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June 2014 Grocery Challenge

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  • K9sandFelines
    K9sandFelines Posts: 2,779 Forumite
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    NSD yesterday, and possibly one today; however, i need a 2 litre bottle of water for work, as i'm on a 7/8 hour shift today.
    GC Jan £101.91/£150 Feb £70.96/150 Mar £100.43/150 Apr £108.45 app/150 May £149.70/150 Jun £155.15/150 July £85.95/£150 (includes food, toiletries and cleaning from 13th to 12th of each month. One person vegan household with occasional visitors)
    Forever learning the art of frugality
  • craigywv
    craigywv Posts: 2,342 Forumite
    Nsd today and hopefully many more to follow, i have enough food in and want to go through it first before buying any more. I fancy doing an online shop next time so i wont be tempted..........................but theres no ys stuff online descisons descisions...........
    C.R.A.P.R.O.L.L.Z #7 member N.I splinter-group co-ordinater :p I dont suffer from insanity....I enjoy every minute of it!!.:)
  • joedenise
    joedenise Posts: 17,662 Forumite
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    Didn't realise until this morning that I needed more salad stuff plus DH wanted crusty bread. So a trip to bakers followed by Mr T, as it's the closest SM.

    Had just put my salad stuff into the trolley when the fire alarm went off! So quickly put everything back, returned trolly to get my £1 coin back and then drove up to Morries to do my shopping. Ended up costing £6.26, will need to add that to my total spend.

    I seem to be really struggling with the budget this month. Think I need to start counting my NSDs again as a bit more of an incentive to stop spending!

    Denise
  • Solstice_3
    Solstice_3 Posts: 444 Forumite
    Almost had NSD but bought snacks for DS as out of stuff at home. £2 of grocery money spent.
    Stay at home Mum to DS Oct 2011 and DD Dec 2013
    Grocery Challenge

    April 298.08/300.00 NSD 14 May £213.56/£300 NSD 4
  • newthrift
    newthrift Posts: 1,252 Forumite
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    Evening. Forgot to update last week, it was my last shop of my June challenge spent £28 in total as didn't need much as OH was away for the weekend. This means I have come in under budget :dance: Need to add how much I spent on first shop of my July today and set my target.
    Christmas is the most magical time of the year :santa2:
    Mum to two boys :heartpuls
  • cw18
    cw18 Posts: 8,630 Forumite
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    An unexpected spend of 48p on mushrooms today.

    DS1 asked if there's any chance of a cooked breakfast tomorrow, and as he's out all day performing best man duties it seemed nasty to say 'no' - especially as he's been charged for an evening meal he'll not want due to being at the reception ;)

    Fortunately I have everything else in (sausages and bacon in freezer which I'm now about to dig out, and some eggs left from when I did carbonara - don't often buy them as I don't like)

    43.3% of the way through the month, and 54.24% of the way through my budget.
    Cheryl
  • kboss2010
    kboss2010 Posts: 1,466 Forumite
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    8 ys cheesy bread rolls 60p

    = £19.69/£40
    “I want to be a glow worm, A glow worm's never glum'Coz how can you be grumpy, when the sun shines out your bum?" ~ Dr A. TappingI'm finding my way back to sanity again... but I don't really know what I'm gonna do when I get there~ LifehouseWhat’s fur ye will make go by ye… but also what’s not fur ye, ye can jist scroll on by!
  • mumofthetwins
    mumofthetwins Posts: 1,111 Forumite
    We'll spend of 7.01 today for me ... Gotta stay out of the shops now though :D
    Lisa
    DFW
    January £0/£11,100

    NSD
    January 1/31
  • atolaas
    atolaas Posts: 1,143 Forumite
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    £26.89 spent at Mr T this afternoon. Shouldn't need to make another trip now until next week...at least that's the theory!! :D
    SPC7 ~ Member#390 ~ £432.45 declared :j
    Re-joined SW 9 Feb 2015 1 stone lost so far

    Her Serene Highness the Princess Atolaas of the Alphabetty Thread as appointed by Queen Upsidedown Bear
  • nannygladys
    nannygladys Posts: 3,235 Forumite
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    Hello everyone

    Well I've finished a four week period and I have come in under £20.00 in each of the four weeks, so what I did instead of putting the excess into my emergency fund I have been to restock the cupboards, so in this next four week period I will be cutting down even further and only allowing myself £10 a week. It should be doable and I will try, so plenty of nsd for me.

    My week starts each Friday and each period lasts four weeks as I get paid four weekly, so onwards and upwards (ecky thump)

    Nannyg
    £1 a day 2025: £90.00/365 Xmas fund
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