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May 2019 Grocery Challenge
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Suma is a big one (based just down the road from me actually!)
Thanks! It feels so good to have a decent car again and it's sooo nice, I love it!
I certainly did!! :rotfl:
Hope things start to look brighter soon. I'd be so annoyed about the freezer too! hope it's fixed now
GC: Jan 21 £tbc/£250
Vegan 27-8-13
I sourced a reconditioned one, until I have my kitchen redone in 6 months
(Kabat-Zinn 2004):D:D:D
You're welcome we can spare it, yellow socks
I will happily follow your thread but I have reduced my food waste to plate scrapings (when DS comes round), meat and fish bones (after making stock)and fruit/vegetable peelings (the latter of which I compost). I might be able to offer a few ideas on how to minimise it for others, if you think that is helpful.
Save £12k in 2020 - #20 £7,085.43/£5k 141.7%
Save £12k in 2021 - #26 aiming for £7,500
OS Grocery Challenge 2021 target £0/£3k 0% annual (£500 contingency)
My Debt Free Diary Get a grip Woman
£26.52 - Morries - Nappies for the month, conditioner, gammon joint (was slow cooked yesterday), 2 packs of ham, potatoes, bananas and some yellow stickered bread.
£55.27 - Farmfoods - my big shop of the month. Fizzy pop for the month, beans, cheese, sugar, peperamis (for the little'un), sausages, coffee, birds eye crispy chicken grills, crisps, eggs (for DH to make his own fish bait with), ice poles. Used the £5 off voucher. Almost everything here was multibuys, and I couldn't get cheaper elsewhere. Multibuy savings totalled £10.72.
£3.32 - Morries - yellow sticker pork sausagemeat, choccy biccies, part baked baguettes (keep some in stock for days out/quick lunches)
£1.54 - Morris - Milk and carrots
£1.44 - Lidl - (orange stickered) Milk and broccoli
New total - £122.40
Freezers are rammed! lol So are cupboards now too. Had slow cooked gammon with mashed potato, carrots and gravy. Plenty of gammon left over for lunch sandwiches. Made a batch of cottage pie last night, so we have that for dinner. And I've got a 20p vegetable soup in the slow cooker today (reduced veg soup pack from Lidl with some free chicken stock that MIL gave me ages ago and has been in the freezer ever since). That'll do for some lovely lunches
Plan now is to not go over £150 before 17th May (holiday date). SO MUCH food in the house, I only need to top up on fresh fruit, bread, milk and maybe a bit of veg (as we get through it).
Have been walking to and from work. This saves fuel, wear and tear on car, is healthier for me, frees up a space for someone else at the office, stops me shopping at sainsburys unnecessarily (it's further to walk) and means DH has the car available to take DD out further afield/to the zoo.
Total: £34.31/£300
Thank you! I'm still amazed I managed it!
Reporting a NSD today. :j Good start to the month!
NST no. 19 NSD 8/15
So target for May is £500 again please. We go on holiday the 28th, so whilst I think I should be able to come in nearer £450, we do need to stock up on dog food before we go away, which comes out of the shopping budget.
Spending Tracker for May
Remaining balance +£2.83
Coop (top up shop) -£6.99
Dog Food -£41.99
Asda delivery pass -£5.00
Balance - £448.83 / £500 target
Grocery challange April: £130.17of £500 target remaining
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?p=75761766#post75761766
You're welcome we can spare it, yellow socks
2021 Total amended to include, grocery, others, Amazon/E,bay, alcohol.2021 £4000=£333 average per month.
JAN £11.0 £17.71 £6.99 £24.84 £30.48 £14.97=£105.99
(Puddleglum wanders off to plot cunning plan to earn more money and afford better food)
I still am Puddleglum - phew!