September 2011 Grocery Challenge

slbhill

Payday today, so declaring for September at £131.32, from a budget of £120. Slightly disappointing but a huge improvement from this time last year, especially for a "long month". I did cheat slightly by not counting the £5 Spar voucher I won on their monthly competition

Challenge for next month (as well as keeping in budget, obviously!!) is to get the contents of the freezer under control. I haven't been very good at keeping track of what's in there, and OH said the other day he hates using it because he can't find what he wants under all the other stuff. After I calmed down I can see his point I'm pretty good at labelling each bag but that's not enough when there are so many to wade through!

Not sure if this means I need less stuff in there, or just a better system! I used to have an inventory posted on the door, might try rebooting that to start with & see if it helps. Maybe some tubs to keep things separate - one for the various bags of raw meat, one for the various bags of cooked meat, etc. Will need to have a ponder.

poppy-glos

another £12 today in lidl, bought butternut squash, sweet potatoe, cucumber and figs! (figs are fresh, 15 p each and juicy!) as all reasonable, and choc for dd, dogfood for winter stores and diet pop. £24.05 left for thusr and fri so no reason overspend this month...

jpscloud

Had a relapse today and bought some junk, plus other more MSE things (four bags of whoopsied parsnips at 19p a bag!). My actual spends are probably getting on for £200 this month, I'm ashamed to say. That does include all groceries (some will last for weeks), pet food for a couple of months, cleaning etc., but it was much harder to stay within the budget than I thought. More effort required!

hjanea

Hi, I'd like to declare a massive £236.74 for september please. I must do better with october!!!

looie

I'm going to declare at £92.95 for September. Spent £2.25 on reduced stuff at mr a's tonight.

Really wanted to come in under budget as we are saving for a garage so any extra money towards it would be great. Going to try harder in October

pennywisepoundstupid

Morning i'm declaring £274.71 for September:j, really pleased i've come in under budget, so next month will try with £275.

quintwins

morning all declaring £200.70 for sep not too bad considering i did a big stock up i'm hoping for £115 in oct should be easy managable really i don't need much, saying that i always say that :rotfl:

sproggi

As this has been unstickied, I guess I must be the only one left still on my September budget.
Today was a NSD and hoping for the same tomorrow, but if I have any spends, I will just update in my sig and then start my October budget on 1st October.

Sproggi

Puzzledbubbles

Hi All,

Even with Emilia arriving on the 14th we have managed to come in under budget

There is £25.53 left of this months budget to go towards Christmas

Am off to officially join the thread for October

Puzzled x

poppy-glos

i'm still here too as i plan by the calander month.. feels a bit neglected with most few posters and the sticky gone.

Today planned a nsd, but went to buy hair dye, got 4 x 75p candles on offer, and some sweets for dd (she said she deserved them if i was having the treat of hair dye :rotfl:)

so, 8.73 today, so £16.32 left for tomorrow.