February 2015 Grocery Challenge

Mrs_Cheshire

Just found all my receipts and my total for the month was £199.26/£240 so happy to be well within budget!

pinkpixie274

Hi,

So sorry I haven't managed to keep in touch this month but have been working hard on my spending still (or should I say not spending) Signing off Feb with a total spend of £214.01 So still over budget but much better than my first attempt last month...you never know maybe next month I will actually be able to do it!!!

Well done everyone, hard work pays off...well I hope so anyway :beer:

dangers

Haven't tallied it up properly yet because I havent updated my computer yet, but I think we spent just over £500 which is ok. But, I didn't manage to get to cost*o in February and we're running out of stuff so I think what's left will be heading that way or out of the March budget.

It certainly makes you a lot more aware of what you are actually buying when you have a dedicated bank account for the grocery money, rather than putting it all on the credit card.

K9sandFelines

Not sure if ive updated my spends, but come under budget by the biggest amount ever in all the time I have been doing this ..... (drum roll) £60. I will keep the same budget next month incase it's afluke, then if I manage it again will reduce for April maybe. Although that's a hard month with mine and DD2s birthday and easter on the same day as the latter.

Moving over to March now. Good luck and thanks to all who are part of the thread.

joedenise

Really happy to have finished the month under budget by £60. Spent £190/£250 and had 18 NSDs.

Denise

mrs-moneypenny

Went about £98 over in feb but cupboards are heaving so March should be better. Going over to the March thread now.

amandaatnumber7

Finally tally for Feb came to $892.01
A little under what I had budgeted although I've felt the pinch this month as I have had to spend less this month to make it all fit. I think $1000 a month for my family is a good amount

sootypea

Managed to overspend last month, but that was because the cat food was on offer so stocked up on that. I overspent by £30.00 but on a brighter note won't have to buy any cat food for a few weeks.
I am going to try and only spend £160.00 this month.

cw18

February spreadsheet now up-to-date, so can now report in final figures for the month

Budget at start of month = £228.60
Reduced by £9, as I didn't provide a number of main meals I'd allowed for
Revised budget = £219.60

I spent £97.89 in shops
(this is what I'd have declared last year :T)

But this year I'm trying to figure out how much I need in my budget moving forward (assuming no stockpiles or access to offers/whoopsies), so my figures actually show

Value of food from shops = £113.19
Value of food from home stocks = £97.70
Total value of food = £210.89
Each time I pay a food bill I put the loose change (to next 10p) to one side, so loose change = £1.81
Total spent = £212.70, which is what I'm actually declaring.
This is £15.90 below my original budget
And £6.90 below my revised/reduced budget

This means I've covered last months overspend (am actually now in credit for the year-to-date by £4.60), and from February alone I have some gammon for sandwiches for at least a couple of weeks (bought a large joint from which we had tea on Saturday, with the rest being frozen in smallish chunks for slicing for butties) and 8 chicken breasts (bought a pack of 10 from Costc0 last Friday) as well as a few other bits to take into March (Also still carrying forward some bits from January)

flubberyzing

Declaring for February under budget at £50.36 out of £60! Pleased with that, as I had a big blitz this past month of eating out the freezer. It is now virtually empty. There are only about 6 or 7 meals left in it!


I'm pleased, as an empty freezer was my aim, as I've spent years throwing all sorts of random stuff in it, and I want to re-stock it with stuff I'll actually use!
Tea today for example, was a battered fish fillet that's probably been in there over a year!