I’m attempting to stick to a grocery budget of £230/$355 a month in 2011. 

In my weekly menu plan posts I often describe our meal plan as simple..and it usually is.  I don’t like to complicate things in the kitchen and only push the boat out with a new recipe once or twice a month.  I’ll let you in on a secret: I don’t like cooking.  The easier the meal, the happier I am and if I lived on my own, I’m sure I’d eat vegetable soup and seeded bread for dinner every night!

Last week my supermarket shop came to £46.99; this was reduced from £54.49 as I had a voucher for £7.50 off a £50 shop. This week I went to the same supermarket and spent £41.55.

 Breakdown:

• Organic Eggs £1.82
• Organic Carrots £1.08
• Onion 10p
• Organic Potato £1.75
• Organic Apples £2.49
• Cucumber £0.75
• Organic Houmous £1.20
• 12 Bread rolls £1.45
• Croissants £1.00
• Ciabatta £1.09
• Muffins £0.74
• Sunflower and Pumpkin Loaf £1.15
• 1kg Organic Mince Beef £5.00
• Sausage Plait £1.99
• Ham £2.79
• 8 Pints Organic Milk £3.00
• 2 Tins Organic Soup £1.58
• Organic Apricot Jam £1.59
• Jamie Oliver Pasta Sauce x 2 £1.96
• Organic Raspberry Yogurt £1.59
• Organic Penne £0.75
• 2 Pizza’s £2.50
• 4 x Tomato Ketchup £2.68
• Newspaper £1.50

Total spend £41.05

Notes:

• I bought more organic food than normal this week. 
• I bought the paper as it contains a £10 [off a £50 shop] voucher valid until 16th Jan
• Ketchup was on offer so I bought four
• Vegetables next week will come mainly from our freezer
• I may have to buy extra milk/fruit

I’ve received a couple of questions from blog readers on my grocery spending, so tomorrow I’ll show you how this grocery shop relates to next weeks menu plan. I hope that you find it helpful

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