November 2010 Grocery Challenge

~moneysavingnovice~

Thank you so much for sharing my frustration with the double-charging! It looks like the bank will be able to get my money back so fingers crossed that comes through in the next few days.

Had a small spend today- £3 on some crisps, a sandwich, a cake and some tin foil. The crisps were McC*ys on special offer at Mr. S and they are so salty they're almost uneatable Oh well...

Definitely won't be able to come in on target this month as still have two weekly shops to do, but hopefully with damage limitation we won't be in too bad a state going into big bad December.

LannyLee

~moneysavingnovice~ wrote: »

Thank you so much for sharing my frustration with the double-charging! It looks like the bank will be able to get my money back so fingers crossed that comes through in the next few days.

Had a small spend today- £3 on some crisps, a sandwich, a cake and some tin foil. The crisps were McC*ys on special offer at Mr. S and they are so salty they're almost uneatable Oh well...

Definitely won't be able to come in on target this month as still have two weekly shops to do, but hopefully with damage limitation we won't be in too bad a state going into big bad December.

Can you not cook with them, to stop them going to waste, when I've made pasta bake in the past I've put crushed crisps on the top of it mixed with cheese to give a crunchy topping? HTH

~moneysavingnovice~

LannyLee wrote: »

Can you not cook with them, to stop them going to waste, when I've made pasta bake in the past I've put crushed crisps on the top of it mixed with cheese to give a crunchy topping? HTH

Oo I'd never have thought of that, thank you!

de1amo

Does anyone have a clue what the percentage premium is for shopping in Mr wait or mrs M and Sparkle- i think the quality of food where i am roughly equates to those establishments and so i was trying a cross comparison!

jackieglasgow

Sorry no idea de1amo. I had to read your post four times before it made sense to me though :rotfl:

I will be upping my budget this month, I am on £250 again but I am already up at about £220, and have run out of pasta, and quite a few essentials. Don't know what's going on. I had a few prescriptions, so renewed my prepayment certificate but that was only about a tenner I'm sure, and I've put about £50 of diesel in the car this month, as I have been driving across the city twice a week, but the money has sifted through my fingers. having said that, on non GC spends I am doing well, I paid a couple of big bills, and the car tax, and bought my new Kenwood and son's Xmas pressie, and still have more money in the current account than this time last month, so something is working!

Hippeechiq

jackieglasgow wrote: »

Sorry no idea de1amo. I had to read your post four times before it made sense to me though :rotfl:

That's one up on me then.....I've read it several times and I don't understand it. Then again, I have difficulty following a combi microwave cookbook :rotfl:

jackieglasgow wrote: »

I will be upping my budget this month, I am on £250 again but I am already up at about £220, and have run out of pasta, and quite a few essentials. Don't know what's going on. I had a few prescriptions, so renewed my prepayment certificate but that was only about a tenner I'm sure, and I've put about £50 of diesel in the car this month, as I have been driving across the city twice a week, but the money has sifted through my fingers. having said that, on non GC spends I am doing well, I paid a couple of big bills, and the car tax, and bought my new Kenwood and son's Xmas pressie, and still have more money in the current account than this time last month, so something is working!

It's so easy for money to slip through your fingers when buying groceries but at least you've got extra money in your current account

NSD here - up to 4 now, yay, very impressive - NOT!

jintyb

de1amo wrote: »

Does anyone have a clue what the percentage premium is for shopping in Mr wait or mrs M and Sparkle- i think the quality of food where i am roughly equates to those establishments and so i was trying a cross comparison!

I have no idea what that means.

katholicos

Today was NSD number 11. Ate baked potatoes with chick pea curry for lunch and then later Mum treated us both to a belgian hot chocolate drink with all the sickly cream/marshmallows/chocolate etc piled high on it....i don;t usually like this kind of thing but we were freezing and wet on our walk from the car to the store, so i did enjoy it :-)

Dropped mum home and mum asked me and DD to stay for tea so we got fed which was nice.

katholicos

de1amo wrote: »

Does anyone have a clue what the percentage premium is for shopping in Mr wait or mrs M and Sparkle- i think the quality of food where i am roughly equates to those establishments and so i was trying a cross comparison!

I'm not quite sure i understand, but are you asking, how the major supermarkets equate to one another in terms of quality ?

Hippeechiq

Hope you don't mind me asking Katholicos, just wondering how your Dad is hun?