Grocery Challenge - End of February Update
Don’t fall off your chairs peoples. I really have posted 2 days in a ROW!!! One of these days I might even get back into the habit of posting daily. 
I’m so happy with my grocery spending for February. With only 4 weeks, I ended up with almost a week’s worth of grocery money surplus.
That worked out to an average of around $115 per week spent.
I put aside $70 cash toward our next lot of bulk meat, taking the spend to around $130 a week.
To be honest, I was quite surprised as I didn’t feel like we were all that careful with our grocery spending. I know there are areas that I could tweak if we needed to.
I’ve been trying to figure out why our grocery spending is so much lower than others we know, even when I’m not really trying. I guess there is a certain amount that is just “habit”.
Anyway, it’s nice to think that I’m on track with the budget and even have a little bit of room to move with rising prices and growing kids. At this stage of the year, it’s probably better to have a little more than we need than be right on budget.
Will be interesting to see if things stay this way or whether I’ve just been “lucky” this month.
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Do you meal plan? I’m struggling to get our grocery budget under $700 for the month (still improved from $850/month last year!) for the 5 of us, although that includes cleaning and nappies. Would love to know some of your meal plans!
Hi there,
Excellent about the shopping!
Thanks for your comment.
Ann.
Good work! My shopping bills seem to have gone up lately, but still at around $130 per week- I aim for $100. Once I get this new eating plan under control I am hoping to drop it & also if I do some baking for school that will help. Just at the moment I think I would struggle to not lick the bowl.