March 2013 Grocery Challenge

MissE001

Final declaration £156.07 / £180

This challenge has really helped keep me focussed - off to sign up for April...

Thanks for the thread and the motivation to fellow GCers :j

SilverBird_2

Spent £12.74 on fruit, veg and eggs. Just about managed to come in under budget

So, declaring a spend of £249.91 for March.

cw18

Nothing spent yesterday, and no chance to spend anything today.

Declaring month end at £144.53 from a budget of £211.50

Now have a credit balance for the year to date of £163.46 which is good news. But I expect next month to be tight as I'll be feeding my 3 GDs for almost 5 full days without having allowed any extra for it. Then at the start of May I start stocking up on expensive food items (mainly meat) from this years food festivals, which is when I expect the credit balance to get a real hammering


Just done my 'category' number crunching

as a percentage of my spend for the month, in January I spent 26.85% (£42.57) on junk/treats, 6.07% (£9.62) on fruit, 19.47% (£30.87) on veg, and 47.6% (£75.46) on everything else (fruit and veg combined = 25.54%/£40.49) - total spend = £158.52

as a percentage of my spend for the month, in February I spent 10.42% (£15.47) on junk/treats, 7.08% (£10.52) on fruit, 9.23% (£13.70) on veg, and 73.27% (£108.80) on everything else (fruit and veg combined = 16.31%/£24.22) - total spend = £148.49

as a percentage of my spend for the month, in March I spent 7.97% (£12.64) on junk/treats, 11.04% (£17.51) on fruit, 15.74% (£24.97) on veg, and 65.25% (£103.52) on everything else (fruit and veg combined = 26.78%/£42.48) - total spend (before deducting £14.11 of vouchers) = £158.64

Really pleased to see the spend on junk/treats has dropped again, both in terms of %age spend and actual cash parted with :T Was also pleased to see the spend on f&v had jumped as much as it did from last month and is more in line with January

Kitchenbunny

Evening. End of the month has rolled around and I didn't have the NSD I'd planned to have. Sadly spent £4.09 on some bits for lunch and some mushrooms for tea. Did have to get eggs as well. Oh well. Big shop should be Tuesday, although Mr KB wants to get some bits tomorrow as we are seriously short of stuff. Whoops.

The chicken and bacon pie is in the deconstructed stage, ready to assemble just before baking. All's well though. Declaring at end of March with £508.82 so far this year. £1.291.18 left for the year ahead.

April. Bring it on.

KB xx

MadamMim2013

Have had difficult few weeks & think we are a little over budget.
As I am now newly single I'm going to have to re adjust the budget completely as it'll be for me DS1, DS2 & 2 cats
So.. here's to April & new starts!!

brighteyes1987

Evening all,

Popping in to declare 147.28 / 150.00 :j
Made it just :rotfl:

Had a lovely lamb dinner at mums.

See everyone on the April thread.

Happy Easter

BE x

MrsCautious

Hey MrsGibbs here's a ((((((hug))))) x

Bluegreen143

MrsGibbs - hugs, hope you're ok x

prophecy_grrl

Swooping in to declare £119.82 out of £120 march budget a whole 18p under budget haha!

Mrs Gibbs - you'll get there. Hope you're holding up ok, sudden singledom is very scary but I promise you'll be ok x

P_grrl xxx

Karb

I'm declaring March as green with a spend of £190.70 against my target of £195 :j

I suspect it will be tough to hit my April target, as the stores are very low, but I need to be strict with my spending.