June 2017 Grocery Challenge

Skintmama

Budgetbabe wrote: »

Morning all,

First time I've checked in since the second week of June - little one made a very dramatic entrance, and our world has been tipped upside down this month!;)

BB x

Congratulations Wonderful news!

Ginmonster

Congratulations Budgetbabe! It's simultaneously the best and the worst thing in the world having a small person so enjoy but don't feel guilty if it all feels a bit much at times.

I'm mega impressed at the meal planning. I think I lived off camembert on toast for the first few weeks of my son's life (making up for 9 months of not being allowed it). That and jelly beans to keep me going through the night feeds. Hmm.. That may not have been a completely balanced diet. I should have had some crisps as well. ;-)

t14cy_t

still hanging on to the last £7 of budget for the month. ys goodies are calling but ive got to fend them off!!! im just being greedy in preparation of the goodies I may find! not going give in! .......

FoxFace

Still here, nothing really to report at the moment... we seem to have slipped into a very comfortable shop on a Sunday then coasting the rest of the week... so no spends since Sunday here.

I will say though, last night I was so tempted to deviate from the meal plan and nip to the shop to buy something else... but as I had no budget for this, I made the planned meal and it was actually really delicious

Congrats BudgetBabe

Well done to everyone on track and to those who aren't doing so well, remember that you can learn from this! And from reading back, nobody is doing particularly dreadfully so well done for still being here

Fox
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Kittencat

So my month is up today, payday tomorrow.

I honestly thought we spent a lot on groceries but doing this challenge for the first time has proved to me that it's not as high as I thought. That's good!

So my target was too high and it wasn't a struggle at all.

Total this month = £272.30/£315

Bring on July where I will cut the target back.

Thank you guys I've enjoyed this.

Suffolk_lass

Budgetbabe wrote: »

Morning all,

First time I've checked in since the second week of June - little one made a very dramatic entrance, and our world has been tipped upside down this month!;)
Might have been slightly ambitious to start focussing on budgeting this month :rotfl:, however I suspect things would have been far worse if I hadn't!

Spends to report are as follows:

£119 Takeaways and hospital coffee shop
£142.02 Food shops

This takes me to a grand total for June of £304.19 (£54.19 over budget, although £73.68 of the spends this month could have been avoided if not forced to purchase expensive coffee shop items :mad:)

Meal plan for the rest of the month is as follows:
22 Th Sweet n sour tiger prawn stir fry
23 F Keralean cod / Vegetable risotto
24 S Paella
25 S Lunch Fish and chips, Dinner fresh pasta/sauce
26 M Pizza and chips
27 T Risotto and lightly spiced Basa fillets
28 W Dinner out
29 Th Paella with veggie sausages and broccoli
30 F Pizza and chips

Hope that everyone is well, and enjoying the lovely cooler weather:T

BB x

Congratulations BB - watch the spice in your cooking if you are feeding baby-BB yourself! Rumour has it that is how my Son developed his taste for spicy food and I can certainly vouch for the change it caused in his erm-het-hm outputs

caronc

Budgetbabe wrote: »

Morning all,

First time I've checked in since the second week of June - little one made a very dramatic entrance, and our world has been tipped upside down this month!;)
Might have been slightly ambitious to start focussing on budgeting this month :rotfl:, however I suspect things would have been far worse if I hadn't!

Spends to report are as follows:

£119 Takeaways and hospital coffee shop
£142.02 Food shops

This takes me to a grand total for June of £304.19 (£54.19 over budget, although £73.68 of the spends this month could have been avoided if not forced to purchase expensive coffee shop items :mad:)

Meal plan for the rest of the month is as follows:
22 Th Sweet n sour tiger prawn stir fry
23 F Keralean cod / Vegetable risotto
24 S Paella
25 S Lunch Fish and chips, Dinner fresh pasta/sauce
26 M Pizza and chips
27 T Risotto and lightly spiced Basa fillets
28 W Dinner out
29 Th Paella with veggie sausages and broccoli
30 F Pizza and chips

Hope that everyone is well, and enjoying the lovely cooler weather:T

BB x

Congratulations BB x

£37 this week on mainly household items and F&V. Hopefully the last spend for June total so far is £117/£120.

Merlin's_Beard

Budgetbabe wrote: »

Morning all,

First time I've checked in since the second week of June - little one made a very dramatic entrance, and our world has been tipped upside down this month!;)
Might have been slightly ambitious to start focussing on budgeting this month :rotfl:, however I suspect things would have been far worse if I hadn't!

Congratulations!

So a spend of £18.39 brings my total to £97.57/£100. That's after a shop that was meant to cost me £9 that fell into the reduced to clear section

Hopefully that's the last spend of the month though, and I'm stocked up for next week and weekend. Very close to the limit, especially considering I've been away for 7 nights out of 30 :eek:

Florence_J

Had to do a bit more shopping and am now at £262.54/£250, just need to make it to Tuesday.

Doom_and_Gloom

BudgetBabe congratulations, and I don't think anyone here is going to say being over budget right now for you is terrible. After all as you said it could have been worse.

Spent £5.47 today. Still items we need to buy. I'm hoping we don't spend more than £10 more, we have a week left still.

154.27/150.
-£4.27. £4.27 over budget.