September 2011 Grocery Challenge

mrsrobertson

Can you put me down for £150 this month please?

quintwins

sent hubby to te$co last night to get me a pastry some milk, bananas and bread expecting him to spend maybe £7-8 as they left money for him to get himself something but he spent £16 not a great start and brings me under the £100 mark already he said soem was for his mum but he told her not to bother paying him, he didn't have an awful lot to show for that money just some crisps and 2 bars of choclate and wht i sent him for, not to self go yourself next time

pasta bake for tea from things we have in

Missus_Aka

Can i be put down for £100 again please, this month will be for me, dh, ds and little sister who i will have for 10 days this month, and this month is ds birthday so it will have to stretch to include birthday cake and party food as well, managed to keep to this last month and learnt a lot from it so hopefully i will be within budget this month, if anyone wants to see what i eat everyday for this price im on the food and groceries board under Shopping, Whoopsied & Meal Planning For £100 Per Month For 3 + Visitors?

Maitane

Hiya,

Can I join again please? It's just me and my fiance (check me with the novelty!) but he has proper hollow legs.

Put me down for £200 - I've already spent £40 at the Chinese supermarket stocking up on stuff to avoid going to the takeaway and £85 on various supermarket trips to fill up the cupboards and the freezer. So I'm at £125, I desperately want to come in under the £200 - say about £175 as I used to be quite good at the grocery challenge but as I stocked up from Chung Wah, I don't want to beat myself up about it.

Ta muchly,

Maity x

CRANKY40

I crashed and burned during August, mainly due to school holidays and our own holidays. Too much to keep track of. I didn't go over my total budget, but the lines drawn between the food budget and everything else became very fuzzy. May I be put down for £250 for September please? That should let me stock up a bit for winter as well as feeding us.

Thanks to everyone who runs the grocery challenge

chewy62

Hi! have tried numerous times to cut down our food budget, without much success due to my lack of willpower when it comes to scrummy treats!:p
Please can you put me down for £350 up to the 29th September? (sorry, don't know how to make it red!):o
this is for 2 adults and three boys, one in nappies, cheers!:beer:

Picklepud

Just come back from Tesco, will update figures later as have to take off sons bits for uni (different budget) but just wanted to say that on the fresh meat counter they had half price chickens £2.50 lovely and big and fresh just incase anybody was interested.

bella2121

I am not joining this month but will join up next month, this month I am keeping track of all grocery spends so I can set a realistic budget for next month. Good luck for the month everyone and thanks to all who organise the thread

xx

Puzzledbubbles

Hi All,

Am lurking but wanted to say Hi, only discovered this thread last week and OH and i had just completed our first month with a shopping budget - we were spending a small fortune with bits here and there so with me going on Maternity leave and being home to cook we decided our first month would be a guess of £160.

We came £17 under budget and spent £20 on nappies which we had said would remain exclusive from this budget so doing well so far.

I dont think im quite ready to join the challenge, we are still spending some time debating what counts and what doesnt lol, but i will be lurking and saying hi

Puzzled x

tracey12_2

I had a NSD yesterday.

Went to Mr T this morning and spent £21.33.

They had Frubes on offer buy 1 get 2 free, don't know if anyone is interested as I know some people buy them for packed lunches.

Tracey