February 2020 Grocery Challenge

sausageelza

Hi Elsiepac, can you put me down for £400 please? Thank you.

sarahj1986

€6.42 spent

Needed a few bits for lunch today

€293.58 left

Bluegreen143

Joining in and hoping to actually stick to it this month and keep posting!

Aiming for an ambitious £200 on food and £50 on other groceries (alcohol excluded as husband pays for his own and so do i the rare times I have a drink) as month is tight this month.

That’s for me, husband, a 4yo and a 1yo (cloth nappies so only rarely buy disposable nappies or wipes).

Includes all meals for the baby and I and breakfast, dinner and weekend lunches for the 4yo and husband, unless husband takes a packed lunch (which I am trying to encourage), plus kids’ snacks.

StripeyTightsSpottySocks

Feb £24.09/of £100 Month (Annual 27 Dec 19 - 26 Dec 20) £77.77/£1,325 cat food £10.40
Jan was £77.77/£100
Feb /100
Jan cat food £71.33, Feb £

A small spend of £1.50 - 55p of it was a planned spend on bread - the other 95p on healthy snacks.

There should be nothing spent this weekend and next week should be fairly low spend wise as well.

As shown, i have a monthly budget and an overall annual target i'd like to come in under both but we will see. It is the first time i've ever really focused on this for a period of time Growing up i was never shown budgeting or meal planning or cooking even. And there definitely wasn't any conversation about low cost meals. I'm not saying we didn't have any cheap meals - we were poor so we definitely did, just the whole understanding of meals and the prep and planning were never discussed. As stated in a previous post, since living with my boyfriend this mentality continued. Eventually i set a budget for food but would spend that in 1 food shop but always agreed to additional purchases at £10+ a time, several times a week so vastly overspending out of my own money. It clearly wasn't the right thing to do. I wouldn't say Mr Socks and I are on the same page with this but i do hope we will get there eventually

Luckily he is open to eating just about all the meals i cook and has enjoyed a few new recipes lately which have been quite low cost (when factoring in ingredients left to make again and how many meals we got out of the dish).

We have been mainly eating leftovers this week and i think it will be an easy tea of jacket potatoes tomorrow

Bluegreen143

Jumping back on as forgot to do it in red:

£250 total budget (roughly £200 food/£50 misc) for Feb calendar month.

Miss_Behaving

Thanks for the new thread Elsiepac!

Please may you put me down for £280 this month - I came in slightly under budget last month (only a couple of pounds but still under!) and I'm trying to trim it a little more this month. Plus, it's a slightly shorter month.

sunflwer15

Hi, I'd like to join the February grocery challenge please.
I've not done this before, but would like to keep better track of what we're spending.
At a rough guess I'm going to try for £400 for 1st-29th Feb.
There are 6 of us, 4 adults, a teen and a 5yr old.

I had my first spend today of £15.87 on some fruit, veg and rice.

janiebaby29

I'd like to join this Feb challenge please . It's just me , the old man and the dog . I do get paid 4 weekly and will be paid again in a fortnight so will do 1st Feb till 29th Feb . I will set my target at 150 pounds .my probelm is I work at sainsburys and its so easyto just get that bargain especially meat . I really do need to regain my wages back from sainsburys . I did spend 5 .43 on 4 duck breasts , a lovely bit of haddock loin and some fresh herbs . Will be getting some shopping Tommorow as I have friends to dinner but that will be at aldi

H2020

£5.77 throughout the week and £54.61 on the shop today.

Total now £134.08 / £370.00

Hettyhound

Hi All,

I did my big first of the month shop today and spent £91.19. That’s all pet food, cleaning and toiletries plus a weeks food. I did forget that my son will be on half term in February so will need a week of pack ups for holiday club. Still at least the shelves look fuller than this morning.