November 2009 Grocery Challenge

ChocClare

I know I was naughty last month, but please can I play again this month?

Going back to being realistic this month - could you please put me down for :

£350

helen_jelly

Afternoon everyone

Welcome and hi to the new people joining us and to the returners, please ask any questions you may have and don't forget to check out the recipes on page 1, they are really good.

Budgets done up to here - thank you

Sorry for not posting sooner, having one of those manic weeks where you chase you tail for hours on end thinking you are doing so much only to stop and look and realise that all you've done is pick up and drop off kids from here, there and every bloomin where!!!!!

Still need to update my siggy but have kept receipts so I know roughly where I'm at

Catch up with you all later
Helen x

catspaw

Hi can I join please with £120 , will be popping over to the recipies for ideas ( maybe I can get in under £100 if I'm really lucky)

scotsaver

A NSD today for me so made myself busy in the Kitchen, have made Butternut Squash soup, a Bacon & egg pie for dinner tonight and 2 Pumpkin pies, one for Pudding tonight and one for the Freezer.;) I still have some of the Pumpkin left so planning to make Hugh Fearnley's Pumpkin Risotto for Dinner tomorrow night - really pleased with how far the Pumkpin stretched, it got used as a Lantern for Halloween, we had Pumpkin soup last night, made 2 pies today, making Pumpkin Risotto tomorrow and also made better by the fact that it only cost me 74p last week in Lidl's.:D

elizabunny - glad to hear the slipped disc on the mend.;)

SunnyGirl - thanks for mentioning Aldi's super 6, not only have they changed it to weekly but prices are different too, used to be 6 items all at the same price.;)

Off to put my feet up now until I need to dish up Dinner, have a good evening everyone.:D

candygirl

Been to Morrisons n spent £15.40 on fruit, veg, cheese n crackers etc, also got radox shower gels for 60p each so bargains all round:D:D

ellemm

Spent 64p on 2lbs of lovely leeks in Lidl, will wash & chop & freeze later.

Anyone noticed any of the supermarkets doing offers on Nescafe Original?

Frugaldom

Hi guys,

Managed to find a nice chunk of Edam reduced to 80p in my monthly shop on Sunday and was planning on using it for ploughman's lunch for 2 - seemed a cheap option at 80p serving with homemade wholemeal bread (ok, wholemeal flour cut 50:50 with white ). So, 2 of us had lunch from it yesterday and then today, 2 of us had homemade cheese & tomato pizzas using grated Edam. I have never tried grating or baking with Edam, so I have been pleasantly surprised! Not only does it toast well over the top of the pizza, it also stretches much further than I anticipated. After 2 ploughman's lunches and 2 single sized pizzas, the remainder has been grated and will be used to make quiche tomorrow. That's 80p well spent in my book, and the pizzas were just made using the outside slices of hm bread like frenchbread style. Frugaler and frugaler, but very tasty.

Rebekah24

NSD today, soup out of the freezer. Kept busy with lots of organising and shredding of old paperwork. Managed to make a saving on my water too, yay!

8 bags of old rubbish out and enjoying some lovely homemade soup

Bit scary having an empty fridge/kitchen:eek:..but.. know I can keep going with the no spends. Plenty in the freezer/pantry for another week

6 portions of soup in the freezer- most of those do two meals
1 soup tin
5 tins rice pudding
lentils
simmer soup
2 tins carrots
2 boxes porridge

its running down slowly but surely!

HH62

Spent £49 in M & S - I went there on purpose because I had £38 worth of vouchers to use before the end of this month. So my actual spend was £11. Got most of the food I need for the next week, but will have to pop to the farm shop tomorrow to get some carrots and cabbage and sprouts.

So £129-£11 += £118 left till the 1st December.

mark55man

NSD today (3/3 in November). OH did get some chocolate buttons yesterday, but that comes out of her CB fund!!

Visit to Mr L coming up Friday & bigger online shop at Mr T on Saturday