July 2020 Grocery Challenge

MazzieD

elsiepac said:

Yes sorry, it's been a funny old month for me - been struggling with flashbacks to hospital, big trouble sleeping and various other delights of the brain... long story short I'm now signed off work and they're treating me for PTSD.  Really need to get focussed on my spending again though with no overtime in the foreseeable - my budget is going to be very tight.

@elsiepac So sorry to hear that you aren't feeling 100% at the moment.  I saw a really good quote the other day:-

          "Your health is your wealth".

Take good care of yourself.

elsiepac

Thanks for the well wishes everyone, and that's a great quote @MazzieD, I shall try and remember it  

pamsdish

Last minute dash to Aldi as I needed alcohol, also got dogs chicken, dentastix, both different budgets, so spent a fortune but only £7.51 to declare here.

Mrs_Cheshire

Just calculated the recent spends and we're looking like we'll be £10ish over budget. I'm not worried though as it's not as drastic as other months. Will declare and catch up hopefully this week before i move over to the August thread. 

Pixiehouse55

small spend today £17.64. Making this month's spend £397.01. Shouldn't need to buy anything tomorrow and payday is on Tuesday..  I gave us £450 for this month as we had 3 birthdays. Happy with this 

thriftwizard

Ohmigosh, elsiepac, best wishes from me xx

Aaaand I'm well & truly bust this month! At least £42 over, I'm afraid. A combination of 3 birthday celebrations, mealtime planning meetings for a Plan B wedding in 6 weeks time (the French trip is off) and my mother being carted off to hospital again when the brother who normally cares for her was away for a well-earned break, and my best-laid plans have ganged very agley. Luckily for us that's not disastrous, but it just goes to show how easy it is to lose track when the pressure's on.

To be fair, I shouldn't need to buy anything else - except maybe some bread - until we're into August in the budgetary sense, as there's lots of stuff at the allotment; I brought back 10 courgettes today, having just dealt with the last of the 9 brought back on Thursday! I shall fire the dehydrator up when I get back from visiting Mum later.

joedenise

Going to go to get shopping today instead of tomorrow as need to go to post office anyway so might as well do both today to save going out again tomorrow!  Haven't had to move money from another pot as sold something and have some cash to use so obviously I'll be going over my grocery budget but it won't show in my bank account as I'll be using cash today.

The £28 odd left in the bank from the grocery budget will get carried over to next month and I'll add a bit more to it as I'm going for £300 for August as we're away in the motorhome for a week so food will be a bit more expensive as won't have access to the freezer & cupboards other than a few bits I'll be taking with us!

joedenise

Shopping didn't come to as much as I expected, £26.71 so as this is my final shop of the month I have actually come in under budget by less than £2 even though I've used cash today and not the pot in my bank account.  As I said in my previous post that £28.xx will be added to next month's pot and will be made up to £300 for the month of August.

Finstickle

A couple of small little shops again over the last couple of days taking my total to £601.29/£800.
OH wants some beer but that should be only spend left so not quite final declaration and not quite 25% under budget. 

PipneyJane

One more small shop to declare.  £7.40 spent on three quiches from the Co-op at the weekend because yours truly couldn't face cooking lunch on Sunday.  (Two are now in the freezer.) 

I'm declaring for July at £160.24/£120,  £40.24 overspent.

DH was paid today, so if anything else gets bought, it'll come out of August's money.

In other news, we popped to the butcher today, mainly to place an order for a Socially Distant BBQ on Saturday (to be held in a friend's back garden).  While we were there, we stocked up on a few things for us.  £38.67 spent from the Meat Fund, which included 1kg minced lamb, 8 chicken thighs, 8 chicken breasts, 1kg chicken livers and 2 huge lamb chump chops.  (The chops were £15/kg.)  That's the meat for at least another 12 meals to go into the freezer, plus dinner tonight.  (Dinner tonight will be a Hoisin Peanut Chicken Tray Bake from the Australian magazine, New Idea, which I'll make with 4 chicken thighs - not the 8 specified in the recipe - extra peanut butter and with added frozen peas and sweetcorn.)

- Pip