May 2023 Grocery Challenge

Verulamium_Vixen

Hello - quick question 
Do you include medicines  in your spending records. I have just spent £5.50 on tablets from Boots and was wondering if I should track the spend
VV

Doom_and_Gloom

Verulamium_Vixen said:

Hello - quick question 
Do you include medicines  in your spending records. I have just spent £5.50 on tablets from Boots and was wondering if I should track the spend
VV

That's up to you. I think some people do include it in their groceries budget. Personally we have a separate budget for health (dental, glasses and the like) and that includes medication and multivitamins. I feel it is easier to budget that way.

joedenise

Verulamium_Vixen said:

Hello - quick question 
Do you include medicines  in your spending records. I have just spent £5.50 on tablets from Boots and was wondering if I should track the spend
VV

Doom_and_Gloom said:

Verulamium_Vixen said:

Hello - quick question 
Do you include medicines  in your spending records. I have just spent £5.50 on tablets from Boots and was wondering if I should track the spend
VV

That's up to you. I think some people do include it in their groceries budget. Personally we have a separate budget for health (dental, glasses and the like) and that includes medication and multivitamins. I feel it is easier to budget that way.

Agree with @doo@Doom_and_Gloom.  We also have a separate budget for health things so would definitely be from that budget rather than groceries.

GreenFairy

joedenise said:

Verulamium_Vixen said:

Hello - quick question 
Do you include medicines  in your spending records. I have just spent £5.50 on tablets from Boots and was wondering if I should track the spend
VV

Doom_and_Gloom said:

Verulamium_Vixen said:

Hello - quick question 
Do you include medicines  in your spending records. I have just spent £5.50 on tablets from Boots and was wondering if I should track the spend
VV

That's up to you. I think some people do include it in their groceries budget. Personally we have a separate budget for health (dental, glasses and the like) and that includes medication and multivitamins. I feel it is easier to budget that way.

Agree with @doo@Doom_and_Gloom.  We also have a separate budget for health things so would definitely be from that budget rather than groceries.

I'm the other end of the scale. I do include communal toiletries and vitamins in the grocery budget, but only the basic ones. I don't have lots of categories for my spends though, so that makes a difference. If anyone's getting super fancy shower gel or the like though, it's out of their own pocket money!

Nelliegrace

May budget £150, £111.87 spent, £38.13 left.

DH got the milk 2 x £1.55, and was good about not bringing home any extras, though I noticed today that there were crumbs in the car. 

We spent £3.75 on 2 for 1 scones with jam, cream and a strawberry at Dobbies, and enjoyed our usual members’ free pot of tea. 

Aldi today for the main shop. When did a block of jelly get so expensive? I am sure they were about 40p at Aldi last year, now 85p.
Dairy, including some mascarpone for a change, fruit and veg, including some salad stuff, cream crackers, basic peanuts, and coffee beans. £26.65 spent. 

We bought apples for the first time since last August when I gathered up the first cooking apple windfalls. I have the last half dozen slightly wrinkled, yellow apples left from the 100lbs+ we picked or were given, and stored in the garage last year. This is the longest they have lasted, the apple blossom for the next crop has just finished.
The hens have had a regular supply of peelings, and quite a few apples have gone in the compost when any useable bits have been rescued. 

Meat, fish and butter from the freezer for the week, there is a small half-leg  of lamb for Sunday and mint in the garden. New laid eggs from the hens. 

£33.50 in total. 

Verulamium_Vixen

Verulamium_Vixen said:

Hello - quick question 
Do you include medicines  in your spending records. I have just spent £5.50 on tablets from Boots and was wondering if I should track the spend
VV

Thanks, I was just referring to medicines not toiletries and I think I will make a separate pot for them but keep toiletries in the overall Grocery budget 

otb666

614/600 gone over and still got 6 days left as i go from 24 to 24.  Will spend my normal 40 at weekend (fruit and veg)so looking at 54 overspend this month.  Trying to convince myself not too bad but so pleased that i am aware of it and making myself accountable thanks to this thread

Ginmonster

Had a supermarket delivery today which rather pleasingly came to £77.77. There were a few things I don't normally buy as I'm going to try some new recipes out over the weekend. I'm fed up of always having the same things because I know everyone will eat them. I'm going to horrify the offspring with new and unknown things! In order to pacify him I let him choose a new recipe too and he of course chose a cake, so alongside pea, mozzarella and lemon tart and butternut, thyme and brown bread pudding we shall be making courgette, chocolate and pistachio cake. I'm hoping for a new meal to be accepted into the repertoire.🤞

Now at £180.64/£250

thriftwizard

@Ginmonster, I may need the recipe for that cake... 

I did do half the weekly shop today, but will log the total spend tomorrow evening, after doing the market bit - it's been a stupidly busy (but lovely!) day, and there's another lined up tomorrow! 

MissRikkiC

We have approx £19 left until Thursday, eggs and fishfingers came out of that that today and I think we will need toilet rolls so might scrape in with £10 to spare. This week we’ve predominantly eaten veggie/vegan and it’s meant a bit of variety to our meals. I think hub is missing meat subconsciously but there is meat in so maybe he just needs to make dinner more often 😉