July 2008 Grocery Challenge

chriscroz

Wow........... what a site, just back from holiday, needing to save money everywhere and decided to start with the food. I am ashamed to say after looking through this site that i spend approx £130 a week on 2 adults, 13 and 8 year old. I have taken steps to reduce this now, but omg you guys are brill.
My grand plan is as follows, ordererd for home delivery basic ingredients for meals, going to bulk buy meat, mince chicken etc and cook meals to freeze. My downfall is my lack of imagination on the food front, any receipe ideas, words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated. time is also a big factor in our household so it has to be quick and more importantly easy..:o

I hope my spend to be £400 for this month, and hopefully reduce it each further month. HELP..............

angelnikki

Hiya Chriscroz :hello: and suzybloo :hello:

The August Grocery challenge has started so you may want to pop over there for more support/advice

I've added you both to the list, Good luck with your first month

Nikki x

PS NYK you can do it! :T

Frugaldom

chriscroz wrote: »

Wow........... what a site, just back from holiday, needing to save money everywhere and decided to start with the food. I am ashamed to say after looking through this site that i spend approx £130 a week on 2 adults, 13 and 8 year old. I have taken steps to reduce this now, but omg you guys are brill.
My grand plan is as follows, ordererd for home delivery basic ingredients for meals, going to bulk buy meat, mince chicken etc and cook meals to freeze. My downfall is my lack of imagination on the food front, any receipe ideas, words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated. time is also a big factor in our household so it has to be quick and more importantly easy..:o

I hope my spend to be £400 for this month, and hopefully reduce it each further month. HELP..............

Hi Chriscroz! Use this link for August and declare your target for the new month ahead. Good luck!

fizzel81

£68.56, thats my july total

wow im impressed with myself, the downside is i have very very empty cupboards....

Frugaldom

:T Well done Fizz! See you in the other thread

philsmum

Hi everyone.
You have all done so well, I feel such a failure going so much over, but did not realise at the beginning of the month that there were 5 weeks to account for so probably not that bad:o I am really going for it this month and will start tomorrow with enthusiasm and determination. Have to say NO a lot more to GC.
Good luck everyone see you all on August thread.:A

mr_and_mrs_t

Hi all

Please can you put us for £258, this month......£8.00 over budget, disappointingly. Here's hoping we do better next month, I would like to get under budget.....
good luck to u all for august.
Mr and mrs t

carolt2

Afternoon everyone.

I would like to declare this months total as £169.61.


Have already been reading next months challenge so will see you all over there......:hello:

galacticgreen

Have struggled to keep up with the thread this month, but have managed to keep up with the receipts. Please can I declare at £198.15. Off to the August thread now.......

Lula-Hula

Hi everyone,

not been on for ages & completely lost it with the grocery challenge (& general money saving too ).

My total for July is £ 205.84 but gonna hop over to August thread & start again.