October 2024 Grocery Challenge

Pennypincin

£40 per week for me please.
I'm mainly vegetarian, on the odd occasion eat fish, but the budget is to cover food, household cleaning products including clothes washing detergent plus sandwich bags/black bags/white bin bags etc.

Soontobeoap

Welcome @ messyMare. Hope you find recording your challenge helpful. We all do it in different ways and I nearly always go over but if I set my targets higher I wouldnt make my yearly target. Nuts I know but it works for me. 😂

Cant believe we are this far through Septwmber already. 

Please can you put me down for £200 again please @elsiepac and thabk you for keeping the thread going. You are a star. ⭐

missymoo81

Hi, I hope you don’t mind my posting on here, I’m hoping to join this month, but I have a quick question I hope one of you lovely people will know. Does Lidl still do the potato sacks? They used to be about £2.49 for 7.5kg last year but I haven’t been in for ages but am going to start shopping there again next month and I’m trying to budget and wondered if anyone knew?

Thanks so much

Missy 

otb666

£550 per month 3 adults 2 tortoises

Thank you elsiepac

missymoo81

£230 for me, OH and 2 tweens. Let’s see how this goes.

JingsMyBucket

Hi all. Welcome to the newcomers! We’re a friendly and helpful bunch here. 🙂 @elsiepac could you please put me down for:

£325 for October 1 — 31 covering two adults. 

Thank you! It works out to roughly £75/week for 4.5 weeks. I’ll be heading back to the US the last week of October to vote in the election but I’ll do a grocery delivery just before leaving. So in theory, our month should be done by around the 23rd but who knows what Mr. Jings will get up to while I’m gone. 🙂

Nelliegrace

October budget, £155.

May I join you for October?
We have too much in the store cupboard so I plan to buy just fresh milk, plain yoghurt, fresh fruit and seasonal vegetables, though we will check the yellow stickered items.

We have eggs from the hens and apples from the garden and foraged. £5 a day should be plenty for food for two pensioners, using WW2 ration amounts, cooking from scratch, avoiding UPF, and avoiding waste. 

We have booked one meal out a month at the local college spending almost a week’s budget in a gorgeous feast. It is wonderful to see students learning to cook.

It seems colder than usual, wetter too. October is going to be a soup month. There will be plenty of pumpkins available. 

Treasurequeen

Hello please May I join? 

Please put me down for £250,

That’s for 1 person, cat food, cleaning and toiletries. 

thriftwizard

Well I am pretty much in the dark about how October will go... DS3 may or may not have to move back home, depending on how many teaching hours he has & whether that will pay his rent & bills & keep him fed. (What have we come to, when people who have trained for 10 years (and have a corresponding level of student debt) in sensible disciplines & do actually have a job, albeit not necessarily full-time depending on student numbers, can't afford to live independently?) He will be able to stay put until towards the end of October - probably - but may need to come & go with bits & bobs. So it's all a bit up in the air but I'd like to set a target of 

£420 for October

please, which will have to be altered if events play out otherwise than currently expected! For 3 adults FT & 2/3 more occasional & weekend guests.

ETA: it's now apparent that DS3 will not be returning until the end of November, thanks to a mix-up with his landlord, but he does at least have a FT job for the (academic) year. Luckily he can do this mostly remotely & commute across the Forest by train 2 days a week. He'll stay here for a "couple" of months & go for a 6-month tenancy back over there in the new year, presumably heading home again for next summer, provided we're still here, or maybe off to Furrin Parts, as he's a linguist. So I've just dropped the October budget target a little bit further, as his twin sister is now living and working 30+ miles away and she & her BF won't be here overnight as often...

Cheapskate

Hi, I'm back again

Please can I go down for £400 for October?

2 adults & 2 teens, so really 4 adults!  Plus one cat...

Got to knuckle down this month, the C-word approaches and things are already tight, so the groceries budget is getting squeezed now in preparation.

Thanks