November 2010 Grocery Challenge

magicmountain

Right then. ahem.
£200 for November Grocery Challenge. Spent £250 last month ... desperately wanting to save money so this seems like a good place to start.

Sunflower1227

Hi been reading the Oct thread for the last couple of weeks, please can I join for November.

I will start with a budget of £200.

And I will say thanks in advance to the people that look after the thread.

boultdj

Can you put me down for $190 again this month Mrs.M? Good Luck everyone.

adelight

LannyLee wrote: »

I wouldn't feel too bad, it's very expensive, that's why I only order stuff if I've got a voucher.

We splurged & ordered bacon & cheese, things that we've been trying to cut back on as they're getting more & more expensive.

How bad do things have to be if we consider cheese a luxury item & not anything posh just bog standard mature cheddar :rollseyes:

400g of mature cheddar is currently £1.39 at Lidl if you've got one near, with dates until 2011.


Well I've just done my first shop of November. It's not November but I'm too busy to shop until tuesday and my months always seem to start a few days early.

Vegtables from lidl: £3.23
Putting everything in a shoe box and pretending it's my posh veg box: priceless
Cheeky bottle of vermouth in the background: £2.99
Also got some branflakes to go with my freebie milk, mayo and tinned tomatoes.
£8.23 into my miniscule budget but I've got breakfast foods in for the month, enough veg for 1-2 weeks(already got bag of onions, kilo carrots and two bell peppers) and that monster 1.4kg squash will take me all month to eat :rotfl:
The only thing I should be buying this month is fruit, veg and another reduced loaf of bread from budgens.

jammy_dodger

Could you put me down for £150 this month please i have just updated my signature after going through all my receipts (its the first time i have kept them ) i came in £28 under budget:j
as i wont be going near any shops until at least monday now .

My family size has reduced further so there is jusy myself and my DS cat and a dog and 5 hens to budget for
i vow not to buy any toiletries either have ayears supply me thinks ...and live on store cupboard so i can make some room for this coming yuletide many thanks for giving me the motivation to control my outgoing xx

wssla00

Going out for dinner tonight but this, is under another budget this month so that will be good. However I have NO snacks in the house or lunch meats as I have yet to cook the huge gammon sitting in the fridge (tomorrows project) so on the way home from dins I will have to go into the supermarket to pick something up

Going to try Jamie Oliver's 30 minute chicken pie tomorrow so hope it will be nice with some mash on such a horrible day!

Have a good day all

jammy_dodger

chicken pie sounds lovely can you report back how it was Wssla00 if you have chance

de1amo

my wife just walked in with 4 full fruit bags--pears oranges and apples--and plums i think and a big packet of 'bird seed eating nuts! and gave me a total of 6 pounds--having never bought such things in the uk and not knowing the values here--is that costly---i know she gets them from a highly 'valued' fruiteers close to home because of the quality--they do taste lovely!

MrsRogers

Whoooooo a new budget and a new thread thank you lovely ladies for keeping us focused :T

Is everyone feeling confident and motivated? :rotfl:

Novemeber is the last pay day for me before Xmas :eek:

Sunflower1227

Sorry to ask, but trying to put info into the signature bit, I have gone to control panel and input the info I wanted but its not showing up in the signature, what am I doing wrong?

Thanks