March 2021 Grocery Challenge

Florenceem

Please can I be put down for £100. 
Spent so far - £23 +

joedenise

Thanks for the thread @elsiepac .  Can't believe it's nearly March already!  Can I be put down for £250 again for the month please?  I'm still in February until the end of the month.  Will be back once we're in March!

thriftwizard

Thank you, elsiepac! I'm going to aim for £500 this month, to feed & clean up after 5 adults with at least 2 different diets going on; DS3 is returning home, having finished his thesis, for an unknown length of time. Luckily his tastes have been broadened over the last ten years of studying, spending two of those years elsewhere in the world, because he was a nightmare to feed as a teen! It remains to be seen whether I can persuade him to cook for us from time to time, as his sisters do, and stick to a sensible budget...
I've taken pet & livestock food out of the reckoning for now, as buying it in bulk disrupts the budget mightily every few months, but it's cheaper that way & averages out at a fairly steady £50 per month, which hasn't varied much for some time. (The chickens certainly pay their own way, anyway; we're getting 4 or 5 lovely dark brown & greeny-blue eggs a day. Not to mention lovely compost!)

t14cy_t

please can you put me down for £150 from 1st march

SJAllicat

Hi thanks for the thread @elsiepac. 

Can I please join for March. I have done it before and been kind of successful, but we’ve really slipped lately and the amount we spend is shocking. 

This will be for 2 people for food, alcohol and toiletries/cleaning products from 25th jan to 31st March. The dogs things will be separate apart from any fish/meat we buy him in the normal shop.

Can I be put down for £250  .

elsiepac

Budgets updated to here

Tightpants24

I am new to this but I need to reduce from over £500 per month for family of 4 plus 2 dogs.  Aiming for £425 in March but hope for lower in future  

Mrs_Cheshire

Hi could you pop me down for £350 for family of 5 to include all food, drink, takeaways, household and toiletries.
will be back on March 1st as my budget runs monthly.

PipneyJane

Thank you for the new thread, @elsiepac.  Count me “in” with a budget of £140 for March, although it may increase - apologies in advance - if there there is any cash left from February to roll into it.  That £140 is for all grocery/supermarket spends for two adults, not just for food, and covers every meal plus treats.  The only exclusions are for meat purchased from the butcher, which comes from a separate fund, and Easter Eggs/Easter chocolate which will be purchased from the Christmas Fund.  (I usually make pots of Coconut Rough for Easter, rather than give commercially made chocolate eggs.  It’s cheaper and I can use better quality chocolate.)

Our month will run from 1st March to 31st.

- Pip

joedenise

@PipneyJane I move any excess into my bulk fund if there is anything left at the end of the month but if I go over then I'm short the next month!

The Coconut Rough sounds nice.  Any chance of a recipe please?  I've only got a couple of grown up children and a couple of grown up grandchildren so usually give money for Easter but might work out cheaper to give something like this!