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DH is doing the shopping at the moment (with a list!) but when I write milk (one example among 10), I expect 1 x 4 pint or 2 x 2 pints - he bought double! As a result, my April spend was well over the £200 I allow (£229.46) and stores is up to £168 out of £400 for the year. As a percentage across the year I am at 28.8% of the overall £3000. Apart from bowl fruit we need nothing so I will suggest he waits until Monday and we make do until then (we do have homegrown rhubarb and frozen berries so not without fruit).
If anybody is up for using some of their stores and flipping the traditional economising measure that we usually recommend on here:
meal plan -> shopping list -> buy only what is needed;
we have lots of meal ideas from what you already have and substitute ingredients options on the Reverse Meal Planning thread - lots of Veg box contents driving meals at the moment with some lovely recipes (and Martin's email tipped us this week).Save £12k in 2024 - #2 target is £5000 only £798.34 so far
OS Grocery Challenge 2024 31.1% spent or £932.98/£3,000 annual
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
My Debt Free Diary Get a grip Woman14 -
£17.46 Between several shops, that should do me for a while.Do I need it or just want it.11
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I have been spending way over my £70 a week ,I must try harder this month although I have raised it to £100 as I am mainly shopping at local greengrocers and farm shops but I need to make sure it does not go above the one hundred mark .So for the month of May I have allowed £442 I am trying to make sure that we are eating as healthily as possible13
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Just braved the downpours for the weekly dash to Lidl, £35.50 spent. A bit higher than last week due to some treats but also having run out of essentials that we don’t buy every week - namely spuds, onions, sugar and orange squash. We also had a naughty pizza delivery on Monday for £24.99 which I’ll add into our spend, taking us to £87.71/£200 so far.Original mortgage free date: November 2044Current mortgage free date: November 2038Chipping away...12
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Popped out to butchers to buy eggs, bought a tray of 30, so should last a couple of weeks, for £5.90. Total so far £11.29/£250.
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elsiepac said:
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)
Original mortgage free date: November 2044Current mortgage free date: November 2038Chipping away...11 -
£43.31 in Lidl today, chicken thighs, veg, cotton buds and 2 boxes of red wine. That should be spending no more on alcohol now this month. Really trying to hone down now and have minimal spending until the 20th so I can save some of the remainder.12
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Please could you put me down for £310 this month Elsiepac, and thank you for running the thread.
Higher than last month but more realistic, £10 a day which should be doable.
And I've started with an NSD!August Shopping Challenge. 26/8. Budget £250 Spent £256.81.. £6.81 over. So £0.00 a day left.12 -
Thank you for this thread elsiepac, it keeps us all accountable.
We are 2 adults and a chinchilla and our budget covers all food and drink (sans alcohol which comes out of the entertainment budget) for us, toiletries, cleaning etc and chinchilla food and items (though he's bought for for a few months now).
May goes 1st - 31st and the budget is going to be £300.
It could probably be less but I'm being realistic. Hoping we come in under.
We spent £10.17 today.
400g organic tomatoes
500g red grapes
Red pepper
Cucumber
Ginger kombucha
Unsweetened pea milk
2 packs of gluten free oat muesli
800g white loaf
£10.17/£300
£289.83I am a vegan woman. My OH is a lovely omni guy10 -
Budgets updated to here
@Greenglockenspiel yes I have - it's ridiculously good!!
Amazon suddenly charged me for the loo paper I usually buy from them on Subscribe & Save - it's been out of stock for ages due to panic buyers, so that's £14.32 gone. Moved a little over from Food to Household to cover it and adjusted budgets accordingly.Food Budget: £73.90 / £219.04 = £145.14 remaining
Household Budget: £105.96 / £105.96 = £0 remaining
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