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June 2011 Grocery Challenge

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  • Trinny
    Trinny Posts: 625 Forumite
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    Hi Pink

    Can i reduce target to £50 this month

    Thanks

    Trin
    "Not everything that COUNTS can be counted; and not everything that can be counted COUNTS"
    GC - May £39.47/£55. June £47.20/£50. July £38.44/£50
    NSD - May 16/17. June 16/17. July 14/17
    No new toiletries til stash used up challenge - start date 01/2010 - still going!
    £2 Savers Club member No 93 - getting ready for Christmas 2011:)
  • Long_tall_sally
    Long_tall_sally Posts: 1,086 Forumite
    I've done it again - started the month badly spending way too much, hoping it will all even out in the end even though I know it very rarely does! Why, why, why?!
    Grocery aim £450pm.Spent £519 August, £584 July, £544 June, £541 May, £549 April, £517 March, £517 Feb,£555 Jan, £573 Dec, £465Nov, £561Oct, £493Sept, £426Aug,£496 Jul, £528Jun, £506May,£498April, £558 March, £500Feb, £500 Jan, £490 Dec, £555 Nov,£566 Oct, £505Sept, £450Aug, £410 July, £437 June, £491 May, £471 April, £440 March, £552Feb, £462Jan
  • Living_proof
    Living_proof Posts: 1,923 Forumite
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    Thank you all for organising us! I have already spent over a third of what I have budgeted for this month, but I do have a quite ridiculous amount of food in freezers and larder. I should be away for three weeks at the end of the month so I really can curtail all purchases except fresh milk and veg. Heavens, I won't know what to do with myself - I actually enjoy shopping for food. It's the challenge of getting the best value I think, though it would doubtless have been a complete bore when the family was young. All the SMs now seem to be loss-leading with fruit and vegetables so there's no excuse for not getting your five a day.

    Off to make some very MS chicken stock with leftovers!
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  • becky170
    becky170 Posts: 879 Forumite
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    edited 30 May 2011 at 7:35PM
    Hey everyone, it's a while since I've taken part in the grocery challenge as I was busy moving and starting a new job. I'm now settled, so thought I should start budgeting and saving again, otherwise I'll never get a house deposit together. Will you put me down for £130 please? Thanks x
    Mortgage-free wannabe 2025 £571/3000
  • espresso21
    espresso21 Posts: 196 Forumite
    Hi Linz, and welcome!
    I agree with whoever said earlier that Costco has good meat. I find I waste less as there isn't so much fat and sinew.
  • CherryPie
    CherryPie Posts: 429 Forumite
    Not a great start and we're not even in June yet!! £57.40 spent already. Did stock up on few things in T£sco today, so it should just be fresh stuff to get during the month.

    I do include everything in my grocery budget like toiletries, make up etc. So I'm not worried that I've spent so much already. On hols from work after Sat for a week, so will do lots of batch cooking and fill up the freezer.

    Also gonna do some chutney I think, I actually find cooking quite relaxing. (Says someone who only has herself to look after!!)


    Good luck for June everyone

    :beer:
    My name is CherryPie and I'm addicted to grocery shopping!!



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  • Good evening everyone,
    well at last the rain stopped. I spent about an hour in garden and did manage to plant some bedding.

    Making lentil soup tonight with the stock from boiled ham. So will take some to work in flask for lunch tomorrow.
    It takes a long time to eat an elephant and I'm doing it a bite at a time!!!
  • angela30
    angela30 Posts: 57 Forumite
    hellos can i join this month, ive fullen off the wagon the past few months and have been spending way over my budget, so im going to go back to my old way budgeting as in doing all the shopping myself meal plans on my own and making sure i do most of the cooking too, have found it just too easy to let hubby do the shopping, have learned that lession wont be doing it again lol.
    so budget its £180 thats for 2 adults, 2 teens and 1 under 10, and 3 cats, its alittle over what i used to spend but as the price of food as gone up i thought i would give myself a little over this month, lol
    anyways good luck everyone, hope you all keep on budget and hav a great month,
  • calleyw
    calleyw Posts: 9,896 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper I've been Money Tipped!
    Got paid early for may :j

    So I took out my £100 in cash today.

    Anyway I have spent £4.45 today. As Mr T's has 500g of bite size shredded wheat for 99p instead of £2.68 for 750g. So getting 1Kg for £1.98 :eek:dated in september this year.

    Offer ends tomorrow. Also they have shreddies on bogof so £2.10 for 1kg instead of £3.39 for a kilo box:eek:

    Also bought a loaf of reduced bread.

    Will need to go to the big Mr T's in the morning on the way to work. To get a few packets to tide us over. So will be spending again tomorrow. As we only have a little Mr T's so don't have everything on offer.

    Yours

    Calley
    Hope for everything and expect nothing!!!

    Good enough is almost always good enough -Prof Barry Schwartz

    If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try -Seth Godin
  • helen_jelly
    helen_jelly Posts: 2,982 Forumite
    Hello

    Welcome to all the new people joining - ask lots of questions cos there are lots of lovely clever people on here who will help out and don't forget to check out all the recipes on page 1 that Rosieben does for us all

    Thank you to MrsM, Rosieben and Pink for the new thread

    Spend so far is £11 - how I wish that is was going to stay at £11

    Good luck with your budgets and remember we don't fail, we look, learn and move on

    Helen x
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