October 2019 Grocery Challenge

Crowdpleaser

Rejoining please! Taken my eye off the ball again lately....

325 please! My budget runs 4 weekly so runs 27 Sept to 25 Oct this time. This includes everything inc cleaning and hamster stuff. I'm on a low fodmap diet so have to watch what I eat and husband doesn't care what it is as long as there is a mountain of it. Packed lunches for 3 5 days a weeks too.

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shopaholicnumber1

Hi all - having been spending obscene amounts on food all my life, now my offspring are both at uni and it's only me, a dog and a cat in the house, it seems like a good time to reign it in and shop more carefully! Please put me down for £225 for October for absolutely everything (except prescription cat food which I am picking up on Monday but will last about 10 weeks or so). Thank you and good luck everyone!

joedenise

Scraped by last month by the skin of my teeth with just £1.14 left of the budget! I got lost along the way somewhere as by what I posted I should have had a bit more than that.

I'm going for £200 again for the month but will probably be a bit tight as I need to go to the butchers for some more meat.

tessie_bear

hello i have totalled up sept and am happy very happy with it so im in oct now a little early but no real spends planned for the last few days of sept

im off to plan some food for the weekend and puree some soup i made this am...lentil/bacon and a sweet potato effort i made up hope they taste ok

have a great weekend all

zafiro1984

Thanks Elsiepac for doing the thread, it's really helping. Just finished September and I came in slightly under budget, probably for the first time in a long time.

Can you put me down for 225.00 for October. That's for 2 adults but more at the weekend. Thanks

quintwins

Hi folks, I'm already on oct budget (I run the last fri of the month till the last fri of the month) I took all 4 kids shopping with me! I spent £18.39 in home bargains on lots of snacks foods, toilet roll, wipes and part baked bread.

Then I spent £60.76 in Asda! considering I had no meat and not really any dinners this is insane! I mostly stuck to my list but a lot of the cheaper items we usually get were out of stock and the kids added a few bits in. I have another planned spend tomorrow as lidl have chip pan oil on sale and I need 12 litres! then that should be me for the week.

£79.15/£200

jam2019

Hi all! Not quite finished with the September spend, but looks like I'll come in under budget so I'm aiming for £40 again this month.

millymouse

Hi can I come in on this please. Just totted up shopping for September and it came in as a hefty £600 that's for 3 adults and a dog. Hoping to reduce this to £300 this month

Cherry_Burton

Hello,

I would like to join again after coming in below budget in September. It's just me this month and I will lower the budget to £120. I'm hoping to get it down month by month to below £100 so this is a step on the path.

My major downfall is buying sandwiches while at work when I have left a prepared lunch in the fridge or haven't got round to making one. I'm going to concentrate on lunches during October.

dan958

Finished September with £74.76/£80, so I am going for £80 again in October.