June 2008 Grocery Challenge

belfastgirl23

Oh good June is open for business!

Could you please put me down for £150 for this month. Just for two of us but we do tend to have a feeding of the 5000 situation for big international football matches on so I'm giving us some slack. I've already spent around £55 btw in a mega tesco shop although I did get £9 off with a very helpful code....

Oh and just to prove I'm really OS I've got to make scones for DFIL tonight so I have also prepared 4 ciabatta loaves, butternut squash and aubergines to go into the oven at the same time .... hopefully this is enough to keep me going in salads for the rest of the week and freeze some bread for again.

Good luck everyone

doelani

Can you add me please :j £400 for June for 2 adults 2 teenagers and 3 teenagers part-time

carolt2

Please put me down for £160, MrsM - thank you!

angelnikki

angchris wrote: »

i know this is really complicating things but is there any way we (someone with more brains than me ) could maybe do a graph or bar chart of some description so that our monthly totals can be seen at a glance maybe over the year?

I have done a spreadsheet for the April GC and will add in May's GC figures in a weeks time when more people have declared But does anyone know where I can host this? as its too big to take a screenprint of the whole thing.

It looks like this ATM but could do charts aswell once theres a couple more months data on it...



Nikki
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Anitaj73

Hi, neewbie here

Can i join this challenge it sounds like it could b very helpful to me and my family. I am a single mum with 4 young children and live on benefits
I already budget myself to £50 a week but that doesn't include all the little trips to the local shop so perhaps i should make my budget at £250 for the month and see how i go....
I'm lookin forward to this and will keep reading for any tips

FelineFantastic

Anitaj73 wrote: »

Hi, neewbie here

Can i join this challenge it sounds like it could b very helpful to me and my family. I am a single mum with 4 young children and live on benefits
I already budget myself to £50 a week but that doesn't include all the little trips to the local shop so perhaps i should make my budget at £250 for the month and see how i go....
I'm lookin forward to this and will keep reading for any tips

Hi Anita-- I am a newbie too and joined at the tale end of the last challenge and have already learnt soooooo much- particularly about what you can freeze :T

Good luck- and watch out for all the fab recipes! I am going to try the spinach and bacon bread next- I love making soup so any excuse! :j

mumzyof2

Good afternoon all, im still on the May thread as my month has not started.

Can you put me down for £95 this month.. i have my mum staying a week but i should be okay.

scotsaver

Hi MRSMC - can you please put me down for £250 again for June please, don't want to reduce it with prices rising the way they are.

I survived the 4 day walking Pilgrimage to Canterbury, :j it was amazing and I'm so glad I did it. The downside is that I now need to get back into the kitchen and replenish the supplies. At least the family didn't bust the budget while I was away, I'm so proud of them and I had left them plenty of batch cooked meals, muffins, hobnobs, HM Rolls etc so there was no excuse.

Will get logged on tonight and catch up with all the pages I have missed but in the meantime hugs and congrats to those that need them and good luck to everyone for June and our shiny new budgets.:T

Mudbath

OrkneyStar wrote: »

Hmmmm lovely scottish fare mmmmm
DH was away last week at a funeral, he stayed with my mum and she filled his case with lovelies like biscuits etc. Also some Tunnocks sausage rolls- nothing beats them, I grew up on those as the only sausage roll.
I sometimes have the freezer full but no meals thing too, thats why I meal plan- have a good look through the freezer and make sure every meal this week contains at least one thing from there, even if you have to get other stuff to go with it.
hth

Thanks OrkneyStar - I definitely need to get more into meal planning. Tonight the children are having tortillas (from freezer) with bolognaise (from freezer), lettuce, cheese and peppers. I am having the 6 scampi that are left with waffles (all from freezer and given to me when my mum bought bogof). DH is having homemade soup from freezer. That will create a bit more space. Might also do everyone a side order of sausage rolls and yorkshire pudding:rotfl: . The yorkshire pudding are something else that my mum gave me...they take up so much room in the freezer so we always make our own.

DH also brings home potato cakes, tunnock wafers, and plain bread though you can get the last two in tesco now it's cheaper up north especially when his mum buys it all for him!

666paw

Hi everyone.

Still a few days left for my May GC so will update today on 31st.

MrsM could you please put me down again for £175.00 to run from 01-30 Jun.

Thanks
P.