October 2010 Grocery Challenge

mooomin

I spent a whopping £1.30 on milk today. I could have picked up the milk cheaper at Morrisons but knew I would spend more money if I went there so just nipped to the corner shop.

I still have £112.74 left from my £170 budget for November. I went to Costco at the weekend and stocked up on some bargains, but made sure to split some of them with my friend so I didn't have to spend too much. I was also really good too - I bought fajita kits on what I thought was multibuy (2 for £4) but they had been put on the wrong shelf so cost me £7.34 for the two :eek::eek: I did something I wouldn't have done even a month or two ago - I took them back and got a refund

guccigoo

ok im declaring £303.07. Think i need to up my budget more as i think ive been setting it too low. Will try 250 for Nov and see how i get on, if i come in way over again then im going to be upping it.

katholicos

I'm going to catch up with the posts i have missed on this thread, but before i do, just want to mention that i haven't purchased anything for a few days, let alone food. It has been all go here at the moment and i desperately want to make a food cupboard and freezer inventory. I also want to clear up some freezer space so i can make in advance, the homebaked bread loaves and muffins for my Churches Christmas Fair which is being held next month. Ideally i would do it all the day before but i might not be up to it or may not have the opportunity so i want to get some made just in case...and i feel like having a baking day...haven;t had chance for a while, or when i have had chance, i've not felt up to it.

Rightio, off to catch up on the posts in this thread. Evening all!

Hippeechiq

skilly wrote: »

Hippeechiq no more big shops for me this month ,but i still need to pay for a veggie box tomorrow about £13.00, i was ment to cancel it but left it to late .but i think we will be ok .i am going to try and use more stuff from my freezers next month .

Good - actually, I might need some yoghurt as well, but I reckon we should be able to do it then, with a little luck and a lot of willpower

And your NSDs put mine to shame!

Hippeechiq

By the way - I think we could all do with remembering, that while we're all trying to bring out months in on budget, food is constantly on the rise, so I think we're all doing a ruddy marvellous job

And have you seen the price of eggs in the sm's?!! They've like doubled in price, if not more :eek:

CupOfChai

Hippeechiq wrote: »

...while we're all trying to bring out months in on budget, food is constantly on the rise...

I know! It's well annoying!

Chloris

End of the month in this house, so I am declaring with £321.73 :j. Under budget but I would like to drop it more. But with personal circumstances November is not the month to do that, probably not December either :rotfl:. I will take the opportunity to get accustomed to a smaller budget and these good habits! Can you good ladies put me down for £350 for November and I thought I'd try 10 NSD's as well! I would like to get to £300 but don't want to run before I can walk.

Hippechiq and CupOfChai I agree, with keeping to a budget and prices increasing it is a lot of effort to tread water. I raise a glass and toast Necessity, the Mother of Invention :beer:.

muffin_man_7

Just updated my sig not looking too bad £108.06p spent up to now £11.94 left won't make it again as we need a few things before sunday but i'm getting closer without this place i think my finances would be worse than they are right now won't get sorted before xmas now not enough time or weeks so will aim to keep shopping for food as low as i canand avoid buying any thing because it's on offer at least till after xmas just going to have a low (as possible) cost xmas this year as we don't have lot of choice we will do the best with what we've got i like recycling at xmas especially our broken tree fibre optic one went smokey on us a few years ago so we just put lights on it now will need to do something about the base this year though i duct taped it last year and then wrapped tinsel round the base so no one could tell my best dressed tree so far i reckon looking forward to it again hoping it will keep me out of shops at least some of the time going to write me list to last till sunday then i can try again will decide on sunday how much when i declare total for october it won't be more thats for sure

Sunnyday

Well i`ve definitely blown it this month

By just how much i`m not sure yet so i`ll sit down and work it out later, one of the books that i`d ordered arrived and i really wanted to try a recipe from it whilst i had a day off work so i went out and bought the ingredients

Never mind - it was really worth it and it didn`t cost as much as i expected. I also bought some wine making bits and bobs whilst i was out, i don`t normally include these in the budget but i`m wondering whether or not to start. They don`t have a budget and i just buy the ingredients with what ever is left in the bank at the end of the month.

I`ll sit down and work out the damage later.

SD

jintyb

JackieO wrote: »

My 7 grandchildren love it .One of my DGS Henry asked his 'Auntie Shelly (my DD) if she was going to have a 'buffulo' again this year (he meant a buffet of course) and she said of course she was and he beamed at her and said 'Oh thats cool we really like coming to your house as we get to play lots of acting games .

That's brilliant! Maybe we should all have "buffulos":D this Christmas - sounds like jolly good fun!:rotfl: