May 2024 Grocery Challenge

otb666

550 monthly for me please

navelorange1

I’m going to try to do £80 again. One adult, not including toiletries or pet food. Thanks

thriftwizard

How can that be? It seems May is also a 5-week month for us - two in a row! So I'm thinking to aim for  

£450

- basically about £80 per week plus £50 for a run down to L!dls for tins, packets, coffee etc., give or take. That's food, toiletries & cleaning stuff for a household of 3 adults full-time, 1 part-time, and assorted weekend friends & family guests. Pet & livestock food is not counted in, nor is alcohol (which comes under Entertainments - we're not great drinkers) and the odd bulk buy - usually flour, oats and potatoes, usually bought 2/3 times per year, as needed. 

Suffolk_lass

I've just done my last shop for April, that should last me well into May (eggs and milk excepted) and my end of the first third of the year sees me at 31.1% or £932.98 of my £3000 annual budget spent. So that is effectively £67.02 to put towards December, to support seasonal excess.

I can also report that the remaining treat biscuits and Scottish T-wafers have been consumed after our holiday (the only time we are allowed these) and we are (almost) back to normal on the catering front. I did succumb to some rosemary crackers that weren't on my list, along with three big packs of cheese, that will last a while.

I will need to top up on some nuts and seeds in May (always expensive as I buy in big bags of a kilo or more) and I intend resuming using my mix of these for snacks. 

Good luck everyone, it's no easy thing, working to a budget, and I'm clearly a slow learner as it has taken years to get here and make it work. I am by no means one of those who make a small budget stretch most effectively, but an average of £250 per month works for us. Here's to May and the rhubarb and asparagus in the garden

elsiepac

Budgets updated to here

debtfreewannabe321

Hi all I have just had my first shop of May from Mr T, including delivery charge

 Week one's total is £133.59/£500

which leaves around £120 a week going forward which should be okay if i don't run out of anything really expensive

Crazycatlady2

Guess I'll try for £600 again 🤣 feel free not to keep track of mine as I'm useless at keeping track but I read along 

K9sandFelines

£150 please @elsiepac, thank you.

My month is 13th of May until the 12th of June 

Pennypincin

£30 per week for me please.
I'm going to see how I get on for the next month and may increase it in June slightly.

goldfinches

Thanks for the new thread @elsiepac.

After a long period of feeling very under the weather I'm finally managing to get back to my usual routines so I'm in again this month. Please put me down for 

£150 for the calendar month please, £5 per week Baking Fund and £100 Bulk Buy Fund.

That's for all food for one vegetarian woman as well as household necessities and basic toiletries. The good news is that my larder and freezer are bulging as are my bank accounts, being off colour and not feeling like eating or doing very much is cheap but rather dull. Thank heavens for reading.

Best of luck to everyone, goldfinches.