DFW Grocery Challengers -

kickingkay

god i feel ill!
wedding tomorrow flowers shoes shirt dry cleaning, top card pressie spends
ooops there goes my food budget
will get back on sunday to calculate!

loobyloo1980

£3.20 at shop earlier on toothpaste and tea bags!!! Was corner shop though, very pricey!!!

Josie64

me too! 3 adults , so is £35 a week too low? , still lots of stuff in freezer and cupboard. start date 1st August

scottishspendaholic

Josie64 wrote:

me too! 3 adults , so is £35 a week too low?

Its up to you Josie and can depend on lots of things - whether you are including buying alcohol, meat etc. - but its totally your decision...

scottishspendaholic x

pink_fairy_7

Update. Spent more money than I wanted to a Morrisxxs due to bogof loo rolls and large jars fav coffee 2 for £6. Spenta total £107.85 now so that leaves £92.15.
I must stick to menu plan.
I must stick to menu plan.

pink fairy x

lynzpower

HomeJames wrote:

Hi everyone Im keen to join again this month we were over by £21 last month our budgets £200 the cupboards are still bulging as is the freezer I think ive gone a bit overboard with the food and shopping at tesco online!! Our month starts 26 July to 30 Aug but it looks like ive already spent over half of the budget and its only the 28th where am I going wrong?

SOunds like you are spending to much! Are you menu planning?

If you go through what you have in and only buy the things you NEED to complete the meals then you should be able to get by if the cupbaords are bulging?

CAFCGirl

Update to mine, spent £6 yesterday!

Albeit on junkie type stuff, but since I haven't eaten much all week I've said some money there, so that leaves me £4 to last today

£10 is hard...............

CAFCGirl

opps forgot I spent £1.47 on the 24th, so that leaves me £2 to last today

EagerLearner

I spent around £21 today so I have say 9 left for rest of week - not bad as that included some very nice white wine and BBQ bits for today plus main meals for week...

HomeJames_3

lynzpower wrote:

SOunds like you are spending to much! Are you menu planning?

If you go through what you have in and only buy the things you NEED to complete the meals then you should be able to get by if the cupbaords are bulging?

Hi lynzpower
we have started menuplanning but we both work shifts and the menus go out the window weve decided to do the storecupboard challange this month and only top up with milk and bread for the next two weeks to see how it goes our downfall is getting the bogof bargains and i decided to start home baking so had to buy all the ingredients and some cooking utensils all from this months budget so hopefully this should pay off many thanks for your help