May 2014 Grocery Challenge

smokies

OMG I spent way too much yesterday in Asd* - but my cupboards are fully stocked and I did bulk buy the cat food, so I should be ok if I watch the spends this month....


Had an unexpected trip to Durham today to pick up DD from the train station and DH did buy me lunch...... Durham is such a lovely city.....


well I better go and get ready hubby is taking out for a few cheeky drinks and to listen to so live music...


take care

Suffolk_lass

Oh dear, I seem to have hit my complacency/smug filter. I have been thinking I now have this sussed and all has been going very well so far this year then all of a sudden I spent an extra £35.70 having "popped in" for some soft fruit for breakfasts and spotted a very special whoopsie ("only"!!) £7.99 for lobster. I must be certifiable. And some Haagen Dazs ice cream (hangs head in shame). I had already bought some lovely cheese yesterday in the local butchers - they do have a beautiful deli section and it is a long weekend...

Well that's it. We can stay in and eat lobster instead of going to the cinema as the sell by date is today and it is seafood. Back to the gardening now.

SL

minicooper272

I've now spent £33.30 of my £70 budget for May. Sounds a lot, but then that includes pre-payment for 2 veg boxes that I've not sent off for yet. I don't really need any more meat for the month, so it's just the cheap, perishables.

cw18

Happygreen wrote: »

Do people normally count luxuries like wine and pet food in?

Totally down to individual choice. I don't drink or have pets so those categories don't effect me, but when I did have a dog his expenses were a separate budget. I've also never included household cleaning or toiletry items, nor any type of medications (over the counter or prescription) which some others do.


Food festival yesterday cost me £35.32 (£5 on 2 jars of honey fudge sauce, £7.50 on 3 jars of preserves, £5 on 2 packs of sausages, £8.49 on cheese and £9.33 on two sponge puddings. OH and I split the cost of multi-buy offers on the jars of sauce and the sponge puddings). OH also spent £1.20 on a couple of (very) large iced fingers, so I spent 90p on a tub of whipping cream on the way home (and then opened a jar of jam as well, so we had delicious iced splits for supper . But I couldn't resist checking clearance while picking up the cream, so ended up spending a furtther £1.85 on 3 Pukk@ pies, a pack of mini scotch eggs and a large tub of cheese & onion sandwich filler (an all time favourite of mine). I also spend 95p on (more) milk for DS1.


So that's a total of £39.02 added to my signature. I've now spent a significant chunk of this months budget and we're not even a week in :eek:

XSpender

My total is now £48.28 and includes a pizza bought by DH, a meal deal from b00ts and a few essentials like cheese. I have decided to exclude alcohol from this total and the cook book I bought. The booze always skews my total and I am trying to use up my freezer this month so want to track food spends separately.

My meal plan for the next week is:

S - either HM pizza or sausages and wedges (just me as DH is out)
M - pork, roasts and frozen veg
T - chorizo and sun dried tomato risotto
W - sausages and wedges
Th - party tea as DS birthday
F - on hols/at mums

Lunches will be chicken wraps for DH and random use-it-up stuff for me. I can see me having some odd concoctions this week;). I will need salad and fruit for lunches and stuff for the party tea and cake but everything else is in. I will also need a few bits for our s/c hol but I am using a £10 off £70 for this and to restock the freezer.

Florenceem

Spends of £23.85 today. We stocked up on Glucosamine in 99p shop. Got lots of the SS tomatoes & beetroot too.

philsmum

Please will you put me down for £250.00 this month.

Make-it-3

Kicked off May with first spends yesterday - £3 on milk and lotto - didn't win - hence still here today.

So that's £77/ £80 left.

craigywv

mealplan for next week Monday ..FLO/GOK FRIED CHICKEN AND HAM RICE AND CURRY SAUCE.TUESDAY..SAUSAGES AND HM CHIPS AND BEANS..WED..SPAG BOL AND HM GARLIC BREAD.THURS...FISH,PEAS AND HM BREAD..FRI..GARLIC CHICKEN,GARLIC BABY POTS AND LOADS OF VEG..SAT..HM PIZZA AND SALAD..SUNDAY..ROAST DINNER AND ALL THE TRIMMINGS. BREAKFASTS..PORIDE/CEREAL AND FRUIT,LUNCHES LENTIL SOUP AND HM SODA BREAD, KIDS PACKED LUNCHES SANDWICHES AND YOGURT AND FRUIT SAME FOR OH AND A PACKET OF CRISPS,SNACKS COTTAGE CHHESE, CRACKERS, AND HM SCONES. I WILL STICK TO THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mrs_T_M

Re-evaluated the budget, and I need to update it to £160 (up from £130). Total spends so far are £90.03.