April 2010 Grocery Challenge

rosieben

Don't be disheartened Sunny, its a steep learning curve for most of us.

Well done to those who finished within or near budget :T
Annie123 - great savings! :T

Spirit_2

Another month when my 'keeping track' of spending has been less than diligent. Spent in excess of £500:eek:

Well done to everyone else.

mothershipton

spent £440 this month on food and i thought we had been quite good. Will try harder but I think the budget will still be set at £300. Heres hoping

KITTY_2-2

Finally added last 2 small spends and final total for April is £166.56 :T
As I set the budget at £300 Iam well pleased. As per my earlier posting I have now jiggled budgets a bit and grocery spend budget is now £200 per month.

Thanks to all for the support and to the wonderful people who keep the forum running smoothly.

cw18

I stopped updating my spreadsheet on a daily basis this month (as I've other things to do with my 'free' time ), and until tonight the last update was done on 14th.

Sat down to complete the month with some trepidation after tea, as I was sure I must have blown my budget - it's the smallest I think I've ever had, and I didn't stop buying treats (albeit they almost all came in the form of Whoopsies) or filling up my freezers with more Whoopsies every time I made a space

But the update is now complete - and I'm chuffed to pieces to see I came in under budget.


Declaring a spend of £87.11 from my £95 budget for the month :T :T :T



Signature for year-to-date now looks as follows

GC Budget / Spent / Whoopsie spend / Whoopsie 'real' value
to 30th Apr '10 : £415 / £386.15 / £200.16 / £835.33 (59/44 NSDs)
Apr : £95 / £87.11 / £29.18 / £110.50 as of 30th Apr (12/11 NSDs)

Cheapskate

Evening all

My month went horribly wrong AGAIN - owning up to £460 for April, over by £60 & suspect that's a little out!
MA runs out in a few weeks, so really urgent that I get a grip on finances now. Doing food stocktake tomorrow & menu planning - they'll all have to live with it for a while!

Winchelsea

Just done my sums for April - total was £132.59 - went over by £12.59.

Oh well, try harder in May!

Welsh_Poppy

Well Finally able to log on added up all reciepts and i was over by £9.85p which is not as bad as expected BUT must try harder for May but I think the cost of food going up and tis hard we have one adult veggie junk food eater, one meat and veggie eater(hubby) and me a veggie and make mine and Hubbies food from scratch .....see you all on the May board

laurasavon

Slightly over for me at £161.85 so i'm putting the budget back to £175 from £150 for next month as I can't seem to stick to the £150

rachbc

finally declaring at £221 for the month out of £320. Very pleased