August 2008 Grocery Challenge

huxley

Please can I declare august at £202.81 off to find september thread now and start again :rolleyes:

Chell

£191.12 so I was well under budget for the month but I was in hospital for a few days so nobody ate much here. It was a five week month and I wanted to stay below £60 which allowed me £300 for food. We actually have quite a lot of food in the house too, I don't need to shop for another few days other than milk.

craftingqueen_2

Hi, declaring my August Grocery budget as £462.19 thats £12.19 over budget, hubby and children off in the six week holiday they went shopping three times and have included that in my totals. Roll on September were there will be no extra shopping trips lol.

CQ

nicki_2

I'm declaring £138.13 which is £58.13 over but that includes £9.00 on beer which won't be drank until the end of September or something like that since there's only me to drink it and then that should only be on a Friday/Saturday night Plus some groceries for September like milk and bread which I'd run out of so needed to buy. :rolleyes: Going to aim for £30 a week in September as I'm starting a course and am a little unsure about how things are going to work out when it comes to meals and packed lunches for me

angelnikki

AlwaysHappy wrote: »

A no spend day yesterday (thank goodness - I needed it), am feeling a little lonely now everyone is moving over to the september thread, will keep plodding on, I get paid on the 20th hence being later in the month, maybe if (when) I can ever get ahead of myself will try and work from month end to month end - can't imagine it'll be for a while!

Hi Always Happy

If your month runs until the 20th then I would count that as being September's challenge instead of August's . Come and join us on the new thread

Nikki x

saffouri

Hello everyone (or else goodbye everyone?),

Just back from a weekend away staying with friends, and if we don't count the £12 of groceries we treated them to - opting to cook in together rather than eat out which would then have come from a different budget anyway and been much more expensive - we're almost there at £221.71:j- and that's with an unexpected mini-stock-up of soya milk and whoopsied bread at Waitrose on the way home, which will take us into September.

(Hang on, what exactly does 'whoopsied' mean anyway - is it when tins are a bit dented, or things are coming up to sell-by date, or both? May go over to the September thread to ask that one....)

see you over in September,

saf

mumofjusttwo

Well I am declaring £259.75. £59.75 over budget. Must do better

LumpyCustard_2

My spend for August was 92.15, so a little under budget.

Astonished_2

Hello all

Would like to declare at £99.27 for the last week of August!! and the bbq (which was very nice!!) didn't take me over budget either - I'm very chuffed with myself...:o

sashanut

:beer: Declaring for August - FINALLY came in under budget - & that also included some M&S food that we bought on our minibreak & ate as we were SC - but of course used quite a few vouchers during the month ....oh well, whatever the reason, I am declaring at: £220.96 - £4.04 underbudget.............off to Sept thread now..:D