October 2010 Grocery Challenge

Herbyme

Eeeek. Have been really busy with work this month (I work from home) and the receipts have piled up, I've just added them up and am almost spent up for Oct and it's only the 20th. Just goes to show that time and money are inversely proportional, as I've always thought. Bah. It's another month soon.

greent

EVening all!

HAve been doing quite well this month, I think Been busy, though, so haven't kept up with the thread. Homeward stretch now!

Runner beans in the garden have finally finished - last few went to the guinea pigs & the brown ones had teh seeds saved for next year LOADS in the freezer! All I have left out there now are some weeny weeny carrots and a couple of weeny squash - the squash keep rotting Have been very pleased with the garden's produce this year - will make a plan to be more organised for it next year, though.

Hippeechiq

adelight wrote: »

Lidl put stickers on saying "30% cheaper" "50% cheaper" which didn't make much sense until I noticed they put lots of those in a cardboard box next to the cheese with a tiny sign saying "these items are reduced"! I thought it was just like "hey we're cheaper!".
I got a gammon joint from lidl for ~£2 today because it had a sticker on it but it still has two weeks on the date!

Thanks for that adelight - I hadn't realised. Will look out for them now

£5 spent today on yet more milk and 3 boxes of Ne$cafe Vanilla Cappuccino on offer in A$da @ £1 each (normally £2.40) - now that's what I call an offer! I stopped buying them a couple of years ago because they'd became such a silly price, so it's a little treat for me

Leaves me with £46.59 in the kitty till 31st......£4.23 per day. It's doable, but it's gonna be a close call, especially if I keep buying things like 3 boxes of vanilla cappuccino because they're on offer when I don't usually buy them!

Billie-jo

Another £19.30 to add this was on bread, chicken, potatoes, stewing steak (didnt need so gone in freezer), sliced ham and turkey, tartare sauce and some porridge now its going colder, fruit and some fresh mussels.

Went to local market yesterday and they had a melon, a pineapple and grapes -all 3 items for £1 The grapes are lovely and seedless, the melon looks and smells nice and the pineapple needs a day or two more to ripen.
DH had some mussels and they were much bigger and tastier than sm ones so he said. I love them but was put off when I had a bad one and was violently sick for ages

Still seem to be spending a lot this month and am hoping that its just a blip. Have done a shopping list for tomorrow and fingers crossed its under £35

Diflower

Billie-jo, I too had a bad mussel once. They leave some enzyme in your stomach which means you can't eat any mussels for about 3 years. Then you can try one and see, but should be ok. I left it probably 5 years as it's not nice, is it?! But first had just 1 from someone else's plate, then a few - all fine, so now I can enjoy them if I want to.
Sadly I just don't fancy them very often any more, because it's such a horrible reaction if you get it.

franby64

Morning

Spent about £13.37 yesterday on T-bags, cheese, milk, bananas, reduced sausages, apples, and a pack of chocolate biscuits. I decided to use a £7 C*op token so I'm calling it £6.37.

I managed to do my rest-of-the-month mealplan and am feeling much better about my chances now - £39.16 to last 11 days (£3.56 a day) and hopefully I'll use no more tokens (well maybe one ).

Chicken curry tonight but everybody's got sore throats so I'll keep it very mild!

sharronej

Well, I'm definitely going to go over, perhaps I was being too ambitious trying to include a restaraunt meal? The question of course is how much over? Ds (14) has stopped eating the cereal I bought in favour of milk shakes for breakfast (not great I know but better than nothing) so I need to get some of those, I forgot Coffee in my online order so I'll have a look at that or, possibly toilet rolls (can't do without them!) and I think I will get half a sack of potatoes from local greengrocer. So I'm going to price it up and see where that brings me in - going over but in a controlled way - hmm perhaps thats just the psychology behind making me feel better at failing the challenge

Craftyscholar

Went to MrM yesterday
£3.73 on tea, apples (and a packet of cake squares)

Long_tall_sally

Franby64 - can I ask - when did you receive your co op voucher? I have been a member for nearly two years & in that time I have only ever received one voucher for £3, I think!

Chloris

Morning all. Weekly shop done yesterday at Mr M, meat at the C**p today, total £70.36. That is a big bill but I decided not to fiddle the books and leave us short until next Wednesday i.e. next month. I'm aiming for controlled spending rather than fits and starts. And I am still under budget. Phew.