February 2011 Grocery Challenge

TRYINGTOSWIM

I am saving the receipts this month in order to come up with a total,ready to shave some off and join march challenge. numbers look ridiculously high so far,just have to reduce this total spend

Missus_Aka

am on £134.73 for the month...no more spending for me have lots in though next, have got some chicken sausages and pitta breads in for lunches so all good for the month.

muffin_man_7

thanks mothership for pm tried to reply with pm but keeps dissapearing so hope this works

many thanks for taking the time to explain your system it is something im going to start doing from march as i said before i had a similar system but instead of the 3 purses i would just keep topping up the store cupboard as and when i could but with your system when you get enough to fill 3rd purse it can be used for what ever is needed at that time unlike my stock so again many thanks will be needing to try to reduce food shop as its the only thing left ive reduced everything else that i can for now more will go soon as i can will try to keep track at bottom of my posts if i remember my memory terrible lately

Mothership

Hippeechiq wrote: »

Well done on your NSD LondonDreamer :T


Ahhhhh - a girl after my own heart

By the way - I was chatting to my 78year old Dad on the phone today, and he informs me that if you turn your eggs upside down when you buy them, and turn them every few days thereafter - it helps your eggs stay fresher for longer. Is that common knowledge, and I'm the last to know? Or is it news to anyone else too?

Rotflmao! I've been doing that for years and didn't know why LOL, my granny used to do it but I don't remember if she told me why he he, another mystery cleared up. The things you learn on this board:T:T

sistercas

hippeechiq ive never heard of the egg thing m but will try it from now on

went to a local food discount shop and spent far too much and i spent in l!dl too , will check my receipts later and post it up , hopefully it will be my last of the month except for milk and bread

Spiggle

fingersxed wrote: »

Hi Everybody

Currently within budget. Did a mean shop yesterday. Hoping to be v gd next week - just so as i stay in budget?!? Filled in my spreadsheet and got my figures, but then i hit on problem!!!

HELP!!!! - Tried to update my sig yesterday and 2day but it keeps giving me this meassage 'BB code size value is too big'. All i am trying to do is change my grocery challenge figures. I did try deleting some of my sig and reducing size of font on groc chal but it still won't let me. HELP would be much appreciated

fingersxed wrote: »

Martafdz thanks for ur help. Can't understand why this as happened. normally just click on edit sig n change figure i spent. Tried ur advice n still no difference. Anyway deleted all sig and re done. and as long as don't use a bigger font its lettin me change it. I used a bigger font on Jan and up until this weekend but now it won't let me? Puzzling. Thanks for ur help though. Much Appreciated

Hi fingers,

The limit isn't only on font size and number of characters, it's also on number of lines. I think 6 lines is the maximum so try taking out any extra line spaces you may have put in.

HTH,
Spigs

funnyflipp

It's all gone horribly wrong but I suppose that's why I came on here to work out where and why !
Will be back to post when I have added up the damage

nessie216

Morning All,

Gave up with Feb GC in the end! As i knew i had gone over, but i had spare money in my account so done a AF order! My first one!

I must say they are fantastic - got the £1 lucky box & free UHT milk - DH has enough pack-up for about 2 months! And i have enough cannelini beans to cause some serious bottom damage! :rotfl: Sorry TMI!

I will total my Feb GC shortly but i would like to do £150 for March Please (21st Mar - 21stApr)

Jolaaled

muffin_man_7 wrote: »

thanks mothership for pm tried to reply with pm but keeps dissapearing so hope this works

many thanks for taking the time to explain your system it is something im going to start doing from march as i said before i had a similar system but instead of the 3 purses i would just keep topping up the store cupboard as and when i could but with your system when you get enough to fill 3rd purse it can be used for what ever is needed at that time unlike my stock so again many thanks will be needing to try to reduce food shop as its the only thing left ive reduced everything else that i can for now more will go soon as i can will try to keep track at bottom of my posts if i remember my memory terrible lately

Thanks to Mothership and the '2nd Purse' idea.

This month, I have been trying out my own 'take' on the 2nd purse idea and so far, it's working well. Here's what I'm doing:

I have my main purse with my one-week cash allowance (groceries). However, if I see short-term bargains/bogofs etc on my trip round the supermarket, then I will buy about 1-2 month's stock of this item, using my credit card. I will only buy bargains, where they are my usual store cupboard goods..NO TREATS! I am very disciplined tho!
Back home, I keep a tally of my BOGOF credit card spends on a spreadsheet and add up the total. This total is the amount that I must pay into my 2nd purse.
When I can, I put cash from my main purse into a 2nd purse to pay for these credit card spends.
Initially, of course, I owed 2nd purse loads, but bit by bit, have have got this 2nd purse debt down quite a bit.
Next month, when I get my main purse cash allowance out of the bank, I will use the cash in my 2nd purse to contribute to this, so leaving more money in the Bank to pay my credit card bill.
Works for me so far!

Hope this makes some sort of sense and is helpful to someone!
THANKS to MOTHERSHIP for giving me the 2nd purse idea.

modern_millie_2

Well, I'm going to be over again this month, probably by about £15 - must read back about 2nd purse idea as part of my overspend is stocking up. Think I will have to up the monthly budget from £150 to £165 though, and see how I go.