November 2010 Grocery Challenge

mswan

Hi All, Can I join please we have 3 adults, dog, cat, bird and rabbit. I am keeping a spending diary which I started on 27th Payday, I will aim for £275 for November

Winged_one

I am reducing my amount for November (as I got quite a lot of cupboard stuff in October in the end) down to €450 - should still be loads but lets me keep a bit extra for December and still come in on target for the year.

Haven't bought anything yet (shouldn't need to shop until the coming weekend - unless the builders go through the biccis and milk very fast!), actually, I'd forgotten that was part of the reason for overspending last month - extra tea, coffee, sugar, milk and biccies for builders starting today. But I have my weekly menu on the Oct thread - mostly from freezer/stores except for lamb knuckles slow roasted tomorrow. (Don't think slow cooker is great while builders there).

Picklepud

Morning

Thanks for adding me to the list!!

I have listed everything in my cupboards and freezer and will be able to make some menu plans which will hopefully cut down on my spend for the month. I seem to have about 6 pints of milk too much any ideas how i can use it up? i have risotto rice and white rice but no pudding rice.....

Thanks

Linda32

Hiya,

I'm trying for £375 this month,

Tesco £52.54

Month will start 29th October and finish 26th November.

mrs-moneypenny

Im going for £400 for november.

if i can stay under this for the month then dec should be ok as ive been saving stamps at MrM

its stir up sunday this month so got to get my pudding and cake ingredients

Rebekah24

First NSD for the month

Have some bits left from October in the cupboard so should last me a couple of weeks

6 tins of soup
1 tin rice pudding
1 packet gingernuts
Herbal tea
3 bottles squash
1/2 bottle double concentrate squash

fiance going to pick up some juice for me later! (a treat) so purse is staying firmly shut!

catznine

Day 1 and I've just spent £14.77
lean minced steak, beef sizzle steaks and pork chops discounted to £10, large onken yogurt 70p (using 30p off voucher), 1 pizza £2.07 (using 50p off voucher) and block of cheddar for £2.

Just need some spuds but going to wait for dh to fetch in a big sack later. Just realised I also forgot to get some eggs!

So I now have £185.23 left. As I need this total to stay as high as possible for a costco shop later on, I think I will avoid the shops for as long as I can.

Off to start some of the bread mix I have in the cupboards from a Big Brands order last month. Also have a couple of muffin mixes to try out and with the tins of pea and ham soup from app foods dh should be ok for his pack ups for a while.

greent

Picklepud wrote: »

I seem to have about 6 pints of milk too much any ideas how i can use it up? i have risotto rice and white rice but no pudding rice.....

Thanks

Use the risotto rice for rice pudding - I've often done this. They're both short grain 'fat' rice capable of soaking up lots of liquid. I think I prefer risotto rice over pudding rice, in fact!

Picklepud

oh seriously!! i was hoping for something like that .... do you have a recipe... dont want much to I

greent

Picklepud wrote: »

oh seriously!! i was hoping for something like that .... do you have a recipe... dont want much to I

lol! I'm a throw-it-in person for rice pudding, but the recipe on page 1 of this thread (under desserts etc) should work fine. Personally I don't add nutmeg - I splosh in vanilla essence or scrapings from a vanilla pod