September 2015 Grocery Challenge

Wysiwyg49

Much better this week - £74.12 so far (had some double portions in freezer) and don't expect to need anything else much. BUT so pleased to see a box of (I thought) teabags with a YS I put them in the trolley and only realised when I got home that it was a box of loose tea!! :mad: so £1.30 wasted

uncreative

Sorry for the delayed update. Just stocked up with food for week 3 (this week) and we have spent so far:

Groceries incl toiletries and household £190.59
School lunches £ 15.00
Takeaways and snacks out (coffees etc) £ 18.79

Total spent so far is £224.38 so we are ahead of the target!!

WantToBeSE

Evening All

I have withdrawn the £80 that i think i have left from the budget.

I am tempted to go and buy some wine tonight...i've had a long and tiring day. Not sure whether i can be bothered to.

selloptape

Am loving the difference that meal planning is making so far! And I've only been planning Monday-Weds! Next month will try planning full weeks and see how that goes

Nearly halfway through the month and I've not spent half my budget, just £80.46 so far, which is great!

Glad to see everyone else doing well too, good luck for the rest of the month

moneyonmymindsam

Need to dig some receipts out of my bag but spend £4 ish ...so £60 to go...random spends on Milk, Potato, Fruitloaf (YS) and 6 packs of crisps


Hope everyone is doing good ...caught up with the thread well done to those meal planning

t14cy_t

nsd yesterday. xx

Carviscocker

✨✨✨£66 in total for me✨✨✨ This includes a huge online shop with loads of cupboard/freezer stuff

CountingPennies

Hi guys, hope all is well!

Broke my laptop charger and didn't get my new one till today so only just getting caught up! I've been spending far too much money!

Kept all my receipts to add up the damage. In my defence, I'm having a Halloween party and it includes lots of decorations and stuff for that.

Freezer is full, cupboards are full, fridge isn't too bad. Need to do meal plan for this week.

Some of my shops have included lots of baking stuff for a McMillan coffee morning i'm helping to host.

After add the receipts I've spent a HUGE £190.79 which brings my total up to £226.88/£400.00

Im gonna have to calm it now. My sons birthday next week and have stuff to buy for that, however I did need some of these large food shops because my freezer and cupboards were nearly empty at the begining of the month!

Gonna put the £173.12 in a purse if I can, and make sure I just use that.

Hope everyone else is being thrifty!! :cool:

CP xx

Dizzy_Imp

Arrgghh :eek: went into Tesco this morning to get two or three things and spent £67.86!!!

So new total is £256.04/£350 (£93.96 left) - we are only halfway through the month - beans on toast from now on!

Bluegreen143

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

Not doing too badly so far compared to last month, but do have a few spends to report.

Got milk on Thursday, went to L*dls on Friday and DH got some toiletries from H*me Barg**ns too.

Current totals are:

Argh I KNEW this hadn't saved properly before it crashed the other day :mad:

I've got another spend to add anyway as DH got milk and wraps today. Normally I make my own but I've been busy/knackered for the last few days so hadn't got round to it.

So as I was saying, current totals are:

FOOD: £71.05 / £120
TOILETRIES/HOUSEHOLD: £10.47 / £15
CAT: £11.39 / £15

We will have to increase the cat budget next month if I can't get her back on dried food- it's not a realistic budget for wet food.

Really happy with the L*dls shop as got £5 off with their deal/trial fob thing. And I didn't know about it til I got to the till so it's all stuff I'd have got anyway

Tentatively hopeful for this month. We've overspent a little so far, but I can definitely pull it back.