DFW Grocery Challengers -

lynzpower

Farmfoods has some great frozen fruit, strawbs & rasperries are usually in the 2 for a quid cabinet at my local one. Do check it out its full of decent prices

lil'H

Cheers Lynz, never heard of farmfoods but will definately look into whether we have one anywhere near!
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bobbadog

I'm very much looking forward to joining the Grocery challenge on Aug 12th (when my boyfriend and I move into our own place rather than the mad flatshare we currently live in).Will be so much easier to budget ahead when our food isn't eaten by other people and with more freezer and fridge space to take advantage of special offers. We've spent £21 so far this week, but that included a lovely salad bowl in the 99p shop and dishwasher tablets.

elantan

well there was me planning on a no spend day today ...but my kefir arrived ...so i went out and bough some organic cows milk ( i know i shouldn't have ..but i thought just the once) also bought some fruit to share with colleague in work...but stooopid me went home and left the milk ....that just smacks me senseless what a waste of money ...never ever bought organic milk ever before ..first time i do ..i leave it ...arrrrggghhh ..so now i'm off to update my sig..not a happy el

scottishspendaholic

Hey everyone,

Updated - today on the first day of my Grocery Challenge, I have spent:-

£5.61 at the fishvan (outside my house - very handy!)
£2.00 on a massive punnet of strawberries (I went to PYO!)
£11.05 on veg, fruit etc at the local farm shop
£6.26 at the butchers
£2.42 at the deli
£1.50 local shop (cat food - they have a deal on the brand my cats love)
£14.55 Tesco (tins, cereals, dry packets, extra veg etc.)

£43.39 - not great for £30 a week, but not bad either. I resisted a lot of things and was out of a lot of stuff.

HOW IS EVERYONE ELSE GETTING ON?

scottishspendaholic x

loobyloo1980

OK.....

£6.06 on fruit yesterday (but out of this weeks money)
£12.70 in Iceland including £2.70 for clover margarine on BOGOF (I love it)

lil'H

OK believe we are now a week into the grocery challenge for those who started on 20th. Thought I'd get ball rolling hows everyone doing? I have a mothly budget of £195, which equals £45 a week, so far week 1 I spent..........£36.87:j

Not a huge saving but i'm under so far and that's £8 to go onto credit card, if I can do that each week i'm :rotfl:

Hope about everyone else?

lil'H
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PS Also decided to shut down boiler, my son loves showers and although I prefer baths going to shower instead as that heats up on electric. Gonna boil water to do washing up. Is it unhygenic to wash hands in cold water? Fingers crossed will shift gas arrears!

youngmum_2

I'm going to have another go at this. Have yet to manage it

Cannot seem to spend any less than £60-£70 per week where as, realistically, it needs to be £50!

That's for 2 adults, 2 children and 2 cats.

Will be joining in from next Wednesday (2/8/06)

lynzpower

lil'H wrote:

OK believe we are now a week into the grocery challenge for those who started on 20th. Thought I'd get ball rolling hows everyone doing? I have a mothly budget of £195, which equals £45 a week, so far week 1 I spent..........£36.87:j

Not a huge saving but i'm under so far and that's £8 to go onto credit card, if I can do that each week i'm :rotfl:

Hope about everyone else?

lil'H
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Not too bad, spent 14.85 in tescos the other day, must update my sig

EagerLearner

Can I join please but from tomorrow (29th) until end of August - our challenge is £30 per week (2 of us). It has been £40 per week on paper but averages £45 which messes up the account towards the end of the month...

My plan is slightly trickier than normal - rather than using the dreaded debit card, I plan to take out £120 in cash and keep a separate purse for this shopping money on me at all times.

If we don't spend more than that £120 it will mean a saving of £40-£60 per month which can go straight into the ISA :j

Any money left in the purse at the end of month (if any) can go into the Pigsback piggybank (not before I count how much I saved and tell you all about it!) and eventually go into the ISA too.

Maybe someone will join me on this & we can keep eachother going

let the games begin!