June 2012 Grocery Challenge

KatyReed+5

fozziebeartoo wrote: »

Sounds like you have everything in place to do brilliantly
Katy....wishing you all the best! :T

So sorry to hear about you and DH but hoping things will go very well for you.

Thanks, just realised the money i will save on feeding him will now will be spent on comfort eating, damn it.

Katy.

Possession

That jelly looks lovely JJ.
I'm declaring at £198.99 since my July starts tomorrow.

Eyebright

I'm declaring for June at £235.80, so yes I did go quite badly over budget!

I am however determined to do better in July, which I have kicked off with a £57.29 spend at Mr.M's. This included what should be all my cleaning products for the month and a special offer pack of bacon for £5 which should also last the month. I've bunged half in the freezer for later on!

I have loads of meals in the freezer, so there are going to be lots of freezer roulette/surprise meals this month

savesummore

Quick post from me then I will catch up properly later

WEnt to Mr M's for some of these 20p chick peas and toms- they didnt have any :mad:

So got 2 half price m*ller corners 28p each, pack 4 Tw*rls £1 (must stop buying carp ) and a tub of hummus for 5p (YS) :j

There was loads of hummus for 5p does anyone know if it can be frozen? I only brought 1 tub as i wasnt sure

Midgetgem82

Just adding a spend of £21.76 in MrS yesterday,mainly on stocking up cereal. Also a spend of £8.85 in Co*p today, lots of ys items, very pleased with packs of 2 chicken breasts down to 75p
Have updated my sig

Mrs_Money_Penny

Hi All Went shopping Monday in MrA and have ended up going over budget by £40.18. Will try and leave it as long as possible until I go shopping again. Both freezers are full having to squeese things in.

helen_jelly

Budgets noted to here :]

Welcome and Hi to all our new people - please read the first post on page 1 and check out the lovely recipes that Rosieben collects for us [posted by great people on here]

Katy - sorry to here your news feel free to rant on here if you need to

Helen x

Bluegreen143

Getting close to the end of the month (Saturday for me)! NSD today and I hope for the rest of the month. Had some steak and vegetable casserole from the freezer along with mash and peas for dinner, was absolutely delicious!

Have been calculating totals from my spreadsheet (I am so sad :rotfl:) and this month I've spent:

£10.21 on cat food & litter
£16.10 on toiletries
£18.50 on household stuff/cleaning supplies
£21.66 on dairy and eggs
£45.49 on fruit & veg
£23.64 on meat
£34.94 on OH's treats (mainly crisps, coke etc)
and £70.24 on general groceries (i.e. pasta, lentils, tins and everything else).
Plus £21.00 getting the shopping delivered.

Not sure what to do with this information now that I have it :rotfl: guess it'll be interesting to see how July compares

sonastin

Was saved from myself today by the intervention of third parties! Needed cream for the curry that I had planned. Decided I'd go to A!di after I had given blood because its just round the corner. Then started thinking about all the other things that I could "do with" while I was there. Could probably have easily spent another £20 or so but the blood donor session was running massively late. Got into A!di 5 minutes before they closed so instead of browsing and filling a trolley of stuff that I don't need yet, I dashed in for a pack of naan bread (too late to make HM chapattis) and a tub of cream. £1.14 instead of the fortune I would have spent if the appointment was on time!

I think that takes me just over £170 / £200 for June. Not going to declare until the 30th just in case but I'm really pleased with that so far!

Suffolk_lass

July thread is up; all bright and shiny and new!

I'll be here to the end though as we don't get paid until Friday

See you there shortly
SL