October 2009 Grocery Challenge

Miss-spent_2

RACHELMK
How exciting, best wishes. Make sure you grab any left over cake, slice it up and freeze it ( always be money saving whatever the occasion!)

Up dating sig. £3.79 on bits I forgot Saturday and 61p for a stamp!

Liz3yy

Hi, can I join please?! it's just me and my partner and for October I'm aiming to spend no more than £160.....

elly2

A NSD for me today, yesterdays spends were
£5.70 fruit shop
£2.20 HB
£34.00 Mr Ts (£22.85 of this was for pet supplies):eek:
so a running total of £41.90/£80.00.

angela30

hello everyone. i cant believe its the 1st of oct already this year is flying by so fast, next thing we will be facing xmas lol.

ive done my meal planing for the next few days, there seems to be alot of cooking from scratch and no spend days.
ive tryed to work out how much each meal will cost it was alot harder than i frist thought it was. lol.

will my meal plans for 5 people
thurs burgers chips and bread and butter. ice cream arond £2.00
for 5 people

friday shaperds pie peas and carrots. blackberry`s and ice cream
arond £2.00 for 2 people

sat mince meat pie peas and carrots mike shake £1.49
for 2 people

sunday roast chicken roast potatoes carrots peas sweetcorn blackberry cake and making another cake for tomorrow. £6.50

monday left over stew. chicken from yesterday potatoes carrots onions sweet potaotoes with handmade potatoe bread rolls.
£ 1.40p with trifle using yesterdays cake and angel delight topping

tues beef wellinton roasties carrots peas and sweet corn with potatoe upside down pinapple cake and cusard £3.30 ish for 5 people.

wed sausage hot pot. with handmade potatoe bread rolls. with angel delight and blackberrys £2.10p.

lunches for the girls for school is usally something like grated cheese and carrots sandwiches piece of fruit home made cake and unsweeted fruit juice for the 3 of them it usally will cost a pound a day.

will thats me for the next week or so.
i do alot of cooking with potatoes even in my baking. my kids love the cakes and bread rolls that have been made with potatoes. they come out really nice.
im going to put up a recipe for bread rolls and upside down cake that are made with potatoes. i have just got to work out the oz for it as i dont usually do any weighing in me baking.

sorry if my spelling is bad today but i have been working nights and havent had much sleep..

hope everyone is having a nice week:j

russetred

Week 1 over with and a lot spent but I had to restock the freezer with whoopsied meat and I now have enough for the month.Basically its down to the necessities of life,(we know a song about that),milk,fruit and beer. I've already stocked up on everything else bathroom and cleaning wise.
Spent today making a vat of chilli eeked out with lentils,oats and any courgettes and peppers left in the fridge with only 500g of mince it will easily do 2-3 dinners for us.Chilli and rice,enchilladas and then chilli over wedges with cheese.
Also made a load of potato and leek soup for next week's lunches.
I scored big time at the co-op for bread yesterday all kinds of doughnuts,rye bread and rolls with different seeds on for 5p each went well with the several packs of buttery spread reduced to 5p too.All safely in the freezer.I make my own bread but I love those seeded breads, yum!:D

jinky67

dilemma

do I count my ciggies in my GC?:think::think:

helen_jelly

jinky67 wrote: »

dilemma

do I count my ciggies in my GC?:think::think:

blimey - I don't they cost too bloomin much :eek: - can't afford for them to come out of the food budget!!! We'd never eat

Helen x

mrsmortenharket

rachelmk wrote: »

Hello all!
First chance in a week to pop on and update the spends
I managed £49 something (so we'll call it £50) in MrT's on the weekend and haven't spent anything else on food since.
It's my wedding on Saturday so I won't be shopping this weekend - we'll just have to live on what's in for a couple of days when we get back until I feel like shopping! The big day is on Saturday but it's in South Wales (where I'm from originally) so we're travelling down tomorrow and won't be back until Sunday afternoon, so b*gger Mr T's til next week!
I'm straight back at work on Monday (trainee teacher) so can't even have a rest after all of the kerfuffle!

Anyway, I'll update the signature and get on with the packing!

congratulations! :T

I'm originally from Cardiff! Where are you getting married to?

I had a NSD today! :T

Lisa x

Cheapskate

Evening all

Not posted last month & went over again, but will try harder this month! Please can you put me down for £380 for October? Baby due in next couple of weeks, so will have some time when I won't be going out, therefore NSDs - I hope! Got some stuff in freezer, including things I've made/baked & will do more this week. Did food stocktake today & have a few more things than I thought, so this week's shopping, at least, shouldn't be too expensive. Will be BF baby, hopefully, so no expense on formula, touch wood! Going to make jam this week, loads of brambles in freezer & rosehips to pick. About 2 dozen eggs to use as well, so cheese & onion tart, omelettes, poached eggs..... think we'll have to live with windows open all week! :rotfl:
Will catch up with posts, news, recipes etc tomorrow, going to MrS soon with SiL to buy pot plant or flowers for other SiL due out of hospital. Buying the few things we need for week, about £15, & son works there so have 10% discount card too.:j
See you later.
A xo

jinky67

jinky67 wrote: »

dilemma

do I count my ciggies in my GC?:think::think:

helen_jelly wrote: »

blimey - I don't they cost too bloomin much :eek: - can't afford for them to come out of the food budget!!! We'd never eat

Helen x

I decided not to

that way I can really track how much they are costing me as well;)

spent 35p in the shop:D