June 2017 Grocery Challenge

Emma45622

A bit late with updates.

Week 2 - £63.26 (plus 3 unplanned spends totally £29.98)
Week 3 - £60.17

That leaves me with £53.53 for the rest of the month

XSpender

Unplanned spend in L1dl yesterday. We were passing and decided to pop in as we do not usually shop there. They do DS's favourite chocolate pastry so bought one of those plus a small sack of spuds and a bag of carrots which I was low on some energy drinks for DH and some ice lollies.

DH was out last night and I ordered him a £10 takeaway for when he got home. I am hoping he has enough cash left to cover this so I don't need to add it to my total!

Total is now

Snacks £17.43
Lunches at work £60.86 - overspend due to me being away and DH buying lunch everyday instead of taking sandwiches I had prepared :mad:
Takeaway £13.00
Food and everything else £203.86

TOTAL £295.15/£290

armchairexpert

Weekly shop came in at $183. That's more than I'd hoped for, because I've been slowly buying and cooking more than I need each week and I thought this week would be just a top-up shop. The freezer is full of HM soups for lunches, meat for dinners, and yet. I think because I knew it would be a cheap week I let myself buy a few extra things, like nice bacon for a Sunday lunch. Anyway, no dramas, that does still put me on track, at $680/$950 with one big shop left to go. I will have to go to the butchers again next week but should be fine.

Meal plan:
Sunday - Malaysian steamboat (Sunday is 'fancy family dinner!)
Monday - laksa with leftover seafood from steamboat plus some shredded chicken I have in the freezer and HM stock
Tuesday - Gado gado
Wednesday - Lamb chops and veg
Thursday - Spaghetti puttanesca
Friday - Veg lasagne

Florence_J

Oooops, have less than £5 left of the budget with a good 8 days to go.

People on my debt free diary have kindly suggested that £250 a month for two people is a bit generous, but I am finding it extremely difficult to keep under that.

I realised part of the problem is we are stocking the cupboards and freezer, but aren't then 'shopping' from them. So today we sat down to do our meal plan for the week, and OH was suggesting meals, which then lead to the creation of a shopping list, which then made me realise we were going to buy more things when we have so much stuff already in the house.

I think I have been too lenient with OH, he is a bit fussy and I tend to let him dictate what we eat because most of what I suggest he turns down, I think I will have to be stricter with him

mcculloch29

My new job has kept me busy, time for an update. So far, this month I've spent:
£23.62 Aldi
£13.62 Heron Foods
£13.92 Decaff coffee Nespresso capsules from Amazon. (Not paid for with cash, but an Amazon gift card.)
Leaving £58.84 for the rest of the month.

(Spend £51.16/£110)

t14cy_t

still holding on tight to my last £7 of budget for the month!! xx

FoxFace

Hi everyone

I haven't really been updating this last week or so, but am still going strong! I had a couple of budgets which covered food this week, as it was smallest child's birthday party at home. I'll admit that the separate budgets did get a little blurred, but am very happy that in spite of this, I managed to work with the cash I had and did not use my card or withdraw any other money.

Working from cash really is helping me right now, I haven't used any of my cards in almost a month now

Just checked my purse and I had 98p left from this week's budgets, so I have bunged that in my sealed pot.

Have a lovely day everyone
Fox

mouche

Another 1.09 to add - OH got milk from the corner shop (which he then didn't drink grrr.)

We need fruit and other bits but I don't have time to go to the shops today so I will hold onto the leftover budget another day!

mumofthetwins

£55 spend for me over the weekend but I did have a NSD on sunday .. whoop

purpleybat

Florence_J wrote: »

Oooops, have less than £5 left of the budget with a good 8 days to go.

People on my debt free diary have kindly suggested that £250 a month for two people is a bit generous, but I am finding it extremely difficult to keep under that.

I realised part of the problem is we are stocking the cupboards and freezer, but aren't then 'shopping' from them. So today we sat down to do our meal plan for the week, and OH was suggesting meals, which then lead to the creation of a shopping list, which then made me realise we were going to buy more things when we have so much stuff already in the house.

I think I have been too lenient with OH, he is a bit fussy and I tend to let him dictate what we eat because most of what I suggest he turns down, I think I will have to be stricter with him

your post reminded me of when I first met my ex, only spud he would eat was chips, crisps or smash! smash?!?! wth? making a spag bol that he ate the mince and then complaining he was hungry. no kidding? I told him his leftovers were in the fridge if he wanted to microwave them
in the end I treated him like my parents did us when young... 'you can leave it but there's nothing else'
it didn't cure all the pickiness, but then we all have stuff we don't like, but it did mean he tried lots more food and liked it, including cheaper stuff.
the biggest budget saver tho was trading him in for a slow cooker, more efficient and economical