May 2011 Grocery Challenge

destroyerofdebt2011

Big thankyou's to Pink, Mrs M and Rosieben on all your hard work for yet another month.... thats bound to fly by as well as everyone else that contributes with their support both new to the forum and the not so new.

Please put me down for £65 this month as its a dog food sack month .

Ive had a similar experience penny grabber when someone mistook my monthly figure as they presumed it was weekly and then quite proudly told me for a single person i could cut back my food bill by a comfortable £20 a week when i exclaimed i dont even spend £20 a week the young girl look horrified and said i spend that alone on my lunches at work. and thats before we got to the £100 clothes budget for the year that ended on a whole debate on whether ebay or charity shops were better for getting fashion!:rotfl:

jetbag

can you put me down for £400 again this month,
we are on holiday for 1 week but our 2 grown up sons are staying home and will probably want a couple of takeaways and some easy to cook meals.

never_too_old

Morning all
could you please put me down for £300 this month, my freezer(s) (now have 2) cupboards are full so hoping for a very frugal month.

Aril

Hi
Please put me down for £250. I hope this is a realistic figure but will tweak it as the months go.
Thanks
Aril

franby64

Morning all

Had an A*da delivery yesterday which is coming out of May's budget (tweaking already) at £47.93. This is after deducting delivery, Dr Pepper and batteries in an attempt to come in under budget this month - I have never actually managed this in all my GC-ing:o!
Off to do the price guarantee now - every pound's a prisoner this month!

Hope everyone is having a good holiday weekend.

ETA -£1.98 from A*da

barneydee_2

well last month was a disaster for me failed badly:mad: did'nt keep my eye on the ball, this month I am going to update a couple of times a week as I think this will Help me as I think I will be able to see if things start to slide and pull the raines in I can see the areas where I can make savings (make sure to take packed lunches) So this month I would like to go for£400 hopfully this is more of a realistic figure to start with and then as the months go on I can tweek it until I get to a figure that I am comftable with.Well am going to go away and check my firdge/freezer/cupboards and do a meal plane

Barneydee:)

fedupandskint

After an expensive first shop of the month and some other bits bought I have just over £27 to last the rest of this GC. I'll be trying hard to come in on budget which means not taking any money to work to nip out at lunchtime, being very strict and sticking to my list when I go shopping and using up what I have in first.

Wish me luck as I embark on this challenge!

boultdj

After well and truly losing the plot last month, need to get back on track, so can I please be put down for $170 for this month.

Dharma_Bunny

I'm in for £150. 2 adults and a toddler, though DH is away for most of the month. This would be the tightest I've ever attempted to manage since my student baked bean days, but it's necessary.

Good luck everyone!

fingersxed

Hi

Just tallied my totals for apr and came inunder budget £388.00 for April. Please put me down for £450 for MAY.

My grocery budget has improved due tothe fact that our eating out budget suffered badly!!! Most get more on top of things:o