January 2010 Grocery Challenge

winterfrost

Happy New Year, everyone! In the end I had to estimate the end of December's spending, but I think it's pretty accurate. The fridge/freezer won't be replaced until Monday at the very earliest, so might be a little over this month too.

Angelfeathers

Happy New Year, everyone! Wow, 11 pages on this thread already and the year is barely 12 hours old! *grin*

I am going to have be careful with grocery (and all other) spending this month as money is a bit tight, having already spent £44 of this month's money and having a couple of other big, unexpected expenses!

So instead of setting my budget a comfortable £350, I'm going to go for £300 again, and I'm going to try damn hard to come in under budget, because there are savings that need paying back if at all possible!

So could I be put down for £300 for January, please!

mama67

Happy New Year all.

I will be doing an annual figure again running alongside Nyks Cost of Living Challenge.

So could you please sign me up for £2700 for the year.

This is for everything from the supermarket plus a weekly organic veg box and weekly organic milk,butter & fresh juice delivery from the milkman.

I also get the majority of my meat from the local village PO which sells on behalf of a butcher in the nearest town.

I bake the majority or our bread and make all cakes and pastries and cook from scratch 90% of the time.

I buy fairtrade on certain items, recycled paper products and eco-friendly on the majority of cleaning products.

DH takes either a packed lunch or leftovers for his lunch, I have the same but at home and the boys have school dinners(separate budget).

We only have a takeaway if DH has done any overtime, as this is extra to our normal day to day budget.

peetzil39

Hi, Just been reading this thread and would love to join. Grocery spending is an area where I've failed to stick to a budget in the past! Please can you put me down for £400 a month, that's for a family of five, covering food, toiletries etc. For the past 6 weeks I've been doing my shopping online, and find that its much easier to keep to my budget limit, so hopefully I can keep this up. Need to be more organised at checking cupboards, planning meals etc though, but am trying!!!

jmf76

Haven't done the Grocery Challenge in a long while but thought I'd take it up again this year - would like to set a target of £200 for January please!

Good luck everyone xxx

helen_jelly

Morning everyone

Hope you are not feeling too rough after last night!!!

I have done the budgets up to and including jmf76 - thank you

Welcome and Hi to all our new people joining us - its nice to see you here. Please check out the posts on page one by Rosieben [great recipes] and Pink [lots of info] also feel free to ask any questions as there are lots of lovely people on here who will help out and remember................... we don't fail, we look, learn and move on. Good luck

Helen x

EC12345

:hello:Just been to Sainsburys this morning (we don't really go for the new year thing - so I didn't mind going to the supermarket) - and spent £54.61. They had good offers on meat so the freezer is stocked - hopefully next week will be a lot cheaper.

Happy new year to everyone

signs_of_recovery

Good afternoon (afternoon already???)
Can you please add me to the grocery challenge?

Signs of Recovery £200 this month for 4 adults, 2 children and a labrador whose main hobby is food.

JayneC

Happy New Year everybody xxx

Updating from yesterday - Big monthly shop (mostly storecupboard) £62.29, which is quite good considering my cupboards were bare! Went back to Aldi (got a bit too obsessed with tesco points I think) which is definitely cheaper, so will stick with doing a monthly shop there and a local shop at butchers and grocers each week for fresh stuff - DD1 got me a wally trolley for CHristmas so that will make the local shopping much easier (she said I'm allowed one now as I'm now a granny!!). Will update sig now.

BTW I've set a yearly budget at £3000 which is more than my usual monthly amount of £240 per week but allows for 'blips' during school hols and Christmas time, etc.

Jayne x

skaps

Signs of recovery u put me to shame. My £200 for this month is for 2 adults and a rabbit.