August 2011 Grocery Challenge

quintwins

morning all nsd today i have lots to do in the house so will not be going out il it's done (which means i'll prob be here all day)

i went to bed just after a posted last night and my lovely hubby put the kids to bed then woke me up with pizza chips and garlic bread all from the freezer i was impressed he didn't go get chinese or chippy he's learning, not sure what to have for tea tonight i need to go dig in the freezer, my spending for august should be all done, fingers crossed

millionaire_in_training

hi folks. Not been posting but still trying. I will declare at £253.93 which is way over the £200 I had set budget for. Not too upset though as kids were off of school for most of thisperiod so I reckon I have done well all things considered.

I will budget £350 for September.

meg72

last shop of month yesterday.spent £15 on Asda whoopsies,longlife milk and reduced bread in Wilkinsons.Am now well stocked for September.

Declaring at £49.40. So very pleased A big thank you to all on this thread. I am so glad I joined in
and would like to do the same for Setember.

Please put me down for £50 again for September

losingpatience

I don't think I'm going to be spending anything else before payday now. Got enough in for meals and piggies for the next 2 days, and we're down Birmingham tomorrow for H2B's treatment which means we'll be out for 12 hours so no time to shop then!

So declaring at £215.41 for August, £4.59 under budget :j
So pleased I managed to stick to a budget, especially after spending so much of it so early on in the month. Admittidely the fridge is pretty bare now but I still have 4 meals in the freezer for both of us, 2 individual corned beef pies, 2 large steak and ale pies ( each one would feed 3 ), a large gammon joint, 4 pork loins, a large chicken, a shoulder of lamb and 2 packs of meatballs so shouldn't need much meat at all next month.

Going to drop my budget slightly to £210 for September look forward to seeing you all on the September thread

sparklysaver

Hello all, can I join you for September please?

I'm not working at the moment & can't claim any benefits cos I left my last job voluntarily (long story!) so am living off savings :eek:. Need to minimise my spend!

I'm a bit of a food hoarder, so much so that my storecupboard has spilled out into plastic boxes in the shed. :rotfl:There are about 20 meals in my freezer from batch cooking, I make my own bread, I have a lot of veg growing in my garden this year since I've been pottering about in it loads more...... yet somehow I still spend a fortune on food, mainly by ignoring everything I've got in & buying a pizza instead. :mad:

I've got about 3 months worth of cat food in so I only need to bother about myself. I'm therefore going for £50 first time out.

Thank you! :T

Gorgeestwo

Good morning

Have done my first shop of 'September' which wasn't too bad, all meal planned for the next week DH is off work for a few days this week then the kids go back to school next tuesday, so hoping to get back to some sort of normality

Hope everyone has a good Bank Holiday

[Deleted User]

Just spent £17 45 in the supermarket buying fresh fruit and veg,milk and bread.No more to buy hopefully this week as I have gone into severe 'frugal mode' having just got back from my holidays where I spend the GDP of a small country I think
I will have £100 in my food purse for September and I am hoping to spend as little of that as possible.Luckily I have a good stock of store cupboard stuff and I am going to be as inventive as I can over the next few weeks.Plus of course I still have a fair amount in my freezer.so its fingers crossed and tighten the belt up a bit more I think I am just about to make out my weekly menu which I will print and put up in my kitchen on the fridge.

blackandwhitebunny

Can I come play next month please?:D
I'd like to try for £200 not including kitty fodder. Starting 1st of Sept to 30 Sept.

Islandmaid

Hi all,

Just checked bank account for end of month and appear to be worse off than I was this time last month :mad:
I guess its because the new school uniforms I had to buy for 2 of the kids (well flipping expensive, school has changed to a 'community college from september:cool:) and the money for them only just come out of account and me being a wally, thought I had more than I did:(

So it will be bread and water for September

No seriously, I need to be ultra-careful and intend to take out £100 in cash and give OH my bank card (yes I trust him totally) so I can only buy what I have in my purse - I was thinking of keeping £10 on me and thats it - oh and no online shopping - way too easy to get carried away.

We,ll see:rotfl::rotfl: I can be good, I know it

TTFN x

seductivesmile

Good Afternoon everybody,

Hope you are all well and enjoying your bank holiday!
(i'm sulking at work)
I've completely fallen off of the wagon on grocery spends, buying whoopsies for the freezer, storecupboard and to munch, then buying cakes rather than making them all in the name of laziness. And then THROWING food away :eek: :eek:
So. . .

From 01.09.11 - 31.12.11 i would like to declare an all in budget for groceries of £305.00 - thats £2.50 per day,
I live alone with with my hamster for company, but i've got lots of her food, cleaning products and bedding stored up already. also she has the oddments of tops and tails of my fruits and veggies. and old raggie clothes stripped up for her bedding in winter as opposed to the newspaper she has in the summer.

I have ~£20 of c*ub card vouchers i am going to go and spend on cleaning things that i need, such as some bleach, absorbant cloths, Limescale remover - unless any of you lovelies have a good way to remove limescale - Lemon Juice and Bicarb to clean thru the pipes and drains on my sinks & washing machine.

I have set aside £10 for a shop at L*dl this weekend, purely to be spent on their 5 carton packs of apple juice, (49p instead of 99p in their weekend offers) which i will pay myself back full price when i take one out of the cupboard (2nd purse idea BUT my pennies go into a tardis money box :rotfl:)

I have 2 boxes of 'spares' under my kitchen counter, & was hoping you could give me some idea what i pay my tardis when i use them,

4 x B*uitoni 1kg bags of pasta
1 x 1 kg brown rice
3 x 4pk Hei*z baked beans
3 x 750g Boxes Ke*loggs cereals
1 x 1.5kg Bread flour
2 x 2kg bags sugar
3 x 80 Tea bags
5 x 4pk John W*st Tuna
2 x 150g Jars Posh Coffee
1 x 500ml Veg Oil
1 x 12pk Mini Cheddars
1 x 500g White Rice
2 x Hei*z Chocolate Sponge puddings
1 x Tomato Ketchup
1 x Salad Cream
2 x Mayo
2 x condensed milk
There are plenty more but i have ideas on pricing those.

Daddy shares offers with me, but doesn't let me pay for them as he pays half my brothers rent each month, so he thinks he should, even tho i tell him i dont eat it at the rate he buys it, and i can afford to buy it myself.

I am hoping that by the end of Dec, i will have a nice sum in the tardis (already have £30 float in there) so that in the new year I can afford to restock the things i have used up, and make the most of the Jan sales on tasty foods.

I am hoping that I can work my way through the mountains of food i have, and also the mountains of toiletries and washing powder, paying myself back each time i use something.

I will have to stop Daddy buying me food!

Sorry for the really long post!
T/C
SS xx