The DFW grocery challenge club -all welcome!

lynzpower

AliOK- brilliant you have plenty in! I am going to try my absolute damndest not to buy ANY MORE FOOD apart from milk & tea bags i note running down ( damn it)

brummiebird

Would you believe myself and the OH were only just writing a shopping list for our "big shop" and talking about what else we would need to spend throughout the rest of the month. I am not sure what you think would be acceptable, there are 2 adults here and 2 children aged 10 & 4 (who have packed lunches for school)
I am not going to start until Monday as we are away for the weekend for my older sons birthday (and our last weekend of freedom before the moneysaving REALLY starts)
I will be doing my SOA on Monday too so really starting with a vengeance. ANy help would be greatly appreciated.
Btw, we had a lovely chicken dinner tonight, the chicken was reduced, all veg was frozen from packet, mash, roasts, parsnips etc and it all cost next to nothing as I searched Somerfield today for the reduced stock!!
Sad as it sounds I am looking forward to Monday now!!!!!!

Ali-OK

lynzpower wrote:

AliOK- brilliant you have plenty in! I am going to try my absolute damndest not to buy ANY MORE FOOD apart from milk & tea bags i note running down ( damn it)

I shouldn't need any dishwasher tabs, loo roll, washing liquid, crisps, toothpaste, teabags, chocci biscuits for packed lunch, diet coke, blackcurrant squash, pizza, garlic bread or chickens until the autumn :rotfl:

One tip...I treat the supermarket run as a mini-shop, small trolley, quick dash so we can get to the market/butchers earlier in town and turn it into an adventure. Take old bread for the ducks at the river and maybe pop into the free art gallery/museum.

backtomum

I normally spend £100 a week on food [I'm ashamed to say] . I'll be joining you trying to cut back. I've got a tough week ahead and we will probably be living on scraps.

sured

i'm ashamed to say that i spend about £100 a week aswell, we dont eat many takeaways because we live too far away from them, i have started shopping in costco, save a small fortune by buying large bags of dogfood there instead of supermarket, then we spoil it by coming out and going to frankie and benny's for lunch. i am going to try and cut weekly bill down to £50 wish me luck

Evening_Star

Have just been paid so my month goes from the 23rd and have spent £30 on shopping so far. Shouldn't need a big shop as did that last month.

Would like to join the challenge what number would I be and I will put that on my signature.
Just me to shop for so £100 sounds like more than enough a month do you think?

lynzpower

If you number yourselves and stick your Shopping target in your signature... then we can all see how well we are all doing ( or not in my case!!)

kathfisch

I've often thought about joining the grocery challenge but am a bit scared to leave dfw :rolleyes: :rotfl: so this is just what I need!! Its a bit hard to set myself a target, especially now as I am going home for easter holidays on 7th April and parents buy the food there .

I don't work month to month as I don't have a salary so I just work on a week by week basis. This is difficult with food though cos I tend to shop once every two weeks. So I budget double my weekly amount but then there are always more things to get in the second week! Need to be a bit stricter!

Anyway, I've budgeted £30 for a big shop tomorrow which will hopefully last until the 7th with only minimal top ups (£5?) next week. Its just me to cater for, by the way. I will report back on how I do with this budget over the next two weeks. Ideally I'd like to aim for £15 a week but I find this hard, I'm not particularly good at bulk cooking etc. I have limited space in the shared freezer etc but mainly I just don't get round to it!

Also I'm trying to eat more healthily so sometimes I'm in asda and I decide that I will get yummy things like nectarines even though they're expensive cos I really like them and it will stop me eating chocolate. For me the healthy food is a priority over cutting costs right back, although I know the two aren't mutually exclusive!

So anyway, do I need a number for this too? If so will someone give me my number!

lynzpower

Nah you dont need a number really, but it would be good to get your target in your sig!

kathfisch

lynzpower wrote:

Nah you dont need a number really, but it would be good to get your target in your sig!

Will do! If someone wants to give me a number I'll happily have one, don't want to pick one that anyone's got already!!