September 2009 Grocery Challenge

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Morning
my last week starts today and £10.32 to get me through until next Tuesday.Only have toilet rolls on my shopping list to buy at some point this week and a t.v. paper so fingers crossed I shall have a few NSD's .
Craft club this afternoon, so only 20p today for a cuppa.nearly there girls, we are going great guns.
This week I shall be consulting my 'Misers cook book' that I have online to see what stuff I can concoct for next to nothing. I have a lot of soup in the freezer so that will be my starters as a filler before my evening meal, then it will be a choice of freezer or store cupboards to sort out something as a main meal.
I am making a large 2 pint rice pudding in the slow cooker today so that should do several puds, so the dinnner bit in the middle doesn't have to be very large. Tonight I am having sweetcorn and tuna salad as I have two tins of that in the cupboard so mixed up with some garlic mayo it will be tasty.
Half the mixture tonight for dinner, and the rest as a sandwich for lunch tomorrowTomorrow night I will have a bit of a mixture as I have some pilchards in the cupboards so they will be mixed up with a pinch chilli powder and I shall stuff a large jacket potato with the mixture and sprinkle some grated cheese on the top. Again with a soup stater, and a rice pud for afters it will be more than enough. I more or less cost a meal out for the evening at around 50-70p if possible I have collected some brilliant meal ideas from this site and stuck them into a Word file that is my Misers cook book and its suprising how just adding a few herbs and spices something as ordinary as a jacket takes on a new life so to speak.
Keep up the good work girls
JackieO x

cw18

Been out for milk this morning - total spend of 49p.

Checked the Whoopsies in Mr M on my way back from A1di, and there were a few bits of interest (for lunches over the next couple of days, so wouldn't need freezer space) - but not reduced by enough to make it worth getting them. I don't yet know when they do their second reductions, so thought I might wander down around lunch time and see what's happening


DS finished off the vanilla ice-cream on Sunday night, and wasn't hugely impressed I didn't go to the shops at all yesterday - hence it hadn't been replaced. He's going to be even less impressed to find fresh milk in the fridge and no new ice-cream today (they come from the same store), so I'm just going to have to convince him they "didn't have any in" :rolleyes2

He seems to think a week is a reasonable amount of time between buying the 2 litre tubs of this, as he works it out as a daily spend of 'just' 14p+. But looking at it as a percentage of my daily 'per person' budget (if bought once a week it's 7.9% of my original budget, 8.6% of my current budget, and 9.1% of where I'm considering dropping it to!) I try and make it at least 10 days between purchases !!! (Tomorrow's 10 days since last bought, but I shouldn't need A1di for anything else - so may make him wait until Thursday )

LydiaJ

Got this week's Tesco delivery a couple of days early - so yesterday instead of tomorrow. According to the target of £55 pw basic stuff (mostly on Wednesdays) + £30 pm entertaining etc I should be at £220 by the end of tomorrow (4th Wednesday of the month). So I'm quite pleased with £214.66. No room for complacency, though.

cw18

Went back out to Mr M an hour ago. There was a lady just finishing off marking the chilled Whoopsies down to 50% off (had been 25% off), but nothing had yet moved in the meat, fish or bakery sections.

As the bread rolls still weren't worth getting I came home and pulled half a dozen out of the freezer (previous Whoopsie purchase) - which means I should have space for the 4 tubs of Four Cheese Pasta sauce I got (49p each instead of £1) :rolleyes2

Winged_one

Thanks Helen Jelly for adding me. Yesterday, DH had to buy bread and 1 carton of milk, but Sunday was a NSD, and I should have another today and tomorrow.

Mrs_Tradition

Hi there - how do you freeze potatoes - par boiled, cooked or uncooked? Peeled etc? Thanks for your help x

Optimisticpair

Ok, enough messing with figures. Helen Jelly please add me to the list

Budget for remainder of September £50

Budget for October £200

2 people, all food, toiletries and cleaning products.

See if we can manage this.

scotsaver

Hi everyone, a NSD today, just as well as I'm already over Budget.:o

Dinner tonight is a Beef Casserole which is in the Slow Cooker at the moment, smells very nice, I added a lot of veg and dried beans this time and it's looking good so fingers crossed the family like it.;)

Hugs to all those who need them and good luck to all of us still to declare.:D

helen_jelly

Hi - all budgets done up to and including Optimisticpair

My signature updated

Thanks
Helen x

Changingme

Total so far this monthis £181.59 which leaves me £78.41 till the 28th,need to pop out for milk,bread and ham later.