January 2008 Grocery Challenge

curly_cabbage

evening all, well another week gone and i have manged to keep to buget, yipee. Only spent £11.11 last week so that will help me keep within my total monthly buget of £80.00, so as long as i don't spend any more than £19 or so i should be ok. well heres to a good for us.

Bobbykins

mikeD wrote: »

BG23 - re: the free range chicken tasting better than the 'oribble lot.

that was me FM, not BG23 - thanks for the update! :T .......I think I'm going to have to find the wherewithall (sp?) ....(oh, OK the dosh) then to go for the free range option by the sound of it

orchid-96

Well, not doing too great with the old budget as my sig shows, already overspent ...On the plus side, I am definitely spending less than normal and what I should have probably done is kept a spending diary before to see how I normally do...also I have budgeted for £200 but it is really £50 per week (as that is the specific amount I get) which for Jan should have made it £250.

I was feeling bad about it earlier, but we have just finished a lovely chicken, ham and mushroom pie (alll leftovers) which would have been unheard of in the past, I never ever made another meal from leftovers (possibly if we had any chicken leftover I may have had a chicken sandwich the following day)

Anyway I do have a fair amount in my freezer and cupboards so what I am going to try to do is not buy any more food for our meals, I also have some milk and bread although I will need a bit more...The hardest thing is that my sister and her boyfriend and son are coming up this weekend...I have already budgeted for a takeaway on Saturday night, but will need to get something in for Sundays meal..but that should be the only one I need to buy for....

Anyway sorry to have waffled on, but I know even though I am over budget, I am learning such a lot and can hopefully improve...

Well done all :beer:

tattycath

Hi everyone. I'll give you a clue... I took OH to lidl today...
Big mistake.
My 3 or 4 items I needed ended up being decidedly more and costing over £19!!!
I then called at butchers and spent nearly £6 on a joint of beef.
Will update sig when I've checked receipts. I know I'm still under budget but I could have got away with spending less. He buys things like bacon and pasta salad for work-if he asked i could have made some cheaper!!! He bought a lasagne-ready made for work-I could make some lasagne and portioned it and froze it!!! I'm gonna have to educate him.
Had to pick eldest DD up from school early today-migraine, again!!
Well done to everyone.

Atalanta

Last week I spent £36.37 not including the veg box which I accounted for at the start of the month. This included a couple of treats for DH's birthday, as well as some fresh fish (though I did get mackerel as it was the cheapest and it was really fresh so very nice)...but then we went away for the weekend so didn't have to buy in food for a couple of days which helped even it out!
I'm starting to feel the end is in sight this month as only just over a week to go now. I think I'll be under budget, (though I did set my budget quite high) so will have to resist the temptation to splash out !

mrsmortenharket

I'll be over budget but hopefully not by much. I plucked a figure from the air though as hadno idea what I spent. My pantry & freezer are both chocka though.

Lisa x

Maisie_M

well its my first month of the grocery challenge and I am £28.10 over budget. However I am not disheartened as I have been picking up a lot of bargins so my freezers and cupboards are well stocked. Also have no idea how much I was spending pre challenge but I have just got my credit card bill and have accounted for £250 on that plus what I spent on switch plus cash so probably nearer £400 for one month:eek: .

have one week left as I get paid on 29th Jan so this will be my last week.

I am definately more conscious of what I am picking up but need to start using up what I have as I have no more room left in my freezer and cupboards lol.

Janeryan

bananakinz wrote: »

We're doing well on our grocery challenge, its nearly pay day again!! Mind you I think thats only due to us buying 2 bottles of wine for the whole month!

Just having a rummage through our cupboards to see what other meals we can make, and going to see if I can last till about Thurs/ Fri!

I haven't bought any alcohol this month as am still finishing the gin/drambuie/baileys/whisky (not all in the same glass at the same time!)that we had for Christmas-really fancied a bottle of wine on Saturday night but found one in the cupboard so didn't even buy one of those!

I'm sure thats why we are (currently) underbudget-pay day on Friday-yippee!!

Gemmzie

Mum did the shop this week, said it was around £80 so I'll update my sig once I know the exact amount - still good though

fallen_angel_shelley

evening all. i hope everyone is o.k? just had a quick add up of what i have spent so far on the GC, £148.18p, so we have £51.82p left until the end of jan. also just worked out how much i spent in dec £291.87p :eek: and that didn't include any christmas food. i hope we can last on the £51. we could do with finding some healthy recipes for the feb GC, all this pasta isn't very good for the hips :rotfl: and im gona knock febs amount down to £180 as it's only for 29 days.