March grocery challenge

My challange for March is to stick to listed fortnightly supermarket shops with a £6 maximum fruit & veg top up in between, instead of giving in & popping into Sainsbuyrs for a loaf, a bunch of bananas & a carton of orange juice & spending an extra £20 and still forgetting the bananas!

Total grocery spending aim for month : £112 for 2 adults, 1 dog & 1 cat

I guess it depends on your way of budgeting. For us we inculde takeaways but these are a very rare occurance & never unplanned (in fact our takeaway rule is only the last Friday before payday and then only if there is the cost of the takeway left in the grocery budget & a simlar ammount again to go into savings or very very special occasions.......I think the last time was for the final episode of Friends!), eating out comes under entertainment not groceries & there is always food on hand at home to make lunches so if we can't be bothered that has to come out of our personal spending money.

Thanks for starting March's thread off nice & early by the way, for me March starts on the 23rd of Feb 'cos I use payday months not calendar months!

I wouldnt get takeaways that isnt very moneysaving is it? Seeing as you could spend a whole weeks' grocery money in one evening
Same with meals at work. If i had a job i would take packed lunches. Bought sandwiches are a rip off.

I can't argue with that Sarahsaver, but we have a heck of a lot less takeaways than we used to, and we've never gone without anything else to fund them. But sometimes we just can't resist the smell of the chip shop or Chinese and treat ourselves!

And the food for work isn't bought sandwiches - I don't throw money away that easily! :-) I have things like fruit, cereal and yoghurt for breakfast at work and snacks through the day and something like humous and rice cakes for lunch, while Mr T goes through phases of things like sausage rolls and scotch eggs and if he's having sandwiches we buy the ingredients and make them up in the kitchen at work (we work at the same place.) My main excuse for splashing out a wee bit on work food is that it helps us through the working day, but I will make an effort to cut back.

Ms_Thrift wrote:

I can't argue with that Sarahsaver, but we have a heck of a lot less takeaways than we used to, and we've never gone without anything else to fund them. But sometimes we just can't resist the smell of the chip shop or Chinese and treat ourselves!

And the food for work isn't bought sandwiches - I don't throw money away that easily! :-) I have things like fruit, cereal and yoghurt for breakfast at work and snacks through the day and something like humous and rice cakes for lunch, while Mr T goes through phases of things like sausage rolls and scotch eggs and if he's having sandwiches we buy the ingredients and make them up in the kitchen at work (we work at the same place.) My main excuse for splashing out a wee bit on work food is that it helps us through the working day, but I will make an effort to cut back.

i shall be employing the marjorie dawes tactic and eating dust for the whole of march. takeaway dust, fast dust, reduced dust, dented dust and slow cooked dust. dust dust dust.