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August 2013 Grocery Challenge

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  • Sequeena
    Sequeena Posts: 4,728 Forumite
    £11.17 today. Up to £213.80/£250. 5 days to go got £36.20 left.
    Wife and mother :j
    Grocery budget
    April week 1 - £42.78 | week 2 - £53.05
    24lbs in 12 weeks 15/24
  • Suffolk_lass
    Suffolk_lass Posts: 10,291 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited 1 September 2013 at 7:35AM
    We've had a good month, managing on £99.50 spend out of my averaged annual budget of £300 but I must not get complacent. We were away for nearly two weeks of August.

    Also we have been living out of the garden - loads of beans and peas, potatoes, carrots, onions, beetroot, spinach, sweetcorns, tomatoes and cucumbers but the strawberries are finished and almost no apricots or plums this year (think the farmers growing rape this year took all the bees at the crucial time).

    On to September for us.
    All the best
    SL
    Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
    OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
    I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
    My new diary is here
  • Mrs-s_4
    Mrs-s_4 Posts: 87 Forumite
    Declaring at £255.76/£250 which I think is pretty good for my first ever GC! See you in the September thread.
    January Grocery challenge - £165.31/£350
  • NickJW
    NickJW Posts: 680 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    Final spends of the month

    £1.89 in Mr S yesterday
    £1.29 in Mr S on Friday
    £1 in the gym on a bottle of Lucozade Sport yesterday

    Brings my total spend to just £75.15/£130 :j

    Very pleased with that, but September will be more expensive because I'm running out of nearly everything at the same time.

    Well done everyone!
    Grocery Challenge Jan 24 0/300

    Grocery Challenge 13 -spent £1453.06
    Grocery Challenge 12 -spent £1565.51
  • Puddickle
    Puddickle Posts: 34 Forumite
    Hi everyone,

    We had a very good month and I'm pleased to say we managed to smash our target of £450 for the month with a total spend of £280.86!!

    Hoping for a similar September!
    CC debt £2,528.65/£31,193.22 - Slowly plugging away
  • meg72
    meg72 Posts: 5,164 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts I've been Money Tipped!
    declaring at 70.00 which is quite high for me but bought a load of YS meat and veg and then realised the date I am actually 6 days over my usual date of the 24th. so not bad at all, as I have enough meat for the next couple of months (including a 2kg beef joint for Xmas.) and only 24 days to go, take away 4 chippy teas with my DGS and 4 Sunday lunch at my brothers so only 16 dinners for September.
    Slimming World at target
  • Sequeena
    Sequeena Posts: 4,728 Forumite
    £2.55 spend today on dog food. Will update sig. So ready for this month to be over to start again.
    Wife and mother :j
    Grocery budget
    April week 1 - £42.78 | week 2 - £53.05
    24lbs in 12 weeks 15/24
  • Nicky_Noo_Na
    Nicky_Noo_Na Posts: 763 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    £1 to add to my August total as I forgot I had to pop back the shops y'day for some apples.
  • barneydee_2
    barneydee_2 Posts: 318 Forumite
    Want to declare for August £304.47 which is £54.47 over my target but better by far what I usual spend so getting there . Have updated my signature so I'm know in September .Dee x
    July grocery challenge £250.00/£408.93
    August grocery challenge£350.00
    2/8£28.46
  • mrs-moneypenny
    mrs-moneypenny Posts: 15,519 Forumite
    going to declare £414.36 for August

    and put myself down for £400 again in September

    thank you to the keeper of the totals and everyone else who posts ideas support etc in these monthly threads
    SPC~12 ot 124

    In a world that has decided that it's going to lose its mind, be more kind my friend, try to Be More Kind
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