May '06 Grocery Challenge

catznine

Count me in again although this will be a 3 week month for me as first week we were away. So £150 (£50 a week) target.

Have already spent £35 at our local farm shop (just too tempting) but we needed fresh food in and have started trying to eat healthy diets (lots of salads etc) so lots of fresh fruit and veg. Organic box turns up tomorrow (another £11.50) so will freeze any surplus to get us through next week (box is delivered every fortnight).

Other than that it is what is in the freezer as I have to defrost them soon and what is left in the cupboards (plenty of tinned tuna from the bogof offers recently) and will be trying out the pasta maker a friend gave to me.

Now if only I could get the cat to give up purina one!:rolleyes:

wanna-be-mortgage-free_2

How is everyone going? Week two managed to reduce food bill again and next week I'm hoping to do the same due to freezer being full of HM meals from this weeks' groceries :T

rchddap1

Things are going great so far. My first main shop only clocked up £29.46 which leave £70 in the budget for the rest of the month. Am going to do a top up shop tonight to pick up a few cupboard essentials.

sarah0404

Well, I've wrecked my budget! I'm about £7 over. I know I'm going to need a few more more things too before the week ends! I'm going to try and hold on till next week, as that is the start of a new budget for me. But this is the first month of attempting a budget. I don't think I've done too badly. This week I'm going to make another meal plan for the next couple of weeks. I'll try and cut back as much as possible.

tw0906blue

sarah0404 wrote:

Well, I've wrecked my budget! I'm about £7 over. I know I'm going to need a few more more things too before the week ends! I'm going to try and hold on till next week, as that is the start of a new budget for me. But this is the first month of attempting a budget. I don't think I've done too badly. This week I'm going to make another meal plan for the next couple of weeks. I'll try and cut back as much as possible.

Keep going, you are doing great! :T It is hard to keep to it sometimes and we are all guilty of over-spending sometimes. But just accept it, and try not to go over again. I found when I first started to keep to a tighter, much tighter, budget, that once I ran down the store cupboard it became more difficult! My OH is the cook really, and he has come up with some amazing combinations which have all...mmm remember one that was horrid...but apart from that they have been all really nice. :rotfl:

I am waiting for Saturday, which is when my budget starts again. Having MIL to stay Fri eve, Sat and Sun, plus 2 extra mouths to feed Sat tea time, (offers of something they can bring is much appreciated, and I will just have to swallow my pride . There is some meat left in the freezer though, so all should be well. I just don't want to use all my budget over the weekend and then have to eat grass all week!!!

Done the house now off to tend my crops after I have eaten!

I really, really don't want to go back out to work, but needs must. Sigh :eek:

Wizwoo

How's everyone doing with this at the moment?

I'm afraid I've blown my budget already but then I did entertain a few guests at a BBQ - but I now know it can be done. Oh just thought £30 (we tend to buy it in bulk) of the £90 was for cat food too! (Waitrose are actually cheaper than Morrisons for the cat food we use £1 cheaper!)

On my original SOA for the site I put down £240 (:eek: for 2 of us and 5 cats) as what we spent - and I'm still way off that including the BBQ.

We're away for a while soon (staying with friends) but count me in on the July challenge!

Penny-Pincher!!

I didnt do too bad. Budget £75pw for all food and petrol and only used £50pw for the past 4 weeks-so managed to stick £100 in the ING account:D

PP
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Wizwoo

:T :T :T Wow Penny-Pincher that's amazing well done. I didn't include petrol - although I filled up at the start of the month (about £40) and still have over half - pretty good for us.
Well done you though :T :T :T

skystar

My budgeting month finished yesterday. With a budget of £320 I came in by the skin of my teeth at £318.76.

This covers all food and diesel. Don't usually spend as much but this was a five week month for me and also we had two caravan weekends away so allocated a bit more for the travel (one trip was a 400 mile round trip) and some treats.

The split was food: £162.85 and diesel: £155.91.

On Thursday when I went food shopping I had £17.94 left in the pot and I was like a woman possessed as I was adamant I was not going over it!

CosmoCat

I won't be starting this month as it's so far gone already, but only discovered today that i was spending £250 on food for 2 people!!!! *shock*

so i will be joining next month, hoping to cut down bit by bit on what is truly an exhorbitant food bill.

hope everyone is doing well with this
mel