October 2011 Grocery Challenge

TheThriftyScrumpers

Please can The Thrifty Scrumpers be put down for £380 for Oct. Many thanks to Pink, Rosieben and Helen for all your hard work. Hope Mrs M is ok.

The £61 recorded for Oct is for two boxes of nappies and a donald Russell meat order for next week. I am going to try a box of mince and braising cuts of meat. Included is some brisket which I have never tried but I saw Jamie Oliver do a slow cook chilli using brisket on his summer programme which looked fab. I will report back if it is any good.

To all the newbies - good luck. Stick with it and try shaving a small amount off your budget each month. Since starting this challenge I have cut £60 off my monthly shop and we now eat far better. Ask lots of questions too, you will learn so much. Xx

mrs_mum_3

Oh dear here goes
Hot and sticky day today.
I took soup in for lunch but didn't feel like it so went to Greggs and bought a sausage roll and diet coke (£1.95)
Then had my soup afterwards:mad:
Had to pick up DS from Explore Learning at Sainsburys at 6.30pm picked up pizza for kids and a pasta dish (sainsburys finest or whatever) a few crisp multipacK for packed lunches and some whooppsi fruit and veg
All in all £31.50 so total £33.45 for the day
Not a good one.
As I am also on the October halloween losing weight thread, I am going to take in branflakes for lunch tomorrow ( as well as for breakfast)
If you see me tomorrow afternoon, don't stand downwind:p:p

Mrs M
Just off to update sig

mrs_mum_3

BTW
As far as I am concerned October ends on 28th as it is my birthday on 29th
November challenge starts on 31st October
Are we clear on that?
Mrs M

Allypops

Can I join for October too please? Will start with £400 for 2 adults, 2 kids, no pets.

Allypops

Girl_least_likely_to

Please put me down for £200 for Oct. I'll try and pull my finger out this month . Good luck everyone

debtfree_future

Hi everyone

This month I am going to spend £110 on grocery shopping.

DFF

Keith

TheThriftyScrumpers wrote: »

Keith That should be fine to freeze. Was it nice?

Thanks, I wil let you know tonight

TrixieB

Hello all I went slightly over my budget for September but not bad for my first go seeing as I plucked that sum of money out of fresh air!

Can you please put me down for £110 for October, thank you.

Will be running from today. Have a good month everyone

Also will be setting an NSD target -aiming for 4 NSD each week for the first week then take it down after that

westlothianlass

Hi all,
The sun is shining which is lovely and I plan to do a check of cupboard and freezer supplies today and work some recipes round them. Spent £30 the other day in sainsbugs, wasn't the healthiest shop, bought some wine:D, rolls and ham oh and some flowers for my lovely MIL.
Good luck to everyone x

quintwins

well i'm still feeling rotten and so are my kids so there off sick, sent hubby up the farm shop before work for bread and milk so a £1.98 spend lots of leftovers in teh fridge will do us all lunch, i'm tempted to get takeaway for tea but i'm already a good bit in my budget so i'll try my best to resist