April 2012 Grocery Challenge

valerie57

Closing April with an overspend of £120. It is getting to be a bit of a pattern. On the upside I am sure it would be much worse if I wasn't monitoring it. The tips and support on this forum are fantastic and I need to get much better at following them. OH and I had a good chat on Sat and he is fully on board so that will help. See you over on the May forum.

NickJW

Hello!

Final spend of the month today since I get paid tomorrow. Got milk, garlic and a bag of baking potatoes from Mr S for £3.33. Decided to use £2.50 worth of Nectar points towards it (I've been saving these up but I don't know what for - the 'rewards' never appeal to me, so I may as well use them on normal shopping!). So 83p to add to total.

That means for the first time since I rejoined this year I have come under budget! Declaring £113.78/£130. :j

VERY pleased with that, and my freezer is still pretty stocked up too!

Well done everybody and see you over in May.

Winchelsea

No spends today, so can declare!

I have £17.01 in my grocery purse, left from the original £40, so my cheapest month ever! (Only because I've been living out of the fridge, freezer and cupboards as much as possible.)

So, here we are:
£17.01 left from £40, so have spent only £22.99!

TheThriftyScrumpers

Hiya

My month is finished now £249.12/£250

Good luck to all who are still in April Gc, see you over in May xx

Florenceem

valerie57 wrote: »

Closing April with an overspend of £120. It is getting to be a bit of a pattern. On the upside I am sure it would be much worse if I wasn't monitoring it. The tips and support on this forum are fantastic and I need to get much better at following them. OH and I had a good chat on Sat and he is fully on board so that will help. See you over on the May forum.

Great that the two of you will be at one on the May GC - makes a big difference.

Florenceem

Winchelsea wrote: »

No spends today, so can declare!

I have £17.01 in my grocery purse, left from the original £40, so my cheapest month ever! (Only because I've been living out of the fridge, freezer and cupboards as much as possible.)

So, here we are:
£17.01 left from £40, so have spent only £22.99!

Big congrats.

meg72

Winchelsea wrote: »

No spends today, so can declare!

I have £17.01 in my grocery purse, left from the original £40, so my cheapest month ever! (Only because I've been living out of the fridge, freezer and cupboards as much as possible.)

So, here we are:
£17.01 left from £40, so have spent only £22.99!

Well done, great result.

franby64

Evening

Well done to everybody who has come in under target and 'don't worry, there's always May' to everybody else including me as I'm declaring at £415.63/£400 - could be worse!

A belated Happy Birthday to Nick and see you all in May!

rising_from_the_ashes

Happy belated birthday Nickjw

Well .... over again (and it was the big stocking up budget this month:eek:) but I was tempted by yet more gorgeous bubble bath & shower gel when I popped into the Co*op for some crumpets and discovered they were still on offer (BOG2F):o

Now ..... need to start using some of these stocks up!

Winchelsea

Thanks for the congrats folks! Now girding my loins for the May challenge.

Good luck everyone else!