July 2011 Grocery Challenge

freakyogre

I'm a bit late this month as was away until late last night, but please can you put me down for £55.00 for July.

I spent £10.81 in Tesco today on ham, potato wedges, sausages, bananas, bacon, cherries, rice, eggs, gherkins and a pineapple and also £2.00 on bread and milk yesterday.

spendlessmummy

Just done my first shop of the month at Tesco and very pleased with myself as I didn't stray from the list! Only needed a couple of bits - big shop is tomorrow - and I only spent £5.73.

The in-laws came back from France yesterday with a camembert for us so I picked up some whoopsied posh bread for 60p plus muffins for breakfast, cucumber, cheese and rice cakes for babies tea. So far so good!

guccigoo

Evening all and welcome to all the newbies :wave: Big thanks to pink and Rosieben for the new thread and thoughts are with mrs mc.

Today was a spend in ice**nd of £20.50 and i have a mr t delivery on monday so will update that sig then. Hope we all do well this month and i am off on my hols on the 23rd for a week :j it cant come quick enough i can tell you!

Hippeechiq and spigs hope your both ok and we see you posting soon

franby64

Hi
Just realised I haven't signed on yet for this month so Mrs M, please could you put me down for £450 for July.

Thanks again to Pink, Mrs M and Rosieben for running the thread and good luck to everybody for this month.

rosieben

Welcome to the GC sahara007 and welcome back TizerCat and Natty

good luck with the challenge

supersally01

Cooked one of my gammons today at 6am, to make sandwiches for our day out to the beach. spent £15 on the rest of the picnic, which included 2 x doves and was quite extravagant.
The rest of the ham was put in the freezer to make a carbonara for midweek. Got a leg of pork out of the freezer for Sunday lunch, was reduced from £8 to £3, so will feed plenty, and will attempt another pork leftover meal ( any suggestions?)!
Got a Mr T's online shop booked for Tuesday, £50, and that is with £10 off. Did not order potatoes etc as going to the farm shop soon to get berries for jam, so will get them there. Did order 2 x jam sugar, can anyone recommend anything cheaper?

PennyGrabber

emmad5689 wrote: »

Just wanted to say how disgusted I am, I am planning the online shop for next week so am adding bits and pieces each day and then will review before sending, I have just come across the babybels which my daughter used to get and they were £1.45 a pack of 6 a few weeks ago and now £1.78 in one jump, I have also found a jump of 82p to 99p and a jump of 28p to 31p even though this is only 3p look at it the other way and it is over 10% in one go. I am determined to suceed at this and have put a few value products in which we do not normally buy, sorry rant over

I'm so with you - I can't stand sudden big increases, and to me, 10% is a huge increase!

Mini babybels were on offer in either a$da or te$co last weekend. Can't remember which of those 2 sms, but they were £1 for the 6 pack.

It's the 2nd of the month, and so far I've spent £0.40! And that was only because I wanted to buy my children a treat. I got them a fudge bar each. They're really good, actually, and they understand money really well. In fact, they're the ones who want to buy everything value, so I can use more money on days out and treats! Bless them!

Went to school fete today, and won 2 bottles of wine and a bottle of bitter for £4. Gave the bitter to my next door neighbour (we work together with things like seeds, and feeding each other's pets), so I have 2 bottles of wine now. Didn't count the money spent there as gc even though I bought ice creams and cakes, as it was a treaty day, and I budget for treaty days separately.

PG x

flower91today

Done my first shopping of the month spent 4.50 in i/land and 7.42 in Mr T, was really pleased as used a couple of coupons i had printed off so saved myself £6. Did also get my two year old the bogof huggies, but this doesnt come out of our shopping budget. Am going to pop down to Al*d today see what f&v they have on offer.

peony40

Hello,

Please can you put me down for £100 for July, many thanks. This is for myself and hubby, to cover food only.

I have attempted to do this in the past but without success . As I am not working at the moment, I need to keep better control of the purse strings. I have started waking up at 2am the last few nights fretting, so I have decided to be proactive and take control rather than hide my head in the sand as I have been wont to do in the past.

Off to have a coffee to wake me up, and then will work on a menu plan for the week.

OrangeFairy

Please can i join in. I Used to find posting on this thread really helpful and need to get back on the DFW wagon!

Our budget for a family of 4 is £200, thanks

Spent so far - about £100. OH needs to get the total from his bank statement to see what he spent last week but i reckon it took us to the £100 mark.

Sounds like a lot but we have a freezer jam packed! Literally connot fit another single thing in there. I have meal planned for the WHOLE month. We have the main part of every meal until the end of july. Just need veg and dairy products really and a some bread making bits! The fridge is pretty packed too.

Good luck everyone