January 2009 Grocery Challenge

miserly_mum

Hi, can I please be included in the January Grocery Challenge?

My Monthly Budget is £320

We are a family of 5 (2 adults,3 kids) this will include all food (including 2 packed lunches each day for the older boys), toiletries,cleaning products plus nappies and wipes for the youngest.

OH's lunches at work Mon-fri are not included and are budgeted for separately

Catwoman_Kent

Please include me in the challenge. Have set a target of £150 from 31 December to 31 January. Have two full freezers and a full larder so will have a sort out.

Last year I wrote a list of everything in the freezer and then worked out meals. Found over 30 meals mostly with enough frozen veg to accompany them but just required a few bits of fresh veg and some salad.

Have a bread machine so will knock out a load of bread and freeze it up.

My main expense will be on cat food as I have 8 kitties. One tip is to ask fish and chip shop for cat pieces, mines sells me a carrier bag for £1.

cw18

OrkneyStar wrote: »

I find it so hard these days to depend on whoopsies

I'm lucky in that I can walk to C00p and S'flds 2 or 3 times a day -- so now I know when they do the various reductions I try and get down there around then

I also have 2 well-stocked freezers -- and I would say 80% of what's in them is Whoopsie shopping, which means I have plenty of time to find more decent Whoopsies to fill gaps before we're in danger of running out


As such I've found I can pretty much assume that at least a third of my monthly useage (meat, veg and bread anyway) will be bought this way. Like you, it has to be a decent reduction before I'll pick it up though - and even then it has to be cheap enough that I can't get a cheaper substitute. I luuuuuve end of the day 75% reductions :j

Money_saving_Diva_2

Hi there

I would like to make my January budget £300 please. I haven't got it right in two months so New Year - New Start.

Thank you

Diva.x

OrkneyStar

cw18 wrote: »

I'm lucky in that I can walk to C00p and S'flds 2 or 3 times a day -- so now I know when they do the various reductions I try and get down there around then

I also have 2 well-stocked freezers -- and I would say 80% of what's in them is Whoopsie shopping, which means I have plenty of time to find more decent Whoopsies to fill gaps before we're in danger of running out


As such I've found I can pretty much assume that at least a third of my monthly useage (meat, veg and bread anyway) will be bought this way. Like you, it has to be a decent reduction before I'll pick it up though - and even then it has to be cheap enough that I can't get a cheaper substitute. I luuuuuve end of the day 75% reductions :j

Lets hope the whoopsies are good to us all this coming year

MATH

Count me in! I am so near paying off my mortgage it is making my teeth ache! LOL. I just need that Xtra push in 2009.

My calendar monthly budget is £216.67

To cover:
all food & drink and packed lunches
toileteries/sanitary products
houshold items, cleaning/laundry products
cat food/bird feeder stuff.

For:
two adults, three children, one cat.

I am also planning five no-spend days a week! Here goes and good luck all

MATH x

cw18

:rotfl: MATH - I love your signature May have to borrow that for when I make a Fathers' Day card for my Dad :rotfl:

cashsaver

I have signed up to the grocery challenge already and have a question pls. ( If by some miracle that I manage to stick to my budget), is there a general rule of saving the remainder and keeping track of the saving total or do we spend the remainder/pay off debt/ etc?

Good luck everyone !!!!!!

Radish72

I'm new to this so any tips much appreciated, I have no idea how much I spend each month at the shops and there is only me to feed

Thanks to Math (I stole your layout)

My calendar monthly budget is £200

To cover:
all food & drink and packed lunches
toileteries/sanitary products
houshold items, cleaning/laundry products

For:
Just little old me

January Grocery Challenge
Spent

cw18

You can do whatever you like with anything you save

As I'm also in the 'live on £4k for a year' challenge I actually have a grocery budget for the year -- so anything I don't use will be 'rolled over' as a contingency amount. I'm hoping this will leave me a much larger budget for December, so we can have a really good Christmas in 2009.

2007 was lousy with both me and DH on IB, and only just managing to keep up the mortgage payments. 2008 hasn't been fanstastic either, as - despite having more disposable income - we've had to cope with the loss of my DH last month.