November 2009 Grocery Challenge

JayneC

Hi all,

Well not off to a brilliant start, succumbed to a bottle of OJ and cake with my lunch but only £1, so could've been worse! Took in some baked beans and bread for beans on toast with a couple of tomatoes from the garden so at least didn't have to buy that too... I'm up to £34.46 so far.

Tea tonight was HM burgers with cheese inside with HM oven chips and salsa.

Will update again tomorrow x

mark55man

Pleased to say that I am absolutely and completely on target so far for November. that's coz I don't start till Sunday :rotfl:

Already declared my target as £600 all in (food and household, morning, noon and night) for 6 of us + 2 moggies

PrincessMort

Thankyou rosieben + helen! nice new thread.

Struggling at the moment to get through til Friday - had mum for dinner and the HM fishcakes I'd planned on having turned to mush when I tried to defrost them :rolleyes: so ended up making a very quick fish pie and OH made pancakes for dessert..mmm :cool:

Not sure what to make for dinner tomorrow - have no rice, pasta, butter, meat...could go on. have lots of eggs so maybe an omlette...really need to shop!!

Curlytop40

Hi all,
well after a disasterous october I would like to be put down for £300 for november please. My proper start date is friday though I had to fill up with petrol for a trip out today so have already spent £25.50 on that. I have meal planned our main meals for the whole month, using something from my overstocked freezers as the basis of each meal. Doing this I hope to cut down on this months spending and make some room in the freezers for ys items and batch cooking. I don't need as much cat food as usual as there is a fair bit left so thats a good place to cut back a little. I include cat food, litter, petrol and all groceries and household items for myself, dd who's 4 and 2 spoilt siamese.
I am hoping that I will be able to stick to £40 a week(at the very most, in fact I'm aiming for £30 but we'll see).If I can stick to £30 and come in well under budget I can add £200 to my christmas, holidays and treats funds which would feel fantastic.

helen_jelly

freakyogre wrote: »

I wasn't going to do this this month after going over in October (probably by about £20), but I will try, try and try again!

Please put me down for £60.00 again and i'll see how I get on. I'll start from the 1st, so anything I buy in the next few days won't count, but i'm not planning on buying much anyway.

Yeah - you're still with us - don't give up. Just remember what you were doing before comeing on here and take that as your inspiration - Good luck

Hlen x

mark55man

Hi

After a month which seemed that I would be under target for once I have to declare £601.99 - £1.99 over budget. I was let down by a late trip to Mr L where we got some stuff for xmas so I am not too sad. In fact when I consider that is 25% saving on previous months I am delighted !!

helen_jelly

Evening

Well we went over budget by £11.98 but I'm not too disappointed as £49.85 of that was a home delivery from Asda cos we wanted bits for next month and had a £10 off code for them so it could come out of next months budget but we need to stock up on the cupboard stuff in November so will count it in this months budget [that all makes sense to me].

Ariarnia - welcome and hi, please feel free to ask any questions you may have and check out the recipes on page 1 - they are really good, we start the thread early but you start your month whenever it suits you so if you want to wait until the 1st then please do so [I do]

Have a nice evening everyone
Helen x

wyrdsister

Hi all! I stopped posting here a good few months back but really need to get my grocery spending back on track so decided to join again. I'd like to be put down for £130 for November. Thats for me and OH for food, drinks, cleaning stuff, toiletries etc and, I didnt include things like that last year so this is just a complete guess for now, should be more realistic next month

Nice to get back into the OS way again though!

Sunnyday

Evening all

just noticed that the November challenge is stickied so after abstaining for the last 2 months and seeing my spending rocket i`d like to join for November which is a 5 week month for me.

Please put me down for £200 please HJ Thankyou.

Off to read the thread so far.

Good luck peeps.

SD

Notjusta_Mum

Hi Helen and all

Haven't posted or read for weeks which may explain why October bill went completely out of control.:mad:

Please put me down for £250 for November. This will be really hard but I have to pull our spending back somehow. Look forward to reading all the advice this month- I know it helps me keep on track.

Thanks