How are you doing with your Grocery Budget?
Did you know we have a weekly challenge going? Lucky for you, it’s not too late to join! Here are the details about our 2012 Grocery Budget Challenge.
How did I do last week? Two words: EPIC. FAIL.
I’m learning some lessons with this budget. It takes PLANNING! Menu planning and be prepared will help us save big time! AND sending the hubs to Costco isn’t safe! I was out of town for most of the week and my dear husband was at home with all 7 kids! It blew the budget this week. Month to date I’ve almost spent as much as I did all of last month! YIKES!
MY PLAN OF ACTION: I’m leaving town again next week for Blissdom. I’m going to prepare some freezer meals that my hubs (or 13 year old daughter) and quickly throw in the oven. I also need to get to Albertsons and stock up on a few things with my doubles! It’s hard after being out of town for several days though… I’ve got to get life back in order! I’m going to try to hit Albertsons tonight or tomorrow morning (got to organize my last few weeks of coupons first!).
Here is how the fabs are doing on their budget {see some of our shopping trips}…
Monica: Feeding a family of 4
Monthly grocery budget: $150
Spending this week: $0
Savings this week: $0
January Spending: $121.51/January Savings: $236.31
February Spending: $50.90
February Savings: $40.50
Year to date spending: $172.91
Year to date savings: $276.81
Cathy: Feeding a family of 9
Monthly grocery budget: $600
Spending this week: $169.23 (I was out of town and my hubs went shopping – yikes!)
Savings this week: $0.00
January Spending: $382.37/ January Savings: $116.47
February Spending: $328.67 (I’m going to make some meals before I leave town next time!)
February Savings: $25.11
Year to date spending: $711.04
Year to date savings: $141.58
Mavis: Feeding a family of 4
Monthly grocery budget: $100
Spending this week: $12.72
Savings this week: $207.42
January Spending: $133.10/ January Savings: $625.32
February Spending: $46.50
February Savings: $272.91
Year to date spending: $179.60
Year to date savings: $898.23
Read more about Mavis’ spending in Monday’s with Mavis
Becky: Feeding a family of 3
Monthly grocery budget: $200
Spending this week: $ 37.37
Savings this week: $102.48
January Spending: $224.07/January Savings: $465.25
February Spending: $15.34
February Savings: $12.33
Year to date spending: $276.78
Year to date savings: $550.06
Amber: Feeding Family of 4
Monthly grocery budget: $250
Spending this week: $48.10
Savings this week: $111.47 (yippee for Albertsons doubles!)
February Spending: $67.48
February Savings: $115.62
Year to date spending: $278.23
Year to date savings: $297.15
So are you ready to track your spending and join our challenge?
#1 – Decide on your monthly grocery budget.
#2 – Complete this form with your #’s… remember, this is you competing with YOURSELF, no one else! Share your email if you want to enter to win our challenge giveaway… your email will be hidden, but all other answers will be public. When entering your numbers use the amount you spent last week. Sunday-Saturday.
#3- View the results below and see what sort of goals other Fabulessly Frugal readers are setting!
#4 – Come back next week: we’ll announce a winner from entries on this form AND we’ll give you another chance to submit your spending and saving!
This week the random winner will get a $20 Amazon gift card!
Last weeks winner…
Last weeks randomly selected $20.00 Amazon gift card winner is…
Congratulations Brenda! Comment on this post to claim your prize. I will send you an email to get your shipping address!
Tools to help you:
- Here is a grocery budget tracking spreadsheet to help you keep track of your spending/saving each week. It’s nothing fancy, but it will help you track your spending so you can quickly enter in your #’s each Monday afternoon.
- {NEW!} We also encourage you to download our Fabulessly Frugal Budget Tool to easily set a budget, track your spending and compare your actual spending to the budget you make.
Enter your goal and spending here
If this is your first week, or even if you missed a week, it’s OK! Just complete the form as best you can and SET A GOAL!!
You can view the the results here.
Not doing so good… I feel like I spend so much time trying to track down the good deals, and I still spend SO MUCH money on food! What am I doing wrong??
Emily, have you made a list of your top 20 items you’d like to stock up on? OR consider menu planning around what is on sale that week and not try and stock up…. just live off the sales?
Thanks, maybe I’ve been trying to stock up on too many things all at once..
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I won! Yay! Thanks so much!
Yay Brenda! Look for my email!
Yay for my sister who won this week! She does such an awesome job and has helped me to grasp the basics on couponing. Go Brenda!
When is it to late to put in your details for the previous week? I don’t know if you have a cut off on Monday or is it Tuesday? I look before I go to work and then when I get home on Monday you have done your last post for the day so I don’t know if it is too late for me to enter? Thanks.
Good question Nicole… you’re going to enter how you did last week in the form right now… and all the shopping that you do this week will be entered on next Mondays post. Make sense? Go ahead and enter right now!
Hi Amber,
How did you save over $111 at Albies. I love the store. I used my doubles this weekend but was only able to save an extra four bucks with the double the value coupons. Did you have more double the value coupons? If so how did you get them and how can I get more?
Shawnika
Fontana, CA
I would be curious to see (I know this could be a lot of work…) how this challenge ties in with what’s being put on the table for dinner. I feel confidant enough now in my couponing skills and have a decent stockpile but I have to say (while trying to rally alongside you ladies) some times my menus end up being redundant or flat out booorrrring. I love your recipe posts – maybe you could occas. post what your serving for dinner while on your “challenge”????… Just thoughts. I LOVE what you guys are doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have made a huge difference in my life
Hi Ladies,
For some reason the link to see the week 6 spread sheet is not working for me. I want to be sure my entry went in ok. Do you see me on week 6? Jane family of 4 budget of 400?