October 2015 Grocery Challenge

mrs_motivated

I've totally failed this month ...I had a target of £320 and have spent £507 (mostly due to a number if visitors I hadn't planned for and a few takeaways and not taking packed lunches on most days)......anyway no point dwelling, I'm making a monthly food plan and treating October as a much needed wake up call!!!!




Bring on Novembers challenge

selloptape

£25ish left now til the end of the month, Wednesday and Thursday will be Jacket P days but I might go over at the end of the week when my son comes back from his hols.

Got my usual end of the month lack of motivation, just want to give up and eat steak and chocolate for the last week!

Hope everyone is okay and ready for the last few days... And then the next month after

candygirl

Just added my receipts up, and am still on target! Got £ 26 left till sat:j:j

mrsd

Been busy but have been keeping an eye on my spending, most days have been NSDs and have £83 left in the food budget, which is useful as both DD and DS are home this weekend as its DD birthday, so will need to buy few extras.
I am pleased I have started my Christmas shopping both food and presents, buying when I have seen offers. My food shops also included some non perishables. Im hoping this will make December shop cheaper as I know its going to be an expensive month.

CountingPennies

Have around £50 to add to total....think that is an over estimate. Just been so busy to update. Sorry!

CP xx

lynnejk

Evening all :hello:

NSD today :j
We had steak and ale casserole (freezer) with mash and steamed veggies.



Hope not much more to spend this month fingers xd so can get some back in the bulk buy for the butcher's next month.

Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday
Lx

t14cy_t

omg went on my last YS rampage with my dear friend last night, spent £4.78, mainly on fresh meat, when I got home I calculated that it should of cost, £95.78!!! this is the last rampage as am moving out of the area, so will have to suss out the supermarkets over there!!

peony40

Morning all,

Just added up my spending for October and I came in £4.90 under budget. Am somewhat surprised as I did not remain totally focussed, but menu planning certainly helped. I have put the savings aside into a separate pot to save for a rainy day fund.

On to November for me now, and I will try and get online more this coming month.

PJ1

Evening all,
Did weekly shop today and spent £26.49 bringing my total up to£43.31. Haven't yet worked out whether this averages out to my weekly limit or not, but will do. All other days were NSD. Today's shop was more than I hoped it would be but I saw bits I needed that I'd forgotten to put on list and also other things I wasn't aware of that will be useful.
If this works out ok I'm hoping to try to drop budget a little bit next month. Problem I've found is I used to have shopping delivered, now do it myself as you have to have over £40 to get cheaper delivery charge, but the store I'm going to is only a Metro and doesn't stock all of the value items I'd normally buy. Very irritating! Wondering whether I could do two fortnightly shops and go back to delivery but that will take a lot more planning. Still, I'm up for the challenge!
Good luck everyone else,
See you in November!
Luv Paula x

DuranGirl

NSD today - finally! Definitely going to go over the £200 tomorrow, there's no avoiding it. But still way, way better than my £400 estimate for my first GC :j I'm confident that I can drop to £300 for next month, although December will probably go up quite a bit as I'm catering for the wider family, will have both kids home and my chap up for four weekends out of five :j:j:smileyheaStill, it's keeping me focussed, there has been no waste food and I've been far less reliant on convenience foods. No takeaways at all! But I do need to give some more thought to my packed lunches. There's only so much tuna a girl can stand! :rotfl: