July 2012 Grocery Challenge

little_miss_moneysaver_3

Hello all!

Just wanted to declare my total for July of £200.92 so 92p over budget. I was finished at £184.00, but as had increased the budget to stockpile it seemed a bit rude not to use it so I got 10 bottles of r0binsons squash 1.75l working out at £1.59 each in c0stco
Did get few other planned bits but will count them in August. See you all over on the new thread

Make-it-3

Couldn't keep out of the supermarket - but wanted to sit outside to eat so sandwich lunch and lottery ticket adding £5.00 to my total (£147.73/£200).

Possession

I'm declaring at £151.46 but only because I'm away for a week and because I did the big stock cupboard shop out of savings.
My August starts on 27th but it will be NsDs until then as I'm staying with my lovely parents.

jasmin10

Update as promised, finished my last shop which came in at £36.71.

btw - Took my knives back and will get them individually every so often so they can go into my current rack - bought one today and think it will now be my favourite lol - how sad am I.

So thats me done for July and signing off - see you over in the August thread x

GreenFairy

I've gone through my receipts twice (seeing as I've mislaid the usb key with my household accounts on it - grrrr!) and I'm coming in stupidly under budget this month. I even spent a tenner on junk food for when we had niece and nephew for a sleepover last weekend and I'm not even close. Huzzah!

Have been working down the cupboards and freezer like a crazy woman, so need stocking up on a few bits. The great thing is that I've used up most of my silly impulse buys that have been hanging around - special offer on salsa that no one here likes, a large number of the half used jars of jams and sauces, odd bits of frozen fish..all that sort of thing.

Have to top up my pasta and tin toms stash tomorrow, and between that and the farmer's market on Sat I should be clear through the end of the month. Looking good for having enough left over for my bulk flour order and all!

ikkle87

I dropped a clanger with our budget and our month ended up being 6 weeks lol. Will join the August thread as of the 10th when we get paid and my August can be 4 weeks from then.

smelkel87

HELLLOOO!!!
I have not been on here for well over a week and the amount of posts i had to read to catch up was crazy!!
Went into hospital on 15th to be induced but i had apparently already started so they let me carry on on my own... After 19 long hours my beautiful son was born and as you can imagine i have been kept busy by my lil man!! I have updated my sig for spends, i still have one week left in july but its looking promising. Just wondering if i can cut the budget even lower next month.. :-)

Suffolk_lass

In_it_not_to_giveitaway wrote: »

everything now has price labels on it. Cupboard stock has been depleted so that it is a mix of price-stickered and non-price-stickered items.

:T - OOH! Price stickers... Love that idea!! :T

jumblejack

Save £5 on your £35 shop at Aldi.

Pick up a voucher in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror (England and Wales) and Daily Record (Scotland) to save.

Paper costs 40p

SusanP_2

JJ... Foraging is on Superscrimpers...

I have only just got in and switched it on so will have to watch episode on catch up!

Brought a paddling pool in SM today, half price and thought a fun and apt treat in this weather!

What do peeps think of these Mr T petrol vouchers, worth changing SM shop for??

Hope you're all enjoying the sunshine...