children, cross-stitch and chocolate. Chickywiggles debt-free diary

chickywiggle

Week 9- a summary

Am reallly impressed that we only went £20 over budget. However this was mainly due to the fact I made £40 selling stuff (which i haven't listed as forgot..... tis getting increasingly harder to remember to fill in this diary but i have to make mysel or I'll fail badly.)

Targets:

Food shopping = £11.77/ £10
Baby shopping = £1/ £0
Other essential shopping (cleaning products etc) = £11.50/ £0


Random = £2/ £10
Days out = £9/ £10


meals out/ takeaways = £13/ £3
Clothes = £0
Presents (birthday/ Christmas) = £5.73/ £10

Total available to spend = £43
Total Spent = £54
Overspend = £11

chickywiggle

Before taking a look at weeks 10's budget I decided to try and do a BIG shop which will hopefully minimize the amount of shopping I need to get during the next 4 weeks. It will also give me a firm basis to meal plan from (absolutly loads in so it should also overrun into next month).

Incase anyone is interested this is what I bought:

Farm Foods - £46.50 (was £49 but I had a £2.50 off voucher)........ GUTTED - this was done over 2 shops (the pepsi in 2nd trip) due to lack of space to carry on a buggy .... otherwise I could have got 1 more item and used a £5 off £50 voucher.

1 pk Gammon steaks (8ish) - £4.50
2 x SFC take home boneless box - £5
2 x 6 golden drummers - £3
2 x 4 Southern fried chicken steaks - £3
1 x 4 Hot and Spicy chicken steaks - £2
2 x cheese hamwich packs - £2
1 x 15 fish fingers - £1.75
1 x roast potatoes - £1
1 x croquettes - £1
1 x 12 waffles - £1
2 x toad in the holes - £2
1 x cooked ham - £1
2 x 1kg cheese - £10
1 x 4 heinz spaghetti - £2
1 x 30 cheese slices - £2
3 x white loaves of bread - £2
1 x 2L milk - £1
1 x 24 pepsi - £5.75


Home Bargains - £3.76

2 x Pringles tube - £1.78
2 x bacon grill - £1.98


Morrisons - £4.38

Mince Beef 800g - £2.39
Pasta Bake - £1.99

Morrisons baby - £4.76 (10 jars)

Morrisons misc - £5.72

Bin liners - 72p
Loo Roll (16) - £5

ASDA - £21.72

chips - 74p
sausages - £1
lettuce - £1
3kg pasta - £3
5 x tinned soup - £2 46
2 x spaghetti and sausages - £1.36
butter - £1
coffee - £1.35
3 x pizza - £3
eggs (15) - £1.25
baked beans (4) - £2.48
cucumber - 70p
icing pens - £1.74


TOTAL

Food - £76.36 (I may need to buy some top up shops: sugar, milk, bread, cheese, yogurts, ham)

Baby - £4.76 (I will need to buy milk powder and possibly some more jars)

Misc - £5.72


BARGAIN - £1.80 cash back voucher for ASDA due to it not being 10% cheaper.

chickywiggle

Week 10

Given the big shop we are left with £300 spends for the next 3 weeks - so £100 a week.

Targets:

Food shopping = £20
Baby shopping = £20 (1 x goodnight milk - £3.99 and 2 x stage 3 milk boxes £12)
Other essential shopping (cleaning products etc) = £0


Random = £10
Days out = £10 (taking toddlerwiggle to playcentre for his birthday)


meals out/ takeaways = £20 (meal out for toddlerwiggle birthday)
Clothes = £0
Presents (birthday/ Christmas) = £0

Total available to spend = £80


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Meal Plan (no specific day set - unless indicated)

Saturday - cheesy mash (re-heated out freezer) with gammon steaks.

Sunday (toddlerwiggles un-birthday) - SFC boneless boxes + homemade chips + beans + salad.

- Fish (or chicken) and chips
- golden drummers and waffles
- sausage and chips/ mash/ boiled potatoes
- pasta bake
- cheese, ham, egg, potato bake

chickywiggle

Saturday 15th October

:jNSD:j

Targets:

Food shopping = £0
Baby shopping = £0
Other essential shopping (cleaning products etc) = £0


Random = £0
Days out = £0


meals out/ takeaways = £0.
Clothes = £0
Presents (birthday/ Christmas) = £0

chickywiggle

Sunday 16th October



Due to hubby's working hours (and horrible manager) we decided to celebrate toddlerwiggle's birthday a day early (he's only 3 so wasn't really aware of days anyway)

- £14 spend in Burger King.


Targets:

Food shopping = £0
Baby shopping = £0
Other essential shopping (cleaning products etc) = £0


Random = £0
Days out = £0


meals out/ takeaways = £14.
Clothes = £0
Presents (birthday/ Christmas) = £0

chickywiggle

Monday 17th October


Happy Real 3rd Birthday Toddlerwiggle.

Trip to meet my friend and her kids at playcentre (£3.50). Lunch/ Drink there (£10.50). - not included in target spends as taken out my money due to large overspend on tinywiggle essentials (see below).


Few bits in town in preperation for holiday:
Baby (£8.95)
misc (£3.59)
clothes - tinywiggle snowsuit and boots (£16.20)
baby- fitted sheets as moved tinywiggle into his bed out of cot (£8.10)
baby- duvet/ pillow/ covers for tinywiggles bed (£22.79)


Targets:

Food shopping = £0
Baby shopping = £39.84
Other essential shopping (cleaning products etc) = £0


Random = £3.59
Days out = £0


meals out/ takeaways = £0.
Clothes = £16.20
Presents (birthday/ Christmas) = £0

chickywiggle

Tuesday 18th October



:DNSD:j

chickywiggle

Wednesday 19th October

This will be a NSD as we are going away for the afternoon/ night/ morning and have allowed up to £100 from savings for this as toddlerwiggles/ hubby's joint treat.

spent from savings - For info only
drinks/ choccy - £5.65
pub tea - £17.34
misc (sent hubby to tesco with a £20 note - didn't see any change) - £20.
lunch - £20ish

Total: £62.99 approx

chickywiggle

Thursday 20th October

This will be a mainly NSD (target wise) as we are going away for the Wed afternoon/ night/ morning and have allowed up to £100 from savings for this as toddlerwiggles/ hubby's joint treat.

spent from savings - For info only
pub brekkie - £13.57
York castle museum entry - £17
Jorvick viking museum and gladiator exhibition - £18.50

Total: £49.07 approx

Total holiday spend: £112.06. as hubby had £15 birthday money from my mum this overspend was ok.

Additional money spent:

Targets:

nibbles for way home, shoelaces, milk, ham

Food shopping = £6.89
Baby shopping = £0
Other essential shopping (cleaning products etc) = £0


Random = £1
Days out = £0


meals out/ takeaways = £0.
Clothes = £0
Presents (birthday/ Christmas) = £0

chickywiggle

Friday 21st October




more milk (I blame this cold am drinking tea like it's going out of fashion), cold and flu tablets and baby biscuits.
(can't find receipt)

Targets:

Food shopping = £0.54
Baby shopping = £1 (ish)
Other essential shopping (cleaning products etc) = £0.50


Random = £0
Days out = £0


meals out/ takeaways = £0.
Clothes = £0
Presents (birthday/ Christmas) = £0