January 2008 Grocery Challenge

ganonman

Can I join or is it too late?

I want to try for £110 per month and see what happens.

cobbingstones

Never too late!

Good luck

MM

aytch

Can I join too - just done Martins budget planner and need to make a some savings!
I would like to go for £65 per week, £260 per month, then work on reducing that after a few attempts. To include all home / food purchases. have two adults, one teenage daughter and two very large dogs. :j

dumpling

Well, I thought the first week went well. This week I am starting to feel the need to go shopping! I don't want any more food, my Sainsbury's delivery came yesterday (with lots of expensive substitutions grrrr) but something in me is calling to go for a wander down the brightly lit aisles!

Must resist, anyway, I've decided that after next weeks shop there will be enough food/meals planned to not bother having a delivery for week 4 so I'm planning on dragging my OH off for a cheap night out.

Nope, no good, now I am going to go and buy a free range chicken and all the bits to make risotto! Suggestible.....moi!:rotfl:

jackie_w

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: AAARRRRGGGHHHH:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Spent way too much today, and all on rubbish if im completely honest.

I went out today, as DS needed new pencils for school, and I needed new sponges, so, I went into town to the pound shop!

Ended up spending £13.00 in pound shop, £13.00 in boots on toiletries, and £11.50 in M&S.
So, total grocery shop do far is now £84.53:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Wouldnt have minded this so much, but, ive bought absolutely no dinners at all because freezer & cupboards are full.

Well im not going to let it get me down, I just need to pull my socks up & be a bit more stronger.


Jackie

summertea

Hello,

i'd like to join in to, 2008 is my official year of saving :rolleyes: i'm working on £100 a month to start with for me and the two hamsters (£25 a week) and then see if i can cut it down from there.

good luck to all in 2008 :A

catherineblack

shaaark wrote: »

OMG that book is really harsh. It's 2 women from LA who can afford to eat completely organic, vegan diets and have lots of celeb followers. They think by swearing at the reader and calling them fat disgusting pigs (seriously), will make them want to lose weight...... Rubbish!

Haha - I could just ask my husband to do that!:eek:

Rowan9

Have now spent £68.80 out of my £120 but have quite a lot of meat in the freezer. OH is going away for 3 weeks on Sat so i have watered down the milk to make it last for him til then hehehe (he doesn't know). I have UHT milk which I'll use for me after that til DD comes home later next week. I am soooo excited about her coming and know that i will struggle to keep within any sight of my budget. Still, she only graduated last year so she will help with thrifty shopping - she is good at saving money!
I have meals planned for the rest of this week based on what i have, so won't need anything else. Got some reduced bread yesterday although not the bargains I've seen before - just maybe 40p off. I put 2 in the freezer.
I have a lot of rice and things like quinoa and millet to use up, which I like, so i'll base a lot of my meals on those when i'm on my own.
Good luck everyone!!
Off to read back through this thread for inspiration


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DdraigGoch

Well, I managed a week without shopping, so that's £60 to the good - only OH has gone and spent it somehow .... ho hum.

Now, yesterday's another matter. I went and bought two tins of soup @ 59p each and a loaf of Brace's medium sliced bread - lovely toast! - @ £1.09!!!! I was horrified.

On Saturday we managed to get two bottles of cloudy lemonade, 400g of mixed nuts and two multipacks of plain crisps and 25p change - and it didn't cost anything as it was at Morrisons and we used a £5 voucher from the filling station. Unfortunately, Morrisons is 6 miles away so the petrol probably ate up a lot of the saving, but that's another matter/thread

Shall update signature asap.

bails

Summertea, I read that as your hamsters cost you £25 a week, I nearly fell over! Welcome to any newbies, this is my first month too and I am learning loads. I have definitely felt the pull of the shops since starting too, but am weaning myself off gradually - it's strange because before I went ages without going near a shop; maybe it's a diet type mentality creeping in!
My NSD has been sabotaged by OH but it has been worth it - we'd stocked up on kitten food last year for the new addition but he hates it so we managed to take it back today and get (more than the price we paid for it) off something he will eat; result! So we spent £8.30 but saved £7 off its original price (food we returned plus a discount) AND helped out our local cats and dogs home which is in dire need of cash (rather than Mr. S, who is not)