May 2020 Grocery Challenge

Purple_kitten

Can I join in please.  With the lockdown, it’s made me even more aware of spends, and I have been. Both DH and I are shielding, thankfully we are on the government list which has provided access to deliveries by A$d@, without which we would be scuppered.

As someone else mentioned I am missing the yellow stickers and C0stco, esp. the C0stco pizza. Delicious. Also missing shopping around at home bargains & B&M  as prices aren’t creeping so much as rocketing up.

This month includes a birthday and anniversary, so I am also going to budget for a couple of Deliveroo orders, working on contactless delivery, I think maybe £270 total for May from the 1st May through to the end. I’m interested to see how I do.

candygirl

ELSIE, can you please put me down for £200 for May? 😁It's a lot more than usual,  but I'm having to spend more on online shopping , as i'm not daring to risk going into shops, n catching anything

supersaver1000

Hello Elsiepac, Just moving onto May now, after a huge (double) overspend in April.  Only one extra mouth to feed and its all gone haywire.  I can't even say that I have panic bought anything, so its not like I have full stores or a full freezer.  I suppose I am keeping in slightly more of things than usual e.g. an extra one or two here and there just in case but nothing like £300 worth.  Oh well onward and upward.  It looks like we will be one extra again for the month so I am going to stay around the same budget but try to spend better.  Hopefully that will be easier as the shops are almost back to normal.

Supersaver Monthly Budget for May = £320

joedenise

Decided to do first shop of the month today but still had some left of my (increased!) budget for April which paid for most of it.  Only £5.39/£250 from May's budget so not too bad.  This only includes food, soft drinks, cleaning stuff & toiletries.  Meat and Alcohol have their own categories which I don't allow to go over budget so if there's nothing left at the end of the month we don't buy any more alcohol or meat.  We do have quite full freezers and a selection of spirits so it's not really a hardship it just means a change of what alcohol we drink at the weekend!  I move money over from other budgets like garden or holidays if I need to increase the grocery budget.

thriftwizard

And I'm off into May with £90.50 spent, between a L!dls run @ £65-odd on non-perishables; the receipt blew away as I left the store & went straight under the wheels of a 4x4 (it was actually £110 but £45 was spent on infrastructure bits for the new greenhouse, which should arrive next week sometime) and £25.50 on a cat food delivery from Amaz0n. There'll be more spent at the market, butchers & bakers tomorrow but that's ok; stocks are still high, so that we can manage the 14 days isolation if we have to. 

Chloris

Hi. Please could I join in this month? I'm going to go for £600 for a family of 5 to include everything. This will be quite a drop and may be tricky as DH wants to keep overstocking but too much stuff gives me the jitters! I also have a child who medically needs to eat a lot of high calorie food that appeals to him😊 and he doesn't like homemade cake much 😲 it means buying a lot of crisps, ice-cream and chocolate. I'll go from 1st till the end of May.

elsiepac

Budgets updated to here 

Couple of small spends yesterday to add to my total.  £2 in Ice1and on a big bag of ice and a 3 pack of Fry's strawberry cream chocolate bars - purely because I hadn't tried them before!! Still haven't but they'll be nice when I fancy something sweet.

Also, £11.10 in Tesc0 on Mushrooms, Coriander, Apples, a bar of Vegan Galaxy, a pack of Vegan Eat Natural bars and something I have never bought before which is a vegan chocolate and hazelnut spread.  I've never even eaten the non vegan branded Nute11a so I don't know if it compares and I haven't tried it yet.  I like a snack of apples or bananas with peanut or almond butter on, and thought this would be a nice option to have as well! I've discovered hitting my Tesc0 after around 7.30/8pm is perfect at the moment as no queues and it's much quieter than during the day even with the "bouncers" lol so way easier to social distance even if I sometimes seem the only one making the effort. Some people are SO oblivious 

Oh also bought a 2 way plug adapter for £3 which has tidied up some cables behind the tv which were really bugging me!

Again, shouldn't need anything for a few days.  I only went to Tesc0 for the veggies really and also for popcorn out of my spending money as had a "cinema at home" afternoon today planned due to the weather.  Obviously it rained all morning then brightened up when watching the film.  Le sigh.

Food Budget - £73.90 / £225

Household Budget - £98.21 / £100 (£6.78 refund due as well)

jenni_fer

First spend of the month just finalised for collection tomorrow. £185!!! I think that's the biggest shop we've ever done outside of large party catering but it's been 2 weeks since we shopped and we'd started running out of things so needs must. Hopefully we'll only have 2 further shops in May so my target will still be achievable.
I'll update the exact spend once it is collected and subs sorted etc.
£185/450

XSpender

Updating with my spend for the month so far.  

Co-op Monday - £16.78
Egg and potato delivery - £15.00
Co-op Thursday - £24.76

TOTAL £56.54/£400

Today’s shop included lots of snacks as we had done a massive amount of heavy work in the garden today and needed some treats and there was not a piece of chocolate or a crisp in the house and the cake tin was empty!

I am aiming to spend no more then £80 each week working Monday to Friday starting this week.  Next week I may spend a bit of the following weeks allowance as I am going to do a larger shop at Asda.

Hettyhound

I’m hoping to keep in a budget of £200 for May but I already seem to have spent a lot.  I’ve spent £52.95 on pet food and cleaning/toiletries/household; actually spent it last week as I go infrequently to the “big shop” now.  I’ve got a click and collect on Saturday which should be around the £60 mark but loads was out of stock.  Managed to get some dried chickpeas and beans and a friend is giving me some plain flour; I’ve got baking powder so I can make do with that.