October 2010 Grocery Challenge

jintyb

Hi there - can you please put me down for £200 for November?

Cheers!

monks

Declaring at a whole 35p under!!!!!:D. PLEASE COULD YOU PUT ME DOWN FOR £200 AGAIN FOR NOV MANY THANKS.

missfit_2

Hi

Sounds like just what I need. Have been tracking my spend the last month and I'm almost at £200 - for one person and the month isn't over yet.

Can you put me down for £150 in November please.

Will work out how to do the footer by the end of the month.

Thanks

skilly

hi all,can i be put down for nov £300.00please hope to use more stuff from my freezers this time ,that is what i am going to keep telling myself !!!.;)

Spiggle

cw18 wrote: »

But some of us are (un)lucky enough to have a job in a SM, which means that we walk past the Whoopsie sections on our way to work - and on our way home - without having to make a detour, never mind a special trip

This made me laugh Cheryl, I was thinking of editing to say that this would not apply to those who work in them!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I know that you almost exclusively shop from whoopsies and are very very organised about how you record and analyse those spends. There are definitely a couple of others on here who also work in the sm. Sorry for offence to anyone.

Well done to all of you coming in or around budget. :T:T:T It does seem to have been a long month and I fear November will be longer! Well actually the same with five weekends in it pay date wise. But it does seem to have dragged this month.

And once the clocks change at the weekend I will be totally scr*wed for a couple of weeks. My body and brain react very negatively to the clock changes both in spring and autumn. I'll have a couple of weeks of disrupted sleep, being a moody so and so and generally being out of sorts. Ah well.

I've gone and got myself confused as to whether my pay day is the end of one month or the start of another! How do you deal with it?

All the best,
Spigs

Hippeechiq

MRSMCAWBER could you please put Hippeechiq at £275 for November please and thank you

I'm not reducing my figure because I'm more than happy if I can come in at that every month. If I repeatedly come in lower, then I many consider it, but that's highly unlikely with the price of food rocketing and the VAT increase looming in January

Spends today on veggies and more pizzas that are on offer for SS - total spend of £10.07. My total for Oct now stands at £253.84 leaving me with £21.16. If I only buy the bread, milk and yoghurt I need, I wouldn't need to spend all of that, but I only have one tin of baked beans left, and one and a bit blocks of cheese, so I really think I many have to buy the beans and cheese on offer at £idls tomorrow....if the offer is still on tomorrow that is, as it would be false economy not to.

Off to update siggy...

Diflower

So I didn't go to L1dl or MrS. I had to go into town to post cheque, so wanted to go to MrT express, but couldn't park there. Can't carry bag of potatoes, and bread flour, and block of cheese, so will have to call in with OH when I collect him from the train later.

Anyways, went to M$S 'just for a look' (actually to see if they had the only bra I wanted to buy but they didn't).
They have 3 for £10 on all sorts of meat. My Dad's coming for the wkend in Nov to give my s/mother a break and we will want a roast. Haven't any joints in the freezer.
Found a half-shoulder of lamb priced at £5.94 (1kg), then a gammon joint (800g) and a big pack of 20 sausages (78%pork, 1.1kg) - all for £10:)

So will have the lamb for Dad, the gammon will do probably a week's sandwiches or a meal plus some, and all those lovely sausages, could have some of those for sarnies too. Seems to me a really good deal.
We don't have any cheapo-bargain shops so this is as good as it gets for us:)

TizerCat

OK am going to take a risk and decare today at £111.30 as I am not going to buy anything else before payday friday. I must be able to manage not to buy food for 2 days!

so managed to stay under my guessed first budget :beer:. But after reading some of the the other budgets on here I realise it is still a lot for only for 1 person and 1 very small dog especially as I get veggies from the allotment still! So I feel some cutbacks can be made and my November Grocery challenge is going to be £25 per week or £100 for the month.

schrodie

I'm new to all this money saving activity and in the past budgets haven't been a necessity however now that they have become one I'm going to tentatively put our November grocery budget at £60 per week. However looking at what some "old hands" here manage that may seem a fortune but how they manage such low amounts is short of miraculous to me!!

We've got a full freezer and our cupboard is fairly full of tins of various things so hopefully we'll only have to get essentials like milk and the odd bit of meat and salad stuff during November.

WelshWoofer

Hello all!
As my month runs from pay day to pay day on the 15th I think that setting a weekly budget of £45 will be easier to cope with here and an overall monthly budget of £180 (for a 4 week shopping month).

We do have quite a bit in the freezer and cupboards but need to buy food for packed lunches and fresh stuff. I'm finding it harder and harder to make £45 a week work for us (2 adults and a dog) but I'll persevere for a few more weeks to see if I really can do it or whether the whole household budget needs rejigging.
My shopping budget includes all food and non alcoholic drinks, cleaning and laundry stuff, dog food and toiletries.

So Mrs M could you put me down for £45 a week please?