May 2014 Grocery Challenge

shell2001

Can you put me down for £500 please. This will be for 2 adults, 11 year old, 9 year old and the dog. Plus my mum will be visiting from 17th! DD1 is a veggie too. My budget includes all cleaning/personal care items also.


Have found shopping a Waitrose on way home from work on a Monday afternoon has been working for last few weeks and meat bulk bought for month from butcher and frozen. Our biggest problem is the "munchy" trips to local shop and coming out with £10 of junk in the basket. Hoping once kids back at school and gym restarted this will be a thing of the past - or will start writing up amounts being wasted in red on calendar and total up at end of month!.

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Budgets list done to here

Welcome:
Ellie BB

I will officially join you next Friday when DH gets paid. Good luck everyone for May

Coxy

Crowdpleaser

Im going to up mine to]260[/COLOR] actually. Am finding 250 too difficult. Thanks coxy x

Mrs-s_4

Really need to get back into budgeting as we have a new baby arriving in just over 6 weeks!
Can I go for £450 please. To feed 2 adults, a picky 4yr old and a nearly 2yr old! Including all nappies/wipes, toiletries, cleaning stuff too
Will be from now until May 25th!

just_the_two_of_us

Hi I'm in again please but need to work out the May budget.

I'm about to go back to Slimming World so can anyone out there who is doing SW let me know if their budget had to increase to cover the extra fruit and veggies and yoghurts, please?

PennyGrabber

I'm in for May, but until I know my final total for April, I won't know how much I have for May, as I think I'll have a roughly £20 overspend, for which I'll need to compensate in May .

Will follow both threads until May 1st.

PG x

Mama10

Hi iv messed up on April so just going to start afresh here until end of May. I have a monthly budget if £400 but to compensate for the 10 days left of this month I will allow myself a budget of £500fingers crossed that I get on a bit better this month!

lynnejk

Thanks Zippychick and Coxy11 for all the hard work you do on this thread.


Please can you put me down for £240 again.
I know I am under for April but going to try for as low as possible this month, average the year and then set a new target. Money is going to be very tight now until DH gets some more work hey ho.


I am still in the April thread until the bitter end but will pop over and keep an eye on the gossipx I mean news :rotfl:


Hope you all have a marvellous money-saving Monday
Lx

icontinuetodream

April was a complete blow out but going to do much better in May!!

Can you put me down for £300 this month please....thanks to everyone who runs the thread!!

StanwithaPlan

Hello, I've been lurking on MSE for ages and I'm finally about to start my DMP journey so the thought of not having the option of sticking a few bits on the credit card at the end of the month is no longer there!

I have been tracking my spending recently and would like to set a starting budget of £120 for May please - my aim is to keep it under £100 but have £20 contingency! This is for me and DS who is 6 and includes cleaning/washing stuff and cat food.

On payday I will withdraw the cash and keep it in a separate purse - this is something I have never done and think it will help focus my mind!

I shop once a weekish in Aldi so this should be doable