September Grocery Challenge

monkeylugs

Hmmm...Did a shop today (in three shops!) and spent £71, which broken down was £59.98 on food, and £11.46 on nappies, wipes and a sipper-cup.

So total grocery budget for month: £240
Total nappies/wipes budget for month: £20

Actual Grocery budget so far - two weeks left: £126.82 (£113.18 under budget)
Actual nappies budget for month: £17.27 (£2.73 under budget)

But I wont need to buy any nappies or wipes before the 1st day of the next challenge!

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi

Im in abit of shock..lol. I have just bought a new huge freezer and thought i'd do an extra shop for the freezer from Tesco using a £10 voucher off a £50 shop. Anyway have my usual fortnightly shop from Asda coming Monday (£45 for the 3 of us), so all normal stuff in there with quite alot of freezer stuff that I normally get. They have cocked up on there 1.9kg chickens and have them priced at £1.00 so I bought 6 :eek:

Anyway, have checked out from Tescos and have ordered tons, lamb joints x 4, chicken breasts x 2, minced lamb x 6 bags, lamb chops, sausages, 4 boxes of breaded fish, frozen mash x 2, sweetcorn, chips, fishcakes, 4 x kingsmill crumpets, 6 x kingsmill pancakes, 2 x kingsmill muffins, 8 x best of both bread, cubed lamb x 2, 3 x tuna, carrots, squash x 6, pears, dishclothes, also 8 Boddingtons some other bits but cant remember them all. All are on special and BOGOF etc and guide price inc delivery is £77.22...after my voucher and all the bogofs which total £33.77..means that all this shopping will cost only £43.45 :eek: :eek: :eek:

So between Asda & Tesco this week my total cost will be about £88.00 with enough food to last us about 2-3months.....does this seem correct?? Im in total shock.

PP
xx

brummiebabe

Sounds great Penny-Pincher - well done!!

Tesco delivery today. Total bill for this week was £57.62. My DH says we don't need to buy anything next week as cupboards are so stocked up, but we do run out of fresh stuff eg yogurts, cheese etc, due to kids taking packed lunches. Should easily be under/on budget though this month - only one more shop left!!:j

Current monthly total is £217.88, target £280.00.

MATH

Update cos I'm feeling quite chuffed!

I've had more expenditure this month with Mrs MATH at home in the day I'm catering for an extra lunch/day which when working she would buy out of her allowance. We've been bobbing between coast and mids so having to keep two larders stocked with basics and I had left the mids house stripped bare of any food cos we've been at the coast all summer. I've catered for 5yr DS birthday (very Ol'Style with sarnies and tri-coloured jelly_party_ ) which I had a seperate budget for but decided to try and do from my grocery challange money! Having said that I did not increase my budget:eek:

September budget £200.00 (all food, toileteries, household stuff for family of 5 and 2 cats)

Are ya ready? Ta dah!

Spend to date £136.70 and only one shop left.

From October I will be starting the one item per week for crimbo out of grocery challange and see how it goes.

Curry_Queen

Wow! Well done MATH!!! :T :T :T

angelatgraceland

Well-done PP and Math-we all deserve a treat at Xmas! Buy something special for ourselves-it will be good to aim for that special something. I think that if we do this-we will in fact save even more-nothing like a reward! Now-what would I realy like...........

Bennifred

MATH wrote:

Update cos I'm feeling quite chuffed!
September budget £200.00 (all food, toileteries, household stuff for family of 5 and 2 cats)
Are ya ready? Ta dah!
Spend to date £136.70 and only one shop left.
.

I am in total awe!! Did you already have a good stock of stuff in, or is that all the basics too??!! Mine is a family of 5, too, and I just can't imagine getting by on that little (it would be fantastic, though!)

Janeryan

I've fallen off the bandwagon a bit recently-it's those darn summer holidays!!

Need to get sorted to save some money for Christmas and pay ourselves back for the new car we've just bought so will join in properly next month.

Sptember's budget was £250.00

Spend so far with ten days to go £187.99 but freezer is getting very bare and a friend is coming to stay this weekend. I'll let you know if I've been good at the end of the month

frosty

My budget for september was £240.00 thats for 4 adults,(2 teenage sons)2 dog and the cat,...................spend so far is £138.00 and we still have loads of food in our cupboards and freezer. Maybe I should of done the store cupboard challenge first, because we had quite a lot of food in before we started.

jo_b_2

Monthly target is £150. Spends so far:
1/09/05: £12.00
3/09/05: £2.26
4/09/05: £32.73
7/09/05: £4.78
8/09/05: £7.82
10/9/05: £1.62
10/9/05: £22.84
10/9/05: £1.99
13/9/05: £4.94
17/9/05: £2.88
17/9/05: £2.79
17/9/05: £2.99
18/9/05: £2.00
20/9/05: £43.29

Total so far= £144.93

Left with £50 but need to do a big shop as the cupboards and fridge are bare! Hopefully that should see me through to the end of the month and I will be roughly on target. Hope to try and shave a bit off here and there over the next few months.

I've also had a couple of meals out that I haven't counted in to the grocery spends and these were special occasions and, hopefully, covered by my PIN money.

£6 left till the end of the month! :eek: Have run out of milk and bread as well.