January 2006 Grocery Challenge

brummiebabe

Had my tesco delivery on Tuesday - but not had chance to post before now!! Delivery, shopping etc came to £64.78, leaving a grand total (so far) of £90.46!!!

sproggi

I have set a Grocery Challenge of £300 for 6 of us (inc 2 teenagers!!) and to include food for 6 cats, 1 dog and 1 bunny.

My grocery spend had got very out of hand, shopping daily and spending £20 to £50 on top of a main weekly shop of around £150:eek:

I used to love cooking, but after moving to a house with an absolutly tiny kitchen and then having 2 more children, I lost the will to cook:(

This fantastic site and all of the wonderful people here, have given me the huge boost that I needed. So watch out kitchen, here I come (as long as I can get away from the boards!!!).

January challenge £300
spend so far £53.30

JCL

Good luck sproggi - you're on budget so far.

Louise1521

My original post stated that I wanted to spend £60 on food, I should have said per week!!!!!!! Anyway, I spent £57 on week 2's shopping. A total of £87 in two weeks so under budget so far!!!!!!!

thyme_2

Ooh me too for this challenge - but I have not worked out how much yet but know I need to.

Thanks for the recipe pointer catznine I was going to ask that too! :T

Cheapskate I am always failing BUT I have learnt to take each day as a new one and start again from tomorrow - that way we dont lose months. I should know!! I went shopping in the sales and I was not going to until the summer so I have now GOT to budget - serves me right! :mad:

pink_fairy_7

Spent £88.47 so far. This includes my monthly shop. Cupboards and freezer still full so hoping to finish under target.

I have also bought a slow cooker this week with some Xmas money so looking forward to using this.

pink fairy

ladywood

A bit late in the month but please can I join in too? I have been looking at our monthly budget - things are a bit tight at the moment - just bought a house which needs modernising so we're paying both rent and mortgage at the moment. But am encouraged to read all your posts - definitely can cut some spending here. At the moment our spending on food, cleaning stuff etc (but not petrol) is £415 - that's only for 2 adults and 3 (large!) dogs! :eek: So am cutting that straight off. The dogs have already moved onto a cheaper but still decent quality brand (knocking £40 off - they get through 30kg of food a month!) and I have a week of menus planned out. So I am aiming at £285 for this month - hopefully will cut it further after that - would like to get it down to £200 or less all in.

Estimate have spent £100 up to now - will work on that basis and try to make the remaining £180 last the rest of the month...

brummiebabe

Tesco shop delivered this evening - came to £53.29. Got milk yesterday (around £1.30) So this month's total (so far) is £143.75!!!

ladywood

Halfway through week 2 and have spent £50.96 this week - but have all I need for meals so shouldn't need to get much more than milk for the rest of the week - so with the overspend last week that puts me back on target! :j

And - have just done an inventory of my cupboards. Blimey! Have multiple packs of rice, pasta, noodles, tins of toms, lentils, loads of stuff. So am going to work through that and only buy fresh stuff for the rest of the month. I did uncover a few surprises that must have been lurking there for years so am wondering .... do you think it is OK to eat (unopened packets of) lasagne dated BBE Nov 05 and Nov 04 ( :eek: ), Taco Shells (Aug 05) or Pudding rice (Jul 05) ...?

thriftlady_2

Check them first to see if they look ok,but I'd definitely eat the rice and pasta.I'm not sure about the tacos,but think they'd be ok.