May 2008 Grocery Challenge

Mollymop5

Hi, I'm going to up my budget for June as I'm buying alot of fresh fruit and veg at the moment.We seem to be going through loads.I'd rather forecast a bigger budget than come in over budget again!
£200 for June please.

Thank you

dink1

Hi mrs m, there will be no further spending this week so my total for may is £270.53.

Please put me down for £250 for June Mrs m..... it seems a realistic target and hopefully next month I'll meet it.:rotfl:

Well we can hope.

victory

Are we doing June already? I haven't finished May yet:rolleyes:

Oh well mrs M please put me down for £300 for june going to reduce it by £50 as May was a long month and June should not be:D

We don't get paid until the 30th next friday so mine has not finished yet.

I have really enjoyed it and thanks for all the tips, I have now so many cereal inners I cannot close the door:rotfl: :rotfl:

Le_Foot

Thanks everyone.
I will register for June right now. My month will start Friday 30th May. I think it will be a wonderful incentive for me to keep to budget. Can you tell me if you count your leisure 'spends' i.e. cost of going out to a pub, or drinks you buy for home consumption etc in your budget.

Mrs. M. Please register me for £300 June Grocery Challenge

greent

Mrs M please put me down for £550 for June :eek: - hopefully this figure will go down somewhat over the next few months!

June will be my first month - this month's spend currently around £620, with at least one meal out to go!

Keeping_Positive

Le_Foot wrote: »

Thanks everyone.
I will register for June right now. My month will start Friday 30th May. I think it will be a wonderful incentive for me to keep to budget. Can you tell me if you count your leisure 'spends' i.e. cost of going out to a pub, or drinks you buy for home consumption etc in your budget.

Mrs. M. Please register me for £300 June Grocery Challenge

Hi

Everyone includes whatever they want, some seperate pet food, cleaning, takeaways etc but others lump the whole lot in. I include most things I spend in supermarkets and takeaways as easier to have the one budget. Clothes and kids spends such a sweets as usually seperate for me.

mandy_moo_1

my new challenge will start this Monday, so

Mrs Mc, please can you put me down for £55 per week for the June challenge

its gonna be a drop from £60 a week but i really hope i can do it, and its not too big a drop for me :eek: ah well, i'll see how i go

will declare my May total tomorrow after i've been to Mr M's on a whoopsie hunt

BigMummaF

*Hangs head in shame*Can't believe I spent another thirty plus squiddillies in MrT yesterday:( The £4-27 in the Pet Shop for veg & doggie treats was fine, and I had promised that I was only gunna get yeast & m'be a few bits of F&V I couldn't get in the pet shop. I even allowed meself to get Quilted Velvet p-pk @ £2-75 in Somerhope.
Now I'm just so:mad: with myself cuz I had no excuse, except I won't need too much for a few days....

• 2pt milk has gone up 4p>80p; they didn't have the local choice in semi-skimmed & that was still 78p
• treated mesen to some value 'prawns' :whistle:
• got No3 shreddless marmalade on BOGOF
• bag of MrT dry Mixer for the RSPCA trolley
• 2xMrT's red label 80 t-bags on offer @ 68p
• :idea: value ink refill kit for the printer but still only £3-50

I'm really going to have to try out the recipes I've been collecting instead of just collecting them particularly as No2 is on basic Stat Sick Pay. I'm 99.9% certain I have the stores for 90% of the goodies :cool: so gotta get off my heiny & DO summat.

So Mama67, do you think Millie's cookies would make an acceptable variation on flies graveyards/fruit shortcake/garibaldi? And any idea of how one would find a recipe for Digestive & Rich Tea biscuits...I'll go for a Google in a mo:rolleyes2 .....

Have to say Sav3r, that I've found MrM's economy chopped toms to be very VERY good. HTH

So MrsMc, I will declare my May total as £343:87 meaning another £6-13 goes to my Gift Fund:dance:

I would like to continue the theme by going for £350 for June.

Thanks for another good month MrsMc, & all power to your Kitchen Wizardry!

queen_of_string

This is my first post, but just reading the thread for the last month has been inspirational. Used the tip on discounting to fabulous effect this Thursday. Arrived at the tills with the OH and noticed it was 9.30 in an Mr A store that closes at 10pm. Queues were long so left OH in the queue and mooched off to take a quick final peek at the chilled reduced. OMG got there jsut as the girl came out with about 9 big trays full of meet reduced to a maximum of £1. Needless to say our freezer is now full to bursting with the stuff and their 5p bread. I'm sure it's just beginners luck, but you guys just saved me about £100 already!! I would love to join you for June but we will be away for 1 week so I'll tally up June then join you in July if that's ok. Sorry for the long post, but I am just so excited to have found other people who like a bargain as much a I do :-)

ifonlyitwaseasier

welcome queen of string, :hello: