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June 2013 Grocery Challenge

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  • 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!
    Grocery Challenge Feb 16 £346 /400
  • mildredalien
    mildredalien Posts: 1,057 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    Checking in with £177.07 spends from a £200 budget- very happy to be on budget this month!
    Savings target: £25000/£25000
    :beer: :T


  • DollyBongo
    DollyBongo Posts: 16 Forumite
    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
    DollyBongo
    March GC - £336.75/£300 oops! April GC - £370.83/£300 bigger oops!
    May GC - £237.82/£280. June GC - £277.38/£280. July GC - less said about that the better!!. Aug GC - £216.99/£200

    *In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me lay an invincible summer*
  • Coxy11
    Coxy11 Posts: 5,592 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Homepage Hero
    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
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  • minicooper272
    minicooper272 Posts: 2,131 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    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
    Ciaerda Posts: 60 Forumite
    I am declaring £311.82 for June really pleased came under budget, thank you everyone for keeping me motivated see you on July GC.
    Ciaerda:T
  • 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!
    2013 NSD 100. CC2014CC- £31.50/£135
    2014 NSD 86 so far - May 20/21
    2014 G/C spend £741.55 so far May £107.99/£91
    Debt Free - 30.05.13 Emergency tin - £1000
    June 23 - 9NSD
  • MrsCautious
    MrsCautious Posts: 1,621 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    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
    NickJW Posts: 680 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    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! :D 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!
    Grocery Challenge Jan 24 0/300

    Grocery Challenge 13 -spent £1453.06
    Grocery Challenge 12 -spent £1565.51
  • Mimmsie
    Mimmsie Posts: 37 Forumite
    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.
    Aiming to be debt free as of Sept 2013
    Loan amount owing £193.66/£774.64.
    Joined GC June 2013
    June 13 GC £345.93/£300
    July 13 GC/£200
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