August 2008 Grocery Challenge

MrsBartolozzi

Congratulations on your baby, Betterlife!!

I've already been added to the list, but after being away for a month I am back here with vengeance!!
My amount is £250 for 2 adults one hungry 16 yo and an 11 yo. I will be starting on the first of August.
There are so many more people joining now :hello: , must be the crunch making people feel the pinch. Right, off to make what's left in my cupboards last til Friday!!

Good luck everybody!

MrsB.

jackiegibbo

Hi can you please put me down for £180 for august please

Good luck to everyone with their challenges this month

betterlife

OrkneyStar wrote: »

Congratulations- look after yourself and get plenty of rest (hmmmm with all those other children how will you manage that lol ?) My DS is 13 months now and I love cuddles although he wriggles like mad! Have you joined Boots/Tesco etc Parenting Club for free vouchers and extra points ?
:wave:

yes i have joined all the clubs, most i was with for previous children, the boots one was great as i had a free changing bag worth £30 when i bought a pkt of newborn nappies, luckily my husbands home so i can get some rest, and with the others off school it makes it easier on mornings and no packups. i had another os home birth midwife arrived at 5.45pm my son was born at 6.15pm. was a trying 30mins!

skintscotslass

Evening all

Angelnicki - can you put me down for £100 again please?

I'm still working on July and will report in on the 1st of August

Good luck everyone

mandy_moo_1

wow!! i'm away from the comp for a couple of hours, and we're well into the Aug thread!!

i went to MrT's this afty to stock up on dog food, as i had £4 worth of coupons i wanted to use. also got some more bread flour and yeast and chocolate

orkneystar i have a weekly budget set at £50 a week, and when i declare my final total, i add up all the weeks ie 4 or 5 and my total spends. so for this month, it was a 4 week month, which meant i had a total budget of £200 and i spent a total of £166 HTH

right, am off to bed now:hello:

coco2972

Hey, can't believe it's nearly August already!

I will aim for £220 this month, lets see how we get on, good luck everyone x

NannyOgg

Evening all, just came on to catch up and declare July and found a shiny new thread :j

Welcome to all the newbies - but be warned, this place is addictive!!

And congratulations on the new arrival betterlife!

Off to catch up on July now... 'night all

savingfortravel

Congratulations Betterlife!!
When's the big day Ifonlyitwaseasier??? And because I'm curious..where are you going on honeymoon??
SFT

Moniker

I am not declaring on my July budget till tomorrow evening but please put me down for £280 for August Angelnikki, thanks. We are away from 8-15th and again from 25-27th. The first week we will be self catering but I think that will/should come out of the holiday budget, so even though it is a 5 week month it should be ok. My month will end on 28th.

Not sure if this is the right place to publish this and some of you may know of it already but there is a site called:

http://www.myvouchercodes.co.uk/all-voucher-codes

Where you can see all the codes available for your favourite shops and sign up to an email alert for them. I found it when searching for wine and found a voucher worth £30 off a spend of £69.99 - so I got 12 bottles delivered for £46.98 - less than £4 per bottle. It sounds extravagent but this will last us 2-3 months so not too outrageous! It will take a week to arrive so this comes off my August budget.

Off to update my sig.

Night night

Moniker

Cleosmum

Ok, the kids are home, I have no idea how much more I will spend this summer hols, as in the past I have just bought the groceries and not worried about it :eek: In july I came in under budget at £215.38, so I am going to challenge myself to do August to the tune of £210 and that has to include the numerous days out picnics that I have promised the children :eek:

Edit to add that my month is 1st - 31st