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April 2021 Grocery Challenge
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Hope everyone had a lovely Easter!I’m a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on the Old Style, Crafting and Techie Stuff boards.If you need any help on these boards, do let me know. Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any posts you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button, or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com.All views are my own and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.GC: May 22 £tbc/£250 Vegan 27-8-136 -
Picked up some treats for next week in Home Barga!ns today. Taking the total to £69.98/£350. Managed to pick up some tins and a few fresh bits via Oli0 so that will help keep the spends down.Grocery Challenge 2024
Feb £419.82 Mar £599.53 Apr £405.69 May £531.37 Jun
Declutter challenge 2024 0 items7 -
£65.39 spent this morning in a quick dash to L!dls, for washing supplies, coffee, butter, tuna, orange juice & frozen pizza to try to keep DS3 out of W8rose.. some seeds may also have slipped in, at 29p per packet, for some pretty flowers to brighten the place up!Angie - GC Aug25: £292.26/£550 : 2025 Fashion on the Ration Challenge: 26/68: (Money's just a substitute for time & talent...)6
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£54.65 spent yesterday in Lids
Subscriptions on Amazon £22.98 liquid laundry wash and glade aerosols . This is separate to our monthly shop.Mortgage free September 2021. Narrowboat brought October 2021
Emergency fund £7500
Christmas fund £14307 -
community larder was amazing as usual so £7 spent there, aldi spent £6, morrisons spent £20 on normal bits then £9 on ys goodies that should of been £75!! so total shopping this week is £42. wont be needing a shop for a good while! ........7
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Good start to the month, with £78.54/£440 spent at the end of week 1
Debt free since December 2015. It can be done6 -
Cannot work out how this happened but the last two times I totted up my total I used the wrong figure for my spend to date so my current total should be £27.48/£120 which is an average of £3.93 per day.7
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Continuing to live on stores here but will need to shop next week as running out of green veg and carrots, and butter - so a SM run will be undertaken. In the meantime eggs and milk continue to arrive on the doorstep and my stores of frozen and dried food reduce. Just as well, I have a 25k sack of flour coming for the sourdough group that I will need to storeSave £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
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
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Another £53.84 gone today, between the butcher & the supermarket. Nearly halfway through this month's "allowance" and not even into double figures date-wise; time to rein it in hard!Angie - GC Aug25: £292.26/£550 : 2025 Fashion on the Ration Challenge: 26/68: (Money's just a substitute for time & talent...)7
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So far I’ve spent a total of £92.06 across 2 Aldee trips and 1 hb visit. The pet food is on order which will be £19.68 when I collect it. Trying to batch cook to stock up the freezer making the second half of the month not so expensive.SPC #023 SPC 12: £125.86[/COLOUR]:SPC 13: £214.98: SPC 14: £297.41 SPC 15: £237.27 SPC 16 £335.39; SPC 17 £662.09 SPC 18 £20MFW #21 Mortgage start Dec 2015 £79,950; June 2025 £19,394.00 2025 OP £1589/COLOR]/£2,000 MFiT T6 #3 £19070/£25,500 (72.82%%) MFiT T7 #3 £2050/£21,930 (9.34%)6
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