April 2013 Grocery Challenge

rowsew

Declaring for April £215.85. Only 85p over this month, a great relief. Onwards to May .....

BeckyC2be

Well, last day of this month's GC for me. Haven't updated the sig for a while but I went about £18 over budget, which really wasn't bad as I had set it extremely low. Had fun using up everything in the cupboards ad freezer though and got lots of brill ideas,

Thanks guys, and see you in May

january_23

We spent £24.34 yesterday so we are £2.51 under budget for the month, yay.

April total £137.49/140

Nicky_Noo_Na

MrsCautious wrote: »

Spent £4.04 in Aldi on salad, cucumber, apples, cream and a packet of licorice allsorts that must have jumped in to my basket by themselves.

So that's me done for April. I can declare at £195.82 for the month, just under my £200 target, less than half of what I was spending on groceries for the three of us and the dog, without thinking about it a few months ago.

Thank you for all the help for me to do that x

Wow, for 3+dog thats brilliant - any tips?

K9sandFelines

Declaring £386.53/£350, so an overspend of £36.53, finishing with a NSD. Not happy as i upped the amount this month due to birthdays and half term, and still went over. This month i am trying not to get roped into deals and coupons unless i actually need them. I am another food hoarder, and would like to become the opposite.

Tea tonight was Jamaican chicken, green beans and sweet potato chips which was lovely.


Off over to May GC, good luck all!

Wentthedaywell?

This was my first month. I'm £13 overspent, but I'm really working to an annual rather than monthly budget. I've saved about £70 on my usual spend, so thanks to all of you for keeping me on the straight and narrow!

Now for May!

Scarlet1982

I came under budget this month i aimed for £200 as I've previously been spending around £250 - £300 a month far too much. I need to aim to spend about £25 a week if i want to save some cash for holiday.

My total spend for the month was £160.38. I'm gonna aim to spend £150 next month.

MrsCautious

Nicky_Noo_Na wrote: »

Wow, for 3+dog thats brilliant - any tips?

Thank you, do you think? I'm thinking we could go a fair bit lower I have surprised myself, I think we are eating better than we were before, I've just lost a long post I'd written with some tips, £&@"!? phone, I will pop back tomorrow and list some things we have changed again. I can bore for England on the subject, one thing I would say though is that although toiletries and cleaning stuff are included in this, I've cut right down to use up what we have xxx

Frogletina

Declaring 62.82 out of a budget of £100

Looking back at some of my purchases I can see some of them I have not needed this month. In May I only want to buy what I will be using during the month.

mummyyof5

Havent been posting but totally up my reciepts I have come in just under budget at £198...Will stick with £200 for May too...hoping to go whoopsie hunting Thursday night,havent been for ages xx