September 2014 Grocery Challenge

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Am declaring my month ended at $277/$400 so am well pleased.

Have had a rough time lately, tenants left a cottage we were renting to them in a terrible state. Have had to spend hours cleaning it, and as my health is poor anyway, I am not impressed. Have decided to sell it as I just can't be bothered going through this again.


DS and DGS are arriving for lunch tomorrow, on their way to the mountains, as they intend spending a couple of days skiing. Weather looks reasonable, so am hoping they have a good time.
Cheers
'Kiwi

XSpender

Small shop in Mr T last night for the bits I wouldn't be able to get in Aldee today. This is my last weekly shop and I have everything in that I need. I just need to keep out of the shops and to keep DH out too.


Total for the month stands at £324.32 with 6 days to go as I am running my budget for 5 full weeks.


Popping over to October to post my budget but will be here until the 2nd.

bmma

Spends for the week £48.37p/£50.00p all food in for the week end and most of next week x and 1 NSD
One more week of September's GC to go x

NewlyFrugalMumof3

Hi, I have fallen off the MSE DFW & GC big time - I haven't posted for a long time, but after reading through other people's endeavours, I feel inspired to get our household budget shipshape once and for all.


Please put me down for £400/month = 2 adults, 1 teenager, 2 children, 1 dog & 1 cat.


I hope to come in under that.

piglet27

piglet27 wrote: »

Morning all,

Spend of £1.60ish today for milk, hopefully nothing else needed! Bought a cherry flapjack and the paper for aldi voucher too - £3.10! [http://static.moneysavingexpert.com/images/forum_smilies/redface.gif/COLOR]

As it's dd and ds last day at current school tomorrow, I have promised them a hm pizza party (goodbye) tea with a friend each. Went to Te$co Thurs night as I was too poorly to stand and make cakes for macmillan morning. Got 4 multipacks sweets for children's friends, 2 pks fairy cakes for children to decorate at home, pizza*2, chicken dippers and 2*traybakes for children's party tea. http://static.moneysavingexpert.com/images/forum_smilies/redface.gif Was going to hm all these as i have everything in, but too poorl! Total spend here £15.97 http://static.moneysavingexpert.com/images/forum_smilies/speechless-smiley-040.gif

None of this will help my gc!!

Spends of £4 for Macmillan cakes yesterday and £3.80 at local shop on essentials. http://static.moneysavingexpert.com/images/forum_smilies/wink.gif Will be reigning this in for October (living mom's with dd and ds all next week while Bf moves the house over) New month, New house, New diet..... we'll see.http://static.moneysavingexpert.com/images/forum_smilies/laughing-smiley-014.gif

Frizzle_2

37.89 spent in aldi on Thursday and £2.60 spent in tesco today on yeast, croissants, and onions!

Bluegreen143

I kind of reset my grocery challenge on the 7th when I downloaded ynab and started budgeting that way. So here's the current figures:

£108.76/£125 on groceries
£13.99/£15 on cat food
£23.99/£25 on toiletries/household

Just got a wee shop to do this Sunday so should be on track to hit this. I'm also using the ynab philospohy of being flexible so I might move the targets around a bit (e.g. might need to spend slightly more on toiletries and less on food) but should hit it overall.

just_the_two_of_us

Declaring on £195.91 out of £200 - not bad but we did have several days away out of another budget. I did manage to get some stock items in that total however. Moving over the October thread as started early so DH could do the heavy lifting with monthly shop!! We have lots of meals in the fridge/freezer now so will work out what else I need next.


Have a good month everyone. x

Saver-upper

A quick straw poll before I post later tonight........................

If you bought a toaster at ASDA,would you count it in your grocery budget?
In the couple of months I have been doing this challenge,I have counted everything that I buy in the supermarket (food,cleaning stuff,washing powder,etc).
Not sure if this is a bit different,though .

Solstice_3

Saver-upper wrote: »

A quick straw poll before I post later tonight........................

If you bought a toaster at ASDA,would you count it in your grocery budget?
In the couple of months I have been doing this challenge,I have counted everything that I buy in the supermarket (food,cleaning stuff,washing powder,etc).
Not sure if this is a bit different,though .

I wouldn't it would come out of a different budget, and account