September 2012 Grocery Challenge

madkoi

Can I join too please? Ive tried the grocery challenge a few years back, so this will be almost new to me again! Please put me down for £280 for a month starting tomorrow 24th. Already have things in the cupboard etc so will see how I go.
Gonna try to be frugal, make lunches for work, make meals from stratch & dont make unneccessary trips to the supermarket!
2 Adults, 1 Toddler & 1 cat!

MrsCD

Thank you Zippy, Pink, Rosie & Helen for all your hard work keeping this thread up and running :T
Helen, we all hope you will still pop in to say hello, even if you're not 'managing' us.

Please can I try for £75 per week again. My September starts on 3rd Sept, as I'm working on weekly figures, so I'm still on the August thread for now, but will try to keep up with everone here!

PennyGrabber

I've just read in the paper today that energy prices will go up by 9% over the winter... More savings needed here, methinks!!

Just a purchase of shampoo today for my gc. Went with a friend, and that always makes me spend less. Going by myself makes me stock up.

September will be my most frugaltastic month of the year to date. I'm going for £60, which is about £15 per week. All I need is fruit veg and milk.

Mortgage_Reduction_Novice

Hi, I'd like to join in please.

I totted up a 6th July to 6th August which came to £273.39 so I'd like to aim for below £250 for September.


I'm a bimonthly Costco shopper (last visit was a week ago), the freezer needs defrosting and we have a steady supply of onions and marrows from the veggie patch. With those things in mind, I'll be focusing my meal plans/shopping lists to use up what we already have.

missmucksmum

missmucksmum wrote: »

Can I join too please I would like to put £250 as really not sure how much I spend over the month and £50 a week seems a good first target for a family of four I plan on doing batch cooking and stock up my store cupboard and freezer too my month starts 24th of August running to 28th so 5 weeks altogether this will be interesting! x

Forgot to mention we have 2 kittens and their food is £6 a week and 2 bunnies and 5 baby bunnies anybody want one?....as a pet lol) their food is about £3 per week this will be included on my shopping budget

MoneyQueen

I like the idea of starting with the challenge from 23rd rather than 1st as thats when DH is paid and all the grocery shopping is done with his card. My month will run from 23rd Aug to 22nd Sep. Can I have a budget of £120 please? This will include everything for me and DH including toiletries and eating out once a month.We had a budget of £160 in August and have around £60 left from that so £120 for September should be do-able I think.

Thanks
MQ

MoneyQueen

I have done a Tesco shop today and will go to WholeFoods and Lidl tomorrow
Total spend £10.53. I have updated my signature

MQ

Allypops

Can I try again please? I tried a while back but things went a little, well when I say little I mean a lot, awry!:eek:

Anyway, with renewed enthusiasm and with the grocery budget dates based around my payday (24th - 24th) I want to try and keep the grocery spends to £350 This is for 2 adults and 2 kids and includes toiletries. I have just done a big shop and stocked up on some things so it should be doable this month with a little bit of wriggle room

So my September grocery budget challenge starts tomorrow and I am going to try my best to stick with it this time :A

Ally

Mrs_Addicted_to_Spending

Hi thanks to everyone for running the thread :T!!

Welcome to all Newbies .

Please can you put me down for £300 for the month - thank you.

Just a very small point on the recipes at the front - I found Tuna Lasagne by looking under Tuna as I had some tuna in and wanted ideas - I'm not sure I'd have found it under lasagne recipes as I wouldn't have thought to look there. Like I say, a very minor point.

DaisyDayDream

Hello all

Can I join please, having difficulty keeping control of the food budget, just appears to increase week on week!!

My month will run from Aug 29th to Sept 24th and will include food, toiletries, cleaning stuff, treats etc for me, DH, one dog and one cat.

Going to start with a budget of £250, which seems a huge amount when you write it down.

Mum is taking me to c**tco next week to do a large stock up of toilet rolls etc, so I'm off to meal plan and get organised. Have enough in till then to keep us going.

D