August 2009 Grocery Challenge

ktpie

Can I be put down for £280 for September please.

Thanks everyone for providing the inspiration to tackle our shopping bill!

jackiegibbo

rosieben wrote: »

hope you recover quickly jackie you've done well even thinking of the GC after an op

Thankyou its been a week so far and im much better than i was,should go back to work next thurs but as i have such a physical job i might need an extra week

Curlytop40

Can you put me down for £340 for september please.

msgnomey

Argh!! Missed the marks in August, pay day tomorrow so I'll start again, I think£300 for September (blinking fussy cats cost a fortune to feed! It would be cheaper to feed them on tinned fish and fresh meat but I don't know if it would be any good for them?)

irishgirl62

I bought a metal pink money box thing with a key from tesco today (for £5)to start my september challenge I am going to take out cash for groceries and bus money when i get paid next week and not use my cards for groceries in september!

helen_jelly

Hi - declaring £304 for August - £4 over but I'm not upset about that as this is the first proper month of doing this. We spent £25 today but some of that is for September lunch boxes. Going to Lid! tomorrow so will spend about £52 as we have 2 £5 vouchers for them from the Daily Star so will split the shopping to 2 lots of £30 to get £5 off each shop. Cupboards and freezers will be well stocked and everyone goes back to school on 7th Sept so shopping bill will go down then [hopefully!]

Well done everyone and thanks for your help
Thank you to the ladies who do all the hard work on this thread with recipes and targets

Helen x

Julimk

Just a small spend of around £8 today for a few fresh bits so I can get on with my batch cooking at the weekend. Working at home today & in the office tomorrow – don’t want to have to face the supermarket at the weekend. Meant to get some hamster food & bedding but forgot, so they will go at the top of next week’s list. Hamster isn’t home, with DD, until next Wednesday anyway.

I should have everything in for my batch cooking session at the weekend & that should produce enough dinners for the freezer for the next two months! But I will have to re-check my stock inventory afterwards; as I am not entirely convinced it is 100% accurate at the moment.

Still, I have three days of cooking ahead of me & am thoroughly looking forward to it. I guess it is my creative thing! I always have a great sense of satisfaction when I see all my individual meal portions created out of whatever whoopsies I have previously stashed.

Sunny_Donny

Hi All

Declaring £191.64 for August - YAHOOO!!!!
Still have enough BBQ stuff for the next couple of sunny days

£80 for September as away for the last 2 weeks and need bits and bobs - more toiletries and fabric softener etc than food which all come out of this budget
Been blackberry picking tonight - got about 3lbs worth, then pot full, so both going tomorrow with lots of icecream tubs to see how much we can collect. Got cookers from trees, so batch cooking crumbles and freezing the rest

savingforoz

I'm going to declare for August at £50.08 - a whole 8p over budget

Slaps own wrist - must do better in September...:p

kalojac

I totalled my receipts today and gave up after the total hit £400 with 3 receipts still to count!!!!

So my month starts tomorrow and I would like to £380 (KALOJAC) please for 1 month for 2 adults, 3 kids, 1 dog and 3 fishes