August 2017 Grocery Challenge

elf06

Up to £90.31 With 7 NSDs but I've misplaced a receipt. I'd had deodorant, tooth paste etc on it but can't remember what else. I'll ha e a look for it later or check internet banking. Very irritating to have lost it!
Anyway will need a couple of bits before I finish work tonight. Garlic and cider vinegar and DS has run out of cereal so should get some more before I'm accused of starving him :rotfl: for one small boy he can out some amount of food away!
Three weeks remaining and only £40 ish left in the budget :eek:

elsiepac

Hi everyone!

I'm very late to the party this month, so I do apologise! I have been tracking though, don't worry!

I'm going for £200 this month - from 26th July to 24th August.

Thanks Zippy, Coxy and lynnejk as always for running the thread and keeping us all in line!

I'm not doing my type of spend breakdowns this month as although I had everything noted down as in what I've spent, I have lost a couple of receipts.

Currently have £43.49 remaining. Need to meal plan!

I've been absent basically because I haven't had any time to myself it feels like! Been working tons of overtime, and I mean, proper, late overtime like till 1 am and stuff, after doing ten - twelve hour workdays ... it's been very very tiring, but have had lots of good feedback at work and will be raking in the money thank goodness!
Downside is that I've not had chance to meal plan let alone spend hours prepping and batch cooking etc, so my budget has really suffered. Glad I allowed extra this month!!

Anyway, it should calm down a little bit now, and I'm very aware I've got 18 days left in the month to feed myself *properly*!
Going to go and do an inventory now, and make a rudimentary plan.

I haven't caught up on the thread yet, so hope everyone is doing well and having a great August so far!

elsie x

DaisyWalker

re. receipts. I often lose mine or forget to print them so I have a list app on my phone where I just add the total (as a list item) to put on the spreadsheet when I get home (the sheet's too fiddly for the phone). I also keep my shopping lists on there so can remove the items I've just bought. I use Wunderlist and another, similar, app is Remember the Milk. They're both free.

excelwizard

Total now £61.88 / £200 after a £1.75 shop in Tesco for some lettuce, biscuits and a pack of noodles

I'm actually very surprised at how quickly it's all adding up..it's going to be much harder than I thought to stick the budget - goes to show how all the little shops add up

GrowingPlants

I have joined GC to better control my food spends. By taking part in this challenge I can see where I am spending and get back in the habit of batch cooking and using the store cupboard.
The hopeful end result is more money going into my house fund without feeling I'm missing out on anything.

BrassicWoman

£2 - was buying cards in b and m and they had cheap vegan chocolate for the emergency stash.

Dinner - soy meatballs cooked in toms with chilli, fast and very tasty, and leftovers for tomorrow

JingsMyBucket

The reason I rejoined GC is because I felt my old known habit of just frittering money away happening again. I eat my money. I'm trying to recalibrate back to the time years ago when I had a better handle on my finances and paid down debt quickly. Doing the grocery challenge is a way to start tracking again and to start moving money directly into savings. I find that I do a lot better if I make myself "deliberately broke". About 10 years ago, after I'd get paid, I'd pay bills, move tons of money to savings and then give myself about $150 - $200 to live on for the two weeks between pay days. That would include going out money and groceries. Now that I'm freelance and erratically billing that's more difficult. The erratic billing is also due to having a lot of turmoil in the last few years so that also makes things unpredictable. I'm tired of that excuse though so am trying to get back in it.

Onwards and upwards.

euronorris

Small spend in S'burys for bread, milk and dr pepper - £5.10.


New total: £267.13/£300


Still need to pop over to Lidl's at lunchtime for pears and nappies.

pamsdish

Huge spends today £14.31 Lidl veg and dairy stuff, £79.92 in Morrisons, that includes £19.50 for my friend, she giving me a near enough brand new single bed with headboard and all bedding, I know it was bought about Easter, now she wants a double, £25 on a tower fan as needed a replacement after last heat wave, £30 of Amazon vouchers, got 3200 extra points for spending over £35, 750 points for the Amazon vouchers, spent the vouchers already as my ex husband asked me to order some stuff for him from Amazon, he owes me £25 for that. I spent the rest on a new hose.
So I will only count £49.92 morries.

purpleybat

hello all,
oh with work and now time off i'm losing track of the month... and a few receipts... so for that reason I've guessed tiny single item spends at £5, I know I spent £5 in Iceland on crumples, bread and lazy chicken, and I spent £38.44 in lidles on my weekly shop.
I think that's a big chunk of my budget but my sister didn't scoff much when she stayed, we ate out 1 night and that came out of my birthday fund.
the fridge and freezer both seem VERY full, so hoping any shop this week will be sarnie stuff and fruit, unless my pal comes up with free apples for blapple jam i'll need to buy some.


reason for being here? partly I like reading all your posts, but mainly I was starting to spend and waste too much and wanted to get back to basics.