August 2020 Grocery Challenge

MazzieD

Aaaaargh......  Cat is driving me up the wall.  Thought food issues has been resolved but he is now having tantrums over his wet food as well.  I will not be running off to the shops again.

Have a lovely Bank Holiday whatever you are doing, hope the weather improves!.  Have a wonderful break @joedenise and anyone else on holiday.

mumtoomany

Hi all,hope everyone is well. Well bought milk a few days ago and today went to town, has to get to the top and drop DD3 of for her driving lesson. Called at Morrisons, Aldi and the veg shop. Spent £40.49 in total. Blown the budget again! Now at £213.48/£200. Try to do better again next month. Mumtoomany.

Suffolk_lass

Popped out to get bacon yesterday morning as DS was coming early to do a (research project) Covid test before 08.00. £3.49 for six rashers of bacon! I made him a bacon and egg roll with a cup of lemon and ginger tea (added lemon and honey) and it was worth every penny, having my "baby" (all 2m of him) here for breakfast.

This with milk and eggs means that is me for the month and I am just £14.64 inside the two thirds budget for the year (after eight months I would expect to be under £2000 by more than this, but we are usually away for most or all of August). There won't be many treats for Christmas at this rate.

pamsdish

Finally got the car M.O.T. done, with the brakes, separate issue, and a new exhaust £325, not sure how I feel about this, 15 year old Mini Cooper, part of me thinks, wasted money, other thinks another year, anyway I have told my mechanic last large spend, look out for a bargain for me. 
Stupidly put new washing machine on credit card, due 15th Sept, wish now I had just paid for it, Sept going to be a belt tightening month, freezers still full though, I am tempted by the salmon offer at Morries, only thing I have run out of, as I need to call for a script by Morries may stick my head in with blinkers on.

Doom_and_Gloom

£12.20 spent since last post.

OHs dinner - pizza.

£142.50/£155.
£12.50 left. 
We have an A and C delivery scheduled for Monday totalling £11.29 that counts in this budget. So as long as OH doesn't need anything between now and then we should come in budget!

pamsdish

£11.88 In Morries, no salmon, so got more tonic waters, some stockpots, and a few other bits.

Puddleglum

My August budget has been well and truely bust.  Not just on the food side where I probably haven't gone over too badly but on every front which meant that I stopped recording what I was spending.

My 3 year old car popped its head gasket on the motorway a couple of weeks ago.  Everything worked out fine thanks to the kindness of strangers but the car is still in garage intensive care 60 odd miles away waiting for a new engine.  Lots of money was spent out on things like train fares that hadn't been budgeted for.

Anyway - Fresh start for September!  See you next month :-)

Finstickle

My lovely in-laws refused any contribution for food on holiday other than the take-away we bought while there, so although a couple of small spends, finished Aug £565/£750.
Going to drop budget for September 😀

Mrs_Cheshire

Just done a quick tally of the spends for this month, £478.78/£450 so slightly over but not too bad considering that's for 5 people over the summer holidays, we still have an almost full freezer and loads in the storecupboard. 
I'm making Sept and possibly some of October as use it up months, ready for the start of the festive season. 
Kids get meals at school when they go back so will just need weekend lunches for them, got soup and beans etc in the store cupboard so will plan to use them rather than buying meat for sandwiches. I'm rejoining a local slimming group so will be able to use up the couscous and other random bits in the store cupboard. See you all in September

YORKSHIRELASS

Hi all

Our average for August has come in at £294 which is really good as previously we have been averaging £378.  I know from past experience though that its easy to do it one month, to keep it going is harder!  Have done a full check of stores, a mealplan and a shop ordered which should in theory see us through the first two weeks of September.