May 2008 Grocery Challenge

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mumoftwo wrote: »

hello everyone :wave:

I really would love to join in this month. I have drifted away from meal planning and pop into a supermarket to come out having spent £25 and still have nothing decent. I have no idea really how I am going to do, since the dietician has recently put me on a high protein, low carb diet, so I have been spending more on meat and fish and still have to cook for the rest of the family. So, I think my budget for 2 adults and 2 teenagers will be £300 for food only. I was thinking of keeping that money in a seperate purse. Will that work do you think? And if I buy other stuff in the supermarket to pay with card or other cash, What do you think?
Does everyone else include toiletries, snacks for kids etc as well? (I think I can improve greatly on that score, forever nipping into shops after school for sweets and juice)

Good luck everyone and I think you are all wonderful and thanks a lot for all your inspiration.:T :T :T

Hi mumoftwo, keeping your food budget seperate may work for you. I seperate my budgets into seperate boxes. One for grocery, one for OH, one for garden. etc, etc. I`ve found these work great for me as I seem more careful with my money, knowing how much I have left to spend for each budget.

Good luck in the challenge.

Phoolgrrrl

£150 for first month of GC please thats fo me and OH. Had a practice month last month and think it is doable. That includes household stuff and alcohol bought for drinking in house.
Have done a big lidl shop and big tesco shop already. Enough cleanin stuff got last month. Plenty of meat but gonna buy more on sat as offer in tesco so that should last into next month aswell. Have a flexible menu plan done.
Best buys so far I think were a 3kg bag of pasta, 1kg of rice and cereal bars for the month on offer.
Plenty of room for improvment tho!

tq16

Mrs MC could you put me down for £150 this month please thank-you. :-)

bertiebots

OOh goody..I have already started this challenge!:D Can you put me down for £220 again please!I dont think I can get it lower than that:rotfl: of now to update my sig...:D

Nessa56

Hi can I join please

Can you put me down for £200.00 for the month, this is for food, cleaning products and alcohol for the home.

I am sure that is way way too much as I live on my own, staying at partners sometimes and he provides when I am ther, but that is what I seem to be getting through :eek:

I am going to do a bulk shop on internet tomorrow so hopefully will stop me going into the supermarket and impulse buying !

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newmoneysaver_2

Another newbie here! It's payday for us both today so our month runs from the 1st to the 30th.
I am going to aim for £150 this month - for me & OH. We are having our new kitchen fitted this month and I will be without for a while. I can't really stock up the freezer either as this will have to moved into my new one. A couple of mystery shops will help to keep the budget down, but I can see a few takeaways/meals out creeping in after a long day kitchen fitting and no cooking facilities :eek:
I have also got a hen weekend in Liverpool and the actual wedding this month - so I need to cut down where ever possible, and I need to get back in the habit of making bread.

Zend

Hi, can you put me in for £200 this month. I went over by £44 last month and my cupboards and freezer are bare:mad: . My month starts on Saturday and will be quite expensive with several relatives birthdays and wedding anniversaries. I plan to look through the recipe section for ideas for meals and stop buying convenience foods such as cook in sauces. Most of my veg seeds are coming up, peas, tomatoes, corgettes, and herbs, so hopefully it will be a cheaper summer.

scotsaver

Hi everyone - updated my Sig with today's spends. Went to Asda and surprise, surprise they have rolled back the Bread Flour from 75p to 48p??!! Think they have realised that no-one was buying it because we can get it cheaper elsewhere. :T

Have made a Lasagne for tonight, used 500g of Sainsbury's Lean Steak Mince which was whoopsied to £1.49, bulked it with grated carrots, grated courgette (Aldi's 49p for 3) only used 1 as they are so big, mushrooms left from last night's Risotto and chucked in some Oats, was nearly spilling over, used half in the Lasagne and the rest is sitting cooling in 2 tubs to go in the freezer.:T :T :T Have always made my own stuff from scratch and always loved cooking and baking but finding I'm getting a real buzz from bulking out, buying whoopsies and not throwing anything away.

Also had some fantastic news today from Council, we have been rebanded after finding out we were in a higher Band than our neighbours, Thanks to this Website:money: :money: We are going to receive almost £2000 of a refund, we are so chuffed and we think Martin Lewis is a GOD.:cool: :cool: I'll come back down to earth soon - apologies for mentioning it on here but just so excited I had to mention it on here but have also posted my story on the Council Tax Success Stories thread

Lizzieanne - Hugs and :kisses3: for you and your Cat, I know what it feels like as we have owned 3 over the years but all sadly gone now and DD2 now just has a Hamster, bless her.

Good luck everyone with May, off to do School run shortly and then when I get back will try the Cheese nibbles recipe that was posted earlier, thanks for that.

chicken_pie_2

Hi everyone, I totally lost the plot last month, I don't even know how much I ended up spending. So this month I MUST do better. We are going away the last week of the month so I have budgeted £150 to last from 30th April to 23rd May. My cupboards are full as a result of last months overspends, just had a small tesco shop delivered today and bought enough meat to last the month from the butcher, total so far £79.31. So £70.69 left for the rest of the month. I hope I can do it?

curly_cabbage

nessquic80 wrote: »

:beer:i made a lemon maderia yesterday for the weeks pack ups and dh took 4 massive pieces for the office, hes just rang and said 'the girls in the office would like some more of those biscuits you baked last week please'.they were twinks hobnobs his work colle's must think im a right wifey....thanks twink!

Hi could you post the recipe for you lemon maderia cake please its sounds yummy

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