January 2008 Grocery Challenge

LilMissEmmylou

ok count me in - new yr, new money saving and weight loss plans. I want to stick to £250 in the month for 2 adults and 1 toddler. Hoping to do all my shopping on tesco.com to avoid temptation! lol

good luck everyone

dawnylou

I tried this last year for a couple of months and failed.

I have decided to give it another go.

My month will begin January 1st and I aim to spend no more than £250 (for myself, fiance, 2 doggies)
I hope to be able to reduce and reduce until I have gotten it right down.

I haven't been well and whilst I have been off work I have picked up a couple of useful tips from here so hopefully things wil work out better this time round

azjh77

May I join please? My budget will be 70...bit of a cheat really as my nan gave us a food parcel for Christmas and we're still working our way through it!!!

the_cat

Hi everyone

I'm in again this month. We have LOADS of food in still from Christmas, plus got hamper as a pressie so that should help.... so will reduce budget to £200 for this month

good luck everyone

razra

I'm in again

As usual I'm going for £80 to include everything. My challenge runs from the first day to the last day of the month and its still just me to look after on that amount.

Mind I stocked up well in december so hopefully I should have loads of food in so I can use the pennies to bulk buy the wash powders etc this month.

Happy new year to you all and happy challenging

Hugs

patentgirl

Hi everyone


Need to get back into this overspent the last couple of months allowing myself £240 for 3 adults and 1 teen, got quite full cupboards so hopefully this will be manageable this month please add me to list Lil-me
good luck everyone

kayharcombe

Can I join in on this one please? im 1 adult and 3 children, have 2 full freezers and a full pantry, so should be ok with just topping up. I had a lovely letter from IS saying theyre stopping my money due to an error made by them, so really need to try and cut back on everything

I am calling car finance company to send my car back today, which is a real money pit, my friend is going to give me a run-around until i get myself sorted.

I will set my budget at 200 from now until 31st jan, should be able to manage on much less due to full cupboards, but somehow always buy much more than i need, need to get out of that habit this year.

Kay

crockpot

Hi

Count me in again, 2 adults and two growing boys aged 6 and 8 £50 a week.

Still drawing £50 a week out of BS and having a seperate shopping purse, it`s working well, in the begining I over spent and had to put stuff back!! But find sticking to a list and leaving boys at home helps.

Boys are going on to school diners when they go back in Jan at a cost of £16.50 a week for the 2!! Do people normally included this in grocery money? Bet I spent less than £5 on lunch box stuff. x

Jacks_xxx

miecherox wrote: »

Hi, I am new to this site but not new to trying to save money!! Dh and I have realised that we are spending more than we are bringing in so time for drastic action...previous "budget" for everything (not including petrol) was £530+ - (seriously I feel sick - no wonder we're in trouble)
Have decided to drop this to £340. Am also tring the downshift challenge.

Any ideas/advice happily received

P.S there are 2 adults and 2 under 2 (and a dog)

Honey, we were spending £650+ for two adults, two teenagers and a grumpy moggie so don't feel bad.

Welcome to the gang!

Love Jacks xxx

sunshine6650

Hello,

Can i join for the 1st time please?
We had set ourselves 100 each (me & the boyf!) that is way to much, were just 2 adults! Since reading here i am saving buying rubbish & attempting to make things from scratch, pizza,curry etc..i will buy bread tho. Im going for
£120. I dont need a big shop for a while, & when i do im popping Aldi & Lidl!!

How does this work, do we post weekly how much were up to? Does this start on the 1st?

Thanks for everything.

Big hugs. x