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June 2021 Grocery Challenge
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Thanks for the new thread @elsiepac however I'm going to opt out of the Grocery challenge for the next couple months as I have several holidays in our motorhome arranged which makes it difficult to budget groceries in any meaningful way. I'll still read as and when I can but won't be registering my spends!
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Id like to join. £50 a week for 2.4
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@joedenise I've put a note by your name, have a lovely time on all your holibobs!!
@Fiona236 I've added you to the list at the front, welcome! If you need inspiration before June officially starts please check out May's thread! Everyone in here is really lovelyI’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 -
Thanks @elsiepac I'm hoping we have finished with May, except for a delivery or two of milk and eggs. I'll post the five months to date figure at the actual end of MaySave £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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Thanks for the new thread @elsiepac. I am in again for June. Please put me down for £170 this month. I know I don't post much but I am still following along.5
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Hello,
Could you please put me down for £400 for June. This is for 3 adults, 1 child, 2 cats and all cleaning and toiletries too. I shop fortnightly and do tend to stock up on something each fortnight. This is my normal budget .. I want to stick within it June and will try and use all your money saving tips to tighten it from July onwards ... that's the plan anyway :-)
Thanks :-)
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Thank you, @elsiepac! Please could you put me down for £550 this month? For us, it's a 5-week month, from 28/05 through to 30/06. I'm feeding & cleaning up after 5 adults; two omnivores, two pescatarians and one (slowly improving) fusspot. I'm looking at that & thinking, that's just so much money! But that's what it takes at the moment to eat the way we choose, and luckily, at the moment, it's affordable for us even though we only have one salary coming in. (We're encouraging the Offspring to save all that they earn, in the hope that one day they'll be able to afford homes of their own...) But I should be able to earn a bit this month too, weather permitting, and it won't be long before we're getting more out of the allotment than chard, leeks (nearly gone) and rhubarb. But again - weather permitting...
Angie - GC Jul 25: £225.85/£500 : 2025 Fashion on the Ration Challenge: 26/68: (Money's just a substitute for time & talent...)8 -
Please count me "in" for the usual £140.00
Thanks for the new thread, @elsiepac. The above amount may increase if we have any money leftover from May. That £140 covers all supermarket spending for me and DH.
- Pip"Be the type of woman that when you get out of bed in the morning, the devil says 'Oh crap. She's up.'
It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it - that’s what gets results!
2025 Fashion on the Ration Challenge 66 coupons - 25.5 spent.
4 - Thermal Socks from L!dl
4 - 1 pair "combinations" (Merino wool thermal top & leggings)
6 - Ukraine Forever Tartan Ruana wrap
8 - 4 x 100g/450m skeins 3-ply dark green Wool Local yarn
1.5 - sports bra
2 - 100g/220m DK Toft yarn7
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