April 2011 Grocery Challenge

boysma

Hi all

Well my month started on Friday (25th Mar) and already I have spent £100.71:eek: My month will end on Friday 22nd April and we are on hols for a week at the end of this (15th - 22nd) so hoping to actually come within budget this time:) Mind you DS1 is staying at home and i will have to stock up cupboards with 'easy' food for him but should still be less than a normal week. We take some food with us as we are self catering and this will come out of food budget but otherwise hoping for a cheaper month.

I will meal plan for next few weeks until we go on holiday and hopefully stick to it this time:o Good luck to everyone else and thank you to thread organisers. :A

CRANKY40

Good morning, and thank you to the organisers of this thread. I was contemplating reducing my budget this month, but given that half of April is school holidays, I don't think I will just yet.... Please will you put me down for £200 for April.

debtfreewannabe321

Morning all Well i didn't quite make it on my march target. Am aiming for 300 this month (which starts tomorrow for us) as DH is home & so is DS for Easter so this will be feeding 2 tinies, 1 DS who eats more than me! & two adults....only a 4 week month so hoping i can pull it in

Thanks for doing these challenges it really helps to keep me on track x

TheThriftyScrumpers

Thank you for the reminder about Superscrimpers Rosieben I am really looking forward to watching this!

Please can I be put down for £440 for April. Thank you. This is what I spent in March and I know April is one week shorter but we have inlaws staying over easter and school hols.

Good Luck Everyone !!

lovebargainshatewaste

Hi everyone,

I've not done a GC before, so thought I'd join in. I'm on my porta-gadget just now, so apologies if I can't do the number in red. Thank you to the lovely ladies who set the thread up.

I'm not sure how much/little to put down, so I'll go for a round number:
£100.

Thank you.

jumblejack

HI all, Just saw that S are offering a 5p off a litre wys £50 instore or online until 12th April! Hope it helps folk!

jetbag

Hi everyone

This is my first GC I don't normally keep track of my spending so I think I will start with £400 for April.
there are 4 of us, me, DH, DS1 24 and DS2 20 plus cat and 2 dogs.
this budget is for food, toiletries, cleaning products and cat food. Dogs are on a seperate budget as they eat raw, mostly chicken carcusses and mince, although they do eat some of the fruit and veg.

RhiBi

Right, I'm getting into this challenge now! I've downloaded an app on my phone called spendometer. I've set it at £500, so every time I do my food shopping I can put it into the app straight away! So far I've spent £14.04!

sistercas

meal plan done for the next 7 days
formulated my shopping lists for Mr t and sainsbugs
not going till friday though , hope the offers are still on
will need a c0stco shop for some baking things

chocolateteddy

Haven't done the Grocery Challenge for a while now (probably a couple of years!!) but have popped in from time to time to read a few bits and we want to go back to Disneyworld so all the savings I can make will mean it is one step closer, With my food bill steadily increasing, not entirely my fault prices keep going up by more than a penny a time!!! so thought I'd try to control it even more than I do normally. Month started on monday so a 5 week month so please put me down for £350 please as a starting point and I'll revise next month when I see how I do. Thanks and I look forward to saving loads!!