March Grocery Challenge

chatter-box-charlie

:wave: Another new recruit here, I'm tryin to stick to a £40 budget per week for 2adults and 1 child. I must say I have been taking more advantage of the BOGOF items on sale over the past month and they have stashed up so hopefully I should be able to do it. I am impressed with myself over the past month as usually I would have spent mostly double that per wk!!!!

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE

magentadreamer

I aimed for £150 last month and came in at just under £137, so I'm aiming for £140 this month. Freezer is full as the very nice man from Tesco's came today. My best mate took one look at him and decided she'd have to give this online Tesco's shoping ago....

pinkhammy

:hello: Another newbie here too! Going to give this a try for March - been watching for a while now and hopefully picked up some good pointers. 3 adults 2 wee ones hoping for £250 for the month. Wish me luck! lol And good luck to everyone else! :j

tiptoes

Hi All!

Going to try for 2 adults 2 children stick to £250 for the month starting from monday. his may be hard as normally over £100 per week :eek: , though sasnit a challenge i thought I really set myslef one. tried lat month though forgot not to take OH with me the shops but after adding up how much spent on his treats decide should be able to achieve my target

scottishspendaholic

Hello everyone,

Count me in! £160 a month is my target for 2 hungry adults. My month will run from 23/2/06 to 22/3/06 inclusive.

Spent £61 so far in Asda tonight - should do 2 weeks, maybe need a £10/£15 top-up shop next weekend.

scottishspendaholic x

bettyboop61

hihihi mossy

\i think your right, i will up the budget to 400 pounds per month to see how that goes.
We sent out to dinner tonight at my sisters so thought it was going to be a cheap night in....but no....there was a glitch in the meal plans my OH cannot eat anything with cheese on it and as we were having a mousaka he was left hight and dryand he he toend up ordering a take awaywhcih cost us :eek: 12.00 :eek: oh well i think i'd better call it a night on here...cos i can't really see the keyboard properly as i am that tired will talk to you all tomorrow i hope,

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Jule$

I'm going to give this a go this month. Have been watching what I spend from Jan but never done an official challenge, so will see what happens.

I am going to try and stick to £220 for 2 adults one 6 year old child and a 10 year old cat!!! My month will run from 24th Feb to 23rd Mar inc.

Have spent £67.16 in Sainsbury's so far but this should do 2 weeks with a top up in the middle.

Good Luck All :j

youngmum_2

Well, this is my first "official" grocery challenge. I do have a £50 budget a week anyway but am too good at just switching any little extras so that really has to stop! Was hoping to go for £45 but think I'm being a little bit ambitious there so will stick to £50 just now - that's for 2 adults and 2 children.

As you can see I'm already over budget for week 1 but hoping it will all even itself out over the next 4 weeks.

maisymumkins

hi there can anyone give me some advice as i.m fairly new to this. would like to save more on my shopping but i,ve absolutely no idea how to reduce it, i always go for the bogofs and savings. We are a family of 2 adults and 5 kids- the youngest is a newborn so have to allocate money for nappies and milk e,t,c,. anyone tell me what a sensible budget might be?
at present spend around £80 per week and in some debt that we need to pay off!!!

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on a plus point saved £118 in £2 coins!!

squeaky

A couple of good places to start would be a) reading through some of the threads in the Shopping section of the MEGA Index where are there are an assortment of tips on how to shop and quite a few listed under budgeting; and then b) browsing earlier challenges will give you lots of tips on getting started and the sorts of budgets people set for themselves.

You can find these via my signature any time you see it or...

..you can use the Monthly Challenges link in the Blue Bar at the top of every page which looks something like this:-






Don't forget to be gentle with yourself, stay inside your own personal comfort zone and do things one step at a time

Good luck.