July 2008 Grocery Challenge

annelouise_2

Hi all,

So busy so just a quick post.

Friends and Family are having a blast - They brought 2 massive boxes of food and have paid for all shopping from Thursday until today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So will be well under budget.

Menus have been well received - Paella last night and HM Pizza,garlic bread and fruit salad tonight.

NEWSFLASH - My courgettes have lotsa flowers and my toms are looking good a few lettuces are growing slowly but no 1 gardener says (not enough soil!!!)

Will add up receipts and post spends tomorrow.

Entertainment budget hasn't taken a hammering either as we have played nintendo boggle and silly games and drunk HM sangria with various nibbles.

See you all soon.

annelouise :rotfl:

russetred

Declaring £178.78 for July so just made it.
Going for £340 for August.Thanks now a quick sprint over to the August GC which is already hundreds of posts long!

annelouise_2

DECLARING AT 320.55 euros almost 100 euros under budget but I'll transfer that to entertainment budget as we have a frenzied fortnight to contend with.

I am happy!!!!!!:T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T

annelouise :rotfl:

ladyroughneck

Hi, not been in much this month, been very busy but would like to declare £191.50 for july:j:T, and please put me down for £200 for August

susan946

Hello again

We've been in France over the last three weeks and I have to confess that I haven't kept up with all the posts while we've been away. The connection over there is soooooo slow that it would take me all day and cost a fortune as we only have dial-up!!!

There is just so much to catch up on - it will take me a day or two!!

Firstly, and rather late, my thoughts are with Mrs M. Life can be so tough sometimes.

Have to declare £402.72 for July - so £47.28 under budget!! :T

I'm quite pleased as this was my first month on the challenge. My total includes everything I buy at the supermarket, so cleaning products, the odd magazine etc....

I should like to aim for £400 for August please.


I have my grandson staying for a week so will probably spend a bit more then but I've got quite a lot stashed away in the freezer so hopefully this will cancel out.

I daren't stop the challenge now as I should definitely overspend. This thread is wonderful for keeping me on the straight and narrow! Thank you to everyone for all the wonderful recipes and ideas. I couldn't do it without you all. Hugs to everyone.:grouphug:

savingfortravel

So many great results. Well done all!!! SFT

newmoneysaver_2

I'm declaring at £120.35 for the month so underbudget :j

A quick trip to Mr A toaday and I spent £11.56, took OH with me - oops!

suzybloo

Going to have a go at this I am going to have a budget of £350 for the month for ALL spending other than the usual direct debits etc , the only difference I will have to take into account is DS2's birthday next Saturday so will not count that. I work my budgets from a Friday to a Thursday night so have five fridays to contend with making it a £70 a week budget. Going to keep Tesco to about £40 (remembering money off vouchers etc for approx £7 per week), bakers £4.00, Butchers £10 this leaves £15 for incidentals during the week. I will empty my purse tomorrow night of all money and draw the £70 first thing on Friday morning. Here goes!!!!!!

sjaypink

hi everyone, declare at £328.78, over my £300 budget...

but happy with that for a first attempt, much better than the £400 or so i was spending, plus ive got loads of 'stock' building up.

Frugaldom

Last day of July!!!
I'm going to make it, I'm going to make it, I'm going to make it!
Just over 12 more hours to go and I haven't gone over the budget, I've refused to buy a single item all week and I even had powdered milk on my Mr T saver wheat biscuits yesterday morning. Bleugh to mixed up milk on cereal, but Mr T 'wheat biscuits' are actually quite similar tasting to a well known brand of organic breakfast cereals. I was quite surprised by that! Anyway, it all means that I can go shopping this weekend and see how far I can make August's £40 stretch. I'll also need to do a store cupboard inventory so I don't end up buying stuff that isn't really needed. I'll [STRIKE]try to[/STRIKE] do that this afternoon.