June 2019 Grocery Challenge
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What are we like? - I am sure I boost the SM profits with all their stuff I store here - and I pay them instead of them needing warehousing to store it!
A case in point - The toothpaste I like was on offer when I popped in for bowl fruit yesterday - so three popped in to my basket (although I have not paid full price for these for about 8 years) probably 7 at home is a little more than normal...
Save £12k in 2020 - #20 £7,085.43/£5k 141.7%
Save £12k in 2021 - #26 aiming for £7,500 - £864.80 11.53% after Jan
OS Grocery Challenge 2021 target £460.66/£3k 15.36% annual (£500 contingency)
My Debt Free Diary Get a grip Woman
July GC is now live HERE
GC: Jan 21 £tbc/£250
Vegan 27-8-13
This baking lark is costing a bit upfront, but the savings will kick in later. I need to buy a small amount of equipment (which will come from another part of my budget - "household infrastructure") but can mostly bodge it with what I've already got. Once I feel I've really got the hang of it, we shouldn't ever need to buy bread again. What I'm turning out at the moment is reliably good, but not superb, which is what I'm aiming for; I'm hoping to be able to produce a delicious, nutritious, fluffy & crunchy sourdough loaf for the same price as a mid-range supermarket loaf, even counting in energy used. Getting there!
ETA: just worked that out, using the current prices for a) the flour (using Stoates Organic Strong White; wholemeal's a bit cheaper but I tend to use a mix) 90p, salt probably no more than 5p, water 0p as we're not metered, and the 'leccy around 20p, so £1.15. Somewhat cheaper than the bakery's £3.90...
GC Mar 21 £228.63/£500
2021 Fashion on the Ration Challenge: 5/48
(Money's just a substitute for time & talent...)
Save £12k in 2020 - #20 £7,085.43/£5k 141.7%
Save £12k in 2021 - #26 aiming for £7,500 - £864.80 11.53% after Jan
OS Grocery Challenge 2021 target £460.66/£3k 15.36% annual (£500 contingency)
My Debt Free Diary Get a grip Woman
GC Mar 21 £228.63/£500
2021 Fashion on the Ration Challenge: 5/48
(Money's just a substitute for time & talent...)
I have a few spends to report from this week. £8.90 at the farm shop on Saturday, followed by £4.78 in MrT's on Sunday, then an extra $6.08 in Lidl last night. (It's Scottish Week - I went looking for their Haggis pizzas...) That brings our total spend for June to £141.79/£130, so £11.79 over budget so far.
Having broken our budget so early in the month, I think we'll be considerably over come 30th June. DH and I each contributed an extra £10 to the GC kitty last weekend - not counted in the £130 budget above - but that is almost all spent.
- Pip
2021 Fashion on the Ration Challenge 66 coupons plus 6 brought forward unspent from 2020 equals 72 coupons to spend in 2021. 19 coupons spent. 53 remain.
Have you tried making Zaatar? the recipe looks simple and I have everything in my cupboard except Sumac and most SMs sell that - I was looking at this recipe here
Save £12k in 2020 - #20 £7,085.43/£5k 141.7%
Save £12k in 2021 - #26 aiming for £7,500 - £864.80 11.53% after Jan
OS Grocery Challenge 2021 target £460.66/£3k 15.36% annual (£500 contingency)
My Debt Free Diary Get a grip Woman
£91.13 left. Doing the weekly shop tomorrow.