June 2009 Grocery Challenge

sharronej

Molly41 wrote: »

Hi,
Hope you dont mind me joining in. I have been lurking for a long time! I have four huge adolesents at home and husband as well as me - 2 doggies and 2 guineas. How much do you think you should spend per person? Not exact figures but just an idea or opinion would be much appreciated.

Molly41

Hi Molly,
The usual advice for the first month is to keep hold of your receipts so that you can see what you are spending first and then have a good look and see where you can cut back slowly and steadily. I have five adult appetites to feed (4 adults, 1 teen), we're really strapped at the moment so I'm trying to stay around the hundred pound mark - last month I managed £120 but I do find it difficult . It all depends on how your family eat and what type of meals they like. As a ball park figure you should be able to eat comfortably on £50 - £75 per week.

HTH

slowandsteady_2

Hi all, so much for not having to stock up this week. Decided yesterday to clear out the pantry, have moved here at easter and it still full of tools and paint so shipped it out to the shed and decided to go and stock up on tinned food, im paranoid about running out of tins cos i think so long as got tins and pasta and rice can always make a meal. So stocked up on loads of beans, spaghetti, pasta, rice, tuna, tinned toms and other tinned stuff, oh and a bottle of wine and some beers and two tubs of baby formula.

So updating signature in a min but spent £71.91. So am gonna struggle rest of mth but dont mind cos i know we are stocked up

Have a good day!

Rocks_Fan_Debbie

Hi,

well finished my main shop on Monday and spent another £42.63 which was more than I intended, but since then I haven't spent anything so I'm happy with that, and we have stuck to the menu plan although we did swap a couple of days due to the lovely weather.

Julimk

Got some more milk today & have updated siggy, not really unexpected.

It’s the middle of my month & usually at this point I do a slightly bigger top-up shop of nearly £20 – if I get everything in at the beginning DD would scoff anything remotely snacky & I would still have to get as much now.

That doesn’t leave much for the end part of the month, but it is usually just milk & a few odd bits to tide us over, still ahead of where I was this time last month.

Sunnyday

Hi everyone,

better late than never

I`ve just totted up my total for a truly shocking May *slaps hand with ruler*

Mrs M would you please add me for June with a total of £140
Thankyou

*goes back to meal planner*:D

The freezer that i was supposed to be running down to defrost is bursting full and i can`t seem to stop myself from batch cooking
There is enough food in there to feed us for at least a month and this month i have the MrM vouchers too. I`ve not finished the meal planner yet but i`m trying to include lots of things from the freezer again fingers crossed

Good luck everyone.

SD

Pauper1

Spent another £3.70 today, but that should do us until Sunday, when we are doing our shop for the week. Plus, nice surprise in the post this morning - £25 Tesco's gift card from Sky I'd completely forgotten we'd be getting that!! So that's Sunday's shop covered
On target for my first month! Yay me!

Shortie

Whoops, the munchies hit. Another £5.26 - not all eaten tonight I should add :rotfl:

Sig update required me thinks

philsmum

Hi Everyone,
Mrs Mc. Could you put me down for £130.00 please.
May was a really bad month lots of extras to buy. Will try harder this month.:o

XSpender

Morning Everyone

£9.79 spent last night on bits for OH curry night. £3.30 on puppodums(!!), 36p on onions and 47p on a big tub of basics natural yogurt and £5.66 on Zovirax to treat the two huge cold sores I have on my lip. I look like I have been punched in the face!

The curry night with BIL went down well and there is enough left over for me & OH lunches for 2 days. The yogurt will get used up with fruit for OH breakfast tomorrow.

Off to update sig!

XS

Rachel021967

I spent £3.48 on milk, £6.31 at Tesco Express (£1.60 was on bottled drink), and £25.82 at Lidls (£9.92 on soft and alcoholic drink). So wasted £10.52. Am very annoyed with myself. Total left £368.07