July 2011 Grocery Challenge

bargainhunterss

Thanks for the new thread guys! Looking forward to actually coming under budget this month! (I dont hold out much hope!) To combat the overspending on takeaways I've made an extra budget just for that of £50 for the month and hopefully we should be able to stick to that!

Spent £8.00-ish at Aldi last night on fruit and veg bargains and £ 15.75 at Morrisons getting bits before the BIG SHOP tonight. Going to try a lot more own brand stuff from Asda tonight as have had a few of their 'chosen by you' things which have been quite nice!

Hope everyone is ok today and looking forward to the weekend! xxx

carolt2

Morning Everyone....Not posted on here for a while now.:o

Due to various issues happening in RL have not been keeping a tally on our spends.
But I feel more able to do that now.:)

Would like to request that I be removed from the annual list for the grocery challenge and go back to the monthly list.
Would like to be put on list for a budget of £125 for July.

Nice to see familiar names as well as new ones.
Good luck everyone for July:D

jackieglasgow

I too would like to go on the monthly list as I have strayed very far from the path of righteousness

£200 for me for the month please, I have a fair bit of food in, and am going to menuplan my way through the summer holidays to keep costs down, my cooker is back up and running again, which will make a difference as I can bake snacks and so on, again.

Good luck everyone.

mrs-moneypenny

havent been in for a while but still trying to keep a rein on the spends.

hoping to do a veggie bake for tea to use up some of the sadder veggies lurking in the fridge

saturday is always hm pizza
sunday will be veggie mushroom tarts
havent got any further than that yet

annem38

morning all, this is very exciting for me, after lurking for the last few weeks have finally signed up and this is my first post! Right, well i started monday, for a 5 weeek month,so put me down for £250, for 2 adults and 2 ravenous moggies, thats groceries and all household stuff. Wish me luck!

annem38

xshootingstarsx

Good luck to everyone for this month.

Can I please be added to list for this months budget of £200 for 2 adults?

Thank you

kymbo82

Hi,
can I join you this month? I spend approx £90-100 a week for 2 adults (husband has a bottomless pit for a stomach) 3 children and a dog who isnt really added in the budget as she has a MASSIVLY expensive dog food for sensitive stomach as everything else she brings back up, so hubby buys her food. Generally I can shop quite well cooking from scratch most days but it's dishwasher tablets/washing powder/etc that brings up the bill, we go through endless amounts of milk and bread also. I did a shop at asda last week, usually I go to tesco's and according to their price challenge I saved £8 but it's a bit out of the way and tesco is just round the corner

quintwins

kymbo value dishwasher tablets are acually quite good and only £1.60 for 30 i buy my washing liquid in bulk when it's on bogof in makro however it's worth keeping an eye on amazon, i got 6 bottles of 34 wash dax and it worked out at £1.90 each a few months ago (i did have to buy 6 mind but still good) it might also eb worth going shopping late on and freezing reduced bread you can get loafs for 20p in my store around 8 so i can get a weeks worth for the full price of 1 we also do this for muffins, bagels and pancakes

i'm now the proud owner of a new dishwasher and a very empty purse

never_too_old

Good morning

my budget is £300 again this month, came in under budget last month which was a good thing as we had a terrible month money wise.Havent had chance to read back so hope everyone is ok:)

medsdemon

Morning, hmmm maybe afternoon:o. just back from Sains having spent £8.89 ( half that DD's party drink ). NSD yesterday and hoping now no more shopping till monday. Baked potatoes and chickpea curry tonight. I and DD out tomorrow so just OH who can have Burgers chips and curry sauce out the freezer. Sunday will be Pesto Pasta and a lemon Surprise Pudding and monday a Spicy Rice dish with L/O pudding.