March 2020 Grocery Challenge

franby64

I'm also going to declare for March as I've spent all my March money, food and otherwise! I'm declaring at £251.59 and DD spent another £30ish today which is going into April. Only need milk tomorrow so I'm trying to spend as little as possible before the end of March. Really need to slow down. Take care.

taka

Not sure I managed to post on here this month but I've been trying to stick to a budget of £167.40 this month. Budget bust with £202.17 spend so far with several days left. (I run calendar month) Thankfully I managed to come under budget in Jan / Feb so had a bit spare in my bulk fund. Have a nurses appointment tomorrow morning & I pass a smallish Mr T while walking back from it so this may well increase if I can find cheese and any fresh veg that isn't spuds, carrots or sweet potatoes! I'd love some more salad friendly bits!

zafiro1984

Declaring £26.86 over for March. After meal planning I only did one shop during March of £178.01. However, we ran out of our breakfast tea and this is the one luxury I wont give up so spent £48.85 towards the end of the month on tea but I should have enough to last until the end of April. Now moving over to April

Naomim

Declaring for March a total spend of £454.50 so an overspend of £29.50 but I'm hoping there is enough in the cupboards and fridge to see us through a couple of weeks. 

I went to Iceland today to just get a couple of bits that didn't come with my online delivery.  The queue was very organised 2m apart with a one in one out policy but it still made me feel anxious in the shop passing people in the aisles.

Naomim

pamsdish

£6.40 Spent on 2 packs of battered fish kindly purchased by a neighbour who was shopping, money left in a coin bag, inside a carrier for fish, hung on the gate. We seem to have established a small support system for each other whilst keeping our social distances.

supersaver1000

Glad to close up March, as have gone over my £266 budget and finished on £350.  I haven't done any bulk buying but am trying to keep an extra one or two of things available that are difficult to get or carry - i.e. fussy cats food and tinned beans/tomatoes.  Having an extra mouth to feed pushes the bill up a bit and means its more difficult to budget.  OH is very easy to please menu-wise, but add more people into the mix and it needs more planning, especially now I can't just pop to the shops when I want to.  Its great news for the no-spend days though and I am going to have another NSD today.  We seem to be going through a lot of milk - lots of tea drinking - and of course a few biscuits have been had, but not too many  I'm pleased its only an extra £86 spent this month though - could have been much worse if I wasn't doing this challenge - so thank you.  See you all in the April thread and hopefully May will see a return to normal-ish for everyone.  

StripeyTightsSpottySocks

Mar £96.45/f £100 Month (Annual 27 Dec 19 - 26 Dec 20) £177.36/£1,325 cat food £66.36
Spent out of £100: Jan £77.77 Feb £99.59 Mar £96.45
Cat Food Jan £71.33, Feb £64.15, Mar £66.36
£1.60 extra on potatoes - they were sold out so called into a shop on a walk and managed to get some. Now shopping again today and need more. 
Will be moving onto April challenge now as well.

2Scratters

Morning Peeps,
on my last post I had £95 left - how that happened I have no idea. Would have been rude of me to have that much. To be fair I did not panic buy as I had enough supplies in. So spent on the 15kg bag of dog food £20 and £60 at my loyal butcher. Sorry it did mean a travel.:# I have bought some other bits in advance so that will come off my April budget, that I will expect to be on the low side yet still maintain the £200 budget.

Stay safe all

2Scratters x

Herbyme

zafiro1984 said:

Declaring £26.86 over for March. After meal planning I only did one shop during March of £178.01. However, we ran out of our breakfast tea and this is the one luxury I wont give up so spent £48.85 towards the end of the month on tea but I should have enough to last until the end of April. Now moving over to April

Zafiro, you're going to have to tell me about this tea! I fancy myself as a tea lover (aka tea snob!) so I'm very curious!

thriftwizard

Declaring for March at a massive £40 over the already-enhanced £500 budget. Remind me never to take OH to the wholesalers again... talk about panic buying, I was doing pretty well up to then! We popped in for just one thing and spent £100... Now we daren't open the cupboards in a hurry for fear something will fall out. So I'm going to cut the budget for April; we've plenty in & should only need fresh stuff, and that's provided our key-worker supermarket salesperson daughter doesn't bring anything untoward home with her.

Our market is still operating in a very cut-down sort of way, thank heaven. (But the fishmonger got phoned by his GP last week & told he was to go home straight away & isolate; he's asthmatic. Needless to say he waited until he was virtually sold out!) I was able to pick up some bargain pineapples & mangos this morning, as well as broccoli, sweet potatoes, raspberries, blueberries & frying tomatoes to vary the menus a bit. There were loads of eggs available, but my Girls are presenting us with 3-5 a day so I don't need any. So - off into April's budget as of Monday! See you all Over There...