October 2023 Grocery Challenge

joedenise

Thanks for the new thread @elsiepac.

Can you put me for £200 please this month as I seem to be spending more on Bulk buying than groceries at the moment to fill up freezers and cupboards.  I will allocate the other £50 I usually allow to increase the Bulk Buy  fund.

goldfinches

Thankyou for the new thread @elsiepac.

Please could you put me down for £170 and £20 for the Baking Fund and £77.60 Bulk Buy Fund please and hopefully I'll be able to stick to this amount. That's to cover all food, household and basic toiletries for one vegetarian woman who is trying to eat more protein.

Soontobeoap

Hi @elsiepac. Hope you are OK. Thanks again for keeping this thread going and helping so many of us stay on track

£200 again for me please 

Thank you

LunaCatty

We really need to get back on track with our spending, starting with the food budget. Despite full cupboards and freezers I've been buying for convenience the past few months and went completely off track. There's likely some job shuffling coming up over the next few months so anything saved gives us a bigger safety net.

Put me down for £250 please

JingsMyBucket

Hey @elsiepac thank you so much for keeping up this thread. Hope you're doing well. Please put us down for: 

£320 for October 1 - 31. (£60/week + £50 bulk buffer)

That covers two adult omnivores. I'm going to try lowering our amount a bit in October since we'll be away for part of it and we have so much in our freezer to use up. Thankfully it's becoming soup season so a lot of our food will be tossing bits of beans and meats into a pot and seeing what comes out.  

Pennypincin

Really need to get back on track with the budgeting too, especially the food budget.
£30 per week again please.
Still just for me as a vegetarian.

thriftwizard

Thank you for the bright new thread, @elsiepac! Please put me down for 

£500 

again, having failed to hit that in September, but we're one less from now until Christmas, so I'm only feeding 4 FT and 1 PT. Oh, and DD2 & I are away house sitting for a week; we'll still be eating (and will have to leave food & grocery money for OH & DD1) but that's Holiday Money!

leftatthetrafficlights

Back in this month - current running total is £1430/£3000 which includes the £50 spent today from October's budget on fresh fruit and veg.

My Bulk Buy fund has been utilised over the past few months (need to check the figures) but I have enough variety of grains and lentils/beans now to cover me for months (definitely until the end of the year and probably beyond) both as whole grains and pulses plus their use for flour/tofu/milks etc. 

The garden veg is more sparse now although we still have cabbages, cavolo nero, carrots, beetroot, parsnips, salad leaves, squash, radish, spring onions, leeks, japanese greens, microgreens and lots of herbs available plus plenty of stuff in the freezer like beans and calabrese that we've grown over the season.  

We're building the 'polytunnel' on one of raised beds this week so that we can extend the growing season further so we'll sow more crops next weekend. All of this will help keep the grocery bill low over the next few months. 

Ainsty

Please put me down for £15 per week again this month.

I think I can manage it for another month,  although I am starting to run short of some store cupboard items such as rice and pasta.

SausageDogSandwich

Thank you for the new thread @elsiepac , 

Please put me down for £350 for October. Thank you

As always this is for two adults and three kids that never stop eating  and includes chicken for the dog. 

I have got to stop everyone including myself from buying sweets/chocolate/anything else that we like the look of but never get round to eating as I wanted the cupboard clear for Xmas but the contents is going up not down. My grandad will appreciate me having a sort out as he always gets a bag of goodies 

Good luck everyone x