February 2015 Grocery Challenge

Billie-jo

Well February is already an overspend (the first in a long time) Today have spent £39.47 taking us £8.51 over - so far. Will need a few things on Sat but am guessing the overspend will be kept under £20 - fingers crossed. Having said that we did aim at £40 less this month so should be doable in normal months.

zafiro1984

Last spend tomorrow, daughter is bringing me a lt of milk - no doubt she will pay for it but I've added it onto my spends as I would have had to go out and get some. So this month I'm .78p under budget - how close is that? pleased

p-pincher

Hi everyone.I've ended up over by about £10.00. It's the first time in ages I've been over but I let hubby and the kids decide what we were having for dinner and they inevitably picked something that I didn't have in so I had to go to iceland to pick it up. Going over to March now. Hope next month goes a bit better x

scotmumof3

NSD for me today :T

redmel1621

Ah bit of a bummer. Got carried away yesterday and spent about £40 on food. That puts me in the region of £30 over budget. Not too bad really but still a shame.

I will do better next month and will head on over to March as soon as I have charged my laptop

Frizzle_2

First on four shops in aldi over the next week. Yes I bought 4 papers today. This could all go horribly wrong! We are low on lots of things!
Didn't get any fruit or veg, or cereal , cat food etc (which is the stuff I usually stock up on!) so that bodes well!
In fact I'm not actually sure what I bought!
So £35.81 spend in aldi and £3 in tesco on some drain cleaner!

rubiesr4eva

I am in total disbelief, I've checked, double checked and triple checked, and my total for this month is £202.82 / £280.00.


I really can't thank you all enough for all you tips and advice. Now I just need to see where the extra money went as my purse is still empty haha


Off to March Challenge now, as I shouldn't have to spend again, although Saturday is my last day supervising DS2 bag packing for 6 hrs in Mr M's. Perhaps that's why I've done so well, fed up of the place after all the bag packing haha

lynnejk

Hiya


Well - a bit disappointed as there wasn't a voucher for A*di in the Daily R*cord as it has been postponed for Scotland


So didn't go to A*di but bought some stock cupboard and cleaning stuff in Home Bags = £10.31


I'm counting that in this month as I'm still under budget


Hope you all have a frugal Friday


Lx

cattysmum

I have been awol this month due to one thing or another, but my budget has gone a long way this month. I know only a short month, but have been trying to live out of the freezers/cupboards resulting in an underspend of £62 give or take odd pennies. Very happy as I needed to reduce stuff in my freezers, will do a stock take of freezers before I shop next month. Payday tomorrow and half of my excess grocery budget is going in my sealed pot. Declaring a total spend for Feb as £138.00 woop!! See you iun March ...ta ta.

Anzac_Biscuit

I'm declaring for Feb at $451. I've learnt lots (sooo different when cooking/planning for two!) On to March I go! I'm bumping my target back up to $450 but will try to come in under.