June 2010 Grocery Challenge

monks

Declaring at £249.14 fo June. Just made it by 86p! please could you put me down for £250 again for July thanks.find it helps to update signiture each time spend ,helps me keep close eye on where i am at all times.Have dd birthday party to cater for and start of school holidays so may be tight! good luck all.

Sue14

I made it! Declaring £142.68 for June, out of a budget of £160, for my first month in the challenge!

Sue.

purplevamp

Spent another £7.61 today on more fruit from Ald! and some wraps, pringles and naughty chocolate from MrT :eek:

So I am declaring June a total washout at £332.98 ~ £32.98 over budget.

Mrs M ~ please could you put me down for £250 for July, I need to rein the spending in a bit!

cw18

Started the month with a budget of £102

I've physically spent £70.62 during June - so well under budget doing my maths the 'easy' way (and this is the figure I'm declaring for the challenge)

But I'm also (on my personal spreadsheet) reducing my monthly budget by anything I use that I'd purchased before 01/01/2010 - so £4 to be knocked off my monthly budget (meaning a £70.62 spend from a £98 budget)

Things still look OK having done that, until I look at my first 6 months as a complete picture.

Budget to end of June was £622
I've then used £77 worth of goods from my stock-pile, which brings my budget down to £545
And by the end of June I've managed to physically spend £580.37

So my spreadsheet is showing a 'year to date' overspend of £35.37 :eek:
However that a lot better than at the end of May, when this overspend figure was £62.75 :mad:

Still not too worried though, as I have loads of meat and fish in the freezer (enough to year end, though I'll still be buying small amounts to have something 'different' from time-to-time), and have just stockpiled on pasta sauces from App Foods (probably enough to last until Nov or later).

I also have quite a bit of bread in the freezer - which I plan to use with a veangance in July, as I need to make space for the pasta sauces and the soup I got in the same delivery - and loads of tins and packets in the cupboards. I desperately need to increase how much fruit I eat, but have given up counting how many tins (in juice) I have so am going to start working my way through those before I start buying fresh (though the original cost of these will all be deducted from my budget, as I've not bought any of them in the last 6 months )



Off to decide what to set my July target as - dithered over it yesterday evening, and still haven't come to a final decision !!

Herbaholic

Declaring £278.86 for June, really annoyed as well, it was the extra cat food on offer that did it, only £3.86 over but it's still annoying as I wanted so much to keep within budget :mad:

We go and start my total for July now, Thanks Mrs M and everyone for running the thread, I shudder to think how much I would have spent if we'd not been keeping an eye on things, the thing I managed 22 NSD's so I thought we'd do it, not sure that doing the big shops and stocking up on things is the right way to go, will have to rethink this after our holidays.

Herby x

albacookie

Another £11.53 so total for this month is £87.13 :j

Can I have £100 again for July, thanks.

Botany

Declaring for June:

£246.43

that's £13.57 under budget. Nice!

July is a 31-day month (I calculate my budgets on number of days) so I'd like to try for:

£270 for July.

:j

kate1979

Declaring £275.62 for June, so way over my £200 limit :-(. I have pinpointed where it went wrong (too many trips to the shops for little things), so hopefully will do better next month. I'm going to start doing smaller 'list' shops rather than one big shop thats intended to last for two-three weeks but then gets supplemented every time I pop out for milk and so on. If that makes sense!

So, £200 again for July please.

Courgette

will sneak in quietly behind Kate, hoping nobody notices...

Target was £200, declaring £279.32 :o BUT is a nearly 20% reduction on May so can't be too annoyed. Need to have a think about where I went wrong though.

Will go for the same target for July though, will pop across in a mo

katenut

Declaring at £143.72 for June - just scraped in there!! The cupboards are bare though and the freezer only has bread, next month is going to be a struggle. Hopefully the garden will start producing more veggies to help keep the spends down