April 2009 Grocery Challenge

nmlc

Evening all

Just to update spends this is first spend of May - did buy quite alot from Mr T's and Mr A's but hope that's the "big" shop for the month and now further shops will be smaller! (Have DS2's birthday this Sunday and we're away so will buy a pre-made cake and hopefully have a BBQ - hopefully that won't break the bank). Have meal planned for this week and should not need anything until I shop on Friday.
Keep safe and well everyone.
Regards
nmlc

pipkin71

I've previously joined in on the grocery challenges, then other things occur and it gets pushed into the background. The trouble is that leads to spending more than I need to on grocery shopping.

We're now planning on going to disneyland in a few months so it's time to stick to budget again. I've given myself a target of £250 for the three of us - one adult and two children and that includes lunches when we go out but not meals out.

I'm also going back to menu planning again but we don't always know when we're all at home to eat and there are no set days for being in or out. However, some forward planning will hopefully avoid reaching for the phone to order a takeaway when I have no idea what to cook.

I've done my first online shop with Sainsbury's today and will be ordering with Asda this week too, which will give us enough for the next few weeks. I just need to top up then with milk, bread ect and will also be including our veg box delivery in with the budget.

I have to say, it's been a while since I have done this and I am looking forward to be more organised again

pipkin71

sashanut wrote: »

Is it only in Waitrose stores they have this offer? Just checked online & a 4-pack of these seems to be £1.99:(

They're £1.29 in Sainsbury's at the moment. Normal price £1.94.

AuntieH

Hello
AuntieH declaring £330.46 for April (£30.46 over budget - boo!). Must try harder next month.


Can you keep me at £300 for May.
Thanks

scotsaver

Morning everyone - I've gone over yet again £256.83 for April, think this was mainly due to the 2 weeks the kids were off School for Easter and the fact that prices are rising continually and my kids are getting bigger and eating more. With this in mind I'm setting £250 for May as my target MRSMC and going to keep my fingers crossed.

Wishing everyone luck that have still to declare - have a good day and I'll see on the May GC.;)

Pink.

Hi everyone,

Just to let you know that the Grocery Challenge for April is up and running so I'll unstick this thread shortly but please keep on posting in the April thread if your month hasn't finished yet.

May Grocery Challenge

Good luck to everyone taking part!

Pink

jessie18

:hello: Hello everyone i hope you are all o.k.
Im declaring £290.86 for April, and could i be put down for £330.00 for May please. See you all on the other thread, best wishes Jessie18 x

kezlou

Hi all can i declare £265.10 darn cats have cost me a fortune this month. Also OH keeps eating everything in the house :eek: so they's no snacking food at all. All the cheese is gone :mad:. So could you please put me down for £200 in May , thanks Mrs M, determined not to go over in May as its ridiculous the amount pf shopping i have bought this month arghhhh.

Thanks all, best of luck for next month.

Savvy_sewing

Havent added up my total yet. Spent £13.04 on the 24th, and £70.90 on the 27th. I will probably have to buy more bread and milk for this month, as the kids are going through it all like mad. So just off to update my total.
Next month I probably wont do this, as I am in the process of moving and think that meals will be hap hazard, but I will be back with avengance in June no doubt, as there will only be DS and myself, then. Big change from 8 of us in January.!

thriftmonster

OK I,m declaring at £521 for April - which is a lot over my target of £400 but round about the £500 I had estimated. Easter didn,t help as dh did some of the cooking and he tends to get what he wants to cook rather than what we have in - and we had a big stock up at the Chinese supermarket. I,ll start May today and will put my total over there - dh is abroad for a lot of it so we might have a freezer challenge month - I keep saying that:rolleyes: