May 2015 Grocery Challenge

Billie-jo

First spends of the month today - £10.01
Picked a £1 coin up off the floor as well there was no one around looking like they had dropped it so its now in the savings pot.
Freezing cold here today so in a bit I am going for a nice hot soak in the bath - bliss.
Good luck everyone.

NewShadow

Okay, May.

May is going to be the month where I start keeping track again... It is, Honest.

£125 for food, drink, meals at work, meals out.

Yesterday I spent £35 on drinks and a meal out with friends, and enough groceries for the next week.

miss_try_to_save

hi all £32 from yesterday and we are off in a bit to the shops so will update later on

Tidy_Up_Tash

Hi

Couple of spends over the last 2 days, plus a Mr T delivery today. Spends so far £57.65. Apart from Dog Food, that should be it until next Friday (we live in hope )

I've also spent £25 from the 2nd purse on promotions. That money won't show on my monthly grocery budget until I "buy" it from the stores. Will update 2nd purse in sig when order arrives.

Have a good weekend!

lynnejk

Hiya everyone :hello:

AimingForBetter wrote: »

Hello, can I join in for this month please...... now need to focus on grocery shopping again as well.Budget of £250 which is perfectly doable.

teeni wrote: »

hello i'd like to join please, can i start with £400 please this is for 2 adults and a dog and 2 cats and includes petrol for 2 cars.

Welcome to the challenge both of you and good luck with the planning and purchasing.


Managed 2nd NSD of the month :T


It's freezing here and blowing a hooley, whistling around the windows and generally grim Hope it soon blows itself out


Hope you all have a super Sunday
Lx

teeni

today will be a no spend day i am going to try to have 10 this month

UMD

This week's food shop done! Went to Ald* last night for a few things, which totalled £7.42 - didn't get any fruit and veg though. Then I headed off to the market this morning, which was actually a bit disappointing The meat was much better quality/price than in the supermarkets (shame I'm vegetarian!) but the produce stalls were quite a bit more expensive.

They did have a lovely Italian deli stall, which I managed to resist buying anything from, and a nice cheese stall. I needed feta anyway for my menu plan so thought I'd get it from there - £3.36 for 200g! :eek: I'm very annoyed at myself because I should have a.) checked the price first and b.) just told the guy to leave it! I felt too bad as he'd already cut it and weighed it out, but I'm kicking myself for not being more 'cutthroat' and just saying no. That's 5% of my budget for the whole month... gone on cheese... And the supermarket do a 'Greek Style Salad Cheese' for 85p! Grrrr...

Anyway, I ended up going to the supermarket for fruit and veg instead, which came to £6.72 - so a grand total this week of £17.50. Over budget but hopefully I can make up for this later in the month!

Hope everyone's having a good bank holiday weekend

miss_try_to_save

ok went for bits in lid* and came out £16 lighter however did get 4 big bags of crisps for kids/ young adults to snack on over the month steak spring onions cookies parsnips honey cat food bread and some butter so think I did ok steak for dinner with caramelized mushrooms and onions and rice ds picking me up toilet rolls and dishwasher cleaner so I don't spend more so will add that to total when I get it and that should be it till Tuesday ish when I will probably need more milk and bread and fruit happy shopping everyone

scotmumof3

Spend of £4.78 today as I had to buy mince for the guys Bolognese but at least it will do 3 times so not so bad

january_23

Between A and C delivery, Mr S and the corner shop (it sells the bread OH likes) we've spent £31.63 since Monday.
That brings our total so far to £38.04.
Shouldn't need to spend anything until Monday.

January.