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April 2019 Grocery Challenge
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Thanks for the ideas Suffolk lass! I get through about 2 punnets of the vit. D chestnut mushrooms a week on average and most days I have 500ml of fortified almond milk, which alone should give me 75% of the RDA - however I've only been doing this for a few months so was probably too late to sort the deficiency out. Love the ideas for mushroom use, I see a risotto coming my way!! I do walk at lunchtimes twice a week but currently I'm way too cold to show any skin!!
I've now had a 15 day "loading dose" and have to take a daily supplement, but interestingly the Dr didn't say anything about a retest, so I'm going to book one in myself to make sure I'm back in normal levels. I'm definitely feeling a lot better overall so that's good!
The sunlight part is interesting as apparently the sun in Britain is too weak to provide any of us with enough vit. D in winter even if we were to be outside, and as a whole the population would benefit from taking a supplement over winter!
Thanks so much squirrelgirl, I'd forgotten about that one! Will check it out today
SPC No 074
GC: Jan 20 £tbc/£250
Vegan 27-8-13
I may or may not post my targets as I'm still tracking and I've got Dd birthday and Easter in April ..... Is it a good time to start?!?! Who knows we shall see but what I do know is that these threads are helping me focus a lot more so that's got to be a good thing.... Right?!?!
Hopefully with Easter holidays coming up I can take time to really got through all the links a the start of these threads .....
Thank you elsiepac for taking the time to do this ......some times just remembering to post is time consuming..
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Even if you don't set a budget this month, try and roughly track what you spend so that you have an idea of where your money went! It can only be a good thing
My pleasure, I enjoy doing the threads and keeping up with what everyone is up to!!
SPC No 074
GC: Jan 20 £tbc/£250
Vegan 27-8-13
March was the first month I really focused on how much we spend and have so far done £550 so want to start reducing bit by bit. We waste so much - deffo need to plan better and ensure we stick to it.
Grocery challange April: £130.17of £500 target remaining
£280 for April .......
£60 for SM shop
£10 for local/top up shop
Running from 1st April until 30th April as there are 4 Friday's and that's usually the day I do the main weekly shop....
I did try put it in bold red letter but all I had was a lot of brackets and the like .....don't know if it's because I'm using as IPad or because I'm clueless where IT is concerned .....probably the latter ....
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Don't worry, I've added you
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Maybe that helps for future?
SPC No 074
GC: Jan 20 £tbc/£250
Vegan 27-8-13
Based on £200 for the month but I found £2.50 in my purse so adding that on!!
The reason I'm not 100% on that budget is because I have a very tight month ahead anyway, but also there's a lot of changes to my salary starting this month (That I've only just found out about) - some up and some down, and I am a bit worried I may end up worse off!
Anyway, assuming I have this budget, this is my planned breakdown:
26th-30th: £32.50
31st-6th: £40
7th-13th: £40
14th-20th: £40
21st-25th: £30
Toiletries etc £20 (biggest part of this this month is toothbrush heads but there's a few bits I've run out of)
My weeks are starting on Sundays because that's now when I do my food shops before I prep for the week. Each week I am actually planning to break it down further - £30 for the main shop on the Sunday, then £10 for any extras or fresh stuff or treats for the weekend - this is where I tend to fall down so I figured planning in an amount there and allowing for it will help.
I've actually already had my first spend of the month as I borrowed a tenner which I'll take back out of this weeks budget and had my £2.50 in my purse, and that has meant I have actually done my food up till Thursday... Which based on my budget leaves £20.38 for the rest of the week. I'll need a few things like almond milk anyway, but I'm expecting overall to have change from that which (if my pay allows it) I'll put into my sealed pot.
...............................£202.50 Budget
Date.......Shop......Amount....Remaining
24 Mar.....A5da......£12.12....£190.38(WEEK 1)
SPC No 074
GC: Jan 20 £tbc/£250
Vegan 27-8-13
So - I kind of need to have two budgets in mind; one for if I'm in the driving seat all month, which would be £380, and one for if I'm out of action for a week or two, which would be £420. That's for food, toiletries & cleaning supplies for 4 adults, 2 of whom are omnivores, one pescatarian and one vegetarian. Easter supplies will come out of the "entertainments" budget & I think I'm going to put the bulk-buy & pet/livestock supplies back into the main budget shortly, as I keep forgetting to update them & I need to think about cutting back quite hard if I'm not able to earn anything for a few more months.
GC Oct 20 £522.85/450 oh dear...
2020 Fashion on the Ration Challenge: 35 used out of 68
(Money's just a substitute for time & talent...)
Oh no, that's rubbish!! Assume there are no stalls this month coming you can get involved at to boost the coffers?
SPC No 074
GC: Jan 20 £tbc/£250
Vegan 27-8-13