September 2012 Grocery Challenge

alibob_1986

It's my first time doing this, I'd like to put in a budget for £150 please. This is for 2 people, me and my 3 year old. I think it's a little more than I will spend, but as a first go I'm just going to give a rough estimate and see how I go! It's only the first of the month and I have already gone into it though. Although, is this purely groceries, or does it include buying lunches out or going for meals? ETA - Actually, this is paying for one adult, one child and one very greedy cat!

EverTheOptimist

Another £18.73 today.

Have got the MIL coming for lunch tomorrow, so will be making some kind of chicken casserole, but we made the decision late this evening, so popped to local Mr T. to stock up on ingredients, dessert. and then milk, juice etc too.

Loved the look of your Chili JJ that may make it on to my meal plan soon.

Bluegreen143

alibob_1986 wrote: »

It's my first time doing this, I'd like to put in a budget for £150 please. This is for 2 people, me and my 3 year old. I think it's a little more than I will spend, but as a first go I'm just going to give a rough estimate and see how I go! It's only the first of the month and I have already gone into it though. Although, is this purely groceries, or does it include buying lunches out or going for meals? ETA - Actually, this is paying for one adult, one child and one very greedy cat!

Hi - it's up to you if you want to include lunches/eating out. I don't because me and the OH have a joint account and only use it for groceries/toiletries/household stuff; we use our own spending money out of our personal accounts to pay for eating out, so it just seems natural to me not to include it as it's a separate bank account for me. Just do what works best for you!

Just want to add a small spend of £1.78. Mr M had sold out of coke when I went earlier (!) and OH won't drink the cheap stuff. I ended up buying two bottles of P*psi at the little Mr T near me as it was only 89p a 2 ltr bottle or for the C*ca Cola it was 2 bottles for £3 - nearly twice the price! He will drink P*psi begrudgingly though he was a bit sad about it, I have to say :rotfl:

Made veggie lasagne and had OH's lovely garlic and rosemary bread with it:



Lasagne has roasted carrot, courgette and pepper in it, as well as spinach and obviously chopped toms/onion. Fairly healthy (well, for lasagne!). Normally have salad with it but decided on the garlic bread as a treat to OH :cool:

jumblejack

gettingready wrote: »

Where is that stop smoking thread?

Can anyone point me to it please?

Hmmmmm

:T:j:beer::money::T:A:)


Yay:j:j:j:j

We will all support you!!!!!!!!


You are a star!!!!!

Good on ya!!!!!!!!!


:A:A:A:A

Suffolk_lass

gettingready wrote: »

Where is that stop smoking thread?

Can anyone point me to it please?

Hmmmmm

Here's one - it's a giving up smoking collective diary

Soworried wrote: »

Have you tried the one less per day method? Write down over the next few days how many you are having, then reduce it by 1 each day. It slowly reduces the cravings making the final stop easier to deal with.

When I gave up, I lit the cigarette to satisfy the urge, then after 2-3 puffs I felt guilty so I put it out. I did this for about 2 weeks and then cut down to 5 a day and then stopped. I think I got a cough and couldn't and then just didn't start again. Over 20 years ago now!

Good luck if you go for it

SL

gettingready

Ginger cats rulezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

My George giving Zara a much nede massage...



I had a ginger boy Tiger but he had to be PTS (kidney cancer) about 2 years ago - he is the one in my avatar with Zara..

George is very different to Tiger but .. wowwwwww

I want to see photos of your new cats ..

pixie1

$500 for me this month please. This will have to feed myself, hubs and a very greedy cat plus all cleaning products and any food that we eat out.

Time to tighten our belts i think!

Good luck everyone

Pix

MissOrganised1972

Sorry, just had a catch up read & so my replies are a little delayed!

mossy wrote: »

Have you tried their mince before? What is it like? I saw it today and it was a good price and looked good but mince is one thing I tend to be fussy about. If it's gristly it puts DD off anything with mince in it for weeks!

I have bought both the steak mince & regular beef mince & found them both to be just fine

helenathena wrote: »

Ah I see! If I think it's a good deal I'm happy to share, likewise I'll name and shame the rip offs:beer:

Quick question, do you guys include eating and drinking out in the grocery budget or is that separate?

Like others have said, it's each to their own. For us, we have no spare cash, so everything is budgeted. DH & I do not keep our money separate but we do have 'spending money' each, each month (which we are very childish & territorial over :rotfl:). This has to pay for socialising, clothes, sport etc but everything you would expect to buy from a SM goes in the grocery budget! HTH!

Had a NSD yesterday & expect another today

Sad as it sounds, I am quite looking forward to today. I am a bit of an Organising Annie & will hopefully be getting organised today! Got to sew the remainder of labels on new school clothes, wash all school clothes, strip our bed, do the ironing, batch cook with my big pack of mince, catch up on my paperwork,....... The list goes on but I love the feeling of striking one more completed job off the list!

Have a great Sunday!

skilly

Morning all ,just a small spend so far of £1.30 this morning :-)

mossy

Had some friends pop over yesterday who stayed for tea so a slight adjustment to the meal planner and a nip out to the shops.

But I was good though and only picked up what was on the list plus one item which was some savoury cheese biscuits for our lunch supply/picnic to take on Wednesday when we go to watch the Paralympics!! :j:j:j So excited!!!!!

Spends were £6.11, that did include two bottles of pear cider requested by DH, he will ruin my spending if I let him!! However the 'cidre' ones were on offer and he likes the advert so bought those which saved a quid. :beer:

Right need to have a quick 30 minute tidy then get ready for Church and possibly a quick dive into Lidl to see if they have the Turkey in. Last day of the Summer Holidays for me as Monday and Tuesday will be spent doing home visits to the new children in Reception. Wednesday off (Paralympics baby!! ) as it's an inset day and only Teachers need to be in and then kids back on Thursday. I think I'm going to be very tired by the weekend!!

Have a lovely Sunday.