October 2008 Grocery Challenge. Please read first two posts.

cw18

Congratulations on the new job Anne :T

Frugaldom

Creeping in with the hope that nobody spots this post - spent just under £10 today, including a couple of discounted items, but my total for month has now reached £60.83... sneaks back out underneath my magical, invisible thread cloak...

Sneaks back in again to FULLY confess - £1.75 of the above was for a loaf of bread because I never got around to baking any yesterday! :eek:

mumzyof2

NYK what bread was that for £1.75!! I thought my corner shop was bad at £1.20!

princess_leia_3

Congrats on the job Anne

I spent another £4 today on broccoli, bananas, sausage rolls for dh work and some value ham which is remarkably like sliced spam

Going to do a batch of mashed potato tomorrow and keep some for the freezer for cheese n potato pie - yummy

bullet_2

Galaxy863, do you have a freecycle site in your area? If so someone might have an oven on there.
I have done some baking today. Made two courgette and mushroom pizzas, a courgette, mushroom and lentil curry, some sort of bubble and squeak and a chocolate cake. Tomorrow I shall make apple cake to be served with custard and a banana and coconut cake.
We had the pizzas for tea and tomorrow I'll make toad in the hole with cauliflower and mashed potato.

Erosgirl

Thanks Susan 946 that was the recipe I was looking for. It inspired me to buy haricot beans and try the recipe. When I bought the beans there was a recipe on there which sounded brill, but it required maple syrup (which I love the flavour of), and when I priced it at over £4 for the bottle I headed straight back here to find out the OS recipe, thanks for reposting it and thank you Memorygirl for the original recipe. I will give it a go and let you know how they turned out and how popular they were.

eveie189

Well as you can see i have totally bombed this month.

I am still writing everything down though as I don't want to get out of the habit and things should be easier next month as i am going to seperate the budget money from the bills money which means that when it's gone it's gone.

I hope it helps me cause somethin has got to stop me spending. On the good side I have bought ALL the Christmas presents we need and we have most of the food we need so that's sorted.

Anne - Congratulations on the new job hun

Katie

gtx

£149.07 this is what i'm declaring for this month mrsm - very pleased with dh staying away from mr m's at lunchtime and he's very pleased to be going to sunderland/newcastle match at the weekend! which of course means i haven't really saved anything but its showed what we can do and he's very happy to start again next month just to save money!:T

can i be put down for £180 for November please mrsm - we work from pay day to pay day, 23rd to 22nd, if anyone is wondering.

thanks for all the support everyone

cw18

Well done gtx :T

And you have saved -- it's just that you've used the savings to buy someone a present

Katie - good on you for not giving up completely, and I'm sure you'll find a system that works for you Spreadsheets are the only way to go for me, and (even though I'm looking like I'll make it this month) they make scarey reading when I look at what I've spent on things like milk and (whoopsie) bread rolls over the month compared to my total !!!

Flylady_Flower

Wow, I have just checked how many posts I have done this month and can't believe it is only 12 (this makes 13...:o )... I think I was top of the pile last month, even with trying to cut down.

(for anyone who wants to know how to find out how they are doing, here is Pink-winged's explanation - post 1230, about 6 posts down)

:T :T Everyone is doing really well in minimising chat and posts and the new guidelines certainly seem to be working - I've been able to keep up with the thread and still learn loads... still can't believe we only have 48 pages in this month... Well done to everyone...:T :T

Talking of learning loads and the whole point of this post, BigMumma, you posted a bread roll recipe on here AGES ago, and when I used it in my BM, it worked really well for me, not had so much luck since, would you mind posting again pretty please? (don't think it is the one on the recipe index as I have tried that with no luck???)