October 2011 Grocery Challenge

angelatgraceland

ChasingButterflies wrote: »

I occured to me this morning when I finished one of the 4 pinters of milk that I bought yesterday at 4.30pm :eek: So far this month I must have spent around £51 on milk alone - that is 1/8 of my budget!
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This month I have economised on milk without suffering in any way simply by buying the full fat milk instead of the Semi skimmed and watering it down. Tastes the same! I find that I can add about 1.5 pints to a fourpinter or you could try adding 500ml to a 2 litre. Start off small by adding just half a pint to your four pinter and if you don't notice it(you won't ) then next time add a pint. See how it goes-I think I could probably get away with adding 2 pints of water to 4 pints of milk-i am working up to it!
I pour off some of the milk from the "new" bottle" and top up that new bottle with water. Ive been measuting in a jug. I pour this excess milk into my current nearly empty bottle so that Ive now got room for the "extra" milk. Nobody here has noticed :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

rej-c

NSD for me today - although Him Indoors finally got paid for some work he did last month, so he's treated us to a big Chinese takeaway this evening [and I've kept some non-rice leftovers for my lunch on Monday, too] :j

A bit short on veg, but otherwise stocks are still pretty high, so no plans for buying anything more than a few bits over the coming days. But...

I WILL MAKE A LIST... AND I WILL USE IT [for a change]

Fiasco55

Went to $ainsburys tonight to pick up a few things. Managed to get a whole roast chicken for £1.99 - that's tomorrow's dinner sorted. I have my mum and my friend coming round for dinner. Also picked up some of my flavoured water and some cooked meats for next week's lunches. So total of £9.47.

So at the end of October challenge I have spent £150.93. Almost £10 under budget for the first time.

debtfree_future

Hi everyone

Good month for me I spent £108.94 on grocery shopping this month.

DFF

looie

Declaring at £75.53 for October.

I am really pleased with this but we have been eating out of the freezer this month and it has made a huge difference.

I wish I could only spend this amount every month I would be quids in

franby64

Morning - I've just decided to declare for October today as the budget is gone, I'm having a small delivery today and it either goes into my other account which I think is cheating, ie I would be 'losing' it from the challenge, or it goes in November.

So my final total is ££414.52 £34.52 over. I thought I was going to do better than this tbh but it ran away with me a bit at the end ie I failed to stop spending. This month I will be blaming higher prices and shrinking products of course (grrr) and my own total failure to plan.

Next month needs to be much better and a lot of porridge and soup will be consumed. I am also going to try and plan for a whole month. Need some more Xmas funds!

Jedilibrarian

Morning all, declaring at £96.13 for the month, the first time I've ever managed to stick to my budget of £100 :j

Now I just to repeat that over the coming months...

*slopes off to November challenge*

Twiceblessed

Daytrip related expenses for yesterday
£1.85 for margarine at the local shop to make sandwiches
£3.60 at Greggs after discovering DDs friend didnt like cheese sandwiches
£4.50 at the museum gift shop (which i normally manage to sneak past when its just me and the Dds)

Really need a good shop but will struggle on until my November budget
Should be a NSD today as no plans to set foot outside the house

pennywisepoundstupid

Well i'm declaring £336.22 which is a massive overspend but its done, my cupboards and freezers are bursting, so decided to run everything down and hopefully only spend £150 in november.

Umm we will see!

rising_from_the_ashes

Hope everyone's having a good weekend.

After my disasterous attempt to do an online shop yesterday (failed miserably after 2+ hours:mad:) I'm going to declare at £95.93 / £100 for October.

Just managed to scrape in under budget - I think being housebound has helped as the temptation to stop in at the shops on the way home hasn't been there!:o

Need to try to keep this up once I'm out and about again which will be a lot harder:(. A bigish online order every couple of weeks may be the way to go but I do miss actually going into the shop (does that make me odd?) so not sure I'll be able to keep this up!:)