Grocery Budget Tracker (Free PDF)
A week of shops on one page, with the running total sitting next to the limit you set yourself.
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The main table gives each day of the week its own row with seven columns: the day, the date, where you shopped, what the trip was for, what you spent, the running total for the week and what is left of your limit. That last column is the one that changes behaviour, because it turns a vague sense of having spent a lot into a number before Thursday's shop rather than after Sunday's.
Under it, a ten-row table catches everything that comes out of the food money but is not a food shop: top-ups at the corner shop, a takeaway, lunch bought at work, the coffee on the way to the station. Those are what usually explain the gap between a planned weekly spend and a bank statement, and giving them their own rows means the big shop does not get blamed for them.
A summary panel closes the page with the limit for the week, the total spent, how far under or over you came and anything carried into next week, next to a ruled panel for what to change. Choose a week starting Monday or Sunday and the printed day names follow. Nothing is prescribed - no limit, no currency and no suggested budget per person - the limit is yours to set. One page, US Letter or A4, every cell fillable.
