August 2011 Grocery Challenge

rosieben

:wave: hello and welcome to all our newbies, its great to see so many new faces here. Good luck with your challenge

starflower_2

Hi, can you please put me down for £270 for August. This is for 2 adults and 3 kids. This includes all food, toiletries & cleaning products.

Thanks

princesst84

Hi, i would like to join please. I currently spend way too much judging by how much other people spend as there is only 2 of us! I am going for £200 this month please, which is still alot compared to what others spend but I will see how I go, i feel comfortable at this level. I need to start planning meals, stop wasting food and actually cook food from scratch rather than buying expensive ready meals...wish me luck

highland_fling_2

Good morning everyone,

please put Highland Fling down for £120 for August GC.

Really want to stick to challenge this month as I am trying to grow my savings and they are not growing fast enough.

Have nearly filled terramundi pot with £1 coins. This is for Christmas presents so that I don't have to dip in to bank account.
Have also started a piggy bank for Christmas food budget. To buy all the little treats that appear at Christmas. So I am planning ahead.

Having lamb chops for dinner today, whoopsies from M$S. Also allotment potatoes and veg, gifted from my brother.

Good luck everyone with your August GC.

mijm0t77

good morning everyone,

can i join please? I haven't been on here for ages and as a result am again spending far to much on shopping, in fact, right now i have no idea how much i have been spending (not good, i know). think its about time i got back in control!

Can you put me down for £300 for all groceries , cleaning products etc. this is for 3 adults two children and 2 cats.

I think i will have a read through some of the yummy recipes on this thread. Also can anyone point me in the right direction for Gluten/wheat free recipes and shopping ideas. thanks! xx

also need to update my signiture as it is out of date (luckily, even though i have been really rubbish so far this year, the debt has actually gone down!!!) :j

hedgesparrow

Can I join please. Fell off the wagon this year so not certain what my food spends have been. I used to budget for £100 a month so will try that for August. Food and cleaning stuff for 2 adults. (We buy toiletries out of our own money).

Should be totally doable as I have a freezer full of venison and an allotment with some veg - lots of onions at the moment.

goobergirl

Hi, i'm a newbie here too but in my 2nd month of proper budgeting & meal planning. We are a family of five. Kids aged, 11, 10 & 5.

Can I be put down for £300.00, thanks.

I am in process of making inventory of my freezer and larder cupboard and although I have just spent £72.84 this morning, I managed to get loads of 'store cupboard essentials' and a good few packs of reduced meat etc for rest of month, so following weeks should be much lower than this one.

I did splurge on a large joint of brisket as kids love roast beef and we haven't had it for ages. There should be enough for a Sunday lunch and a couple of days lunch sandwiches too. I also got 8 x tins of chopped tomatoes reduced to 19p each in my local Co-op, so I will make another big batch of tomato sauce later in month.

HM bread making also continuing, which is a big saving.

I will update my signature to show i'm in the GC too so currently

£72.84 / £300.00:beer:

cleggie

please put me down for £150 for august- thanks!

Aril

Please put me down for £235 for August....now I am not working should have more time for finding whoopsies and am going to continue to run down the freezer.

Thanks for all the great support and to the lovely peeps who run the thread!
Arilx

annem38

hi all, well stick me down for

£200 for a 4.5 week month, will be tough but going away at end of month so should make me use everything up and no stoopid buying (but we shall see!!) , also only had 6 NSD's last month so hoping to increase that, starting with today!

now what shall i do with all this extra time not whtat i dont go to the shops every 5 mins???

anne