June 2013 Grocery Challenge

mothershipton

closing this month on 314. Ive decided to go to when to the date we get paid rather than the end of month. Next month may be more expensive as a result!

mildredalien

Checking in with £177.07 spends from a £200 budget- very happy to be on budget this month!

DollyBongo

Whoo hoo! Final day of the challenge and I'm under budget - £277.38 out of £280. Very pleased.

Although I don't post very often, I keep up with the thread every day. Thanks for all the inspiration!

See you in July.

DollyB

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Declaring June a big fat fail at £481.54/£450 Never mind, onwards and upwards into July.....

This will be my last post on here so if you want to post a budget for July please do so on July's thread.

Many thanks everyone, see you over there!
Coxy

minicooper272

I had half an hour to kill yesterday before going to pick up something from someone near Tesc0, so wound up going in. I had some vouchers to use up before next weekend, so decided to just use them now, and spent a grand total of £17, but only about £9.50 of that was on food. Not sure whether to include that in this months food budget, or take it from next month, as I bought it knowing I wouldn't eat any of it this month (except the Ben & Jerry's!!) and it's just food I would have bought next week anyway!

Ciaerda

I am declaring £311.82 for June really pleased came under budget, thank you everyone for keeping me motivated see you on July GC.

lovefullshelves

3.00 on roadside strawberries,28.09 at asda for next weeks meals thats me over budget! Thats it for June so Im declaring an annoyed £429.23!

MrsCautious

I'm declaring at £194, £14 over my target of £180. I'm not beating myself up, happy to be under £200 and upping my budget to £200 for next month. I usually have a budget of £60 in my head each month for eating out but this month I'm counting that as £23, that includes a £1 bag of chips for me right at the start of the month, an Indian meal out for my daughters with some mates and some baked potato fillings we took for a shared meal with friends, so that's an improvement and overall a lower spend than hitting GC target and eating out more, last month £60 was one hit at Frankie's and Benny's.

NickJW

sheeppappar wrote: »

hello -- not sure if anyone is left on here but just popping to say a massive THANKYOU to NickJW. :T

Just been to M+S for dine in for £10..
Icelandic cod bake, new potatoes, strawberry + champagne cheesecake and a bottle of rose for tea tonight - receipt says full price was £18.97... £10 in the deal but £5 to me HURRAH! thanks to your tip about the Groupon deal earlier this month!! :j

It all tastes so much better when it's cheap too he hee!!

You're very welcome! Reminds me that I need to use mine up soon tbh. :j

Few spends to report:

£1.25 in Costcutter
£0.28 in Mr S (part paid with Nectar points)
£0.69 in Mr S
£0.50 in the corner shop
£2.28 in the corner shop (on unsalted cashew nuts for Saturday nights meal)

Meals this week have been/will be:

Monday (housemate cooked) - Chicken with RTC broccoli stir fry in a soy and sriracha sauce
Tuesday (housemate cooked) - Stuffed peppers (turkey mince, dill, other spices - was a batch in the freezer from a couple of weeks ago), cooked in passata served with roasted tomato and onion couscous and broccoli
Wednesday (housemate cooked) - Turkey mince meatball curry served with rice
Thursday (I cooked) - Mango chutney chicken served with spring onion and coriander couscous
Friday (I'll cook) - Tuna, Pepper, Olive, Tomato and Jalapeno pasta
Saturday (I'll cook) - Stir fried chicken and peppers with cashew and coriander rice.

Found that turkey mince works a lot better in meatball format rather than just fried like beef mince. In a use up mood at the moment, and next week I'll need to do another stock up since I'm running the meat stores completely bare!

Mimmsie

Spends in Mr M's on Wednesday of £9.74. £5 spent in Asda yesterday as well as some fruit and veg for £5. Well over now with still a few days to go in the month and a small shop still to do.