April 2009 Grocery Challenge

SunnyGirl

I'm declaring for April at £417.77 which is £32.23 under budget :T I'm very pleased as the extra money saved will go towards birthdays, and the Easter holidays were in the middle of the challenge. I'll see everyone on the new challenge.

cw18

Just back from what I hope is my last foray to the shops for April, so time to declare at £104.06

Before resetting for May, my signature for April now looks like this

Food Budget / Spent
£138.10 / £104.06

including

Whoopsie spend / Whoopsie 'real' value
£61.87 / £325.45

My budget for the month still shows as what I originally set it to, but as elder DS then went away for a few days it should really have been dropped to £125.60. And as of the end of March I had an overspend against my annual budget of £9.79 - so I was really aiming for £115.81....... which I've managed to come under by a whopping £11.75 :T

So given I've just bought all the milk we'll need for the next week (hopefully!) and garlic bread for the weekend (and freezer), plus bought mince and sausages on Tuesday ready for next month to save me making an extra trip to Mr T just for these in the next few days, I'm really chuffed about this :j


My signature for the year to date now looks like

Food Budget / Spent
£541.50 / £529.75

including

Whoopsie spend / Whoopsie 'real' value
£198.96 / £771.77

Here's to another successful month in May :beer:

jintyb

I think Ive been a bit dillusional about my target for MAY! Mrs M can you please amend my budget to £140 ( this is for three weeks, 20 April til 15 May, am off on hols on 15th )
Sorry to muck you about, thanks for all your work its really appreciated!

Jinty

pixiechick99

Ooooooops I've failed April's challenge - not sure by how much exactly, but gone over by about £20....onwards to May:rotfl:

sabs10

Failed badley with April's limit final amount was £210.55:mad:

need a serious overhaul for May.

pinknfluffy

Woo Hoo Declaring at £318.23 don't think i've lost any receipts but something must have gone wrong cos budget is over £80.00 under target, that never happens to me. Oh well see everyone over in May.

brummiebabe

I was overbudget - lost track of how much over:o!!

Budget for May will be £375....here we go again!!!:rolleyes:

Toonie

My spend in April got quite silly-need to look through the receipts and see what happened, ended up spending £248.98 in the month. Some of that went on restocking the larder and freezer and there was BFs birthday, but still it seems we spent a lot, but on what?

I'm declaring my annual total to the end of April as £689.80
Roll on May where I will have a serious look to the top up shops and plan a little better.

huxley

• Hi all not a good month finding it difficult to keep my eye on it all hence declaring at £272.66 for April !!!!! please put me down for £250 in May must be good

mrspoor

Hi all, declaring at £241.23 for April - £16.23 over budget!

Not as bad as it could have been though, as OH was at home and unsupervised for the best part of 2 weeks!

Will go and start on May's thread now, I've got weeks to catch up on.