October 2022 Grocery Challenge

CoffeeSonata

£250 1st- 31st Oct 

2 adults .
Food only, inc top up cat food for cats. 

Realistically needs to be as low as
possible though!  

Caroby

Can you please put me down for

£180

That's for 2 vegan adults inc alcohol, toiletries and cleaning. Went over budget a bit last month by about £23, but I'll keep trying.
Stuff keeps going up though. 

goldfinches

Thankyou for the new thread @elsiepac, it's a real help to hear about how others manage, especially in these times of rising prices.

I've decided to increase my budget to £4.30 per day as the last couple of months almost everything that I buy regularly such as milk and frozen fruit has gone up in price more than once and I'd prefer to economise on other things than food.

£133.30 for the calendar month for one moderately active vegetarian woman, this covers all food, household items and basic toiletries too.
Baking Budget is £5 per Wednesday which makes it £20 for the calendar month with a carried over bulk fund of £17.06.

leftatthetrafficlights

Spent £45 yesterday on a few bit and pieces including £16 on a bulk buy of a spice mix and £8.25 on a bulk buy of coffee so not too bad really! 

£55/£300

PipneyJane

Good morning All

Got two spends to declare.  DH popped to L!dl on Thursday, picking up 2 YS quiche and a YS packet of breaded turkey fillets, some salad and treats for himself.  £7.42 spent.  

That left us with £16-ish to spend to get to the £2 off voucher for September, so yesterday I went back, on my way home from the dentist.  Spent £22.94.  The biggest shock to my wallet was the £4.99 spent on 800g of their extra mature cheddar, up from £3.59 in June!

Got a £2 coin in my change, together with a 5p and 1p.  The £2 coin has gone into the “Running Away Fund’ money box (all £2 coins go there), the others into a “shrapnel” money box.  

The above brings our total spend for October to £32.42/£147.60, leaving £115.18 for the rest of the month.

Meal plans for the next few days:

Today:  breakfast, Black Pudding “McMuffins”; lunch, one of the L!dl YS quiche, dinner, pasta bolognese (to use up home grown tomatoes).
Tomorrow/Sunday:  breakfast, Welsh Rarebit; lunch, wraps; dinner, Cuban Black Beans cooked in the slow cooker served with rice (uses some of the cooking bacon I bought yesterday).
Monday: breakfast = cereal; lunch = leftovers; dinner: stuffed peppers, using rice cooked on Sunday plus tinned tuna.
Tuesday:  breakfast = cereal; lunch = leftovers; dinner: fake carbonara (made with cream cheese and bacon.)
Wednesday:  breakfast = cereal; lunch = leftovers; dinner: ??

- Pip

Miss_Behaving

Thanks for the thread @elsiepac

please may you put me down for £250 this month?

thriftwizard

£69.74 gone already, on our "normal" weekly foray around the market & supermarket. I'll need to pop down to L!dls early next week but will aim to keep purchases to absolute necessities.

FrugalHedonist

My month started from the 24th September this time round and I have done a big shop around a few places and my spend is already £85.14 out of the budget - oops! I have definitely noticed some big price rises in Mr A and the fact that the shelves are incredibly empty - I couldn't get any of the 45p rice this time around. The store was very busy though so that might be the reason.
I have very good stores currently so going to try hard to run them down before I do anything other than a top up shop. A few luxuries or non essentials were bought - the small one requested crisps for her pack up (we have just tipped over in too old to qualify for free school meals boohoo) she only has then a couple of times a week and compared to other kids lunches hers could be considered 'boring'  so it's a fair trade - I got the huge 30 bag pack as this will last maybe 3 months. I also ventured to a discount store and purchased some H0rl1cks - we are big fans of a hot drink in the evening and with the colder months approaching and the heating staying off we may appreciate this. The last non essential was some cheap branded chocolate- 3 bars for £1 - this is for me and my weekend treat as I like a bar on a Saturday night whilst watching a film (I live a full life 😀)


£85.14/£160

hazeldreams

Hi! 

Thanks @elsiepac for running the challenge!

Our budget runs from 1st - 31st October and is for 2 adults (1 vegetarian), 2 teens (1 DF). It includes food as well as toiletries, alcohol, and cleaning products. It doesn't include dog food for our beloved pooch.

I've shaved off a further £5pw this month after the success of last month, so @elsiepac .......

please put us down for £725 

Thanks, 

Hazel x

Tink_04

Just to highlight Pg one average spend for a family etc was updated in July 2022.

https://www.nimblefins.co.uk/average-uk-household-cost-food