September 2024 Grocery Challenge

paulina_3

Hello please may I join? Have not done anything like this before. I thought I am doing good but… lol seems to be increasing every month. 

£600 per month for 2 adults and 2 children

thanks

Pennypincin

I'd like to join again please.
£40 per week please.

Mrs_Cheshire

I'd like to have a leaner month and use up what we have in. With that in mind, could you put me down for £450

That's for 2 adults and 3 children (2 teenagers and a pre teen). That's to cover all food, drink, household, toiletries. 

otb666

Please can you put me down for £550 per month.

I go from 24th to 24th 3 adults and 2 tortoises included all spends on food and cleaning.

thriftwizard

Well, it's all a bit - unclear - here again! OH is recovering very well from his cardiac event, and as his arteries as beautifully clear, no-one is suggesting dietary changes although I might now have a bit of leverage to keep him out of Gr3gs! But DS3's future is still in question, thanks to the university funding crisis, & will remain so until mid-to-end of September; his university are keen to keep him but can only guarantee part-time teaching hours at the moment, which wouldn't be enough to live on over there. He's not keen on the idea of finding another PT job, as that would stymie his own individual research, which is what will lead on to greater things eventually. So he may have to return to the familial fold again... poor lad! Plus DD1 & BF are here for a couple of nights each week anyway.

So I think I'll opt to aim for a budget of 

£550 - eta: actually please see later post, now aiming for £500!

for September for 3-4-5 adults again, please. Which really is a 5-week month for us, and without pay as OH was on a "leave break" when this happened. (Luckily we do have his pension coming in - bills will be paid, food can be bought, but extras may not be a good move.) Various family members are appearing (& staying) at regular intervals to make sure I'm keeping OH from doing too much, and will obviously require feeding. Mind you that's pretty much situation normal in summer anyway! 

biggerpickle

Well this old style board is a discovery for a newbie over from DFW! I like the idea of a grocery challenge for September- starting from (August's payday of 24th) so would love to join. I think I'll try £350.

I have 2 teen boys who eat nonstop but only 50% custody. I ran the cupboards down in August as they were with exh for 3 weeks but we're away this week with friends so stocked up on assorted treats (and wine!). With ice creams and travel lunches on top of the weekend's BIG grocery shop, we're up to £194.50 so that gives me £155.50 for the next 3 and a bit weeks. This is for groceries, lunches and coffees out. Think am probably OK for household bits as some were included in this last shop. Going to be tight but there's not an awful lot of money in the pot altogether this month.

Good luck to me - and the rest of us!

Soontobeoap

Thanks again for running thread @elsiepac. £200 for Sepember please. 

diminua

Could you put me down for £220 again please Elsiepac?

thank you,

otb666

166/550  done the first of 4 aldi shops this month. Its £46 over unfortunately but got the xmas turkey and some alcahol figured it would be cheaper to buy now rather than december the way prices are increasing.  Dont know how we spend so much really.  Did see the frozen chickens were 2-3 pounds and had thoughts about doing a roast to last several days, but like the fact I dont do any cooking apart from my meals. I think I will just plod on and skip a shop on last week. Which is what I did last month.  This forces us all to ultalise stuff in freezer.

crazybunnylady4

Joining again for this month now I have finished and finalised August budget. 

I will try for £400 on groceries; this includes all our weekly shop, cleaning products and bedding for our bunny.  Also will be doing my coffee/lunch/takeout audit again this month, I will go with £180 for the month.

Just over on the grocery spend for August grrrr so will see what I can do to get it to £399 lol

Will run my budget from 1 - 30 September.