August 2020 Grocery Challenge

Doom_and_Gloom

Thank you elsiepac for doing this thread. As I've said before it helps keep us accountable. 

We are going to do a mostly freezer and cupboard food month, so we are nearly halving our usual budget for August. 

Our August budget is £155
The month goes 1st to the 31st.
This is for two adults, my OH and I, and a chinchilla. Includes all food and drink (except alcohol), cleaning products, toiletries etc and all chinchilla items (food, hay, sand, treats etc).

£0/£155.

£155 left.

MazzieD

Thanks for the new thread @elsiepac.

I'm going to try reducing my budget to £90 for August as I have been under budget since starting the challenge.

Cat has plenty of food, I don't need any shopping at the moment and still have some meals in the freezer to last for a few days.  I'm going to buy meat and fish for the month rather than 2-3 month supply and see how it affects the budget. 

August starts tomorrow (24th July) so will probably do a shop sometime next week depending on how long I can manage for with existing food!.

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Hi elsiepac, thanks again for running the thread.  I am in for August again.  Please put me down for

£170

This might be a bit ambitious but I am getting back on track with this again so fingers crossed.  My first job this month will be to restock the freezer.

elsiepac

Budgets updated to here

Puddleglum

Hello Elsiepac.  Please can I sneak back in for August.  I have managed to stick to £140 for July and am going to set the same budget for August.  This time I will make myself accountable :-) 🙏

sarahj1986

€350 for August please
I can’t remember if I said I Julys thread but we are moving to a bigger apartment. I’m using down stock of as much stuff as I can. Refilling plus my girl needs nappies (we bulk buy these) meaning August might be a big month. If I have any July money left I’ll add it and update 

elsiepac

Budgets updated to here

XSpender

Sorry to be a pain but can I change my budget to £450?

I have decided to try and run my food budget from my pay date not DH which means another weeks shopping to cover.  I am keeping my bulk budget at £40.

Thanks.

lantanna

£53 spend over the weekend, Asda and corner shop. Need a low spend week this week. Just need to pick up some fruit

taka

Can please I be put down for

£167.40

I need to be more organised this month. I'd like to stock up on a few things and not get back into the pre lockdown habit of popping in to the shops on the way home now I'm mostly back at work again (Shopping when I'm hungry = bad food choices & lots of costly spends). I also need to make a proper meal plan and do a big shop accordingly as just popping to the shop for x because I'm disorganised as this seems to equal a £10 spent on nothing!