May 2014 Grocery Challenge

Ladyluck1

£11 top up/weekly shop today.
Need some extras from lidl tomorrow then that's it for May

just_the_two_of_us

That's me declaring on £237.37 out of an increased budget of £250 for May. Will have lots of fruit to carry over to next week and a couple of meals left in the freezer. Only 12 NSDs.

Will reduce the budget in June as we are away for a whole week - to £200. Have just had a biggish Mr T stock up order so all that is needed is fresh meat, veg,fruit and dairy. Meal planning next so can do another big shop and fill the freezer - it doesn't like being empty!!

See you on the June thread.

Frizzle_2

Had to pop to shop as I had no bread! We popped to my mums again for lunch today so took bread, crisps and cake so I didn't feel so bad. Also got 3 packs of pitta breads for £1 and some milk as we would have been touch and go for breakfast! So £8.68 spent!
Planning to do a big ship in aldi tomorrow!

PennyGrabber

Nsds all the way through until the first now. Is the plan, anyway!!

PG x

Ali-OK

Final weekly shop of the monthly yesterday at £25.84 in Ald! and pleased that my total for May has come in at £91.62 from £100 budget this month. We've got a well stocked fridge, freezer and store cupboard at the moment - not bad considering it's half term!

Looking over the last 5 months, I can see a pattern with my grocery spending too which is useful for budgeting forward, so my challenge is to continue that rather than reduce I think.

lovefullshelves

Im gonna call may at £107.99 as theres just too much going on in life at the moment. Overbudget...ho hum!

icontinuetodream

£10.50 spent yesterday on non-stick foil, tuna, bin sacks and vegan bouillon powder - £13 to last till Sunday

Luiem

£6.84 and £10.55 spent in Tesco, £8.70 and £11.50 spent in sainsburys.
I'm at £167.88/£160 for May and still have bread, milk and fruit juice to buy.

I'm not too worried about being over since we usually budget £40 a week, based on a 4 week month so £120 a month. This month had five weeks for us and so instead of adding another £40 to the budget, I cut each weeks total down to £32.

she_who_can_not_cook

physicsgirl wrote: »

Found receipts from other stuff this month:

The Ald! snack shop for my OH came to £23.13 (:eek: although he has finals atm so I guess any amount of money is worth it if it helps him out).

Spent £1.50 at the beginning of the month on YS-ed courgettes and stir fry mix in Sainsbobs.

Spent 60p on basics ketchup (a great Heinz substitute) and YS carrots.

Went to FarmF00ds for the first time, spent £5.70 on bake-at-home baguettes (cheapest I've found at 6 for £1), Nicky toilet tissue (didn't realise it was the scented stuff when I bought it though...) and 1kg of bananas for 75p.

Also had three meals out this month, one I've already included, another trip to the same noodle bar cost us £13, and a meal out with my mum cost £31.50 (although it was pretty rubbish but I'll save it for the TripAdvisor review!!).

That takes me to £135 exactly (always weird when that happens) with 5 days to go, but even if I do go over I won't be too upset as it's been a pretty manic month, I can't wait till the 13th June when OH's exams will be done, and my blood pressure can return to normal.

I love farmfoods alas it's the one shop I can get easily to so only go once every two months or so

K9sandFelines

Moved house so sporadic internet via dodgy data connection and library at the mo. I've gone over budget having to fill another freezer up. so about £30over as spent about £39 yesterday.

Gonna dip out tilJune 6th now, when its payday.