July 2010 Grocery Challenge

Zend

Hi, went over June's budget by £1. Could you please put me down for £200 this month. Hope I can do this as my cupboards are now bare and we are eating some very strange combinations:exclamati

kezlou

Welcome to all newcomers! you'll get lots of help off everyone on here
Well my OH went out and bought some processed even i told him only to buy cream and salad . He means well as i'm laid up but still makes me so :mad:.

So altogether we have spent £13.75 in milk, rubbish food and toilet roll. Need to go shopping for salad and cat food.
Really need to stick to the budget this month as the mot, tax, are due this month and i really want to pay £253 off my argos card. So very tight for us.
Well we'll see so going shopping tonight i think then that will be be it for the week i hope.

Sue14

Hi, following the success of my first month, (£17.32 under budget) I'd like to be put down for £150.00 for July, thanks!

Hugs
Sue.

Kitchenbunny

Thanks for starting the new thread. I'm looking forward to tomorrow's beginning. It feels like a new start. I've done a mealplan and worked the shopping list to that. I will only buy what we need! Anything I do manage to save from the shopping budget goes to a barbecue we're going to have for our 1st wedding anniversary in a couple of month's time.

Good to see some new faces. Best of luck with it! I know I'll need it

KB xx

purplevamp

:j New thread!!

I think I'll go with £250 this month as I went over budget in June . Good luck everyone and hello to all the newbies :A

wssla00

Hello all another NSD for me today hopefully will be one tomorrow too!

I cannot believe it is July tomorrow! How scary! Really soon it will be halloween then guy fawkes night then the C word!!!!!

In saying that though I did buy three jars of organic mince meat reduced to 25p a jar last month so they are in the cupboard ready for mince pie time, but maybe will make a nice puff pastry tart for desert one day this week.... we will see!

Hello to all new people!

Have a good day all
S
x

CupOfChai

Hello, I have now decided I am not including eating out in my grocery budget, I'd get all obsessive and start deciding I must not go out to eat at all because it will spoil my budget and this might upset boyfriend a teensy bit. But I AM including takeaways! I already tried not to have many takeaways and indeed have been having them less than I used to for a while now. Hopefully this will help me even more in thinking twice and remembering it might be better if I just cook myself something 'treaty' rather than seeing a takeaway as a weekly/fortnightly treat.

Oh, and it also occurred to me... I'm not trying to cheat or being funny, or anything, about not including toiletries or cleaning stuff? It's just they are sort of budgeted differently, without getting too detailed or personal, I don't really buy them while doing the shop.

Herbaholic

Not had time to catch up on all the posts yet, will catch up later or tomorrow, DH just got home and wants feeding so I better sort out this post and go do it. Well done to everyone that stayed on track in June (not me I'm afraid ggrrrrr) and good luck to us all for this month.

We're going on holiday for two weeks this month and food is coming out of another budget so I only have a 2 and a bit week month this month, so could you put me down for £150.00 for July Mrs M? I'll be back to my full total for August everyone!

Herby x

cw18

CupOfChai wrote: »

Oh, and it also occurred to me... I'm not trying to cheat or being funny, or anything, about not including toiletries or cleaning stuff? It's just they are sort of budgeted differently, without getting too detailed or personal, I don't really buy them while doing the shop.

It's entirely up to individuals what they do/don't include, so definitely won't be seen as cheating by anyone on here.

I don't include toiletries or cleaning products (or pet food) either, as I have seperate budgets for these.

cw18

I'm in with a budget of £106 please Mrs M


I did consider reducing it by the £35 I'm currently overspent on my 'year to date' figures, which would have brought it down to £71. But I managed to spend just £70.62 in June (which included a £16 order from App Foods that hasn't yet been touched) by meal planning from the freezers - so I'm just going to try and do the same again for another month. The biggest 'obstable' will be the fact that it's DS's birthday on 16th July, so I'll have to buy some treat stuff for that

If I still end July with a 'year to date' overspend I won't be too worried (as long as it doesn't start climbing), as I reckon I can pull back quite a bit after DS moves out in September - especially as I can then start eating up all the fish I've put into my freezer recently (he doesn't like it, but I do so I stocked up when it was on a half price offer )