August 2014 Grocery Challenge

Lenaia

Hi everyone,

Please could I stick at £200 for August (my month runs from 26/7/14 - 26/7/14). This is for myself, Bf and the pets and includes toiletries etc.

It's going to be a 5 week month for me and my BF is at home 3 days extra a week using up holidays so it's going to be a real test. It's a good thing really as I've only 2 full pay days left until full time studentness so I'm desperately trying to make every penny count.

Good luck everyone!

mrsd1984

Hi, it has been a long time since I've done this! Last time there was just me and dh, now we are 3, with the youngest being almost a year old. I really need to get back into the habit of doing this, spending has got completely out of hand during the past year. For August, I'd like to challenge myself to £150

Wish me luck!!

atolaas

Hi Everyone...I'm determined to stick to my budget this month. Please put me down for a £250 budget in August from 04/08 - 31/08.

Good luck everyone.

ato xx

Coxy11

Morning everyone,


Quickly updating the budgets list before work.


Welcome/welcome back to:
HighlandLass, goingforanewlife, Mimi Arc en ciel, Meezal and mrsd1984


Flat Eric - let me know when you decide on a budget.


Did the Hairy Dieters Jambalaya last night - brilliant and so tasty nomnomnom.


Using up some lo roast pork tonight that I'd frozen. Will add it to a jar of sweet and sour sauce and serve with blue dragon noodles. Quick and easy!


Have a good day all
Coxy

Flat_Eric

I've drafted a shop for Saturday afternoon by which time I hopefully will have defrosted my freezer. The inside freezer is very iced up and its impossible to know what I have. Its also very difficult to open one of the drawers.


Its funny how I know I need a few things - bread, apples, tomato sauce but then myself with a basket for several tens of pounds....


I was going to have the shop tomorrow evening but decided I can made do until Saturday by which time hopefully I will have meal planned and have gone through my list with a fine toothcomb !


I don't know if anyone else gets confused and I don't know why the supermarkets make it hard to compare the prices of their product by giving the price per 100g for some things and the price per kg for other items and sometimes per item!


Anyhow - my question for today is what's the best maths to use to work out the price per 100g for tomato sauce? The (usual) price is £2.39 for 570g so the label says that's 42p per 100g. But its on offer for £2.00 so I want to work out the price per 100g so I can see if its better to buy that one or a bigger sized bottle. I haven't woken up yet this morning so can't fathom the maths!

Snorkypants

Spends so far are £48.70 . That's too much - it should be £40 and the most annoying thing is that I have no one to blame but myself - Sainsbury's had brita filters on offer and I spent £8 on 3 (half price), thinking we only had one left. We didn't, we had 2 plus a fresh one in the kettle. Enough to last ages. Still, at least I learnt quickly that I can sabotage myself with my stockpiling tendencies. Mustn't do that again!

joedenise

Flat_Eric wrote: »

I don't know if anyone else gets confused and I don't know why the supermarkets make it hard to compare the prices of their product by giving the price per 100g for some things and the price per kg for other items and sometimes per item!


Anyhow - my question for today is what's the best maths to use to work out the price per 100g for tomato sauce? The (usual) price is £2.39 for 570g so the label says that's 42p per 100g. But its on offer for £2.00 so I want to work out the price per 100g so I can see if its better to buy that one or a bigger sized bottle. I haven't woken up yet this morning so can't fathom the maths!

Agree with you that it's difficult when SMs use different ways of showing the price - I don't mind as long as they show per 100g or per Kg as they are easy enough to compare, it's the things where they price per item or per pack but don't show a weight.

The answer to your price per 100g for tomato sauce is 35p per 100g @ £2.00 for 570g bottle. The way to work out the price per 100g is to divide the price of the item (in this case £2.00) and divide by the number of grams in the item (in this case 570g) and multiply by 100; for the bottle of sauce it would be £2.00/570*100. Hope that makes sense to you.

I haven't been shopping since last Thursday and need to go again tomorrow as getting short of milk, fruit, veg etc. Just need to go and check the fridge, freezers & cupboards against my meal plan and see what else I actually need to put on the list. I'm trying to only buy what we need at the moment in order to empty one of my freezers (I've got 3!) because we go on holiday in 3 weeks time.

Denise

gerturdeanna

Hi all


I am back in the game this month and I'm going to keep records etc! Food shopping increased for us last month and I didn't really have anything to show for it!! So this month 01/08/2014 - 31/08/2014 I am attempting £400

Make-it-3

Hello all, August will be a 4 week month for me and a fairly quiet one - so I am going to see if £180 will cover it.

Good luck everyone.

bmma

spends to date £21.08/£160.00p