As you can see from the title I went slightly over the weekly shopping budget in week one. To sum up my expenditure for the week - I spent €6.91 in Lidl, €45.82 in Dunnes and my husband spent €5.38 in Dunnes on Monday. The means I spent a total of €58.11 which is €8.11 over my weekly shopping budget of €50 during each week in July.
So where did I go wrong? Well, two things happened that I feel caused me to go over the limit. Firstly, my disorganisation meant that my husband ended up buying some food on Monday in order for me to be able to put together a meal for Monday night. So, lesson one is to be better prepared in future!
Secondly, in a rush of blood to the head I managed to miscalculate how much I spent on cartons of ready-made formula for the baby. I had to buy a lot more of them than I anticipated as a trip to the Dr's on Tuesday resulted in me being told that the baby has a food allergy of some sort and in order to get to the bottom of it I have been told to cut out cows milk and all fruit from his diet to see if the rash clears. This means that I need extra formula to send up to the creche for his cereal in the morning so that it can be used in place of the cows milk that he usually gets and I bought more than I had on my shopping list. So, my second lesson is not to try to do maths in my head when I am shopping. I should use the calculator on my mobile phone. Of course, it generally helps if the mobile phone is in your handbag when you go shopping in the first instance!
Still, I am pleased with the €58.11 and won't be too hard on myself for going over. I did acknowledge that if I was intending to buy nappies and formula that I would need a slightly higher budget than the €50 I had set for my July challenge, but I really didn't think I would need to buy anymore of either this month.
I wonder if next week I might be able to limit my spend to €41.89 to make up for my overspend this week. That might be too much of an ask. You know what they say though - it won't hurt to try!!
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