October 2011 Grocery Challenge

rosieben

rising from the ashes, I've added your Chicken and Leek Risotto recipe to the index - I put it into this month's and November thread too :beer:

forever_saving

A £1 spend on some milk. Could i please declare £248.43 for October. Have put Novembers up a little in the hope that i can stick to it.
Many thanks.
FS x

meg72

rosieben wrote: »

rising from the ashes, I've added your Chicken and Leek Risotto recipe to the index - I put it into this month's and November thread too :beer:

Lovely recipe and has just reminded that I have loads if the free APfoods risotto packs under the spare bed, Must use them up.

ebayqueen_2

Morning all

Mr A*da order delivered £35.82...mostly dried foods, staples etc. Well worth the £3.50 as its about 15 miles each way trip for me.

Have to pop to Mr T's tomorrow for fish and whatever else I can see worth buying, so that will be me for October. Need to go and update total now.

Take care all and well done so far.
E

ebayqueen_2

Please can you take my aim for November as

£400

Would need to do a serious freezer top up ...say approx £80 over the next few weeks as there is very little meat in there.


Thank you:A

mrs_mum_3

Seriously blown it in October £623/500

I do have a very full freezer, most of Christmas in apart from the meat and I have 4 bags of tinned beans, tomatoes, bottles of squash etc in the shed

I will aim for £500 again in November.

I have been very good the last 4 days of this challenge so I may break down into 2 x £250 batches each lasting 15 days. I get paid on 15th of the month so I could have £200 between 30th and payday and £250 for payday to the end

Mrs M

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Ok, not too bad, but still haven't quite made it. £145.50/£120 My challenge only goes till yesterday and i got a shop delivered, but decided to add on to October, so i am not starting November on an uphill path. There were some bits that i wanted to get from Approved, but really don't need, just want. I will have a think and come up with a new figure on the November challenge. As usual, thanks to everyone for giving their time doing this.

angelatgraceland

So far my grocery spend is £316.16/£400 which I am happy with as its just until 31st. Cancelled Asda order after resetting the date twice as my planned trips have all been rescheduled due to me now being offered a Saturday job close to Mr T Mr A and Lidl.
As its a 6 mile trip to work for minimum wage I will do my main shop on a Saturday after work to be economical with fuel!
Just cooking a pasta bake of my own recipe made with vegimince. Tomorrow will be a chickpea curry.

Kaloloke

Hi everyone,

I have spent £7 on pizzas from the co-op. £27 on an Indian take-away - naughty us (first anniversary so it's allowed).

That brings the totals for October to:

Week 1 - £60.08
Week 2 - £52.21
Week 3 - £53.16
Week 4 - £51.40

I am going to start November's challenge on Saturday the 29th October.

Thank you to those who make this thread possible.

K

sistercas

declaring £462 for october gone over again
i really need to reduce the food budget otherwise we wont be able to afford xmas .

got loads in though, enough to last a couple of weeks ( apart from fresh food and cat food)

going to try really hard to make food stretch a bit more