November 2010 Grocery Challenge

~moneysavingnovice~

Only ended up spending £20 last night- am going to the bank to pay back in the spare £20 as otherwise I will spend it in Mr S!

65p spend in B*ots on a choccie bar (outrageous, but was desperate!)

Doing the weekly shop on Thurs this week so will report back then.

Mollina_Girl

Hello everyone, I'm really impressed with how organised everyone seems to be.
This is all new to me so I may appear rather confused at first, please be patient.

I have spent £54.68 so far this month (Oct 29th - Nov 26th)
Most of this in Morri*ons and Te*co.

I have done an inventory of all foods cupboards and freezer and was staggered! Why am I spending so much when I have so much????

I am in the process of doing a monthly meal plan using things I already have and will try to do some batch cooking as well.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated

x

de1amo

my cupboards were bare at the outset of this fact finding 'trip'--in my calculating period so far my wife has acquired 72gbp of food in just 5 days--so approx 14 gbp a day or 432 for the month---i do hope i am wrong because i have always thought we spent 175---there is just Mrs De -me and our 12 yo--the wife and i eat a main meal at our school which isnt included and our daughter eats most of her food with granny!!
Mrs De has just got back from the market with some cauliflour. a few veggies and a block of cheese--it came to 25 quid--when i enquired why it was so much--cheese is expensive was the reply!!-it does taste nice but not that nice!!

NickJW

de1amo wrote: »

my cupboards were bare at the outset of this fact finding 'trip'--in my calculating period so far my wife has acquired 72gbp of food in just 5 days--so approx 14 gbp a day or 432 for the month---i do hope i am wrong because i have always thought we spent 175---there is just Mrs De -me and our 12 yo--the wife and i eat a main meal at our school which isnt included and our daughter eats most of her food with granny!!
Mrs De has just got back from the market with some cauliflour. a few veggies and a block of cheese--it came to 25 quid--when i enquired why it was so much--cheese is expensive was the reply!!-it does taste nice but not that nice!!

Did you ask for the receipts? :rotfl::rotfl:

de1amo

not that i dont trust my wife but i think i ought to check the figures!! the market is a bazaar held every wednesday--not a till in sight so no receipts!--somehwere in the system i think there is a rip off--where i live (turkey) they dont import foods from abroad and the bazaar is good quality for normal price-my wife and i are keeping this price log and we have adjoined accounts so logic says she must be reporting the correct price!!????

lil_me

Spent £85.89 today but to be fair I was starting to really struggle to make a meal out of what we had in, no fruit & veg etc and does include £6 of cleaning stuff

For those saying about milk prices, shop around. Lidl is £1 for a 2 litre carton (or was it 4 pints can't remember) I get milk delivered, so I always know we have it which I find vital when the weather is bad and supermarkets don't get deliveries but usually top up by 4 pints a week term time

xnatalie81x

UPDATE

Total Budget for November £160 maximum

I have planned my meals for one month and therefore these shops are the main shop for the month! I also have a lot left from October (was well under my 200 budget so used some of Oct's to buy basics for Nov - totalled around 30 but came out of oct budget!)

I will need one or two top-up shops after a week (depends on what we are short on) or 2 and also need milk as Tecso had sold out on Sunday!!!

Tecso £41.11
Lild £10.15

Now for the hard bit - sticking to the meal plans lol!!!! Today starts the run of our chicken!!

WED: Roast chicken dinner
THU: Chicken, bacon n mushroom (soup) pie with veggies (bacon as kids didn't have it last night after all as after school club did them beans on toast)
FRI: Chicken curry and rice with broccoli and corn on cob (leftover from riverford order in oct and frozen)
SAT: Chicken soup with LO veg and HM ciabatta

Breakfasts are - toast (using the crusts i have left after making 2 weeks' worth of lunch sandwiches on Sunday - 4 loaves bread), porridge or weetabix.

Lunches are - ham and pickle/ham and mustard sandwiches from freezer, value crisps, tinned fruit (pineapple from tecso or fruit cocktail from sains), jelly and a flapjack each (me and 3 kids)

Snacks are - Hm bread with jam (strong white bread flour from sains and yeast from tecso) and tinned fruit

FORGOT to add - i also used a £10 off milk and more voucher and so got a loaf hovis, 2 countrylife butter 250g each, 2 lumps good cheese 300g each, 2kg potatoes and i think that was it..... all on my shopping budget but better brands ha ha - but effectively all of that was FREEEEEEEEE although they would charge 10.00 prob woulda only cost me 5.00 ish

de1amo

just got to the root of discrepancy--i cross examined my main suspect and discovered a fivers worth of clothing amongst the market shopping--still adds up to 67gbp worth of buying--i sense we need to examine the way we do things!!--are 8 free range eggs and a small loaf of bread going to come to 4,50 in the uk???--i sense my wife shopping in all the wrong places!!

[Deleted User]

NSD here for me today but I have a list of things I need to get tomorrow I will go after the school run tomorrow as Sainsbobs often have some really good whoopsied stuff first thing in the morning locally.Mostly I need to stock up on F&V and fresh stuff so I am hoping that it will not be too much.I'm going to stick to my budget as much as I can this month as I have several birthdays to sort out both in November and December. We all seem to be doing o.k. though
Well done chums

XSpender

£2.89 spent in Mr S today on salad, a packet of crips for my lunch and another quarter of liquorice comfits. I think I am getting addicted to these. I wish they still did those liquorice selection boxes my Nana always got me for Christmas with the pipes and different bits and bobs in.:drool:

BIL coming for tea so will be using up some pasta sauce, pasta, cheese and garlic bread from the freezers/stores.