October 2012 Grocery Challenge

Alwaysthebusybee

Please can you remove me I haven't been able to track my spends so far this year. I am on the yearly list.

Thank you for all your hard work updating the thread. I find the recipes very useful

craigywv

big shop today mr t, b&m, £ shop 67.54gor loads of grub/veg and a few presents will update sig.

digging

£150 for October budget for me please.

pixiedust09

Thanks for the new thread . I went over budget last month,:eek: so want to try doubly hard this month. Even though we are away for 5 days self catering, I'd still like to aim for £260 for the month starting 3oth sept. Did stock up on meat today so shouldn't need to buy too much of that in October.

rupe34

After my first month of the GC I am completely hooked!! Although don't finish last month til Sunday, can you put me down for £300 for October please? Thank you

Suffolk_lass

Businessgirl wrote: »

Well today was pay day and off to Lidl I went. £36 later (along with flabbergasting the till check out guy with my constant exclamations of 'but thats 1/3 of my budget!' - but I got home and reassured myself that I DID buy well..and all is ok with the budget! I do love Lidl.

I also arrived home to a notice from the postoffice saying something I'd purchased online from the USA had arrived but I had to pay £11 customs duty on it. I'm contacting the company as I paid rather exhorbitant fees for postage on it in the first place and its only a tiny parcel!

Not happy.

Other than that...alls well in my world. I've got some chocolate and nuts so making chocolate covered cocoa nib and nut drops later... thats my treats for the next few weeks sorted!

meg72 wrote: »

Hi I feel for you I had a 13.00 customs charge because I thought I would save on postage I bought two of the same item, it seems you are now only allowed to buy something for 13.00, if I had made two separate buys I would not have incurred the charge, postage is not counted in this, thankfullly as I would have had to pay more custom charge.

There's some really good guidance here on the HMRC web site about buying goods on the internet. From memory for these small purchases the majority of your payment is the handling fee charged by the postal operator - £8 last time I paid. What you are paying is the VAT and their costs to contact you, store your goods, and then process your payment and deliver to you (none of which is passed on by the Company you buy from.

Gorgeestwo

Hi haven't kept up with this challenge at all for the last couple of months but again need to really cut our spending :mad: so have put us down for £250 October. Our first October spend will be on Friday.

Good luck to everyone. x

Duvessa

Can I join please I'd like to try £200 for 2 adults and 2 kids. I brew my own wine so that's not a big cost but take aways when I can not be bothered to cook are my big down fall.

xxlouisexx56

Can I be put down for £230 for this month please. Me, DP and 2 DD's one of whom is in nappies.

We have a week away in October all inclusive but it's also half term when we get back so grocery spends should still be about the same and I can get a couple of extra bits in towards Xmas

sneakyspender

I have posted on septembers thread but will go for275[/COLOR][/COLOR]in october. That is for 2 adults,2 children.Not including booze or cleaning stuff.

First spend today was £58 in Mr M. Have meal planned for one week from today and only need meat, which I buy from the butcher