July 2011 Grocery Challenge

Missus_Aka

£148.65 ended on for the month for me

greent

:oDeclaring a budget busting July of well over £600!!!!! :eek::eek:DH bought a couple of lunches at work and we had lots of takeaways! I also did lots of stocking up on basmati rice on offer (I now have 45kg...) and other things. It was good to do once in a while, but I wouldn't want to (nor could I really afford to!) spend that every month. August's belts have been duly reined in and we'll go back to normal ;-)

SilverBird_2

Declaring a spend of £231.93 for July.

Spiggle

Hey All,

Sorry I haven't been on as much as I'd hoped. Been doing the bathroom and the last couple of weeks at work were chaotic. Hoping to have a bit more time as we'red off now for a couple of weeks but need to finish the bathrooom and have a bit of 'us time' iykwim. It's been a long hard 12 months since OH got ill and everything went to hell and back so I'm looking forward to getting into a new year.

Anyway, I have been keeping track of shopping and can declare July at £200.35 against budget of £240.

As it's birthday time during August, please list my budget as £250, thank you.

Sorry I haven't caught up with all the posts I've missed but congratulations and commiserations to all those deserving or needing them.

Right, now to find the August thread ...

Take care,
Spigs

cookiemum

Declaring at £306.53 so a tiny bit over but happy didn't go too mad!

I'm going to increase my budget to £350 for August taking into account kids off and no school dinners to pay for.

Well done everybody :j

Gintotmelinda

hi all

Declaring a spend of £426.10. As this included 2 vest tops for me, a 4 egg poacher,a hosepipe and 2 large sqeezy Marmites, Dolce Gusto coffee and toothpaste and toothbrushes for DD in Japan I am under budget.

Thanks to those who run this thread.

Off to update siggie.

Gintot

Long_tall_sally

Hi
Just trying to catch up with all the posts. I'd like to declare July at £410.87 against my target of £450. Not that god as we were away for a week but at least it was within target.

Hex2 - thanks for the headsup about the Coalville Lidl - presumably the leaflets are just available in store without having to spend anything 1st?

Spiggle

Long_tall_sally wrote: »

Hi
Just trying to catch up with all the posts. I'd like to declare July at £410.87 against my target of £450. ...

Brilliant! Well done LTS!!! :T:T:T

Take care,
Spigs

franby64

Hi
Declaring at £515.13, £65 over but I'm just going to deduct it from August's budget and try harder.
Well done everybody for July and I liked your inspiring post Pennygrabber. I think I feel an August self-improvement campaign coming on!

TheThriftyScrumpers

Please can I declare £409.22 for TheThriftyScrumpers July 11Thank you.