January 2009 Grocery Challenge

mumzyof2

Morning all, Just need to update sig as spent £11 in mr M yesterday but have loads in as mum spent £155 shoppin for me 10 days ago.. and then £40 in mr M on yesterday.

goodeys

Hi Guys,

Finally realised that our debt will not miraculously disappear so am seriously going to try and cut down, especially on food. A guesstimate of what we spend in sainsburys per month currently is £400 but TBH I think that this could be higher due to fact I pop out for bread and come back with two shopping bags full of cr*p and normally no bread :eek: .

Please can you add Current Spend £400 - Target Spend for Jan £300.

Over £100 of this is on nappies, baby milk and baby snacks so I'm not sure that I can really cut this but I should in theory be able to feed my husband and myself for £200 per month, just started slimming world :A yesterday so hopefully it'll be a lot cheaper to live off of Pasta and Jackets rather than biscuits and jarred sauces for curries and stuff!

Am very new to all of this and the site in general. So please can anyone let me know where I need to post my results, looked through a lot of the replies on here but there are just too many and I am confusing myself.

Cheers folks and good luck to one and all

mumzyof2

goodeys wrote: »

Hi Guys,

Finally realised that our debt will not miraculously disappear so am seriously going to try and cut down, especially on food. A guesstimate of what we spend in sainsburys per month currently is £400 but TBH I think that this could be higher due to fact I pop out for bread and come back with two shopping bags full of cr*p and normally no bread :eek: .

Please can you add Current Spend £400 - Target Spend for Jan £300.

Over £100 of this is on nappies, baby milk and baby snacks so I'm not sure that I can really cut this but I should in theory be able to feed my husband and myself for £200 per month, just started slimming world :A yesterday so hopefully it'll be a lot cheaper to live off of Pasta and Jackets rather than biscuits and jarred sauces for curries and stuff!

Am very new to all of this and the site in general. So please can anyone let me know where I need to post my results, looked through a lot of the replies on here but there are just too many and I am confusing myself.

Cheers folks and good luck to one and all

Welcome to Moneysavingexpert and welcome to this thread
You post your updates on what you have spent on here and then at end of your month you declare on here what you have spent over the whole month.
Wishing you lots of luck on trying to get your grocery bill down - know how you feel with buying lots of baby stuff - I had my two 17months apart but they are now 3 and 4 but still in nappies a night.

Rebecca

searching_me

morning everyone not feeling great so laying in bed... spent £2 yesterday but already added today will be a nsd as im not leaving the house. starting to get back in the hang of this spend as little as possible lark ... glad im back x

mumzyof2

searching_me wrote: »

morning everyone not feeling great so laying in bed... spent £2 yesterday but already added today will be a nsd as im not leaving the house. starting to get back in the hang of this spend as little as possible lark ... glad im back x

Hope you feel better soon xxxx

Toonie

Back to work today and just realised nearly out of toothpaste and will need to get a few other toiletries, but I'll have a check around to see where is cheapest. Will be trying not to buy anything extra as I have a habit of popping into the supermarkets when I finish work as they reduce their food at 7pm and we don't need anything really.

OrkneyStar

goodeys wrote: »

Please can you add Current Spend £400 - Target Spend for Jan £300.

Over £100 of this is on nappies, baby milk and baby snacks so I'm not sure that I can really cut this but I should in theory be able to feed my husband and myself for £200 per month, just started slimming world :A yesterday so hopefully it'll be a lot cheaper to live off of Pasta and Jackets rather than biscuits and jarred sauces for curries and stuff!

Welcome .
How many babies is the £100 pcm for ?
Could you reduce this by making your own snacks for them ? I buy DS some ready-made snacks using my Boots advantage points but a lot of the time he gets home made stuff. Babies and toddlers don't need a lot of the things that the manufacturers try to tell us they do! I am not sure the child(ren) age(s) but once they reach 6 months whole milk can be used in cooking and once they reach 12 months they can drink that (i.e. no need for formula). Also purees can be made easily and cheaply and they can have a pureed version of what you are having (as long as you don't add salt to theirs and of course not pureed pizza and chips lol). They can also have finger foods of bread, pittas, homemade hummus etc. Other ways to save money include using real nappies, or cheap ones from Lidl if you don't want washing, real wipes (a towel cut in strips and use warm water or water/olive oil/bubble bath mix) or cheap stores own or BOGOF offer wipes. hth.
x

chocolatepennyfarthing

Can anyone tell me how I can enter challenge amount after posts, not sure what you have to go into to set this up.

oldMcDonald

I've just been totting up the odds and ends that I have been 'just nipping to the shop' for - in 5 days I've managed to spend £12.91!

Off to update signature

oldMcDonald

chocolatepennyfarthing - go to the top of the page and click on 'user cp', than look at the menu on the left hand side - right at the top is 'edit signature', click on this and it will take you to the page where you can place all your info below your posts . HTH