November 2010 Grocery Challenge

katholicos

An nsd today, thankfully. Made a vegetable and macaroni meal in the slow cooker, which we will eat tomorrow. Tonight i made garlic dough balls, roasted parnsips and nut roast for our evening meal.

pepsi-kins

Hi All,
Quite pleased with myself, even though I have spent half of my budget in the first week, I really don't need anything next week other than some bananas, lettuce and perhaps loo rolls. Been busy this afternoon, made pastry so I can make pasties tomorrow (go to college on a Tuesday evening, so DH can nuke a pasty for his tea), made big saucepan of pizza topping which i've put in ice cube trays to freeze, maraconi cheese which we had for tea and 2 portions leftover, and a carrot cake with orange flavoured icing (waiting for this to set) - never made it before, so hopefully it will be nice, I expect the raisins will have all sunk to the bottom, everything I make lately the fruit, or choc chips etc all go to the bottom, no matter what I do!

Have a good week everyone x

freakyogre

£1.44 in Lidl today on milk and garlic baguettes.

jintyb

Spiggle wrote: »

Hiya jintyb,

Thanks for the tip about checking receipts from MrT. I read your post and immediately checked through yesterday's receipt again. And guess what? I bought 6 packs of butter at £1.29 each :eek: and only 5 of them got charged for! Yay £1.29 up on the sm for a change!!!!! :T:rotfl:
Spigs

Hiya Spigs,

Glad you got one up on MrT. I find the main error on their receipts are on "linksave" items ie 2 FOR £5 etc. When I've complained the excuse is always " those items are not in the same offer"
Sorry, but if a big red sticker on the package says 2 for £3 of whatever, then surely they are! My other bugbear is in Mr A on whoopsies. If the cashier has to manually put in the price they sometimes omit to key the reduced price, I've had to take things to customer service on several occasions cos of this.SM's make enough profits without me contributing more than I need to!:rotfl:
You'd think that with all the technology they have, ie bar codes and scanning that mistakes wouldnt happen but it really pays to check your receipt.

Doing quite well with my budget this month. Trying to buy better quality meat, but less of it.
Yesterday I made a batch of HM mincemeat ready for the Christmas pies. I had all the ingredients except a couple of apples so I got 4 jars for @ 79p. Thank goodness it keeps!;)

suzybloo

Morning folks hope you are all doing well. I have spent quite a bit this month so fat but have the freezer full and only have to buy fresh produce til the end of the month. I have spent £138 in Tesco for the big monthly shop, which included quite a few offers I have put away in my January box, £21 for top up and £91 for butchery order which is quite a lot but we buy in bulk to save 10% so saved £10 by doing this, so in total so far have spent £250. This leaves £175 until Friday 26th November so should be ok,

*Mari*

Ok so one week of November gone and I've spent £119.17, that is about a third of my budget for the month but everything is full! Hoping the next few weeks will be cheaper!!!

Winged_one

I spent €9 in M&S the other night on pizzas and a ready meal for DD - with the builders in, I am making allowances and going for some more convenience food than normal. The pizzas are in the freezer for use as needed - they are very handy and DD loves them!

Then I spent €87 in S/Quinn yesterday. It was originally €106 on the scanner (I use "Superscan", where you scan everything with a hand-held scanner as you go, and pay at the end), but there were a couple of BOGOFs on things I needed anyway, and I had a voucher for €7.50 off a spend of €70 or more, so I was happy. I needed more cleaning stuff (washing powder, bleach, washup liquid), and quite a bit of cheese and dairy, as well as chicken breasts, so they all pushed the total up. But I have plenty for the week, and hope to stay well under for the month.

toddles*

Doing a carboot this morning (well starts at midday) to clear all my junk, sorry I mean lovely valuable items. So hopefully if I dont get temped by the bacon sandwiches it will be a NSD for me. and will hopefully make some wonga.

Finding it hard at the mo to get DP on board, he spends a fortune on food at work even if I buy him lots of nice things in the house. Or Ill cook extra at teatime and say to him you can take the leftovers for lunch and he always pulls a funny face and says no thanks Ill get something tomorrow. Aaaah!

4kids4cats

Just updated signature with this week's spends. Although I'm working to a monthly budget, I sort of divide it into weeks because my tax credits arrive on a Wednesday (known as Magic Wednesday by my kids!).
I was very plased with my main shop this week - £44.12 - but unfortunately I have added to it with a few smaller ones - I did get some fab whoopsied satsumas in MrA though - 15 p for a bag of 12. Got 2 bags, which is just as well as youngest son likes to eat them 3 at a time and I don't want to say no since it's fruit!
Think I really need to get back to having some NSDs though, but doing ok. Need to be very frugal on food this week as most of my dosh is going on youngest's birthday treat and prezzie. Ah wel, you only hit double figures once!:)

Mollina_Girl

I had a really good day yesterday. I started by making some leek and potato soup, which we had for lunch yesterday and the rest for lunch today. I then decided to do some batch baking so we have lots of lovely things in the tin and freezer.

I plan to do a roast chicken for dinner tonight with mashed potatoes, savoy cabbage and carrots. I usually do extra veg, mix up what is left and make bubble and squeak cakes. We will have some tomorrow night with grilled tomatoes and I'll freeze the rest.

Everything I've used over the weekend was from my cupboard, fridge or freezer.

Sat & Sun are NSD's and I'll update my sig in a minute.

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