May 2011 Grocery Challenge

highland_fling_2

Good evening everyone,
trying to catch up on reading posts but don't think I can read them all.
Mrs. Mc could you please put Highland Fling down for £120 for June GC.
Thanks.

cat_smith

MrsMc Can I go for £200 again. For the first time it will actually be for a complete month so will see how I do. Freezer is full so that will help.

Will declare for May on Tues. Although shouldn't need to buy in any more.

quintwins

evening all, we went to a fair this morning and i was very good all i spent was £3 on some strawberrys even tho they had lots of yummy food, i packets cookies, crisps, bananas and juive for the kids so was a nice cheap day out, all i need to get this week now is milk

Mothership

espresso21 wrote: »

By the way, I have to thank someone but can't remember who! Someone has in their signature the words 'every pound's a prisoner'. For some reason this caught my eye and made me think and I am now trying a new system where every time I get a pound coin I am not allowed to spend it - it goes straight in a little pot for savings which I thought I might use for little treats that I wouldn't normally be able to afford or for emergencies. I now find myself wanting to get £1 coins in change! So thank you to whoever has that in their siggie!

I like that idea! I'm away to round up the usual suspects and imprison them in a jar LOL.

espresso21

Mmmm strawberries, I could do with those right now!

I'm so happy to have discovered this thread. I am really stressed about money - thinking about it seems to take about most of my time right now - but I might just manage to make it with you lot to advise and inspire! I'm just so angry with myself - this time last year I had a well-paying job. Then my mum got really ill and various other personal things happened which really knocked me and I was battling to handle stuff, so I changed my job to part-time without really thinking through the consequences. I later discovered that being pt meant that my company could decrease my hours by 25% so now I am about to be on half of what I used to earn and I really don't know how I am going to get through. To think that I put myself in this position by my own choice....I just can't forgive myself for being so stupid!

Sunnyday

Morning gang :wave:

i`ve not tallied up all my receipts yet but i`m definitely going to be over

I had lots of coupons that were at risk of going out of date and didn`t want to waste them so i went shopping when i didn`t need to.

It will be a saving overall so i`m not concerned.

Another thing that i need to do is look at my dates as i`m not sure whether or not my June challenge should have started or not :eek: hope so really or i`m well over :rotfl: I also need to work out Junes budget as this needs to include some nights out with friends which would have come out of the entertainment budget but as we wern`t using it and i had too many budgets i scrapped that one and lumped everything into the GC

Never mind - i know what i`m doing even if no one else does and at the end of the day if it saves money then it can only be good

All my receipts are spread around the house so i shall go and collect them all together now and work everything out later.

Have good days peeps.

SD

CRANKY40

£35.99 spend for me this week. Declaring my total for May as£163.19. I am definitely going down to £40 a week for June I think.

guccigoo

Mrs McCawber can you put me down for £260 again pls. See you all on the June thread

Fisyear

I haven't posted much on this thread but I have been keeping up with this months grocery challenge and have spent a total of £280.26,this is my final figure for May, not too bad considering it was my first month. I would like to stick with £250 again for the June challenge.

69chick

updated sig with a small spend of £2 today...nipped into poundland as ds wanted to spend his own money on rubbish in there after we had been to the cheapy kids am thing at the flicks ...I never manage to come out of there without spending something although only bought a heinz ketchup and a pack of 3 tolerones

hoping for a nsd tomorrow on groceries, today we are on pork chops which we are baking in the oven with potatoes leeks and cider,which I will serve with peas and maybe carrots...


Tomorrow is going to be chilli I think...

Hope you are all enjoying your bank holiday weekend