: £7.30 at the farm shop, spent on veggies and eggs; £9.74 at Mr T’s where we bought yoghurts for the week, a couple of YS pizzas, some hummus and YS “burnt ends” of cooked beef for lunch. (The pizzas came in handy for dinner last night, when the Lidl frozen lobsters hadn’t defrosted in the fridge.)

The above brings our spend So far to £36.59/£120, leaving £83.41 for the rest of the month.

- Pip

zafiro1984 · 7 January 2019 at 10:50PM

I'm the one with the daughter that was used to shopping at F&Mason or M&S Food Hall - she has just moved back in with us.

I needed some fruit and veg so without telling her where we were going I drove to Lidl. She opted to stay in the car!!! By the time I was three quarters of the way round curiosity had taken hold and she was quietly looking around. Shopping completed her comment was 'It was cleaner than I thought but there was no "shopping experience"' Personally I couldn't care less about the "experience" but I thought Round One went to me in her re-education.

selloptape · 7 January 2019 at 11:43PM

zafiro1984 wrote: »

'It was cleaner than I thought but there was no "shopping experience"'

Sounds like you're halfway there with Lidl, won't be long before she's leaving you for dust in the aisle of dreams

Spending on track for me at the min but teenager and I are both ill so not sure if that means less food will be bought or if we'll be needing comfort food :rotfl:

mrsnicewriting · 8 January 2019 at 12:04AM

hi All
Elsiepac thanks for starting this off again, can I join in again for this year please?
Same budget as last year £1800 annual, hoping I'll fare better this time, as all ok until August then with one thing and another all went wrong.
thanks again Sue

debbiedodge1737 · 8 January 2019 at 9:20AM

Hello everyone , First quite day I've had since new years eve to get on here. Please put my down for £400 for January. I'm doing my first shop today. It's quite a high budget but we have eaten everything in the house over christmas.

Thanks

sinkorswim2018 · 8 January 2019 at 10:12AM

Hi, I'd like to join you guys. I'm on the Frugal 2019 thread so have a budget. Mine is £200 a month for groceries plus a £100 a month for eating out. If I go over on one I have to take from the other. I'd like to come i well under for both and reduce my budget further but it's early days so trying to be realistic.
So far I've spent 38.98 from my £200 grocery budget ( and £10.90 for eating out).
Just given my daughter the news that she will be taking packed lunch to college instead of having £3 T3sco 'meal.deals', she's taken it well. Made a nice pesto pasta for her today. Next step getting her to make her own!

After reading through the thread a couple of things sprung to mind. Buying jars of salsa for entertaining a large group... can make this very cheaply (though would buy for convenience on a small scale). Also mention of buying coffee pods. I also.made hummous recently, very easy, but I know it depends on the time you have available... No point spending a day at home cooking to save a fiver if you could earn more else where.
I gave up using Tassimo pods due to recycling issues. I am a coffee snob and only drink real coffee, not instant. Have made a big saving sticking to my charity shop cafetiere. Funnily enough I have found that I can recycle them now and collect them from work and friends but don't use then myself anymore just to save money.

MadamMim2013 · 8 January 2019 at 11:21AM

First proper spend of the year, £21.32 in Morries & £50.10 in Mr L’s so a total of £71.42
There was an item or two that went in though not on the list yet also an item or two not picked up.. :A
Looks like my full total so far is £84.58/£300..

System · 8 January 2019 at 11:33AM

sinkorswim2018 wrote: »

Hi, I'd like to join you guys. I'm on the Frugal 2019 thread so have a budget. Mine is £200 a month for groceries plus a £100 a month for eating out. If I go over on one I have to take from the other. I'd like to come i well under for both and reduce my budget further but it's early days so trying to be realistic.
So far I've spent 38.98 from my £200 grocery budget ( and £10.90 for eating out).
Just given my daughter the news that she will be taking packed lunch to college instead of having £3 T3sco 'meal.deals', she's taken it well. Made a nice pesto pasta for her today. Next step getting her to make her own!

After reading through the thread a couple of things sprung to mind. Buying jars of salsa for entertaining a large group... can make this very cheaply (though would buy for convenience on a small scale). Also mention of buying coffee pods. I also.made hummous recently, very easy, but I know it depends on the time you have available... No point spending a day at home cooking to save a fiver if you could earn more else where.
I gave up using Tassimo pods due to recycling issues. I am a coffee snob and only drink real coffee, not instant. Have made a big saving sticking to my charity shop cafetiere. Funnily enough I have found that I can recycle them now and collect them from work and friends but don't use then myself anymore just to save money.

Ooh, where can you recycle Tassimo pods? Tassimo is my one luxury, I only allow myself 1 cup a day normally. I have been wrestling with my conscience lately over the recycling issue, so would be great if I didn't have to throw them away.

Laundry_Days · 8 January 2019 at 11:52AM

Not too bad in week 1. Spent £22.71 in Lidl, £6.88 in £stretcher and then £47.21 in Tesco. Feeling pretty chuffed with it all as managed to budget beforehand and stick to the list... guess that's half the battle!

Now to get planning for this week's shop...

£76.80/£600

Esthermate · 8 January 2019 at 12:38PM

weekly Aldi shop only £6.52 making total so far: £36.49.
Not bad.

Ha ha at fussy daughter; I used to be like that!

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