August 2021 Grocery Challenge

rolorich

Hi please put me, hubs and the three dogs down for £250 to include all food cleaning items, toiletries etc.  I have no idea how much I spend on food and have a chest freezer to work through so hopefully will come under budget.  Will be interesting.  We are eating healthily too so no processed foods allowed in our diet right now

elsiepac

Budgets updated to here

Welcome to the new joiners! There's tons of inspiration in the recipe index and lots of lovely members on this thread to help you achieve your goals!

mumof3.12kindebt

Hello please could i join you ! ☺ 

I'm aiming for £60 a week 3 kids, 2 adults and a cat. 

My other goal to go along with this challenge is to minamise our food waste this month too. 😁


Our budget starts on the first day of the month and ends on the last day of the month 

Thankyou 

Mrs_Cheshire

Hi all and thanks @elsiepac for running the thread. Could you put me down for £350 again. 
Will do a freezer and store cupboard inventory and meal plan for the month in order to use up some bits that have been languishing for a while. Kids will need some packed lunches for holiday club and picnic foods for days out so will use up the jelly etc. 

MissRikkiC

£230 again for me please @elsiepac - I have just meal planned for the next 10 days so i should only need the absolute bare minimum over the coming week or so, Milk Spuds etc. Already started to spend as my food budget runs 25-24th however will update that later

nannygladys

Elsiepac: sorry I have had to rethink all my budgets to cut down so I have a new figure of £60 for the next four weeks , starting today.

I will be using the store cupboard and freezer for quite a lot of my main meals so it should be doable.

So today is the first day and I haven't spent anything, that's a good start for me!! 

Spent £0/60

Nannyg

threepenny_bit

Hi elsiepac
Please could you add me in for $200 this month please - this is just for 2 adults who seem to have a lot of stores that they havent used lol!

MrsSave

Hi, could I join please? My food month goes from July 26th to August 25th and could you put me down for £300 please? This is for 2 adults and 2 Primary aged children and includes all food, toiletries and medicines.

I’m off to a flying start   with the following spends:

Holland and Barrett: £15.48
Aldi: £10.23
Tesco: £8.50
Fruit and Veg: £10.70

thatsashley

Hey,

My month runs from July 23rd-Aug 22nd.

Please put me down for 250. 

53/250 already spent

9.98 on TooGoodToGo
43.02 in the supermarket

Looking forward to this. Going to start meal planning too, as I feel like this is something I always want to do and then never get around to.

Ashley

LunaCatty

Hi, I'd like to join in too please.

We've got overfull freezers, fridge and cupboards, the veg plot is overflowing, and the cats are well stocked with their food too so we've budgeted £15p/w for food/household for the month for 2 adults, an 8 year old, and 2.5cats (the 0.5 is semi-feral so appears as and when he chooses, never daily) We should only really need some extra fruit and milk this month based on how much we have stocked in and growing.

My aim the next 3 months is to empty down the current stores as my husband has started joking he's entering me into Hoarders if I don't, especially since it is canning and preserving time again!

I really need to get meal-planning and sticking to it this month too. Biggest downfall here is forgetting to pull meat out of the freezer so I have bought a fridge notepad with reminders on it to help with this.