October 2022 Grocery Challenge

SausageDogSandwich

Small spend yesterday of some coffee on app and coffee sachets to see me through the last half of the half term. Must be the weather as the kids have all had their moments this week and we haven’t been able to do a lot because the weather can’t make its mind up! £1.90 spent altogether, may get some shopping today, don’t need much but in the habit of going to the shops as nothing better to do 

£144.76/200 spent.

mumtoomany

Bottle of milk bought from the shop in the village. The only place we could park as we are towing the animal trailer. £2.09!!! Total spends for the year to date now are, £2458.04/£2640. Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

Soontobeoap

£1.00 spent on greaseproof paper in Poundland. I am declaring at £184.41/£190. Cant believe I have actuall done it. Still quite a bit in freezer too. Going to use meatballs in shepherds pie or Lasagna now DH has gone off of them. Will continue with freezer clearance through the first week in November. Happy bargain hunting everyone. 

bupster

Just checking in for the first time this month (oops) to say I'm at £227.59 with four days to go. I'll probably make it - at most I'll need some milk - but I seem completely incapable of keeping the spend below £200. It's strange as I felt I'd done much better this month, I've avoided the supermarkets and only done two big shops. My little Co-op and greengrocer (and let's face it, chocolate runs to the pound shop) didn't half add up though. I think it's time to sit down and assess what I'm actually spending money on....

Weirdly though my overall monthly spend was very low - the lowest it's been in months - and I'm not sure how or why, but I'll take it! Perhaps when I'm trying not to spend on food at the end of the month that spills over into other spending too?

Doom_and_Gloom

£9.13 spent in Mr S today.

I'm declaring now as I will not be going out while my OH is away.

£289.29/£294.50.
£5.30 left.

Working out the budget to the end of October we have averaged £8 a day as it stands this year. With the price rises this isn't too sad.
Off to work out what our November budget should be.

Paspatur

Doom_and_Gloom said:

£9.13 spent in Mr S today.

I'm declaring now as I will not be going out while my OH is away.

£289.29/£294.50.
£5.30 left.

Working out the budget to the end of October we have averaged £8 a day as it stands this year. With the price rises this isn't too sad.
If to work out what our November budget should be.

That's an interesting statistic. Just checked mine and it is £3.78 per day, might spend more before end of October but won't be much if I do. Mine is for one person, I see yours includes a pet which mine doesn't but I do feed on average 2 grandchildren one meal per week plus snacks. In fact my shopping today included over £10 of kids stuff!!

SausageDogSandwich

Not sure how I went £16 less on my last post  luckily I keep paper record aswell and can see my post before was correct so it was 160.39 got to add the £1.90 mentioned in last post. Plus today spent £5.35 in sains on offers from my app, 2 different coffees, 4 pack of energy drink and some green tea for husband. 

This makes my total £167.64/200 spent.

PipneyJane

pinkypig said:

Hello 😀
I’ve completely lost track on what I’ve posted on here as I got a bit distracted with life!  However, I’ve got a spreadsheet on my phone that I have religiously kept up to date so my spend so far is £137.05/£150.
This has included some treat items for at home birthday celebrations and ingredients for birthday cakes so I’m really pleased with that.
I have one more birthday meal to do but that will fall into next month’s budget so I’m hoping that might be my total for October.
Going into next month I have a £2 Lidl voucher, a free bakery item and a free W5 item which will help.
Good luck with the month end everyone !
PP x

I keep my spreadsheet on my phone, too, @pinkypig.  Since I frequently forget what I’ve declared - we don’t shop that often - I’ve started colouring in the cells after I’ve made a declaration on here.  (If you’re on an iPhone, using Numbers, click on the paintbrush icon; that’s where you’ll find cell colours.)

- Pip



ETA:  Thanks @Greying_Pilgrim for the L!dl petit-pois quantity.  I thought the bag looked a bit small, but they didn’t have any other bags of peas to compare it to.

Soontobeoap

🥲😩. I declared too early! Went to the range today for a look at Christmas toys and ended up buying gravy granules,battered onion rings and YS onions and satsumas. Total is now £191.16 / £190.00. I genuinely thought about sweeping that small amount under the carpet can you believe. I would only have been cheating myself. 🙈. I also thought that I could add it to next months instead. More honest, but then I would be behind before I started. I intend using these figures as next years baseline.

anyway I feel much better having bared all of my dishonest thoughts to people who will understand the challenge we are undertaking. 😇. Onward and upward. Fingers crossed for next month. 

gill5blue

Hi all,
super happy... spent 238.31 and budgeted for £240 for october
gill5blue