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May 2019 Grocery Challenge
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MY MAY BUDGET IS £200
This should be fairly easy if I pay attention, but we easily go over it by just buying what we want without checking - not this month! Hopefully we can get it lower and lower.
This is to cover 2 adults, a dog, a cat, and the baby formula.
£8k loan
£0 savings
Am back on board though, and looking to try again for May. Please put me down for £300 again. My month starts on Friday (26th)
Our cupboards, fridge and freezer are fit to burst with yellow sticker goods! So I shouldn't need to top up anything other than bread/milk for a while. I am going to do as much eating out of the freezer etc as possible.
We have a holiday from 17th May to 24th May (my next payday). It is self catering, so I want to hold back a chunk of the budget for that week (as much as possible ideally).
Good luck everyone! x
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Please add me in for £300 for May..
Thankoooo
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Thanks again Elsie for running the thread!
I didn't join in in April aw we were away for the first 2 weeks and I thought I'd just take the cash out and be accountable that way.
Back here now that I have time to plan and log etc. So since it's a 5 week month, I'm going to allow £320 for the month but trying to keep to under £60 per week.
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£11.45 in Lidl (foil, milk, ketchup, butter (for office), cashews, ibuprofen, blueberries, tissues and kitchen roll)
£18.37 in Morries (toilet roll, a few yellow sticker goodies, choc, couple lunchable packs for DD for zoo trips, BIG butter for home)
£4.49 owed to colleague who kindly picked me up some Abbot Ale for DH yesterday
Total: £34.31/£300
Was hoping to get more yellow stickered stuff in Morries to be honest, but it either wasn't what I wanted/needed, or it wasn't reduced by very much (bacon packs reduced from £2 to £1.50, but have a sticker on them saying 2 packs for £3 anyway!!).
I plan to go to Farmfoods tomorrow to stock up on soft drinks and some other bits that are VERY cheap there. Other than that the freezers and cupboards are full, so the plan next week is to only buy bread, milk and potato UNLESS it is yellow stickered AND under half original price AND we will definitely eat it.
I booked a holiday to Florida yesterday for next year, I need to budget HARD! lol
Our dinner last night, for all three of us, was less than £1.50 thanks to yellow sticker goods from Morrisons. 75p for 2 chicken kievs, 5p for tinned alaphabetti spaghetti, half of a Lidl bread chicken breast 24p for daughter, and home made chips 20p (ish).
Thank you for the thread again!