September 2008 Grocery Challenge. Please read first two posts.

Flylady_Flower

pink_princess wrote: »

Hi pinkjen welcome to the board.
Denise i would be curious to know how many of us there is as well ,i know i lurked for months before posting .I used to read people with big familys (5 or more) coming in way under my £650 a month:eek:
Now i come in at £375ish .OH was made redundant with 6 month s notice so i saved up well
As long as he has a job by jan we ll be ok .
TTFN
Glad your move went well annelouise and save the green

Hi Pinkjen, welcome, you will get loads of help on here :T and I also pass on my best to Sian the Green and am glad your settled and to Annelouise when it all happens for you...

Well, I think that will have to be my task for tomorrow (I'm pooped now though, will have to get to bed) - check out the August challenge to get a proper figure - I think I just love figures and stuff :rotfl:

Wow, that's some notice, and lucky you had it - I really wish your OH well getting another job - what type of industry is he in?

savingpennies

Well, back again for September. Will try for £300 again this month. I managed this last time but this month I have a family birthday party to organise and provide food for, so let's see how I do.

ZoeGirl_3

Wow, this thread always grows so quickly,

Great to see you are settled in Sian the Green and I agree about the treats lol. :beer:

Had a slap dash dinner tonight. Have to get a bit more organised this week coming. Am getting a bit stuck with using up some ingredients too, so maybe i will have another look and post again asking for ideas :rotfl:

Looking forward to the new month starting tomorrow!! Have a good one everyone...

ZoeGirl_3

ShelBell wrote: »

It's my birthday tomorrow but hubby has decided to spend the day doing some voluntary work, so will spend the day making tomorrow nights lasagne.

Happy Birthday ShelBell :bdaycake: :grouphug: _party_ :wave: :dance:

erin_go_bragh

Hi,
I am looking to get my finances back on track having realised since my husband lost his job that we have been living beyond our means for quite some time , and have 3 loans, credit cards and large overdraft as well as mortgage I realise drastic action is needed. It would be great to join the September GC , there are 5 of us , me DH , grown up DS , 27 , DD 14 & DS 13 , currnelty spending way too much on food, which I am ashamed to say often gets wasted . Could you tell me if this challenge just includes food or if it is to include all spending ie prtrol, dinner money, bus fare etc?

Icemaiden

Morning all,

Just updating my sig before everyone else gets up. So far have paid the Milkman £9.80 (pay every two weeks), £17.64 in the butchers, but this does include a beef joint for todays lunch:cool: £4.80 for fruit on the market and £10.32 from three other shops making a total spend of £42.56. Will need to do a top up shop of fruit & things for the packed lunches on tuesday ready for the return to school on wednesday but other than that I'm going to resist....
Will be baking some scones, a fruit cake and biscuits this aft to keep us going.

Have a lovely day everyone

Ice
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Icemaiden

erin_go_bragh wrote: »

Hi,
I am looking to get my finances back on track having realised since my husband lost his job that we have been living beyond our means for quite some time , and have 3 loans, credit cards and large overdraft as well as mortgage I realise drastic action is needed. It would be great to join the September GC , there are 5 of us , me DH , grown up DS , 27 , DD 14 & DS 13 , currnelty spending way too much on food, which I am ashamed to say often gets wasted . Could you tell me if this challenge just includes food or if it is to include all spending ie prtrol, dinner money, bus fare etc?

Hi & welcome

It can include whatever you want it to:D Mine just includes food, cleaning stuff (stardrops & bleach) loo rolls & toiletries but I know others do include the likes of petrol.

HTH
Ice
x

Jules

I've spent £39.93 already and I don't have anywhere near a weeks worth of meals and I forgot to get stuff for my DS packed lunch tomorrow!

Just goes to show when you are adding it makes you realise how much you are spending.

It didn't help that I sent OH to the shop yesterday for cooking oil and he managed to spend over £6 on sweets and stuff. I don't know why as I had spent all day baking and there was loads of HM stuff to eat inc double choc chip muffins (yum). Note to myself - don't send hubby to the shop!

Made HM pizza yesterday for tea and it was delicious. Like many others on here, I had a pretty productive day with MSE being down, but I hope it doesn't happen too often!

Jules

MRSMCAWBER

Morning all

Hi Erin and welcome on board.. We all do different on here .... I only count food, toiletries and cleaning stuff in my budget...so that also includes hubbies packed lunches for work every day...
Its really up to you how you work it... you could try just counting food/cleaning/toiletries and dinner money in it and then having a seperate budget for petrol and bus fares...
Don't worry about not hitting your target.. use this months challenge to see how much you spend and then you can always reduce it a little each month until you are at a level where you are happy.. You will get loads of help, support and recipes on here :T

Right then folks... its roast chicken (roasted it yesterday) hm stuffing (using the end chunk of yesterdays loaf) roast potatoes, cauli, peas n carrots for dinner today nomnomnom
I have a bowl of dough proving at the moment and once i have stripped the chicken off I will turn it into a pan of hubbies fave -chicken n sweetcorn soup -so that will be his lunch at work tommorow with fresh bread
I need to stew the blackberries n apples and freeze them ..heck knows where ..
I did a count up yesterday and i now have 20 bags of roasted veggies (all from the garden:D ) in the freezer -so thats 20 pasta dish bases for us over winter -and stil loads more tomatoes, peppers etc to come off :j

today is going to be lots of x stitching again ... I'm getting there with mums xmas pressie..

Im going to make it my mission to use up as much as i can from the freezer this month.. just things like the bags of whoopsed organic filled pastas, packs of mozarella etc -they take up quite a bit of room that could be better used as i will probably need to make some sausages next month..
Hopefully hubby being off work for 2 weeks -starting friday will help as we can eat things at lunch time that I couldn't do him for pack ups

right Im off again..have a great day everyone

judi24

Morrning
Hello erin - I'm new to this challenge too - but everyone seems supportive and wellcoming on this thread. I too have some debts that I'm trying to clear and I also waste far too much money on food - so I thought this might be a way of gaining inspiration and motivation to reduce my grocery bill! In my house there is myself and 4 kids aged 16,15,6 and 4. My partner eats with us sometime and my DD1's boyfriend is reguarly found foraging in the fridge. We also have a dog.

I think I currently spend about £100/week - but I'm not exactly sure - I am going to set a budget of £300 for the month!