March 2012 Grocery Challenge

rising_from_the_ashes

WOW! 3rd month of the year already:eek:

Huge thanks as always HelenJelly and Rosieben (think Zippychick's still MIA?).

Still on the Feb challenge so may struggle to keep up until the end of the month but will try hard:)

blackandwhitebunny

Once again thanks to all the volunteers who do the hard work running this thread.
I'll be trying to spend as little as possible this month but trying to keep up to date with posting and updating my signature. No need to list my amount on the front pages.
My aim is to buy as little as possible and try only to buy special offers, ys items and to eat out of the cupboard and freezers. All savings towards Corfu in Aug fund:D
I'm also going to give the cats their own part in my sig so I can track cat food spends, they've spent £24 so far on two 2kg bags of Roya*l C*inin but they're not allowed to start them until Thurs as they have two small bags from Feb budget left still. I probably need to warn innocent bystanders that we have five cats and two foster cats (next door's and a stray) as the cats budget is quite scary.:o

tracey12_2

Hi everyone

My budget for this month is £260

Helenjelly - I am happy to update my sig if it makes it easier for you.

I am still working on my Feb grocery challenge and have £8.98 to last until wednesday, it is going to be close.

Good luck everyone.

Tracey

nannygladys

Hi everyone
Into my four week period since last Friday and doing OK so far, 20.01 of challange has been on fuel but hopefully that will last me a couple of weeks as Im not in work until Saturday, I have made a menu plan and eating out of my cupboards and freezer ror the most part so only buying stuff I run out of and of course milk:)
Jxx

rising_from_the_ashes

blackandwhitebunny wrote: »

I'm also going to give the cats their own part in my sig so I can track cat food spends, they've spent £24 so far on two 2kg bags of Roya*l C*inin but they're not allowed to start them until Thurs as they have two small bags from Feb budget left still. I probably need to warn innocent bystanders that we have five cats and two foster cats (next door's and a stray) as the cats budget is quite scary.:o

I separated out the pets a while ago for a similar reason (there is a cats and dog budget of £50/month each & that doesn't incl their insurance :eek:) and the money is put into an "online pot" each month.

However, it does let me bulk buy which has made a huge reduction in costs.:)

I'll need to start looking around for offers on RC dry as about to start my last 4kg bag (bought them on BOGOF ages ago)

hm71_2

good evening all didnt realise we changed threads whoops
if i may be added to the list i would like my budget to be listed as £320 for the month & that covers 4 adults, 1 dog, 1 cat & a hamster.
many thanks

TheThriftyScrumpers

quintwins wrote: »

oh pretty new thread thanks everyone.

i've been mia for awhile and my spending as went abit ott, we spent £102 last week where as we normally spend £40, i was so shocked til i counted up what we'd eaten and 7 punnets of strawberrys 5 punnets of grapes, 40 bananas and 40 eggs soon and a shocking amount of yogurt (atleast £30 worth) add up lol we only eat one loaf of bread all week tho and that was the kids.

i have a £4 off £40 tesco voucher ready for friday i also got a £3 off £20 spend til spit whats the chances of them letting me use both?

I have used more than one till spit lots of times. My record was £17 off one shop!! Good Luck!

blackandwhitebunny

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

I separated out the pets a while ago for a similar reason (there is a cats and dog budget of £50/month each & that doesn't incl their insurance :eek:) and the money is put into an "online pot" each month.

However, it does let me bulk buy which has made a huge reduction in costs.:)

I'll need to start looking around for offers on RC dry as about to start my last 4kg bag (bought them on BOGOF ages ago)

I dream of £50 a month I think we're spending about £30 - £40 a week :eek: I have been looking about for RC offers, this was at Pets at h*me, 2 x 2kg for £24. I have put in an online order with sainsbugs for Saturday for 28 boxes of feli* senior and some Sheb*, taking advantage of the £10 of for first online order. I'm hoping this will last nearly 2 months.

TheThriftyScrumpers

Ninno820 wrote: »

Seconded and thirded!

A big thanks from me too :T:T:T:T
This thread is so helpful. All the hard work that goes into running it is much appreciated.

rising_from_the_ashes

blackandwhitebunny wrote: »

I dream of £50 a month I think we're spending about £30 - £40 a week :eek: I have been looking about for RC offers, this was at Pets at h*me, 2 x 2kg for £24. I have put in an online order with sainsbugs for Saturday for 28 boxes of feli* senior and some Sheb*, taking advantage of the £10 of for first online order. I'm hoping this will last nearly 2 months.

:eek: Keep an eye on PAH - they do the odd unmissable offer every so often .... my 4kg bags were BOGOF from there @ £28 so worked out at £3.50/kg

Do they all eat the same one?

I've also managed to get pretty good deals on 10kg bags online - an expensive outlay in one go but brings the cost down a lot - I got the last one for £38 (not quite as good as the PAH offer @ £3.80/kg). It was one of the reasons I wanted to try to get their "pots" working so I can afford to get the offers when they're around.