March 2012 Grocery Challenge

NickJW

Declaring £131.99/£130 for March. Disappointing but only slightly over I guess. Going to aim for the same in April.

Well done everybody! :T

wannabee_in_credit

Morning all
Lost my mojo a bit over the past fortnight, and stopped being as mse as I usually am. Blown the grocery budget this month - declaring £301.75 instead of the planned £275.
Back to it - not the end of the world as long as I don't let it get out of control.

Cheapskate

Morning all

Declaring at an appallingly over-budget £498 for March! :eek:

Going straight over to April's board to start again - *creeping away now*

A xo

meg72

NickJW wrote: »

Declaring £131.99/£130 for March. Disappointing but only slightly over I guess. Going to aim for the same in April.

Well done everybody! :T

Dont be disappointed I bet if you look in the cupboards and freezer
you will find more than the £1.99 in stock ready for other meals.
go on have a look and give yourself a big pat on the back for planning ahead, seriously you have done very very well.

meg72

Cheapskate wrote: »

Morning all

Declaring at an appallingly over-budget £498 for March! :eek:

Going straight over to April's board to start again - *creeping away now*

A xo

Thats the spirit, its what Ilove about this thread,we do not fail or get defeated, we learn and thereis always next month to try again.

mrs-moneypenny

DEclaring £415.86 for march so only a bit over

off to join the april thread now

FlacosFloozie

Have to declare an overspend this month £199.72/190
I do though have plenty of stuff in the house so aiming to make up for it in April

hm71_2

Declaring £295.45 for march so £24.55 under whoop whoop!!!

have gone for £320 again in the april thread now- fingers crossed everyone.

NickJW

meg72 wrote: »

Dont be disappointed I bet if you look in the cupboards and freezer
you will find more than the £1.99 in stock ready for other meals.
go on have a look and give yourself a big pat on the back for planning ahead, seriously you have done very very well.

Thanks meg! Just the encouragement I needed! :):T

OrkneyStar

OrkneyStar wrote: »

Last big shop of the month, used a £5 off £40 in Tesco, got some washing powder on offer, meat (yellow stickered) and lots of other things, approx £53 spent. Fruit and milk only for rest of month and DH will be doing this so I don't enter any shops!
Had to go to town to get a ticket for something so made use of fuel and went shopping too!

Hmmmmm, well getting DH to shop was the plan but then decided to test my own dedication to the task of not over-spending.
So far so good, next budget for us starts on 13/4/12, and we are still sitting (just) under budget (this month we had £200 for food and cleaning for me, DH and DS aged nearly 5).....quite pleased and have about £10 for any emergencies before the new budget!
Aimed to spend about £10 today, managed to spend approx £14 but that was fine, leaving us the £10 left as mentioned!