March 2017 Grocery Challenge

XSpender

Declaring £524.55 against a budget of £400.00.

£400 is my aspirational £100 week target so still some way to go as achieved just under £120/week for the first 4 weeks and then nearly £50 splurged in the last 4 days.

I have kept a close track on my spending this month to see where the money goes:

£314.15 Food, pets, toiletries, cleaning etc.
£115.55 Beer and Wine
£31.20 Takeaway
£63.62 Lunches bought out of the house or when I travel for work

I have been trying to follow a diet plan this month and then have not had time to prepare the food so we have eaten poorly and there has been a lot of waste. It also meant that I have not prepared lunch for DH, if I don't make it he doesn't take it.

We are going back to eating healthy family meals rather than following the plan so I am expecting my food costs to drop as well as the money spent on buying lunches in April.

I am OK with the spend on takeaway as this is less than 1 a week but the spending on booze is a whole different matter.

See you all in April's challenge!

ancientmum

End of March at last and I have spent £6.43 over budget. Hopping over to the April thread.
See you there!

Happy_Kitties

My first breakdown done ready for the April challenge

235.35 spent on groceries for 2 of us and 6 cats

162.25 spent on presents (this is with shopping alot in the sales aswell. I have so many birthdays in March, a landmark birthday and this also included easter eggs and mothers day. Won't have this spend for the rest of the year and just plan to buy one top up present a month in grocery budget ready for Christmas-the money and time saved doing this was amazing last year)

30.78-food eaten out. I'm at hospital an awful lot . I don't like how much I've spent, and while I think it is difficult to remove completely, if I can slowly reduce it, which I'm going to start in April, I will do

60.00 bus lane fines in a place I was completely lost in, did try to contest that the sign posting was not great and to reverse out of the bus lane would have meant reversing onto a road shared by trams. Won't be doing this again!
Doing this for the first month has been a real eye opener so looking forward to setting budget targets in April

FurryBeastOz

Yay. Big happy dance. Reporting at £126/£250. Ok, I've been away for 2 weeks, but fed DH throughout.

Slowly running down cupboards and the freezer. I think another month should do it - clear out all of the OOD and duplicate stuff. The trick will be not to build it up again.

See you in April.

VfM4meplse

Another happy dance!

Have tracked my expenditure very carefully since 1st Jan and am happy to report that my food expenditure for myself plus ad-hoc guests for the last 13 weeks comes to £100.22. Plus I have enough food in my fridge to last me for another week at least. I spent an additional £6.79 on food and drink out, which was a huge step in the right direction for me given my coffee-shop addiction!

I'm pleased with this result although I can accept that PN will have spent a great deal less!

fairy3

Final check in for the month with NSD's since last post so 85.31/85 which am happy with, cupboards and freezer becoming more manageable and less waste. On to April.......

Thanks for running the thread and all support

try_harder

Morning everyone ,could someone tell me please how to find the april food challenge .Thank you.

pamsdish

try_harder wrote: »

Morning everyone ,could someone tell me please how to find the april food challenge .Thank you.

Top of page click "old style money saving" all threads there.

Winchelsea

Failed!
Target £40.
Spent £48.67

But, I did do a bit of stocking up of the freezer at the beginning of the month, so I won't up my April target.

closemead

I'm declaring £388.12 so a bit over my £300 budget but I'm determined not to beat myself up over it and to get on track and do it this month ����