October 2010 Grocery Challenge

angelatgraceland

Very happy with Septembers challenge spending only £366 out of an allocated £500(£6000 per year)
The difference in my grocery spends is definitely down to the costings of the meals Im doing and a few of the recipes on Weezles site.
Hoping to do about the same this month-we rarely do any takeaways and don't often eat out-if we do-I count them in the grocery spends.
I used a £5 Waitrose voucher in Mr T the other day-the voucher was for a new Waitrose-£5 off of £25 spend so do look out for these if you have any specials or new stores opening close by. Ive got another one I may use today or tomorrow. I did get a newspaper for the Lidl voucher but didnt get around to using it-I don't want to spend lots anyway. Still living on a building site kitchen wise and many would have given up the struggle to cook with the state of it but the other day I still made 2 quiche and 3 butternut squash tarts. I also mada a lovely turkey and ham pie-turkey was a whoopsie so half price and the ham was what I had in the fridge to use up-along with the usual butternut squash carrots etc. Co-op had(still have?) their Elmwood chickens on offer for £3 each so I cooked one yesterday making a chicken curry with the whole of it excluding the breasts and sandwiches-snacks with the breasts. Hoping to get a couple more for the freezer. I also padded out the curry with onions, minced carrot, minced butternut squash-it now goes in most meals so we all get our veggies! DD is cooking lots on the weekend desetwise now she has started college doing her cookery so we will remai n well fed on the cheap I think!

sewprettymoo

hi all

spent £4.44 so far on some milk, bread etc

hedgesparrow

JayJay14 wrote: »

I use my breadmaker, just the normal recipe with the vinigar added, but I never cook bread in it - I use it on dough only, and rise it again and oven cook.

The las 10kg sack I bought was £3.46 in Costco.

I just took it out of the breadmaker. It looks great. Too hot to taste but I am pretty happy - looks like a hovis loaf I agree and works out at 15p a loaf!

sharronej

hedgesparrow wrote: »

I just took it out of the breadmaker. It looks great. Too hot to taste but I am pretty happy - looks like a hovis loaf I agree and works out at 15p a loaf!

Let us know how it tastes, one of my friends works for Hovis and he told me that the price of wheat has gone up by 70% so the price of bread/flour is going to hike :eek:

Rachel021967

Just spent £87.83 at Tesco. Leaving £32.17 for the rest of the week.

hedgesparrow

sharronej wrote: »

Let us know how it tastes, one of my friends works for Hovis and he told me that the price of wheat has gone up by 70% so the price of bread/flour is going to hike :eek:

I had a slice earlier. Very nice. Not fully wholemeal if you know what I mean but light brown and tasty.

laloopi

£2.45 spend on milk today, hoping that will be it until we go on holiday next week.

purplevamp

[STRIKE]
Only 5 days into the month and I've lost my receipts . DH went shopping on Saturday and I've done a top-up for things not in stock. It's around £60ish but will add the my signature when I find them.
[/STRIKE]Found them

£5.42 ~ A!di top up
£59.86 ~ Mr S main shop
£1 ~ £Land
£4.12 ~ Mr S top up

That comes to £70.40 :eek:. Hopefully we won't need anything else this week, and not much for the main shop on Sunday (famous last words)

sistercas

spent £16.51 in l!dl only went for the veg offers ended up with options hot choc and squirty cream and some cornetto type ice creams and some museli bars

note to self 'must try harder'

Habibiboo

Sympathies sistercas, I am being totally rubbish so far - spend so far was on a big shop that will last us the whole month (in theory). In practice, Himself toddled off for 'essentials' from Lidl, plus spent another £20 in the butchers. I suppose it's fair enough, although we agreed I'd sort the shopping to try to save us a bit this month, he didn't trust me not to just feed him on lentils (something to do with me being a veggie or such....)! Still, having NSDs a-plenty since the weekend (although tis only Tuesday.... )!