September 2010 Grocery Challenge

franby64

Afternoon.
Please could you put me down for £400 again for October Mrs M.

Just updating - I'm now £12.39 over and I shall probably need another couple of bits locally before Friday.

I've started SW again so my fruit buying has gone up :eek: and I've run stuff down a bit in Sept so I think I'm going to have to be careful in Oct.

Now I just need to sit down and force myself to write a meal plan for the 1st 10 days .

goodlife_wannabes

dazzle21 wrote: »

Ok so we still have cash in our GC tin, even though we treated ourselves on Sunday to fish and chips (one portion between 2adults 1 toddler! princely sum of £4.30) and last night we had a takeaway pizza as DS was poorly and by the time he had settled in bed I gave in to my craving for a greasy pizza... feel bad as £14 would have bought alot in 'real' food..think I may add some pizza's to the shopping list so we can still 'treat' ourselves without spending £££.
Have yet to add up our exact spend, but we're only using money from the tin so when it is gone it is GONE! Have a vast stock of nappies and washing/cleaning/loo rolls! Which is good, although with the weather getting colder it just makes me want to squirrel away even more!! Not sure whether to head to supermarket today, trying to resist the urge as we have alot of food in the freezer, but does anyone else find themselves drawn to the supermarket when the weather is cold?!!

I love this idea, I religiously keep recipts but DH is terrible a GC tin for OCT it is for me thanks :beer:

goodlife_wannabes

Please can you put me down for £200 again for Oct total for SEP is £161.00

Sunnyday

Hi Peeps,

just finished totting up and my totals for September are £191.75 for our food and £42.18 for the pets so i`ll declare those now please MrsM as i won`t get a chance to shop now until next months challenge has begun.
:j Woohoo, i`m so pleased with this Thats £8.25 under for us and £17.82 left over from the pets. This will be added to my mortgage overpayment pot. I`m off to check my budget for next month before i post.

Good luck everyone.

SD

Hippeechiq

boultdj wrote: »

Cheese is on offer at Mr.M's if there's one near you it's a bogof deal $3.95/9 and they are 400g pack's if that's any help. Also anyone needing tin's of choc's for the C-word $4.75 a tin at Mr.M's.

Thanks for that boultdj but the nearest Mr M's to me is like 30 miles away unfortunately.

Don't know where my head was yesterday, as the £1.74 cheese is still showing as being on offer on £idl's website, so I decided to walk there this avo and get some more, only to find they'd sold out! It's a 1½ mile round trip too!

Oh well, I'll have burnt some calories off in readiness to eat some of the zillion calorie per portion Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding I've made

Bought some of £idl's Non Bio Formil washing liquid as I'm nearly out, and I wasn't going to walk all that way for nothing! Also bought some Flora, Milk and Ice Cream, so a total spend of £5.58 today

Brings me up to £262.54, so I've got £12.46 left. Despite the best will in the world, I think I'm going to have to get bread before then (I buy the 2 for £1.50 offer in Icel@nd) and possibly another 2L if not 4 of milk.

IF I only buy 4L of milk and 2 loaves, I'm going to come in on budget for the first time.............but I mustn't get ahead of myself - a lot can happen in 2 days

jackie_w

Well had to go to FF today for bread, milk and cold meat for lunches, so spent another £4.50.

I could have made bread, but DS#1 complains that you cant toast it:mad:, and its too dry for sandwiches even with loads of butter/marg!!!


For September, im declaring £323.55

My new month starts tomorrow, and I am determined to come under budget, and increase my NSD's. Im rally annoyed at myself, because I should be ale to do this. If only I could bake, i think that would help a big bit because my lot are always eating the biscuits, crisps and sweets that I buy for lunches and the odd snack, so I end up spending a fortune on them alone.

Oh well, sorry to sound so down, will try better for next month.

laloopi

Another £4.10 spend today, £1.65 of which was on about 5 pieces of yummy milk chocolate fudge. That included a 25p charge for paying on credit card!! That's the most extravagant I've been all month.

sparkleisshopping

I'm really pleased with how we did this month -

Total spend is £155.04 against a budget of £250!

I am going to try for £230 for October but I'll post that over in the October thread. Thank you to everyone here for all the help and support - still can't believe that we have spent so little when a few years ago we could go to the supermarket and probably spend £150 on a week's worth of shopping!

hex2

Craftyscholar wrote: »

Do you count in toiletries?
Do you count in meals/coffees when you are out?

:wave:Crafty

I include toiletries, cleaning, pet food, etc but not fags n alcohol as they are mostly out of my control :cool:. I don't include meals out. personal choice really, originally I was just conscious that I was spending a ludicrous amount in supermarkets (c£700 a month) and that we still didn't eat very well.

I mentioned that I had found a Leics based butcher (http://www.joseph-morris.co.uk/ then click on freezer prices) who sell bulk freezer meats at a good price, I realised yesterday that they supply the meat at my local farm shop so I know they do good quality mince, etc. Stewing beef 10lbs at a time is a third cheaper than buying it in dribs and drabs from the farm shop. I have over £100 left from this months budget which I think I will invest in meat for the freezer which is emptyish.

scotsaver

MRSMC - please put me down at £259.85 for Sept. Gone over but not too much. Please put me down for £250 again for October. Thanks.

I can sympathise with those that have gone over, going to sort out a meal plan tonight and try to stay on Budget for October - good luck to those still to declare.