July 2009 Grocery Challenge

scrummy-mummy

Completely lost the plot last month as it was my birthday so we had a large BBQ, plus there were unmissable offers on wine and nappies (two of lifes essentials in this house )

I have £70 per week to spend in July and there are 4 weeks to account for. Therefore, MrsM, please could you put me down for £280?

Good Luck All
xxx

nickynoo08

Ok so my gc budget didnt quite go to plan last month. I was hoping to do my gc shop once a week and spend £30 each time (or there abouts), i ended up going over every time for many reasons, but mainly because we ended up eating more than usual beacuse it was there iykwim. So after having a re think AGAIN:rolleyes: i've decided i'm going to do 2 online shops a month at mr s (my main shops) and 1 mini shop a month at mt t's.
So could you please put me back to monthly spends:o, sorry for being a pain.
Thanks

July gc budget - £130

Hollysan

First shop of the month today - a Tesco online delivery which came in at £77. That included a £10 online money-off voucher courtesy of the kind folk on the discount codes and sassy buys thread and various other deals. So a good start.

Mrs M - can't believe how reasonable the prices are in Germany. When I lived there for a year in the mid eighties I don't remember it being so cheap. I was a student, and despite working all year I still came back with an enormous overdraft. Must have been those super-sized beer glasses to blame...:rotfl:

Hollysan

jackiegibbo

PLEASE PUT ME DOWN FOR £220 FOR JULY

many thanks and good luck to everyone with their challenges:beer:

OrkneyStar

Hi there,
Well we do 15th to 14th (or thereabouts) so I may as well join July now.
Spent £23 in Tesco today (incl £10 on '3 for £10' Tesco own version of Active Fit nappies)- the rest was cereal, F/V, Bertolli on offer, cereal.
Have all of this months grocery money in purse now, but hoping it will last until 14th (don't have a huge amount left but we have stuff in freezer still and using stuff up before hols anyway).......you all know how it can suddenly disappear though.
Anyway, good luck everyone for the coming month and hope you are enjoying the sunshine!

Freegan wrote: »

Hello everybody,

I'm pretty new to these threads but if you want some tips on seriously cutting down on your grocery bills (and other spends) google my username.

I became a freegan ('though I didn't know what I was doing had a name) four or five years ago after a disastrous overspend on non-essentials and I've been living like a prince since then.
I eat foods I can't afford to buy and my grocery bill is a negligible amount (less than a pound a day).

The first of the month is a good day to check out the bins at the supermarkets for 'best before end of' consumables so take a rucksack and clear a space in the freezer.
A walking stick is useful for hooking out stuff in the deeper bins if you're less agile than you used to be.

Remember, you'll be helping to cut down on greenhouse gasses, landfill and airborne fungal and bacterial spores as well as vermin.

So if you get any harrassment be polite and lecture them about climate change etc.
Once they realise that you have a case against them on their lack of social responsibility their attitude softens.
Sometimes they'll leave you alone but if security insists on moving you on offer no resistance.

I thanked this post but did not mean to .
If we all aspire to become freegans soon there will be nothing to 'steal' the food from.
I too hate waste but would rather come from a different tack than bin raking.
Each to their own though and if it works for you then who am I to criticise?
x OS

Mrs_Money_Penny

Hi all done first shop for July went to Lidl they have nescafe Gold blend on offer £3.00 a couple of £ cheaper than MrT. Spent in all £63.11.

Henny_Penny

Hi sorry should have put my spend in red £250, sorry I'm new to this

Puddleglum

Hello!
Have just done my big shop for the month at an assortment of shops. Total spend came to £92.94. Tomorrow need to track down some fruit and a couple of bottles of stardrops.

My monthly spend breaks down as follows : 1 big shop, weekly veg box £13.95, weekly dairy bill £10 and £4 per week for fruit. So £17.31 left for whoopsies and emergencies - lets go! :j
Puddleglum

Cheery_Daff

I all, can you put me down for £135 for July please?

I want to reduce from June's £140 (there's only two of us!), but had best do it slowly... Mr Daffs seems to think £140 is acceptable, and that we've struggled a bit to keep within budget...

... I'm more inclined to think that £140 is far too much :rotfl: and that we would have found it easier if we hadn't got through 72 pints of milk!

Yes, SEVENTY TWO pints of milk, between TWO of us, in one month. If you can just indulge me in a spot of mental (ha) arithmetic, that's somewhere between £22 and £36 JUST ON MILK (depending where from - some from cheapo shop, some from the off licence etc) in ONE MONTH.

Apologies for the capitals, but is it only me who thinks that's ridiculous??:rotfl:

So - aims for July...

1. a spot of meal planning so we don't just eat home made bread and jam, and cold, uncooked porridge and milk all month :rolleyes:

2. chamomile tea for me, rather than buckets of normal tea with lots of milk in

I was trying to work out where the £140 had gone, since we don't eat meat, bought only a few tins of beans etc, and some lentils, and mostly fruit and veg - but obviously a fair amount of it went on milk...

Good luck everyone, I'll be checking back regularly...

loshypops

£115.00 spent so far.....bad bad bad but lots in so hopefully we will manage!

I dont know how mind but i'm sticking to it lol

Havent been to Makro for chicken yet and we've forgot to take meat out of freezer to defrost for the last two days so dinner has been eventful and creative to say the least but dont think we will be veggy anytime soon! lol

Must update sig xx