August 2011 Grocery Challenge

helen_jelly

Hi all

Just catching up with the thread

Could you put me down for £275 again this month please

Loooonnng month is August!!!

Thank you to Zip, MrsM and the lovely Rosieben for all your hard work - MrsM - hope all is ok with you

Right, off to do some reading now

Helen x

CherryPie

Welcome JackieRHE Well done for joining :T You'll soon figure out what is your normal spend, but just remember we all count different things in our budget so try not to compare with other people in your situation.

I've done my big shop for the month which at £45.03 is over half my budget. :eek:

But I'm not worried. I did indulge in 6 tapas dishes for £10 from T3sco. Just had king prawns in a chilli butter & veggie paella and it was worth it! I'm working on defrosting the freezer this week so it'll be a week of interesting dinners!!

Chloris

russetred wrote: »

Chloris quote "I have spent the morning making bread, sage and cheese star biscuits and squashed fly biscuits".

I wonder are these like our "fly cemetery cakes" 2 pieces of pastry with a condensed version of mincemeat in the middle.

Yes! Except I use finely chopped raisins, spread on some butter and sprinkle on some sugar sandwiched between pastry, brush with butter and sprinkled with sugar. Chop into small rectangles.

franby64

Evening

Please could you put me down for another £450 for August please.
This will not include takeaways or treats (fizzy mainly) so may have a fighting chance!
Good luck for August everybody and many thanks to Zippychick, Mrs M and Rosieben for running the thread.

69chick

Hi all, I love this time of the month as there is so much activity and 2 threads to read

Have updated sig and it has shocked me that I have spent nearly £100 since Friday :eek: That is £17 on a KFC for us all, My cost towards a family barbecue birthday celebration and then £37 in A$da and £23 odd in A?di... Was really pleased with my aldi stuff today and could probably have done the whole shop there but had promised dd's that I would pick up a dvd for them in Asda, gawd knows how I spent so much in there! although I am having to get the kids lunch stuff which I don't usually..

also, please whoever kindly updates the GC figures,could you please change me from £300 to £360.00 for August as I am allowing more for the lunch stuff...sorry if I posted it wrong initially...

off to work out my percentage spends/month gone (If I can get my brain to work) and to catch up on all the posts x

Cleosmum

I totally lost the plot half way through July

Its a new grocery month tomorrow so just drawing a line under it. No idea if I overspent as I just stopped counting. Could you put me down for £300 in August - thats for 2 adults, 3 kids, various pets, household & cleaning stuffs and allows for our week away near the end of aug (Bed, breakfast and dinner already paid up). Hoping to get everyone to eat a big breakfast and avoid buying lunches

WelshWoofer

Well, I need to readjust my budgeting as OH and I have separated (amicably) and now there's just me and the dog to cater for.
I'm not sure how much to allow really - I know the dog stuff costs about £5 a week and I need to think about all food, toiletries, laundry and cleaning stuff for me.

I'm guessing about £25 a week will be ok plus £5 for the dog making a total of £30 a week.

I don't really need much this week just some extra dog food, fruit, beans, squash, peas and milk so I'm hoping that £10-15 will do it? Who knows!

I'm off to meal plan for the week to get me to Saturday spending as little as possible.

Can I be put down for £30 a week please?

TheBees

After overspending by about £80 in July :mad: TheBees are back on track and ready to face the new August challenge. We've upped our budget to £400 due to the general increase in food prices but as it's the school holidays we may save some money as we're not having to make packed lunches every day. We'll see.....

Today I watered the school vegetable garden and picked about 10 courgettes and a pound of tomatoes. Tonight I've made my first ever tomato sauce for pasta by simmering the tomatoes with garlic, sugar, white wine vinegar, basil and water following a recipe from the 2nd Dinner Lady cookbook. We'll have that later in the week with sausages and pasta....

Anyway - good luck everyone.

Natty68

Hi everyone,

Can I be put down for £300 in August please, am including DH's spend on the weekly shopping as well as my contribution to the food.

I am going to be really strict this month as I need to have spends for our holiday in September..lol

losingpatience

Could I join in please

I'd like to aim for £220 for August please. This is for 2 adults and 6 guinea pigs and includes all food, toiletries and fresh food for the piggies. I'm aiming to be able to drop this to £200 for September so I'm hoping to get as close to £200 as possible this month. Though I've already spent £25 on alcohol alone Had an order delivered from Mr T tonight. Don't tend to shop online much anymore but got sent a £10 off if I spent £50 voucher so thought I may as well. So that came to £45.14 bringing total spends of the month so far to £70.14 :eek:

I don't even have much in either as for the last week we've been eating out of the freezer so I already think August is going to be a tough month