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March 2024 Grocery Challenge
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£150 per month Plus £40 bulk please
@elsiepac for running this - still on last days of Feb
I normally have £50 pm bulk but not used much of it (only half last month so I will cut bulk funds down this month - waiting to hear if my flat offer is accepted so in that case I will be eating down the cupboards and freezerDON'T BUY STUFF (from Frugalwoods)
No seriously, just don’t buy things. 99% of our success with our savings rate is attributed to the fact that we don’t buy things... You can and should take advantage of discounts.... But at the end of the day, the only way to truly save money is to not buy stuff. Money doesn’t walk out of your wallet on its own accord.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6289577/future-proofing-my-life-deposit-saving-then-mfw-journey-in-under-13-years#latest5 -
£90 for me and two hungry cats please - all groceries, toiletries and household5
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I'll go with £250 for the month again please.
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Going for £600 again as worked for Feb but need to more strict about writing down the bits and bobs we pick up as and when to be more accurate4
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Hi,
I am planning a musclefood shop this month to get some more meat in, still a good stock of other items so going to resist CostCo and focus on keeping the overall number down.I am going to go for £500 this month please @elsiepac
June Grocery Challenge £0/£250
2024 Grocery Challenges Jan - £390/£350 Feb - £431/£500 Mar £499/£500 Apr £729/£700
May £413/£450
2021 £pd Average £16.41
2021 Declutter 369/365 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🏅🏅🏅3 -
Hi I've dropped off for a couple of months. Lots of life changes. My budgets taken a massive hit so having to reassess things. I'm reducing my budget from £80 per week to £70 per week and decided to track only food/drink in this budget. Consumables will be separate.
So £350 this month for two adults and two teenagers. I've got a good freezer and pantry stock so I think it's doable. Thank you for the need thread!Grocery challenge:
Oct 24.£/£400
Sept 24 £500/£500
Dec 2023
Debt pay down: from move
loan: £11500
CC £4222, Jan 24 £3831,
Oct 2024 new debt pay down
Personal loan £10000
Cc: £3758
Barclaycard (£187) £0
Debt to family - (£200) £0
Tesco (£2200) (£5343) 0
Halifax (£488) £298 =£0
Virgin £3611 = £3572
Santander = £1500
Total: Mar 2020 (£6486 ) Apr £6109 May £5665 (+£106 tranfer fee); June £5331 Sept (£950 added) £5343, Dec £5070 April 2021 PAID OFF!!4 -
I'm ending February with 16.02% of my annual budget spent. Slightly more than ideal but inside the 16.67% if I had spend one sixth. In real terms that is £480.73 for the first two months of 2024, versus £500 if it were a sixth. I need this to stay under or there will be little or nothing at Christmas!Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
My new diary is here6 -
I did a quick reccie of the freezer yesterday and have 7 UPF'S to use up - 2 bags vegan quorn, 1 pack of 2 vegan burgers, 1 vegan pizza, 1 pack of 2 vegan 'salmon' fillets, 1/2 bag vegan 'meatballs', 1 box falafel - so thats 7 dinners out of 31 already sorted as I want to get rid of them in March. I'll need to add veg, grains etc but most of that can come from the garden and storecupboard. I'm thinking that I may be able to knock another £5 per week off this months food budget as a result!
DNF: £708.92/£1000
JSF: £708.58/£1000
Winter season grocery budget: £600.85/£900
Weight loss challenge 2024: 11/24lbs
1st quarter start:9st 13.1lb
2nd quarter start:9st 9.2 lb
3rd quarter start: 9st 6.8 lb
4th quarter start: 9st 10.2 lb
End weight: 8st 13lb
'It's the small compromises you keep making over time that start to add up and get you to a place you don't want to be'6 -
£45.35 spent at Aldi today. I went whilst DH was at the dentist! 🤣. Lots of meat and veg bought. Branded items coming from Tescos on Saturday. Just lunches and basics to get after that for the rest of the month.craft stash 2023 =161, 2024 = 119 2025 = £25.96 spent, 128 made and 5 mended,
GC 2022 = £3154.96
2023 = £3334. 84
2024 = £.3221.81
2025 = £2043.99/£3300
Jan 413.77 Feb £361.32, March £192. April £438.06 May £261.66 June £204.54 July £172.64/ £250
Decluttering campaign. 2024= 76 and half/52 bin bags full. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🏅💐DH ⭐3 -
Good afternoon All
Firstly, apologies @elsiepac, please change my budget to £145.80 for March. We had £5.80 to roll over from February.
Secondly, I have two shops to declare from today. £5.58 spent in L!dl on breakfast cereals, lactose free milk (99p), Black Bread (£1.19), and Cotton Buds (65p). All stuff that was needed but the aim was to push us over the £100 threshold, in order to get a free jar of Lazy Ginger. (Might as well and we’ll need it soon enough.)
The second shop was in Sainsbugs, again to take advantage of some offers. £20.46 spent, mainly on 8 bottles of Fevertree ginger beer (£1.44, down from £2), 3 Yeo Valley honey yoghurts (£1.55 down from £2.15), and various fresh veg.The above brings our March spend to £26.04/£145.80, leaving £119.76 for the rest of the month.
Meal plans for the next few days are:
Today - chicken stir fry made with left-over combi-rice-bulgar-wheat and veg from a chicken tray bake earlier in the week
Friday - Savoury Bread & Butter Pudding (4 slices bread, 1 can tuna, 1 can sweetcorn, 2 eggs, 1 cup milk, 100g cheddar)
Saturday - Broccoli & Crème Fraiche Pasta, made with chorizo and
Sunday - roast chicken, which I’ll probably do in the slow cooker and then cook roast potatoes and roast sweet potatoes in our combi-oven
Monday - Chicken risotto made with leftovers from Sunday’s roast. (I have chemo on Monday so DH will probably have to cook it.)
Breakfasts are cereal. Lunches are leftovers. (Virtually all my dinner recipes feed at least four people.)
- Pip
"Be the type of woman that when you get out of bed in the morning, the devil says 'Oh crap. She's up.'
It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it - that’s what gets results!
2025 Fashion on the Ration Challenge 66 coupons - 25.5 spent.
4 - Thermal Socks from L!dl
4 - 1 pair "combinations" (Merino wool thermal top & leggings)
6 - Ukraine Forever Tartan Ruana wrap
8 - 4 x 100g/450m skeins 3-ply dark green Wool Local yarn
1.5 - sports bra
2 - 100g/220m DK Toft yarn4
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