July 2015 Grocery Challenge

scotmumof3

£24.21 spends for me over the last couple of days

jayII

NSD for me today, it's only my second this month because I've been busy spending £110 in Amazon vouchers that I won. I was going to save them for Christmas but temptation and an upcoming birthday got the better of me and I've managed to spend most of it.

Grocery spend is still at £72.31/£400.

cabsy83

Congratulations *niptuckfan*

The_Only_Girl

*niptuckfan* wrote: »

Hi folks, been forgetting to post but still doing well with my budgeting…its even more essential now as just found out yesterday im pregnant…any money I save from the grocery spend is going into savings

Wow! Congratulations niptuckfan. All the best. Wishing you and the future bump the best of health.

K9sandFelines

Lovely news Niptuckfan

Had several little shops in Icel*nd, Tesc* online, Asd* online and today Ald *.
Total standing at £121.22. Loads in, but as someone else said kids constantly eating. Still haven'tdecided what my budget is this month. May just do a running tally for now alongside Ynab.

mumofthetwins

Congrats niptuckfan ... Yay pitta patter of tiny feet soon

I've had a NSD today .. Been using up some ropey veg for dinner and hopefully have enough left for tomorrow ... Still trying to work through the freezer to (I have the inventory stuck on the front and cross off as I go)
I think I've meal planned for the rest of the week and hopefully I can just swap if I'm missing something otherwise it's a trip to the shops ...

Good luck guys ... Keep up the hard work

Lisa x

scotmumof3

niptuckfan congratulations on your fantastic news :T:j

*niptuckfan*

thanks all, still sinking in to be honest, long way to go but all good so far and its made me more determined to keep the grocery budget under control as i can stash away more pennies for next year planning on nipping into coop for the frozen £5 deal - its great for nights i am not in -OH happy to have a oven tea

ellejaytee

Ok, so far I'm not really posting too much here which is probably a bad thing given my spending for the month.

Have so far done two weekly shops and have pretty much no food in for next week (but it is only me so should be relatively cheap).

So far the spend was:
Shop 1: £25.59
Shop 2: £29.41

Total so far:£55 out of our £100 budget...

and we still have another three shops to do this month but I'm hoping to do a batch cook which will mean a lower spend next month!

and sorry to ramble on, but my beautiful plan of work out what we need, order online from Mr. T and not actually go into a shop so make no unnecessary purchases is going out the window in a few weeks with their new minimum delivery order value, no way the two of us will hit a £40 minimum and get through it before it goes off!

cw18

Spends are low so far this month - mainly due to OH insisting on paying for almost all the groceries we needed for coming away that I didn't already have in. Being on holiday away from (affordable) shops is also helping

Had an email yesterday from Tesc0. From 23rd July the minimum spend for delivery is being increased from £25 to £40 :eek:

Given I'd struggle to spend £25 in one store at one time, there's no way I'd be able to reach £40. I'm slightly worried about how this will impact DS2 who lives alone and doesn't drive, as I know he's paid for one of their annual delivery passes and doesn't have freezer capacity to be able to just stock up every 2-3 weeks. I think this will be bad news for a lot of single people (and even couples, especially the elderly), never mind those on low incomes who are going to be even worse off after yesterday's budget.