June 2009 Grocery Challenge

MadamMim2013

Only spent £10.40 on groceries last week!! (was on a clear up)
Hoping to stay on budget this week although the cupboards look quite bare
Planning on making a couple of the recipes on here! The Twinks sound yummy so it's on the "to do" list..which is getting ever longer!

Mrs MC, thinking of you and you're mum x

queen_of_string

Well, have spent £10.61 today, couple of whoopsed meats, about 3 meals and some stuff I needed. Treated myself to a 14p somerfield fizzy water to jazz up my elderflower cordial (finishing last yrs from the freezer). I dont think we are going to make it, that dratted saving voucher from Mr T will be blamed extensively. If I can drop lucky for some whoops fruit and veg we could do it as we have enough milk frozen. Hmmmmm maybe not as bad as I thought. /me goes to plot :-)

searching_me

just a quick update NSD today didnt leave the house again ... mrs m hope your mum is ok x

Cornishpixie_2

Just popped in to update signature. Today went to Iceland and treated the kids to 4 cadbury choc and orange cornetto cones for £1. A group of students stopped to ask me what they were as they looked so good.:D Then Mr T hot dog rolls, small choc cake, fruit shoot type drinks 4 for 67p. (for the thirsty horrors following their ice cream), and bought 3 bottles of Bulmer cider 3 for 2 £1-58 each. Total spend £7-36. Then shopping delivered just before 7pm came to £101-81. Managed to order 2 lots of soap powder still won't go wrong in our house. Jersey royals short life but I don't mind eating them 2 nights running, substitute lettuce and scones so quite pleased with that. . Now the tricky bit, making it last.:rotfl:

Flat_Eric

I have decided from next month that one of my bank accounts is going to be the food account. and will be used for nothing else. At the moment, my food spending is getting confused with my personal spending so I have no clue how much Im spending on food. Im not keeping track (which I was doing previously) and I have been getting click happy with my tesco home delivery orders so hopefully by having a designated account, I can watch as the pennies dissapear and stop over spending and keep within budget. will be coming on here regularly too for tips and pointers :j

Jedilibrarian

Hi all :hello:
Have done my first proper count for the month and it's standing at £90.94-still under budget but 9 days to go! First NSD of the month today :j-only another 5 to go!

I think I figured out where I was going wrong in previous months, not mealplanning!!!

Enjoyed reading all your posts, keeps me on the straight and narrow. Mrs MC-hope your mum is ok

See you all later!
JL

TheBees

Tonight we had ham salad for tea which was yummy. Was going to make eton mess with some raspberries but unfortunately because I forgot to put them in the fridge they had all gone mouldy. :eek:

NSD today - can I manage another one tomorrow? Might stay at school and help with the play scenery after lunch so I'm not tempted to walk down town! Desperate measures!

Shortie

Hi everyone!

Oooo, cutting this fine. An £18 spend in Tescos last night on Cat food (though this whould also do most of next month too), eggs, bread, chocolate chips x 2, 2x squash, cooking oil, sugar, SR flour, 2x corned beef and bananas.

I'm hoping this will last until Thursday when my new month starts, though I have a feeling we may run out of milk (can you tell we have a toddler in the house? :rotfl:)

Off to update sig

mooomin

Flat_Eric wrote: »

I have decided from next month that one of my bank accounts is going to be the food account. and will be used for nothing else. At the moment, my food spending is getting confused with my personal spending so I have no clue how much Im spending on food.

I do this and it works pretty well for me. I pay for most of my groceries on a credit card I earn reward points on, and transfer the money to it as soon as the transaction shows so I don't risk overspending. Anything I have left at the end of the month goes into my Redundancy Fund/Pay The Debts Off Fund (Depending on what happens with my job this year - 'tis not a good time to work in financial services...)

Shortie

Flat_Eric wrote: »

I have decided from next month that one of my bank accounts is going to be the food account. and will be used for nothing else. At the moment, my food spending is getting confused with my personal spending so I have no clue how much Im spending on food. Im not keeping track (which I was doing previously) and I have been getting click happy with my tesco home delivery orders so hopefully by having a designated account, I can watch as the pennies dissapear and stop over spending and keep within budget. will be coming on here regularly too for tips and pointers :j

We do this.. we've done it since we first moved in together on the advice of our mortgage adviser at the time, as he said it would help us budget. Okay... sometimes the food budget spills into tour 'general spends' bank account but we've alwsy found it an idela; way to budget