May 2009 Grocery Challenge

ocemeer

One day left to declare, think only have a bit of milk possibly to get to put in the freezer for my parents visit. Just using up the chnage at the moment by going through the cupboards and making sure I dont need anything - hence a new hairbrush.... Hoping that next month will be better and i will stop trying to spend so much...

Moniker

Declaring for May at £338.82 which is £68-82 overbudget. (Hangs head in shame and heads off to the June challenge!)

Moniker

little_miss_moneysaver_3

little_miss_moneysaver wrote: »

Mrs Mc I'm declaring £88.79 for May, have added on the milk that I plan to buy this afternoon already. So (shock horror) I'm under budget :eek: :j:j :j:j:j

Bought more milk than planned, so am redeclaring at £89.62/£95

MadamMim2013

Hi everyone, :hello:What lovely weather we've been blessed with (hope all those who suffer when it's hot are coping ok??):cool:
I'm happily declaring £241.35 for the month of May!!!:T:T I DID IT YIPPIE;)
Off to update my sig and be smug for a little bit...:A

Toonie

Let's see, May came in at £162.72, which puts my years total so far at £852.53. This is roughly right, give or take £10, so doing well so far considering all the price increases we've been seeing across the board. No spend needed tomorrow as we're going for a barbecue at my parents house, so will bake a cake or cookies this evening for my contribution, plus some sausages from the freezer.

Intergalactic_Floozie

I'm declaring my May total at £187.34. My target was £220, so I am £32.66 under budget!!!!

June target £220

Vixstar

I'm declaring my May total at £61.89 significantly under budget but I didn't have to buy any meat due to having an overflowing freezer. Will wander over to June's thread...

cw18

Oooops! I placed an order with App Foods last night, so I'm officially over the target budget I declared at the start of the month.

If I add in the extra I should have had due to elder son being home for a week, then I'm only 98p over - so not too bad.

Will hold off adding it to my May totals - and declaring - until the order actually arrives though. I can then adjust for anything that may not come, and I need to see a couple of the items to work out what the 'real' value is (for my Whoosie records)

The delivery charge comes out of a different budget - a decision I made on how to play this when I placed my first order a couple of months ago. If I bought things from a large supermarket I'd have to drive (and the petrol costs are a separate budget) so seemeda fair way to deal with this - and the best way to keep my grocery budget for food costs only.

(Have deducted 37p from my spends due to using some of my potatoes and onions in a couple of batches of soup I'm making for DD - and which she's repaying the cost of the ingredients.)

I need to nip out in a little while for some bread and milk - but I'll be putting these on my June spends as I could last until tomorrow before buying them. Only going today as going on a Monday means dragging my younger GD to the shops with me after we've both spent a busy morning in pre-school......

mrssnowy_2

Sorry all,I haven't been able to keep up with thread.
I have been very good-must have ,because I've a lot of money left in the bank:rotfl:
Oldest DD gave birth to Angharad Catherine on 11th May,beautiful sister to Manon,so was down with them for a week.
That did cost an arm and a leg,what with the train,treats,extra food for DH left at home,plants for DD garden,and stuff.......
On top of that I had yet more fund raisers and a WI show:eek:
I shall declare at £190 please Mrsmc and take the 'baby' visit out of my savings.

That isn't cheating ,is it?

Ooh sorry £180 for June please Mrsmc.
Will try to do better next month,to read the threads,keep receipts and update spending diary

See you all in June

mrssnowy
ps well besom,just seen I was over last month-what a numpty

ocemeer

Declaring £97.43 for May so June definatley going to aim at the £100. Trying to get all the ingrediants for the christmas hampers within my monthly budget too which should mean a bit of creative imagination.