January 2012 Grocery Challenge

emmaa2231

Hi, please could you put me down for JAN £100- As this is the first attemp at this after reading much of last years gc I am eager to get under way. I have heaps of goddies still in from christmas so hoping that will shore me up for January and then depending how this goes will re assess for Feb. The £100 is for 1st to 31st Jan for me, dh, dd and ds. Wish me luck.

rising_from_the_ashes

lizzyb1812 wrote: »

For instance, there are 5 Mondays in January, so count 5/52 of your budget as January's budget. Change the day to suit your "big shop" day - so if it's Thursday there's only 4 in January. Then check cumulatively - eg by the end of March 2012 you would have a target of 13/52 of annual budget to measure actual spend against.

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

I do like the dividing it out option you've mentioned so will have a think / play around with that tomorrow

I'm back:) .... I've decided to keep it very simple and go for an equal % split for each month.

I did have a play around with splitting it weekly but I shop either on a Weds or a Sat and it was getting too complicated as different numbers of each some months! (I'm afraid the daily one is a bit beyond me atm:o).

I'm also so used to working to monthly figures, I know I'd be a bit lost (probably by around Feb:rotfl:).

Obviously there will be over & underspends but it has to be better than the way I have been doing it - as if I had a big overspend in a "stocking up" month, I never quite managed to get the next month's adjusted to make up for it:o:o:o

Hopefully this way, it'll balance out - I'm intending to put any underspends into a pot from my bank account and use these to help with the overspend months:)

Anyway, will see how it goes this way .....:)

SpagBol

Hi, please may I join? I'd like to say £250 but I'll add £20 to that as it's my Birthday this month and it's my first go so it would probably be a good idea not to be too strict then I can aim for £250 the following week. So £270 for me please.

Happy New Year everyone and I'm looking forward to absorbing some of the experienced money saving on this board!!

SpagBol

Oops, the following MONTH obviously!!

wornoutmumoftwo

I'd like to join in please, need to get my food budget under control, going to aim for £250 max.

mummyyof5

Can I please join in for January...We are a family of 8...5 adults...one 15 year old.. one 5 year old who eats like an adult and a very picky 2 year old.

I know its loads more than anyone else but can I be put down for £600 please to run from Jan 1st to 31st...hope I can do it...

Good luck to everyone on the board xx

tink1981_2

Hi

Please could you put me down for £135 we seemed to do ok in December although think DH might have had a couple of spends on his account that I didn't know about so need to try and keep better track of things this month

tink x

savingforoz

Can you out me down for £60 please - that's for me, including some bulk buying I'm going to do.

Kylieminoag

Hi

I would love to do this challenge. I'm not sure how much my normal monthly spend is as I do a cash and carry run once a month or so and then top up with fressh stuff in between. If I had to guess I'd say I'm spending £450 a month.... for four adults. (two very fussy!)

I think I would like to see if I can manage on £300 in January and paying for it all in cash sounds ideal to keep me focussed - its too easy to hand over the card.

Thanks

iwanttogoonholiday

im gonna try for 150 ....not including baby food ( if needed - hoping to breast feed!) am due half way thru jan