July 2016 Grocery Challenge

bluesky1989

Hello!

I ended up at my target of £300 but to be honest I haven't counted my husband's contribution...however small that may be

The most annoying thing about this is that I now know that I spend at least £45 a month on animal food and upkeep!

pinkypig

£2.02 on two lots of nectarines before Aldi Super6 changes, milk and pasta. Need to have a NSD tomorrow so I can declare at under £100 on the 28th which is pay day. If I can it will be my best ever:jPP x

lynnejk

Evening all


Spends today of £23.92 with Mr T


That leaves me with £29 to the end of the month with a weekend shop to go. Should be do-able fingers xd


Hope you all have a super Wednesday
Lx

Geldsparerin

Spend while away of 22.31 taking me to a total of £291.96. While away I mostly bought items for picnic from Aldi and had a great time eating outdoors with the kids. My month ends tomorrow so was well under my target. I thought I would really struggle to make under 400. Have learnt so much this month and can't believe I used to waste so much. Back home now and hopefully will be able to survive on the cupboards and 8.04 under the 300 mark. Will be well chuffed. Next month aiming for £250. Thanks to everyone for their tips!

t14cy_t

spends of £13 yesterday, had a dicky tum so had to get meds.... feeling better today tho so worth it! only £10 left til the weekend. xx

Florence_J

Ended the month ( I run from the 27th-26th) at £189.65, so £4.65 over actual budget and £24.65 over my goal budget.

However the last two months previous had been at least £30 over budget, so this, my first time on this challenge, proves how much it works.

I have big plans for the August Grocery Challenge. Should be able to get it under control.

AlwaysHungry2016

Final Week
Pay day !! I actually really enjoy all of the accounting activities I do when I get paid each month :T

So all in all this month was great, I managed to save quite a lot of money, paid a big church into my credit card debt and generally tamed my daily spending. Saying that, sadly, I am £66.97 over my groceries budget this month. Looking at my spending I did not spend so much on the actually groceries but managed to splash out £79.82 on stuff for BBQs, £35.39 on lunch at work (this is not even going out for lunch with colleagues or friends) and £29.09 on household items. Learning to really stick to the planned budget is harder than I thought but not giving up on this :A

In August I am away on holiday for 18 days (have a separate budget for that) so the remaining days I am in London I will give myself £50 for groceries. I HOPE it is doable in those 12-days I will be around (OH will have to pull in his weight much more whilst visiting me…after all it is my birthday in few days) :bdaycake:

Finally, I have made £200 payment towards my debts. I recently took a reduction in number of days I am working which cut my salary by a bit, but I will try to cut back on as much as I can in the next 6 months to be able to pay around £500 per month towards my debt reduction in order to get this cleared.

Thank you all and good luck next month :rotfl:

CloughiesBrewerArmy

£46.08 spent since my last post so now at £174.59 out of £200 although I am changing my dates slightly as I get paid on 25th of each month.

So £25.41 remaining for July although I am also starting August as of two days ago to adapt to the new 'month'.

pamsdish

Made a shop in Lidl as I had a £5 off voucher, spent £35-67 that includes 3 of their fitted sheets, as they fit my adjustable beds, £11-97, total grocery is then £23-64.£13-23 of that is chicken for the dog too.

Geldsparerin

Decided to keep going with July until the 1st August as that's what my does so did a shop of £27.71 in Ald* and £9.25 for GF baking and cereal in Wrose. Takes my total to £328.92 for July. Hopefully no more grocery spends until August. I did start late this month and had done a shop without the plan so will have more control next month.