July 2013 Grocery Challenge

lizalloareds

Can you put me down for £240

this is the budget for 9th July-1st Aug

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Budgets done to here

Hello to our newbies/returners:
jumblejack, Curlytop40, lilian1977, CountingPennies, and pixiedust09

Good luck for July everyone.
Coxy

Ciaerda

Hi everyone, really enjoyed doing the June grocery challenge, which I am still doing but would like to do July's aswell. As I have done really well for June I am going to try for £350 as it is a five week month, good luck everyone.

mossy

Hello lovelies

Back after being awol for a little while, please put me down for a budget of £200. Will be back on tomorrow to update siggy etc. I have a plan and hope to stick to my budget this month!!

p.s Got a half shoulder of lamb joint for 10p last night at the evil empire. It was looking a little grey, but I'm sure after it's been in the slow cooker for a few hours and has been covered in tomatoes and herbs, it will turn in to a lovely lamb kleftico!! Nom nom nom....10p!!

AimingForBetter

Hello all

Could I be in again for July please - reducing right down to £200 this time, although aiming for actual max of £150-£175.

Have had a rough June so must keep spend to absolute minimum do have enough stocks in hand for a while so will mainly only need fruit, veg & milk (will be making my own bread again).

Going to try Aldi this week (never been before) and will be taking a MySupMkt printed list for my usual Sains purchases so can compare equivalents and prices.

Thanks to all and good luck to everyone.

AFB

MrsCautious

Hello,

I'd like to be in for July with £200 will be in June til end of calendar month.

This covers all household items, toiletries and food for me, two teenagers and a completely spoilt Jack Russell. It doesn't include eating out or petrol.

I've tried £180 the last couple of months, didn't manage it last month and have £10ish left this month with £5 worth of nectar points also available to spend.

We are going to South Africa to help children who have been orphaned by Aids and HIV on July 28, found out this week we will also be helping build a toilet. While we are there we will prepare meals for the children and their care workers of something called pap, which is like rice and water mixed together. I'm just mentioning this as you can imagine, it's making me and my children think about what we consume, seems so weird to be thinking out loud that I haven't managed to stick to £180 for the month when these kids are eating that every day.

Anyway another lot of wittering from me, sorry.

Thank you so much to everyone for running, maintaining and contributing to this thread, you have made a brilliant difference to our family.

Good luck Aimingforbetter I was shopping more in Aldi, but have slunk back to Sains for YS stuff, really should go back, fruit and veg is much better value I think, especially the Super Six.

Have a great weekend all, hope the sun is shining x

patentgirl

Morning everyone

Can I please be put down for £200 again but I am going to try to lower to £175 Only really shop in Aldi's now apart from odd few bits
Thanks everyone for running this thread x

AimingForBetter

Thanks MrsCautious

I have been wondering what the cost and quality of things are like at Aldi and thought I might as well go and find out! I have kept to Sains mainly as their basics stuff is good and for some of the YS stuff too (staff are always helpful and polite too!) also like to be able to use nectar points ad hoc instead of having to wait for vouchers.

Best of luck with with the project, it does bring things into perspective and makes us realise how lucky we actually are.

AFB

MrsCautious

AimingForBetter wrote: »

Thanks MrsCautious

I have been wondering what the cost and quality of things are like at Aldi and thought I might as well go and find out! I have kept to Sains mainly as their basics stuff is good and for some of the YS stuff too (staff are always helpful and polite too!) also like to be able to use nectar points ad hoc instead of having to wait for vouchers.

Best of luck with with the project, it does bring things into perspective and makes us realise how lucky we actually are.

AFB

Let us know how you get on
Another reason I stopped is because I'm racking up points on a nectar credit card which helps me get at least £35 a month for the time being off my shopping and Aldi doesn't take credit cards. I don't think there's any getting away from the fact quality is great at Aldi and prices so much cheaper on lots of things but mine is also further away so I'm thinking about petrol too. I personally have found making the most of Offers, basics and boosting points elsewhere has been enough to keep me at Sainsburys. Don't have Tesco near and not a big fan of Asda x

All of that said I have no doubt that had I shopped more in Aldi these last weeks my budget would be more on target, pizza and ice cream are 2 things that spring to mind as really nice but much better value and fruit juice better on cost, bags of salad. Bread was 55p a loaf and I bought Sains this week for 50p or YS for 19p.

AimingForBetter

MrsCautious wrote: »

Let us know how you get on
Another reason I stopped is because I'm racking up points on a nectar credit card which helps me get at least £35 a month for the time being off my shopping and Aldi doesn't take credit cards. I don't think there's any getting away from the fact quality is great at Aldi and prices so much cheaper on lots of things but mine is also further away so I'm thinking about petrol too. I personally have found making the most of Offers, basics and boosting points elsewhere has been enough to keep me at Sainsburys. Don't have Tesco near and not a big fan of Asda x

All of that said I have no doubt that had I shopped more in Aldi these last weeks my budget would be more on target, pizza and ice cream are 2 things that spring to mind as really nice but much better value and fruit juice better on cost, bags of salad. Bread was 55p a loaf and I bought Sains this week for 50p or YS for 19p.

Thanks MrsC, will do - I'm looking forward to it (I probably need to get out more!)

I'm lucky in that the store is not any further than Sains so no extra petrol cost and I just want to see if I can reduce our spend further.

Since being on the challenge we have already made huge reductions by better focus on only buying what we need (lost it a bit in June and it's gone way over) and I want to see how much more we can lower the spending without really noticing the difference.

I've not been on here much lately but love the GC thread and the OS board generally, I've missed it lots and will try to look in everyday.

Thanks everyone.

AFB