October 2012 Grocery Challenge

Nicky_Noo_Na

Well I've been away for a long weekend so my spends came out of hol money but was pleasantly surprised at hubbys spends at the weekend, £2.46 on fruit & 30p on YS bread (yes really, thats all!) - should let him be in charge more often! (although I did also leave him some lovingly prepared home made meals). Also a £1 spend on milk last night so can declare underbudget!! woop woop.

See you all in November....

Bluegreen143

Make-it-3 wrote: »

Hi, Happy Halloween all GCers.

Last few receipts to add up and I'm declaring for October at £219/£200 so about 10% over. But there was the Halloween party to cater for.

I'm making OH eyeball pasta tonight - always do something silly for halloween http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/12856/eyeball-pasta

See you in November

Haha love it!

Have been a bit AWOL as its OH's week to d the shopping/cooking. He's spent over his target but takes extra out of his own money. So I might as well declare at £220/£220 (Rounded up as I was less than £1 under and can't remember exactly) as November begins tomorrow but won't have any spends until Sunday

Thinking of aiming for £210 next month, a very small reduction but it is getting increasingly difficult to cut back further! Have a busy weekend planned to not sure when I'll do my usual baking/shopping/soup making routine lol.

xx_Jo_xx

Hi all,

Im still here plodding along in the background... and thankfully still under budget

I have had some small spends but cant remember if I have included them in my posts already! I will need to go back and check then update my signature.

Receipts all in my purse though until Im sure Ive counted them

£1.15 - Mushrooms
£4.30 - Crisps for school and fruit + Bday card and cake


I do need milk but other than that I think Im ok for a few days. My budget though is until the 10th and it seems soooo far away with so little budget left :eek:

Total spend £238.55
Left to spend £11.45

1step-at-a-time

Ended on £165.87 from budget of £200.00 :-) The freezer is now totally empty bar half a bag of oven chips and some streaky bacon though so next month won't be quite so cheap! Thankfully still lots in the store cupboards so maybe a more vegetarian month for November.

meanmarie

Declaring at €175 for October.....spent more on food but out of a different budget

Onwards and upwards for November

Marie

meg72

Declaring under budget and wil be keeping to my 20.00 a week for November.

becksfaz

I spent £42 yesterday which means I have gone over budget.... however I did this on purpose cos I needed to spend over £40 in order to achieve an xmas voucher so I'm not disheartened. Spent my extra spends wisely on 4 packs of reduced Lishman's sausage for only 75p each and got loads of stock cupboard things so got things that I know will be useful.

Honey_Bear

Declaring a total spend of £52.94 for October, so I'm over by £3.94. However, the reason the budget was so low for October was that I had spent part of the budget on 30 September (which shows a huge overspend). Overall, I cut down from £150 which was always going to be tricky for the first month, and then cut £1 a week thereafter, until it was comfortably at £140 by November. I've averaged £145 so I'm as chuffed as a chuffed thing even though the figures look a bit grim. Doing the GC has stopped me spending a great deal more, with £5 here and £5 there on a regular basis. Brilliant.

CupOfChai

Well my total spend for October was £176.41 out of a budget of £165, so I have gone over this month. Never mind, to try and try again in November!

becksfaz

Just added up my totals (using bank statement as ALL spends are accurate then).... I finished October at £171.94/£150 so £21.94 over. Not disheartened at all as needed to spend over £40 last week to collect my Xmas voucher and I've had a really good stock cupboard month = bulging cupboards = one happy becks!!!!
See you in Nov xxx