August 2022 Grocery Challenge

ancientmum

Thank you for continuing to run the thread elsiepac.  Please can I join in again properly  this month with an increased budget of
                            
                                                     £100

to take account of increasing prices and the need to stock up for the winter.  This is for all food, household, toiletries  and alcohol for me only.

SausageDogSandwich

Thank you @elsiepac for the new thread. 

We will probably be away for the start of august, so with this in mind my budget is going to be from 5th august until 2nd September. The first part of the month will come from the holiday pot. I did want to stick with the same budget, but I don’t want to waste the time off with the kids worrying constantly about the food bill so I am going to up it this month and see how we get on. As would like to do more cooking/baking with them while they are all home. I’m hoping the increase means I won’t have to think about it as much but also hope I don’t go overboard at the same time, see worrying already   

My august budget is £200 please 🙏🏻 

This is for all food, drinks, cleaning and toiletries for the month. Shouldn’t need any alcohol as stocked up for husbands birthday  Also need to get a months worth of dental chews for the dogs as they have completely run out now. 

leftatthetrafficlights

£53/£300 spent already! 🙈 oh well, it was mainly on tea lights, tinned tomatoes, herbs and fruit plus some ys vegan bits so not too bad really....

CJRyder

August budget of £155 please.

Evening all! I am looking forward to this challenge. Ideally I would like to keep things under £140. I assign £30/week for shopping and other day to day expenditure such as bus fares, household essentials and the like. Veg box costs £17.50 a box (I get one fortnightly) from a local cooperative. This is budgeted for separately in a completely separate account.

Nisssha

My first time joining, exciting! 

150£ budget please

This is for all household and food expenses for me and one cat (I'd say it's a pretty even split as he only eats grain free meat tins and is very fussy about his litter )

I need to put an order with z00plus this week since I'm running out of everything for him, which will use a big chunk of our budget, but luckily I'm well stocked on meat so it shouldn't be too tight.

Pub etc is coming out of separate fun budget, so any outings won't be included here.

Soontobeoap

Welcome @Nisssha hope you enjoy this thread. I joined at the beginning of this year and although I notoriously go over budget it does help to keep me focused on my spending. I am sure that I have saved loads on grocery’s this year. There are some great tips too.

atrixa

£145 for me please

My budget runs from 27th July to 25th August and is for food and cleaning products. Doesn't include toiletries, alcohol, eating out/takeaways or sports nutrition. For one active vegan female.

I'm trying some new recipes this month, including:

Mushroom and Leek Orzo https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/one-pan_mushroom_and_04696

Tarka Dahl Tarka dal with rice recipe - BBC Food

I'll let you know how I get on- they were from that cheap recipe list from a while ago.

I've put in a Tesc0 order for Thurs evening which included a 10kg bag of rice, so this month might be a bit tight.

thriftwizard

Looks like I haven't set our budget for next month yet! I think I'm going to stick to

£550

for August, please; still feeding 5/6. Although it's historically a less-expensive month for us, with various Offspring trotting off up mountains/sailing the 7 seas etc., and garden/hedgerow/allotment produce taking some of the strain, there's a bit of major stocking-up to do (flour etc.) and the fact that vast numbers of family are descending on us for DGS's birthday celebrations and at other points in the month for a few days' country & seaside air.

elsiepac

Budgets updated to here!

Welcome all the new joiners, I'm trying to get back on it this month. 

I've made a list of the stock type things I've run out of/running low on so I know I have a biggish bulk buy to start but I am isolating that part of the budget.

MissRikkiC

Hi @elsiepac thanks as always for your efforts in creating and monitoring this thread! 

Can I be in for £350 this month please 

Spends so far we’re in MrMs (whilst charging the car) MrL and MrT. 

Total spent was 109/350 

There were bulk items included along with most household stuff that we’ve almost ran out of along with some reduced bakery items (mostly bread for my LGs 2nd birthday this weekend)