June 2014 Grocery Challenge

lushlifesaver

My Tesco order is due tomorrow; guide price is currently £57.26. That said £17 of that is baby formula so actually impressed based on everything I have coming with that!

Plus the £4 spent the other day, and £1.50 last night takes my total so far to £62.76 which will leave me £17.24 for stuff the rest of the month - with that I need to get: milk (2x4pt), lettuce, cucumber, bacon, baking potatoes, onions, 1 loaf of kingsmill great white, apples, bananas, pears, carrots.

Just need to stay disciplined. Wish I had more storage space to do a bigger online shop at the start of the month! Maybe when we eventually grow up and buy our own place

craigywv

Need to get a small fresh fruit shop today hope to spend about 10 quid hope its no more than that. Good luck all xxx

mumofthetwins

Well going for a NSD today ... I'm feeling pretty rubbish and don't really want to go out ... got plenty of food in and I baked cakes yesterday ... just joined the fiscal fast thread and hoping to do that
Lisa x

PennyGrabber

My budget for next month will be £90. That's £1pppd, and I now don't include toiletries, cleaning things etc. We managed really well on that this month, and for the first time in a long time, because I was so disciplined in every way, I actually had a c for my bank balance at the end of the month!! Was able to pay off extra on debts, so really happy.

Now that I have actually seen this with my own eyes, I am more than ready to do the same again this month!

I'll still be posting in May until the end, as although I get paid on the 23rd, I work by calendar months as that's easier for me.

See you later!

PG x

Jellybaby

Hi everyone

After the shambolic mess I made of last month, I'm going for £250 this month. It will include a couple of meals out with DS and lunch with a friend (and it's my turn to pay!). Freezer badly needing defrosted so probably many, many surprise dinners in June:rotfl:

elsiepac

Cleosmum wrote: »

Help, wanted to check out 'cheap family recipes' listed as weezls site (http://www.cheap-family-recipes.org.uk) but it doesn't appear to exist, has it moved elsewhere or just disappeared? Any alternatives?

Hi Cleosmum

See my post here from May's GC

LC x

Cleosmum

elsiepac wrote: »

Hi Cleosmum

See my post here from May's GC

LC x

Ah thanks, only just dragged myself back on board, not looked at the may gc :-/

PennyGrabber

Just thinking about my June gc. What helped a lot this month was having a list of meals that I want to have/need to include to use up. Having that list for May was really useful, and as I plan weekly, it meant I had an easy reference guide rather than looking through the cupboards all the time.

My list for June looks something like this:
Spag bol
Spag bol
Fish pie
Sausage casserole
Mac cheese
Tom soup
Omelette
Gammon and egg
Sweet and sour chicken
Fish fingers
Spaghetti and meatballs
Chicken/turkey pie
Risotto


This is not the complete list, but a good start of what I can make without needing to shop. I am desperately trying to have less in the house, so I'm not buying stock of eg baked beans etc, as I know there is too much in my cupboards! Think I like choice too much...

Night all,
PG x

lushlifesaver

Just edited my Tesco order; now £60, plus the £5.50 spent else where so far = £65.50 and now I won't need to get bananas or potatoes

Think bf will be swapping hos usual cereal bars for homemade flapjack and milkshakes if I'm lucky - the extra cost in milk won't touch the cost of his cereal bars (usually £3+ per week for the bars where as milk plus fruit will be £1.50!) and I have a cupboard filled with flack jack supplies already!

will help that he is away at a 4 day camp then back a bit before a 4 day camp followed immediately by 6 days at a tournament in France! I'll be able to just eat from the house all those days even if it means some odd combinations!

cw18

I'm in.

Increase to budget as of June (actually should have been 19th May, but I decided to try and last the month without increasing which I don't think's quite worked out!) due to DS1 now wanting feeding every day instead of 7 out of 14 due to change in shifts at work.

Official budget would therefore be £281.32, but I'm going to have another try at sticking to my 'unofficial' budget of two-thirds that in order to force me to continue using up stuff from the freezers. Think the stumbling block could be that I'm planning on spending £22 on a recipe hamper (ingredients and recipes to make 3 meals for 2 people) at some point during the month, as the one I had last week certainly made me try new things (some I loved, some of the side dishes I'd do with different things, and one that I expected DS1 to like that he hated and I wasn't mad keen on - but at least we tried something new). That price is after I use a £20 off voucher as well !!! At least I've no trips away or extra visitors this month - or not that I'm yet aware of

So my budget for June is £187.54 please