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Wow, Meg, i am impressed with how far you can stretch your chicken! I thought i was doing well when mine stretched 3 meals each (there are 3 of us, so 9 meals in total)!
I am still in July at the moment, but am happy to stay at £65 a week again in August please. This month will be my 1st full month working, and I am dreading the wait for my tax credits to be processed. I hope it's not too long!
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Another little spend today but not the greatest - I popped to the shop across from the bus stop and picked up a loaf when really, I should have been organised and gone to the Polish shop that sells beautiful bread for half the price. Still, some goes in the freezer at work for breakfast at work."We always find something, hey Didi, to give us the impression we exist?" Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot.
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Hello. Could I join for August please? I have quickly read through the earlier posts and I will go back and read more thoroughly afterwards, I am just keen to get this post up before I chicken out.
I will be doing an inventory of the cupboards and fridge/freezer sometime this week to try to get a grip on things.
My budget is £40 per week and I would like start on 31st July and end 27th August so month's budget will be £160. This is what I aim for each week/month at the moment and sometimes I spend less but sometimes I spend more. I really want to get it to that as a maximum, not an average.
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Hello all! Target of £250 for August will start on Friday. OH gets paid on the 28th of each month but as it's a Sunday, he gets paid early. It's a good thing and a bad thing as it means we have extra days of August to get into the budget! I'm sure we can do it. Been looking on some other threads for some cheap recipe ideas so I will work my shop around that. It's also OH's birthday on the 11th so I've got to work in a nice meal into the months budget. I would take it out of the birthday/christmas budget but would rather keep it in the GC. Haven't even thought about what his present will be! oops! xxx
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Hello all
Well have decided to stick to £200 for August even though I have gone over for July (very hot = lots of ice lollies and salad stuff:)).
Am also aiming to venture out in search of YS bargains on a regular basis so possibly not so many NSDs but cheaper spending.
Here's to a good August for all.
Thanks to everyone.
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WantToBeSE wrote: »Wow, Meg, i am impressed with how far you can stretch your chicken! I thought i was doing well when mine stretched 3 meals each (there are 3 of us, so 9 meals in total)!
I am still in July at the moment, but am happy to stay at £65 a week again in August please. This month will be my 1st full month working, and I am dreading the wait for my tax credits to be processed. I hope it's not too long!
Have a great day everyone .
It was a bigger chicken than I would normally buy and I didnt think to take note of the weight. I have another one is the freezer so could check but its buried well down and I dare not try to get it as will never manage to get everything back in
The amount of meat I got off it really suprised me and I think it helped that I processed the whole thing at once and didnt put in the fridge to pick at like I would usually do. Also using the meat slicer made a big difference to how many slices I got.
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Hi All, I am going to stick to 170.00 please and my month will run from the 1st Aug. Really pleased with July and so thought I would give it a go. May be a bit more as have respite for a week in August but would rather try to work to it.With Our Thoughts. We make our world - Buddha
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Am going to put down for £500 foe august starting today till 29th August. Hoping to try and stock pile a few bargains if I can hopefully now i have a bit more time as am not spending hours doing the school run! Have spent £59 so far attempting to fill my freezer up the price of food has just gone ridiculous, Probably a trip to aldi for fresh meat and veg tomorrow ! Am off to menu plan like mad I need to get super serious on this food budget!0
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Please could you put me down for £250 in August as I'm starting it now. I've been away for ages and we have nothing much in.Grocery Challenge January 2013 282/300
Grocery Challenge February 2013 195/200
Grocery Challenge March 2013 50.08/2000 -
Spent on Nectarines + Butternut Squas - Ald. SS. Also got some milk £2.38.
We had HM Pie + roasted Butternut Squash + carrots/onions/peas for dinner.
I also made 2 Quiches.
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[IMG][/img]Decluttering Achieved - 2023 - 10,364 Decluttering Target - 2024 - 2,874 April - 242/190
GC NSD 2023 - 242/365
2023 Craft Makes - 245 Craft Spends 2023 - £676.03/£400
Books read - 2023 - 37
GC - 2024 4 Week Period £42.50/£100 NSD - 73
2024 Craft Makes - 1946 Craft Spends 2024 £289.64/£5000
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