November 2009 Grocery Challenge

Stargirl29

As I predicted, today wasn't a NSD as I hoped - spent £2.52 altogether.

Did get a book out the library today though - "The Thrift Book" so that was my money saving 'thing' for the day. Hope to get some little hints and tips out of it, plus it makes me feel like I'm trying

Shopping to be done tomorrow/Sunday so must make menu and lists now. Have a lovely weekend, and happy non-spending!

rosieben

Glad your repair bill was manageable Helen :j
I've rechecked the freezer stock list and have included everything in a meal plan for this coming week; then I can turn the freezer off ready for the move; hopefully wont have to shop for much except milk, f&v until I do a freezer re-stock.

Good luck all

pinkpower

Hi, just posted my October total on the old thread and have wandered over here to join in the fun again.

Can you put me down for £300 for November please?

I have some stuff left over from last month, so need to do a stock take before going shopping.

MC_Emily_2

I'd love to join in with this. What do I include in my budget? Is it just food? Or other stuff, too? Thanks.

mark55man

MC_Emily wrote: »

I'd love to join in with this. What do I include in my budget? Is it just food? Or other stuff, too? Thanks.

hey there. everyone does it a bit different but basically anything you buy from supermarkets.

also it helps if you get into meal planning and posting regularly

angela30

helen_jelly wrote: »

Hi everyone
Algofar45 and Clowe1 - welcome and hi, how lovely to have new people joining us, please feel free to ask as many questions as you want, we are all here to help each other out and please look at the great recipes on page 1 posted by Rosieben.
Budgets done up to and including Xspender please shout if I've missed you..

Angela30 - can you please please share how you manage to feed so many on such a small amount, I genuinely [sp?] want to know as I really struggle to feed 2 adults and 2 kiddies on £350 a month and would love some ideas on how to reduce my stupid amount, thank you

Helen x

hello everyone last month was the 1st time i had come in under bugdet i really hope i can do it again,:A
i will sort out my shopping lists and menus for oct and write them out for you. i would do it now but its almost 4 am lol..
hope everyone has a great week

shell2001

i everyone. I used to be a regular on this thread but since I stopped posting the spending increased!! So back to have another go.

Our household budget allow £450 for food, cleaning stuff, dog food, prescriptions etc. So this month I am going for £450 so I can keep a closer eye on what is being spent where and then take it from there.

I have a food shop being delivered later. I have tried Waitrose and was actually surprised by their prices plus no delivery charge and I got to use a voucher! Will update once I know the exact total.

Oh we are a family of 4 (2 adults, 6 year old n 5 year old, plus 1 puppy.

franby64

Hello everybody

Today I'm going to make a list of everything in the freezer and cupboards - I've already chucked some stuff out of the freezer that I couldn't identify - waste!! - from now on I'll label everything and not freeze things that I just know I won't use.

I'm going to buy as little as possible today (frozen chips!) do a meal plan for a week starting tomorrow and bake some bread. I'm also going to make a carrot cake - I bought a 1kg bag of tiny carrots from Tesco last week and even as I was buying them I knew they would be really fiddley to peel and chop up and they are - I won't do that again! Anyway I WILL use them up.

My month starts tomorrow! I'm off to peel carrots..

lizbob

very proud of myself have only spent 80 including meat and vegfor this week and next. got plenty of storecupbourd stuff and that 80 includes 12 bottles of wine! made small portion of stew that would have usually gone in the bn into soup and an almost out of date bottle of milk into White sauce for the freezer. think I'm getting into this!

HowlinWolf

Mrs M, please put me down for 320 this month. Last month was a disaster. must try harder