July 2018 Grocery Challenge

pamsdish

Visit in to town for very few needed bits, £8.96, counted on grocery budget, £6.94 of that is dog treats, enough for the month I hope.

Highland_Fling

hi everyone
I too am enjoying the sound of the rain Pipney Jane. Small pleasures.
Thank you YorksLass for the good wishes. As you say we are good at "making do" when we have to and I can usually find some appropriate substitute for a meal/recipe. However I have yet to find a substitute for toilet tissue.:D
Managed out to shops this weekend and topped up on milk and butter. Froze some of each to have as an emergency store.:)
Welcome Horwich 7. I would advise you to start by making small adjustments e.g. carry your own home made coffee and lunches. These small changes have a big effect on your food budget.
I would also say try not to be too hard on yourself. We all slip up sometimes but every little step is a step in the right direction.

YorksLass

Highland_Fling wrote: »

Thank you YorksLass for the good wishes. As you say we are good at "making do" when we have to and I can usually find some appropriate substitute for a meal/recipe. However I have yet to find a substitute for toilet tissue.:D

:rotfl: Newspaper squares on a string hanging on a hook spring to mind. Heaven forbid though, I'm old enough to remember using those as a child at my auntie's house - outside loo shared with another family! Uurgh.

Thanks for the August thread elsiepac, I knew you wouldn't let us down.

Snowy_White

YorksLass wrote: »

:rotfl: Newspaper squares on a string hanging on a hook spring to mind. Heaven forbid though, I'm old enough to remember using those as a child at my auntie's house - outside loo shared with another family! Uurgh.

Thanks for the August thread elsiepac, I knew you wouldn't let us down.

If you want the hard-core answer... you could go for what is euphemistically known as 'family cloth' very popular with some of the zero-waste contingent. Often as a result of making/using resusable wipes for babies' bottoms. Not for everyone.

thriftwizard

I'm declaring a total failure for this month; I have no idea how much we've spent! I suspect that we didn't go over budget, because the bank account is still relatively healthy, but I'm ashamed not to know for sure. There is some space in the freezer, though there's still plenty in there, and the store cupboard is re-stocked. I've brought back a fair amount of stuff from my mother's stores too, that was just or nearly out of date, rather than move it to her new home; the kitchen in the bungalow is much bigger & nicer than in the flat (albeit a somewhat bizarre layout) so she doesn't need her "wardrobe store-cupboard" any more.

When we were doing the festival, we ate mostly stuff we'd taken with us; home-laid eggs, market-bought cheese, cous-cous on BOGOFF, come-&-cut-again "living" salad etc.. DD2 (on the Spectrum) went home after a couple of days - all too noisy & random for her! - thus lightening the festival food budget, and ate mostly from the freezer once there. DD1 & I ate from the food vans for our evening meals - exhausted by then, and not wanting to leave our stall for long - but I'd allowed for that from business money.

MUST do better next month, as I want to start to build the savings up again. DS2 has left us once more, moving down into the city & only returning for the odd special meal, and DS3 should be off again back to his ivory towers mid-August, so the next few months should provide an opportunity to rein the budget right back in again.

stoopy

I spent £16.34 on Friday on food for the week, only me and home and baby will mainly eat at childminder, declaring at £380.75 and very pleased and excited for my first month! I think this thread has helped me to be accountable!

August is school holidays so we will see but hope to do as well again. See you there.

K9sandFelines

£2.50 in work today on YS goods - apples, oreos and 9 bars
£3.44 in Morrisons on Ys papaya, strawberries and peppers. Bananas, bread and soya milk.

Total £5.94

stoopy

PS Is there a way to see only my posts in a thread so I can check my working out and I haven't missed a week?

Also who adds eating out/takeaways to budget?

I haven't but I allow one takeaway and one eat out per month and this month we stuck to that, a meal in Wetherspoons £23 ish and a takeaway £12 for the 5 of us and three school friends over for tea!

See you in the August thread!

RedFraggle

stoopy wrote: »

PS Is there a way to see only my posts in a thread so I can check my working out and I haven't missed a week?

Also who adds eating out/takeaways to budget?

I haven't but I allow one takeaway and one eat out per month and this month we stuck to that, a meal in Wetherspoons £23 ish and a takeaway £12 for the 5 of us and three school friends over for tea!

See you in the August thread!

If you go to your profile and statistics you can find all your own posts. I quote my previous post as I go

RedFraggle

RedFraggle wrote: »

Hello! I fell off the grocery shopping challenge wagon.May was a disaster,too many visitors (two weeks total of 1 or 2 extra adults) June I didn't keep all the receipts so back this month aiming at £350 having redone my SOA. So......
1/7 £17.38 S.Bob
6/7 £36.07 Mr T
6/7 £12.30 Wilc0
12/7 £76.20 Mr T

15/7 £36.98 Z00plus
Total so far £178.93
Left £171.07

Declaring for July
Spends to add:
T 65.59
S 88.98
A1di 29.33

Total spend £362.83 so £12.83 over