June 2009 Grocery Challenge

Shortie

Righto, dug out my reciepts and the total spend so far from the 18th is £41.02. We were away and it was quite a bit of soft fruit. I now have eggs coming out fo my ear holes, lol, and plenty of flour as I forgot to pick up both from hom before we left to go away, lol.

Never mind - it'll get used up and it just means I won't need to buy them at another point this month (or at least for a while). Scarily we had vouchers of meals out so hardly any of that £41 was for main meals, whoops

I need to do a bigger shop for home tomorrow of things like cat food, nappies, baby wipes.... so that'll probably make a fair dent in the budget. I have a feeling this month might go a bit awry.... :eek:. I've got the next two days off work so will have a raid of what we have in before I go shopping........

Off to update sig now

Herewegoagain

Had 4 NSD's and trying to just use what's in the house till the end of june, helped by the bag of Jersey Royal re bank of mum freebies, I love em:D

Picking the redcurrants as they ripen and freezing them, will collect as many diferent fruits from garden and hedgerows as possible- oooh more freebies

Fresh veggies coming on, growing cress in a pot on windowsill,cut and come again, same with mixed pot of lettice we got from Lidl's 3wks ago, surposed to last 10 days but just cut and come again, just keeps on growing

All meals at presant coming from HM frozen meals, love it, one or two big cooking sessions and then sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labour.

Can you put me down for £100 for July, for 3 adults.

HWGA xx

Janae

£4.90 to last three days :eek:. It feels actually possible that I might do it, it depends how much fruit OH & DD2 want to eat over the next few days. DD2 is in to healthy eating at the moment so don't want to discourage it - must remind her that baked beans form one of our "five a day" - plenty of those in the cupboard:rotfl:

NSD today hopefully.

kj

Phoolgrrrl

£13 spend at tesco last night. So we have quite a bit left! Still have to pay mum for some stuff she picked up at chinese supermarket, aprox £10 and then need to do a wee top up of fruit etc to take camping this wknd. Pleased with how we have done. Also have chicken for 2 dinners and a whoopsie lamb joint and fish pie mix in freezer for next month and frozen veg!Good head start

karenccs67

Today I had to buy my sons year 6 leavers photo at £12.50 :eek: and year 6 autograph book for £4.50 :eek:, he doesn't ask for much so I couldn't really say no.

On the other hand, Asda are selling school uniform, any 2 for £5.00. I picked up 4 pairs of school trousers at £5.00 each (11/12yrs) and they were in the promotion, so only £10.00 for 4 pairs :T:T:T.

I think I have blown this months GC too, so hopefully July will be much better. Although I have got to buy school uniform for secondary school, and you always get stung with having to buy the school logo and only 1 shops sells it. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Have a lovely day everyone, its beautiful here.

rockie4

I'm declaring at £171.51 for June :T:T:T I'm really pleased with myself and also with OH who finally seems to have cottoned on this month :rolleyes: sending him with a list and a limited amount of money seems to have done the trick

I'm going to stick with £180 for July please MrsM, we're off on holiday next week (seperate budget) but I'm planning on a bit of a re-stock when we get back.

The allotment is looking good so that should reduce my veg bill a fair bit next month!

Money_Fritter

Hi Everybody,

I spent £14 yesterday on the weekly shop. I get paid on Thursday and will start next months (July) shopping on friday.

So I will declare for June on £80.83. Right on budget.

:j:j:j

Savvy_sewing

Just spent under £5 on some stewing beef and mushrooms from the local butcher van that visits the village. New to the village so seeing whats available to reduce the use of my car.! So now over budget. However I have enough stuff in the house now for the rest of the month, and apart from fruit and vegetables I have enough stuff to make meals until the middle of July.
However I am going away for 5 days with BF so I will need to leave DS easy food that he can just zap in the microwave or bung under a grill. He is not the best of cooks.
Menu plan has been done up until the 8/07/09 at the moment.
Store cupboard stuff is still quite full.
I would like to keep to £125 for July as I have my birthday as well. Havent quite finished spending this month so will be over, but am also slowly trying to get the freezer stocked up before my money is cut again in September.! Just to try and ease things for me.

tessie_bear

hi...lovely day today...suns out which is nice..on gc front we are having a chicken curry for tea...it came from a rubber chicken...i roasted it and we had a chicken roast dinner then today a curry and it also made sarnies so not bad from a £2 reduced chicken

we are having sausages tomorrow but also need to use up some salad so ill have to think about that...sometimes i feel my meals are like the ready steady cook programme...i try and use up some odd things

im going to asda tonite so ill post if i find any bargains...u never know

take care
tess

Allegra

I am going to declare now even though my month only ends in a couple of days - yes, I am hoping that I will need no more shopping til Thursday, but that is by no means guaranteed - but the main reason is that I have a bit of time to spare catching up with MSE now, and if I don't declare now, there is no guarantee that I will find the time later, and... Oh, you get the gist

Anyway, I have so far spent £1567.30 of my annual budget. Trouble is, my target for this point in the year was £1350, which means that I am £217.30 - or almost a month's money - over

Now, good news is that I easily have a month's worth of food stockpiled in the cupboards, freezer, under the bed.... But the bad news is that, despite all my economies, the shopping bill gets higher each month - June was worst of all so far, with £331.34 spent against the target of £225...

I am still not giving up, though. DD - the worst budget-buster of them all (so grateful when she will eat anything at all and budget be damned when things are bad) is away at her grandparents' for three weeks when the schools break up; and then we are away for ten days at the end of August (at my parents') and any food consumed then will come out of the holiday budget... Plus the garden is coming along nicely, and even though at this point only the radishes, rocket and mixed salad leaves are ready to eat, I have high hopes for it !

If we come to September and I have not yet managed to catch up with myself, I will have to reconsider the annual grocery budget.

As it is, though, even this month's expenditure has been significantly lower than what I used to spend before finding this forum, and that was when the prices were much lower than they are now ! So big, big thanks to all for continuing advice, help, recipes and inspiration - and my thoughts are with all of you who are now going through hard times.