July 2011 Grocery Challenge

quintwins

so much for a nsd went to iceland for ice creams and a pizza for tea (and milk and bread since i was there) and spent £20.35 however i had £20 love2shop vouchers which i bought for £17.50 so it's really only a spend of £17.85 and we got loads of lollys that should keep us going

Rowan9

Can I go for £180 for Aug please? We have an extra 3 for one week, with v big appetites, then we are away for one week so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I can keep it reasonable.
Good luck for finishing the month ok.
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boultdj

And I'v got another £35 to add.

calleyw

I will declare at £60 for the month.

Extra £40 off the mortgage.

Any how will got for a £100 for next month.

Still running down my freezer to defrost so shall be limiting my spends.

Yours

Calley

Living_proof

I am back again and over-declaring at £64.85. Most of this was stocking up on things like washing powder (I hope I like the smell of the Lidl Daz offer - it will last me most of a year as I use so little in each wash); coffee, beer, Flora etc.etc. I was away for 16 nights being fed to an extremely high standard aboard the high seas and now it's back to to 'parritch and auld claes' and in my case, that is exactly how it will be.

I hope you are all building up your experience and supplies over these few summer days so that whatever comes later will be easier and more organised. I have decided the answer is to keep using less and less of everything until whatever the product is, be it washing powder or quantity of meat, ceases to do the trick. I have found that I can use a quarter of the recommended soft water quantity of Ariel for instance, and the clothes are perfectly clean. Bulking out meat with pulses is another subtle way of cutting the quantity. Use a little less shampoo each time you use it - you will soon find it takes very little to do the same job, also creating less polution.

Sometimes less is more.

I won't be needing time to process the tomatoes this year and we have eaten what few strawberries escaped mildew. I hear the plums will be brilliant this year, so look out a few plum sauce and chutney recipes!

Living_proof

August - I will go for £70.00as we are away for a couple of days in the month and it should be easy enough to manage with what I have got already unless so real bargains come along.

Heaven knows where I will put them though!

TheBees

Hi everyone

TheBees haven't been posting this month but still kept track of food spending. Horrified to find that despite being careful we are over budget by about £90 :eek::eek::mad:

I have bought washing liquid and powder and the freezers are still fairly full but I really need to focus in August.

Heeelp!

CherryPie

Will declare at £78.41 for July. Although lost track a bit?!?!?

Will go for £80 for August please.

Thanks to all the lovely ladies who keep the thread going, and to everyone for posting, it does keep me motivated!!

:beer:

coolpaprika

Hello,

I'd like to join in as I know the price of nothing and it's about time I learnt. However, I do know the value of most things. I'm going to guess at £200 I live alone with 2 cats and have a student boarder who does her own food apart from breakfast. I entertain occasionally but I do know I can be too extravagant so this will be good for me. Ist thing is to ALWAYS take lunch to work, OFTEN use Lidl, and NEVER Impluse buy

choogirl

A big fat fail again for me in July - £369.16 when I had put £280 down :mad: