September 2008 Grocery Challenge. Please read first two posts.

Pablosmummy

ok so Septembers budget never really happened. I'm going to go for... £160 pounds for October (not including our fornightly takeaway..its usually everyweek so i'll go for every other week now..baby steps lol..) I'm off to Asda now so wish me luck!! Although my list looks very long today :eek:

bullet_2

That should be a cheap month for you hopefully Mrs Mcawber then.
Good luck Pablo.

procrastinator

Hi
I am declaring Sept as on budget as I have lost a few small receipts but am sure I will still be under but an on tartget total of 200.00 will do for me.

Will go for 200 again in October as this seems the right amount for us.
Not posted much this month as with all the birthday excitement things got overwhelming. Hope to keep up with it all in October.
Thanks to everyone looking after this thread, I don't know how you manage it.

Pink.

Hi everyone,

Just to let you all know that the Grocery Challenge is up and running for October. You can find the thread HEREso I'll be unsticking the September challenge shortly.

If you're still working on your September budget please feel free to continue posting in this thread. Good luck everyone!

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Flylady_Flower

susan946 wrote: »

OOOOOPS

Posted twice - how did that happen. Seemed to post while I edited - must have pressed the wrong button.

So sorry folks - can't find an icon for hanging head in shame!!!!!!!!!

Sue

Hi Susan, you can delete the second two posts if you need to..., just click on edit

Barneysmom

HI can I declare on £154.20! Really pleased, spent next to nothing, just milk, this week so doing ok. I was tempted to treat myself with the leftover money, but it can stay in the bank.
Thanks :beer:

kalojac

I am trying a new approach for October since I failed so miserably last month. I have transferred £230 over to my pre-pay mastercard, and this is for TESCO, and nothing else, I am going to use voucher codes where possible and home delivery only to avoid over spending on what l see when in store. The other £70 of my shopping budget is for the butchers and hopefully our local farm will open again soon for lovely fresh cheap veggies. So I hope this will work for me this month.

Ideally in November I would like to spend £200 instead of £300 and carry the other £100 over to December for the festivities, here's hoping!

My bargain this week was 18 free range eggs for 60p (20p for 6 at the CO_OP) they are in date until 2nd October so we will be having egg beans and chips a few times this week and also pancakes (yum!) x

kellitots

Well after some great whoopsies again last time we went to Asda (a £5 chicken for £1.50! Rolled pork roast for 75p! Granary rolls for 5p each! etc) and some careful planning we have spent only £120 of our £200 budget Done rather well for our first go methinks.

We have decided to go for a budget of £160 next month as this month's was more out of necessity (ie we did not have £200 spare) and it would be nice to have a little more breathing space. But I am hoping eventually to shave more off the budget.

Mmmm..I can smell the sausage casserole that's in the slow cooker right now..divine!

Hope everyone had a great month, here's to a cheap October! (God is it October already?!?!) xxx

kellitots

Oh..and I am not declaring yet as we have about £15 left and we are off to Asda this afternoon but OH has to get razorblades at about £7 a go so I may spend the remaining £8 on whoopsies!! Those yellow stickers are calling me!!

nickynoo08

Not quite the total disaster i thought i'd had. Just finished adding up my recipts n i would like to declare £139.00 for the month, so an overspend of £29.00. I thought it was much more than that. Fresh start next month