October 2009 Grocery Challenge

lambanana

I have been working out a meal plan for this week. I seem to have loads in and so it is mostly made up of fruit and veg, some bread flour and stuff for lunchboxes. My mum gave me some vouchers the other day so I plan to buy a cheap handblender so I can do homemade soups without having to get the big food processor out, should encourage me to take soups to work for lunches. I can't believe how much the tinned stuff is going up in price and that's just Asda's own!

nmlc

Afternoon all

Have just done the second weeks shop for this months GC have spent total of £83.50 in MrA's and butchers today, so total for month is £159.51. Have meal planned for next week but freezer is starting to look a bit bare so will need to visit Trade Butchers at some point this month. Still sticking with the diet and have now lost 1 stone 8lb - am completely focused still much to my amazement - just want to get the job done! Feel so much better in myself so don't want to blow all the hard work (also have a big birthday in Jan 2010 really have a major mental problem with being fat and f****) just think if I'm fat then there's no hope! Has been a bit of a balancing act trying to eat good lo cal meals and sticking with budget - haven't really seen that much of a reduction in the shop bill, if anything seems to be a bit more expensive.
Thanks to everyone who upkeeps the boards you do a grand job!
Keep safe and well everyone, have a great weekend.
nmlc

huston_kw

nimc congratulations on the weight lose :T

yummymummy05

ChocClare wrote: »

£4.57 for a bottle of maple syrup :eek::eek:

I usually buy the maple flavoured golden syrup - it tastes pretty much the same anyway!!

AprilShowers

Hope I'm posting in the right place!
Please count me in for October Grocery Challenge, budget £100 for the month for two of us, inc toiletries, wash powder etc. Tempted to make it £80, but woudl like to suceed or even be close first time for motivation! Wish me luck!

A x

millienjacksmummy

Got some good bargains at lunchtime at B&M bargains
6 free range eggs 99p (doxen for £1.98)
El paso tortillas packs of 12 for 39p each (got 3, 2 packs to freeze)
Some sponge fingers for puddingd 59p
Oatbake bags 10p each
Salsa for 29p

Boots doing 2 for £2.50 on their Andrex wet wipes

So I can cross all those items off my shopping list!
Will go to Lidl tomorrow and get what I can followed by Waitrose to get the rest and report back then!!!

scotsaver

rachelmk - good luck for tomorrow.:j

MRSMC - hope all goes well next week for you.;)

nmlc - that's a big weight loss, well done you.:D

Welcome to all the newbies, hope you find some useful info on here.;)

A NSD today for me and still not planning to shop again until Monday.:o

Dinner tonight our usual Fish, HM chips and mushy peas. Pudding will be a bread and butter pud which I'm off to make now.;)

Have a good afternoon everyone.:D

helen_jelly

Hi everyone, Budgets done up to and including Aprilshowers

Please holler if I have missed you or have spelt your name wrong

Welcome and hi to all the new people, if you need inspiration then look at the recipes on page 1 - wonderful recipes - and please ask anything you want to, there are lots of clever people on here who can help.

Been to L!dls again this morning and bought joints of meat - they are half price at the mo and all go by lunchtime, spent £13.48 on the joints but am justifying this by the half price offer and the fact that I love Beef but we don't have it cos of the price, so, we have 5 joints now that will last a few months as we will spread out usage to make the most of them [1 joint a month]. Off to update siggy now

Have fun everyone, see you later, Helen x

Trinny

Hello everyone

My new target for this month is £170 please. The OH has discovered Aldi/ Lidl and last month our food spend dropped by over 20 quid.

The best thing of all is that HE thinks it is his idea to shop in Aldi/Lidl - as he likes looking in the baskets for cheap cycling stuff. It was just too easy to grab a trolley and do the weekly shop at the same time.

Hoping to drop further if OH keeps this up!

progress at last!

Trin

rippedoffnomore

Hi everyone

Been dipping in and out of this fantastic site on and off for two years now and am only now feeling brave enough to participate. Can you please put me down for £160 for October. Got a freezer full of goodies waiting to be itemised, and meal planning to be done!!