October 2008 Grocery Challenge. Please read first two posts.

*BigBird*

Hi all. Just popping in to declare £299.81 for October - a whopping 19p under budget

See you all on the November thread.

Triggles

I can't believe I made it in under budget!!!!!! I'm so thrilled! First time!

Oct GC £200/£193.51
Woooohoooooooo!

saffouri

Declaring at £211.21 for October... and about to try for £200 again for November. Haven't posted for a while.

Thanks though still for this thread and you lot being here - it makes saving money fun! (I have made a lot of Mrs M's courgette tea bread and Twink's hobnobs over the past months.)

saf

Baileys_Babe

I'm declaring £300.60 for October, nearly £50 under in my 1st month :j

cw18

I'm declaring October at £121.50 -- well within my £145 budget, even after moving some treats into it that I'd been excluding during the month !!!



for those that wanted a breakdown by Whoopsies etc., I've done the best I can (been down to the local stores today with a list of items I needed the 'normal' cost of!) and have come up with the following.....

Total 'spend' = £121.50 this is food only - no pet food, no household and no toiletries
Of this, £47.20 was spent on Whoopsie items
Of that £47.20 I've managed to calculate the 'full' cost of £31.09 -- which comes in at £105.35 (so I paid 29.5% of the value)
If I assume the same average reduction on the other £16.11 of Whoopsies, then that comes in at a further £54.59

So the value of my food is £121.50 - £47.20 + £105.35 + £54.59

Which gives a 'real' total of £234.24 - which is almost double what I actually spent :eek:


But I have to say that there are several items I bought on Whoopsie that I would never have considered at full price (or even a lower discount), and we'd have either done without (smoothies, milkshakes, chocolate, fromage frais) or where I'd have bought cheaper options (kievs, chicken portions, mince)

toottifrootti

Hi I am declaring £89.23 for october - just under my £100 budget!!

Savvy_sewing

Declaring £302.87.
But the freezer is still quite well stocked. So I am hoping to lower the target for the coming month of November, to £280!! Bit ambitious but I am just back off of a holiday so needs must.!!

Welshwoofs

I'm declaring £73 for October. Went over my budget a bit, but still happy overall!

perrywinkle

Perrywinkle

booklover

Hi Mrs M,

can I please declare £275 for October.

Many Thanks

Ps. that's for all food, cleaning stuff and soap etc for 2 adults and 1 teenager for all of October. My older son comes for dinner once a week too.