August 2012 Grocery Challenge

Picklepud

Hello can i join in please I am a tryer and read this thread all the time but keep failing!! i would like to be put down for £400 that is for 4 adults and a dog and cat I would like to start from tomorrow as that is when my month starts. I really need to do this spending out of control

vintageflowers1

Hi, I'm new here! Could I join? It's my first time attempting, but we really need to control our spending! I'm going to set a budget of £200 for 2 adult, 1 toddler, 2 dogs and 2 guinea pigs! I'm just pulling it out of thin air, so I'm not sure how well we will be able to stick to it! Ideally we need to spend less than that, so hopefully it'll be okay!

In_it_not_to_giveitaway

Hi,

I will try to meet a budget of £177 again in August. My month runs from 26th July to 25th August.

Understand the basics now, just a question of discipline and focus. I really do think that not coming on the thread once a day meant concentration wavered. People on here are so friendly and motivated that it is infectious. Just had a very busy financial year end and lost the plot a little.

Many thanks,

meg72

elsiepac wrote: »

Hi everyone

July has gone horribly wrong financially in every which way... need to start afresh in August!

I will pledge £70 for August - I literally cannot go above that! :eek:

This is just for me, to include groceries, household products and any non-prescription meds (like hayfever tabs...I get the eye drops and nasal spray on prescription which is free for me).

Dry goods fairly well stockedf - not brilliant but could be worse!

I will be trying to make use of the website I found which I think is just fantastic - it's a meal planning website with great recipes and automatic shopping lists...

http://resourcefulcook.com

My new favourite site!

LC

Sorry its beeen a tough July but chin up you can do it, you did so well before.Second this site there are some great recipes and I love the shopping list to print off, saves me taxing this poor old brain.

little_miss_moneysaver_3

Hello all! :wave:

Hope everyone is well and not too hot.Thank you for the nice new thread

For August my budget will be
Little_Miss_Moneysaver £200

To include cat stuff, food for two, household stuff and any toiletries (hopefully very few as stockpiled massively). Also having four relative staying for a week next week (3 adults and a teenager) I do have plenty of food, but it's hard to know how it will work out. Where possible I will try and gather even more tins/dried stuff. This is my last full pay packet as will start my maternity leave in a couple of weeks :eek:

Have been a bit naughty and only just read from the beginning. My month started on Monday although I went to c0stco at the weekend to take advantage of some offers, got lots of washing up liquid, toilet rolls, kitchen rolls and crisps! Don't ask about the crisps :mad: Also got my Mr T order yday. included some more stockpiling of pasta, rice and tinned tomatoes. Also an extra two bags of cat litter and handsoap.

So far I've spent in MrT £84.65 and C0stco 30.24 so £114.89. will update my siggy now. Have got my meal planner too so am on track

Sorry for the long rambling post

sjprmc01

O/T but how do I do a signature?

I want in it my gc details

sjprmc01

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helen_jelly

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

XSpender

£10.90 spent in Mr S tonight on a small amount of fruit for tomorrow and Friday for me, bread for DH and DS, a pack of turkey steaks, GF stuffing and a naughty pack of half price fruit gums oh and 4 reduced GF apple pies to try. The pies are yummy and I would have bought another packet as they had a long date if I knew they were nice.

I used £5 of nectar points so adding £6 to my total to include 10p for a cup of tea at work.

I have discovered I can get hot water and milk (in a big c0sta style paper cup) at work for 10p saving me nearly a fiver a week on tea.

Meal plan has gone a bit skewhiff this week. We haven't been buying alternatives just not eating the proper meals I had planned and filling up on snacks and then not fancying what was planned. Schoolgirl and boy error:o Back to normal next week and I will be finishing work earlier so more time to prepare something decent for when DH gets in.

savesummore

NSD for me :j

Been out on the road today with my boss :eek: plus side is he paid for lunch

Also out with work tomorrow night for a meal and again work paying

Who said there wasnt such a thing as a free lunch :rotfl:

Am trying to meal plan for next week but really want to hear a weather forecast first!! Its so hard to plan what to eat with our English Summer weather- its baking hot one day, peeing it down the next