August 2012 Grocery Challenge

Mrs_Addicted_to_Spending

Hello to all Newbies and welcome to the thread!

Thanks Jumblejack - I've bought the Da!ly M!rror today to get my £5 off A!di voucher which I'm going to spend tomorrow as we will be near one - yay! (how sad is that ). Hopefully that means we'll keep within budget next week, as we have a tight month - you never know!

WantToBeSE

Thank you Mrs Addicted To Spending.

KatyReed+5

Ok here we go my 2nd month of GC starts today. my 1st was a bit of a disaster but i've learnt a lot so hoping August will be my month, the older 2 will be going to their mums every other week so that will probably help, but it is my daughters 4th birthday at the end of August so that might impact a bit, hopefully not

Katy, X

DebtFree2012

Hi all

Just about to catch up with new thread. I've just finished my first month at £18 over my 150 budget so pleased with that.

Can I go for £150 again this month - thank you

CaroleM_3

Morning all,

I'm joining with a max grocery budget of £190 to last from today to the 30th August.

I recorded all spends last month and it came to £223.30. Which is a little scary since our family is only 2 adults, 1 child (who's only with us every other weekend) and 1 cat.

I haven't been on MSE for several years but have been keeping up with the 'good behaviour' so when I realised in June that our grocery shopping was utter madness I knew exactly where to come . So in July I read the Groccery Challenge thread religiously (for inspiration) and tracked all my spends, and now I'm here properly.

I wont be posting much as I dont have a laptop at home at the moment and am limited by how much I can use the internet at work - but I will still be working hard at this, even when I'm being quiet on the thread .

rosieben

I've just added the £7 a week - meal ideas thread to out front page list (Useful OS threads). a really useful thread with ideas for menu planning and recipes.

milliemonster

Well I used the £5 aldi voucher today so my aldi shop came to £34.67, I also spent £11 on meat from the butcher and another £10.16 in Morrisons and another £7.40 in B&M on cereals we needed to stock up on so a total of £63.23, not a fantastic start as I didn't stick to my list and bought a few extras but will try to claw it back next week.

savesummore

Hi

First proper spend for August for me today

£30 A*da- I didnt seem to need/get alot for this but always feel this way at the min when I go to the big 4 sm's!!

£9.40 2nd purse

£2.70 on 2 hotdogs for me and OH whilst out :eek:

Oh I did get some reduced mince 1000g large pack reduced from £6.25 to £4.20 so that was quite good

Still some sepnds to come tomorrow in A*di and the market

Have a good day all

Money_Fritter

Hi Folks,

Can I join please.

Can you put me down for £100 for the whole month of August.

Money Fritter

tigerfeet2006

sjprmc01 wrote: »

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helen_jelly wrote: »

Hi and welcome to all our new joiners, post regularly and then you'll soon be in the swing of it, check out post 1 with Spiggles excellent bit and don't forget to look at the recipe posts collated by the wonderful Rosieben.

Budgets noted to here and I'll update the front page soon

sjprmc01 - great name and well done on doing your siggy bit

Helen x

Please would you mind enlightening me what it means and well done sjprmc01 on sorting your siggy out.

Mrs_Addicted_to_Spending wrote: »

Hi thanks for putting me down for £370 this month . I've just got back from 2 lovely days in Bath with my family so need to catch up with everyone's posts. I've spent £71 of the budget so far but I don't think we need much else this week.

I love Bath, it is a beautiful city. In fact yesterday I spent the evening at the Spa, courtesey of a voucher I had for Christmas and then spent a very pleasurable hour chatting [STRIKE]up[/STRIKE] to the rather nice barrista with the cheeky smile in a coffee shop whilst sipping a very scrumptious cup of coffee, before winging my way back home to my gorgeous husband

Welcome to all the Newbies and good luck with your grocery challenges.

I am still trying to spend as little as possible in the time I have left before we fly out. As I reported on the other thread I have spent £110 in 17 days.