November 2009 Grocery Challenge

Skint_Catt

Spent £17.26 in Asda today :rolleyes:

candygirl

Had a NSD today, as just been mooching round the house and visiting DGD:D:D

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Have updated my sig to include school dinners for the 3 children for the whole of November, plus a couple of spends this week in MrT. Will have to be very inventive with the money I have left as I need to stretch this to 8 evening meals for 5 of us, plus f&v and breakfast cereal should we need any.

Got some bakery whoopsies today which included some naan breads, so one meal will just involve buying a curry sauce as have prawns and rice already.

Have a day at home tomorrow so will try to make carrot and lentil soup for the first time, plus some twinks (a firm fave of ours).

Coxy
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poohbear59

I have had a NSD today. Spent £5 on two ham shanks yesterday. I have frozen one and with the other I have made a huge broth that will do about three meals. I plan to bag it up and store it in the freezer.

Hi synonymous. Welcome. Can I suggest you ask for a freezer on Freegle/Freecycle. That would be a saving straight away.

SarahNeedle1872

I notice that many of you talk of whoopsies.... does any yellow label count as a whoopsie or is it just a really cheap (10p etc) that counts?

Sx

cw18

SarahNeedle1872 wrote: »

I notice that many of you talk of whoopsies.... does any yellow label count as a whoopsie or is it just a really cheap (10p etc) that counts?

Sx

For me it means anything I buy at a reduced price due to sell-by date. It can be a saving of as little as 10% or as much as 90% depending on the time of day and store.

SarahNeedle1872

Cool. So I bought a leg of lamb off the meat counter last night that was worth £24 and I bought it for £7 that would be my whoopsie

Rachel021967

Today I picked up my free range brisket (feeds 8) from the butcher for £12.26. Then went to Tesco Express and bought 18 KitKats (for pack lunch and park) and plums - £3.
Also spent 23p on penny sweets. So that's a total spend of £15.49. That leaves £269.38 in the budget.

franby64

Evening

Spent 11.72 today after saying yesterday that I would limit my daily shops to £5. Not today!

In my defence nothing was an impulse buy and everything will get eaten. Not many whoopsies though - I think I'm going to the shop too early.

The relations are coming down over the weekend so I will spend a bit but I have decided to have a storecupboard week starting on Monday to try and slow things down a bit.

Rebekah24

argg I was bad..was meant to be NSD today..failed!!

feeling ill so went straight to get value orange juice for sore throat...hoping its not swine as our whole office has had it..fingers x'd just a bad cold

Then got whoopsie bread for freezer..29p from £1!! ....and an original source shower gel for gym £1

£2.16 in total....eek..feeling very guilty indeed now!!:eek: