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September 2016 Grocery Challenge
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Hi all,
Please may I join you?
Once again I am trying to get a hold of my household budget, it's a complicated house with myself and my husband and then my son and granddaughter three days a week and up to six small children each day for lunch and up to 9 children after school for snacks, I need to make sure the children eat well (healthily) whilst they are with me so my fruit bill can be quite high.
I'm aiming to spend £65 per week including cleaning materials and dog food etc0 -
Evening all and a warm welcome to Sharronej :hello:
When I started about four years ago I realised that £100 would safely cover monthly bulk buys, bearing in mind that I also use it to buy my meat from a local butcher every couple of months. There has been enough left in December to fund C extrastumptyteapot wrote: »can I ask how you worked out how much to put aside for bulk buys? It's a great idea.
So 1st January each year I put aside £100 and use for bulk buys, but through the year I put the monies left over from my monthly budget back in to keep it going. This means that my yearly total household budget, including C. is £2500 max
Hope you all have a marvellous Monday
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Thanks Lynne, that sounds great and a brilliant way to build up a little spare cash for Christmas.
Can I ask which foods you think are particularly worth picking up in bulk? And do you shop for those online or in shops/sm just as and when you see something you want?
The only things I really buy in bulk are meat and wine (cheaper by the case) but I'm wondering if I should be considering other items too.
Thanks!0 -
Hi lynnejk, this sounds fab but its monday morning and the brain is yet to connect (tea too hot to drink!), couple of questions:-When I started about four years ago I realised that £100 would safely cover monthly bulk buys, bearing in mind that I also use it to buy my meat from a local butcher every couple of months. There has been enough left in December to fund C extras
So 1st January each year I put aside £100 and use for bulk buys, but through the year I put the monies left over from my monthly budget back in to keep it going. This means that my yearly total household budget, including C. is £2500 max
Hope you all have a marvellous Monday
Lx
do you only set aside £100 in Jan or do you have a monthly bulk budget?
what do you bulk buy?
is your monthly budget just grocery shopping?
cheers my dear x0 -
Sept Shopping update:
Order summary
Trolley total: £60.88
Includes savings of -£15.73
Delivery cost: -£1.00
Voucher savings: -£18.00
Total to pay: £43.88
-£1 delivery / - £3.40 in cashback/free to try = £39.48
+ Saturday unexpected milk spend £1.69 but Tesco refunded £1, so 69p....
£40.170 -
Morning all!
Big shop this weekend so by dent in the grocery budget but freezer packed full and plenty to keep us going with only small top ups needed for a while.
£140.89/400£1589.94 cc - DFD 31/12/22; £156,737.24 mortgage free target date 1/10/2026; £158,327.18 Total; Starting debt Jan 2019 £393,068; 60% cleared.0 -
We're up to £46.42.
OH went to Aldi to get stuff for the BBQ yesterday. I'm not quite sure how, but he spent around £35.00.
He got beef and turkey mince to make burgers, a pack of chicken breasts and a few packs of sausages, fruit (bananas, pineapple, lots of berries), bacon medallions and brioche buns and thins. And milk.
His parents were dropped off home with a little bag of goodies. And we have enough for lunch today. Dinner will be the paella that I made yesterday.0 -
Spent £1 yesterday in co-op, broke my spending fast, popped to Aldi for fresh veg etc and spent £15-88 this morning.Do I need it or just want it.0
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Well I have now been made redundant so on the job hunt and will be keeping the spends down as much as possible.
Bought a huge bag of teabags from b&m for £7.99, weekly shop on Thursday was £37.88 plus dh bought his lunches for a few weeks at £7.48, total £53.35/250
Oh and I sent £21 into school for school meals, 2 each this week then 1each for the next 3weeks. 74.35/2500 -
Went over by quite a bit last month, so really need to start to do some meal planning, if I'm to stay in budget. Not intending spending until Thursday at least, need tomatoes, mushrooms, that's all, but they can wait. Had a few mini spends - have undated sig.0
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