March 2009 Grocery Challenge

thatcherschild

Well looking through my bank statements for March I spent anything between £580 and £650 not including lunches for my hubby and I! My budget for April is £280.

Miss_Liquorice

24 hours to go, and I have about £28 left over, which is going to be spent tomorrow night stocking up. I have foolishly decided to halve my grocery budget next month to see how well I can 'make do', so going to cheat and buy in tins/pasta etc tomorrow, on March's budget

keys_2

Cornishpixie wrote: »

Hi, That's the thing I have to be careful off, kids treats as I have 4. It's difficult when kids expect it. I give them small treat coming out of school,i.e. a lollipop. Then when in town (which I try and avoid with kids), its a case of negotiation, so they may get a small treat on the way back till they get home for lunch. Have you tried shopping for bulk online? I would try avoid town where poss. and take DD to park or beach with picnic. Also HM treats are a good idea. HTH's

Thanx Cornish , yeah will bulk buy things for her to eat whilst out shopping for her to eat , maybe a big bag of haribos or something with loads of packets in.
I ve only been on this for a few weeks and am not impressed with myself as to how much i have already spent. So am going to try alot harder towards my april figure which i will start tommorrow. Ikeep looking at the recipe guides and did my first cheap one off there tonight , and dd ate all of it !!! which makes a huge change for her , so going to bulk buy shopping tomoz and cook loads for the freezer this week, too save me going the chippy etc again this week.

Essex-girl_2

Have been very lax keeping this updated in March - will try harder in April.

Anyway am pleased as came just under - £313.09

Off now to start April
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greent

Declaring March at £446.23. INcludes an ocado delivery today - so 99% of that will be used next month . AM off to Sainsbury this afternoon, as I have a load of coupons to use there which run out today - however, I will take that shop from April's budget of £450, as I will not be using any of it today.

elizabunny

Afternoon everyone!

PLEASE CAN I DECLARE AT £120.90P FOR MARCH PLEASE MRS McC

CAN YOU ALSO OUT ME DOWN FOR £113 FOR APRIL PLEASE. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK.

I am really pleased with my total for March because it's so much better than February's. Hope I can keep on track in April. My overspends were due to a horrendously expensive 2ltr bottle of milk which I had no choice but to buy and a much better purchase of 18 free range eggs bought for £2.25. I stilll have alot of the milk and most of the eggs, so have knocked down April's budget by the overspent amount.

Will definately start shopping properly again tonight for next month, so hoping for some bargains as the cupboards are pretty bare.

Good luck everyone for April

cw18

Finished shopping for the month - won't get out for final Whoopsies tonight, as elder DS is treating me (and younger DS and DD) to a meal out as a belated Mothers Day present.

March total spend is £178.76, so well over what I'd declared as my target for this month and £9.80 over where I should be for this point of the year :eek:

Signature looked like below before re-setting for April......

Food Budget / Spent / Whoopsie spend / Whoopsie 'real' value
to 28/02/09 £256.80 / £246.94 / £46.24 / £137.32 Mar : £168.96 / £178.76 / £90.85 / £309.00 as of 31st

mummyyof5

Hi everyone..

Can I declare at £465.80 for March please.
At least this month is under budget and have done loads of stocking up of tins etc hopefully that will cushion the amount I have to spend over the Easter holidays.

Doubt if I will manage to be under next month but there you go...cant stop them eating I suppose..

Doing my first shop tomorrow as OH is off to Austria on Thursday ,will post when I get back.

well done to everyone who made it and no problem if you didnt at least we all know where our money is going.

jinky67

Today I went to Lidl to stock up on some things and I spent the grand total of £50.74

So I would like to declare at £87.72/£250
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Girl_least_likely_to

I haven't kept up with the thread for the last couple of weeks and have fallen off the wagon although my freezer is fit to burst with HM ready meals ready for when baby is born in 4 weeks or so. I've done a couple of little trips to MrM's and spent £50 ish in costco on meat which I've portioned up and frozen ready for quick pasta bakes and stir fries.

I'm declaring at £280.76 for March and setting April's budget for £250 again. I'm hoping things will settle down now I have a full freezer.

Well done everyone who managed to stay under, I'm looking forward to April's budget already