August 2022 Grocery Challenge

atrixa

£87.95/£145 already spent on a Tesc0 delivery and a smallish Mr S shop. Bf asked if I was opening my own restaurant when he saw my 10kg bag of rice 

Tea tonight is rice, vegetables and some mock meat from the freezer with some nice sauces.

leftatthetrafficlights

Up to £119/£300 now - bought lots of nuts, seeds and dried fruit from H&B - they'll last for a few months but they're a big outlay initially 😳

try_harder

Please could i join in for August with a budget of £260..Thank you very much

Caroby

Thanks @elsiepac for this helpful thread.
Can you put me down for

£180

Kinglemum

After going over the last two months I think £350 was slightly too ambitious. Therefore I’d like to aim for £375 this month. Hopefully this will be more achievable 

wishus

Hello, please can you add me in with £165?

That's two adults and a cat, excluding milk bill. 

Thought I had best make it slightly higher as we need to include cleaning products in this month's spend.

katkin

Technically the first spend of the month, even though it's still July...

For the first time in years I went to Ald* - I came out with 2 bags of shopping for not a lot! Rather taken aback by the lower prices, well lower than what I've been buying from T and Morries. T price matches but there's so many other things to buy because it's handy when doing a big online shopping and M's just more expensive but a pleasant place to shop. 

Spend - £23.56
Balance - £226.44

What I did like was the lack of choice - it's this or that, not c20 types of the same thing if you know what I mean. Much easier to price compare, less time swithering. No veg boxes, I'd like to try one of those. However, I had to take the car as the store is much further than M's which I can walk to.

This month I'm going to go back to A and try Lid* too. See if I can get everything from those 2 and manage my budget differently.

Only thing I bought not on my list was rum and raisin chocolate - boy it looks delish. Huge block for £1.49. Let's see if I can make it last....

Crazycatlady2

I’m spending well over £600 and nearer to £700 last few months and as I don’t separate out anything into different budgets it’s a very high spend…must do better 

franby64

Good Afternoon. I haven't posted on here for a long time but I really need to come back now! Thank you for the thread and please could I have a budget of 

£250

for August.

For the past couple of years we've all slipped into eating what and when we wanted but now I need to look back through the budget veggie recipes and start meal planning again.
 

London_1

great to see how many are joining in with the August challenge. At the moment the only thing on my shopping list for the new month  is tomatoes and a cucumber. Did a large shop when I came back from my holidays in midJuly so lots of stuff to get through before I need a great deal more

Good luck everyone it all begins anew tomorrow 

JackieO xx