In a previous post I set myself a challenge to spend only £200 on groceries over the four weeks, 18th January – 17th February.

So how am I doing?

Spending: Not great in terms of spending as I’ve spent £188.60 so far, however in terms of the food we’re eating there’s been  a massive improvement; I’ve been cooking from scratch more and I’ve made the move to organic meat.

Overspending: Some of the overspend is because I’ve been building up my pantry supplies, {when you start to do more cooking from scratch, there’s an initial outlay for flour, sugar, spices, etc} and I’ve also spent over £30 on coffee because it was on offer.

System: I’m using the same system as a piece of wood, a large monthly shop in which I stock up on basics, and then shopping for fresh products as and when needed. This is my favourite shopping system so far.

Future: All in all I’m quite hopeful that eventually I’ll be able to keep the cost of our grocery spending down, but keep the food quality up.

I want to bring the spending in under £250 for the remainder of the challenge, and will do a review at the end of it.

If your taking part in the challenge please let me know how you’re doing in the comments or even better in a blog post; I have a slight fascination with grocery spending!

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{photo credit: rhett maxwell}

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