October 2011 Grocery Challenge

tessie_bear

hi...had a great shop in aldi this morning...a few things had 50% off stickers on them....bread ..croissants plums (in the 69p super 6) ...green beans...strawberries and raspberries....very pleased with all that . Ireally rate aldi i always seem to get a lot for my money if that makes sense....we are practically living on the super 6 and i get quite excited on the sunday when it changes which is really quite sad

got a chicken in the oven for tea....i find they are so much easier to carve if u can leave out for 30 mins ish i am not the worlds best carver so i need to tip the odds in my direction

have a nice day tessa

meg72

Well I am now home for two weeks and need to seriously take stock of what I have stashed away and use it up as travelling to see my Mum costs me £20 a time.So if I go twice a week thats £40 and leaves nothing for food.

Luckyly I do have a serious amount of food so this should be do able.

Today have taken a small joint of reduced pork out of freezer, have potatos and beans in garden,I am to see how far I can stretch the pork.

njk1012

Hi, Is it ok if i join in?
My budget for this month is £340 (1st - 31st) for two adults two kids (10-12) oversized dog (king shepherd cross), aquarium, parrot & canary. This includes all groceries, toiletries, treats etc.
I stocked up yesterday on dog food for the month from my local wholesaler and I bought fruit, veg, milk, sandwich stuff and cereal for the week today.
I've decided to take the cash out of the bank for shopping each week and leave the card at home, hopefully reducing the impulse buys.

valerie57

Thanks to Spiggle for the incredibly helpful post. I have done a complete stocktake of my freezer, fridge and storecupboard and then done a menu plan for the month using up stuff that needs to be used. It is an expensive month for us. MIL and FIL are staying for a weekend, we are doing a Sunday lunch for 12, making 3 Xmas cakes, Xmas pudding and 2 walnut cakes for shared lunches. I have spent £57.95 already, including a ridiculous £18.50 on lightbulbs to stock up for winter and replace some that had gone. I have a plan though. Breakfasts are cereals and already bought. Lunches will be HM soup and HM scones, HM veg chilli, stuff on toast, leftovers. Dinners are pasta bakes, mac cheese, white fish and tom sauce, liver, greek lamb with beans, roast pork (joint reduced to £2.51 at Mr T), gammon and pineapple salsa, 2 HM sauces from freezer with something, pasta with HM tomato sauce, cheese and onion hotpot. I am feeding the ILs shepherds pie and pavlova, white fish in tom sauce and steamed ginger pudding, roast dinner and fruit tart or pie. I am about to do my shopping list and will compare prices on my supermarket. Then I will do a big shop and let you know how it went. After that I hope it will be mainly fruit and veg which I buy from the local market.

freakyogre

£1.09 on a loaf of bread today.

TrixieB

readyforchange wrote: »

I'm going through this forum with a fine tooth comb tomorrow. So much info to take in. It's making me feel a bit dizzy. :eek:

Little tip for you - when I find something useful on a post on MSE I click the number over there ^^^^>>>>>> and it takes you to a screen with only that post on, which I then bookmark in a folder that's full of useful titbits

I know the pain of finding something really really top on here and then never being able to find it again!!

Big Asda shop later - slightly changing my food options and meal planning this month as I need to drop some weight and fast as on emergency waiting list for an op so i will be eating a lot of HM soup and vegetables/salad/protein and not much processed carbs. this will maybe mean I go over budget but prepared for this by upping it a little from last month.
I will also buy a few ready meals purely for portion control really.

What's going to kill me is no baking :eek: it's my favourite hobby but I simply do not have the willpower to bake and not eat it. All..... :cool:

perrywinkle

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Long_tall_sally

Spent just over £10 this morning, £5.50 on a 25kg sack of potatoes from an old man who sells them from his house plus a few bits in Lidl which is near by.

Car-ree

Hi, Can I join in this month,
I have £160 a month set by for food, for me, DD 5yrs and DD 2yrs and Dh for last week of October,
Today I spent £48.69 in Asda and that was stocking on up on most stuff for the month, still got to get cereal, ham and baby bathfoam and then meat from the farm shop, then it should just be fresh fruit and veg each week
Oh yes I forgot about sweets for Halloween!:eek:

kerrirobberts

I used my noggin and bought 4 Ginster cornish pasties for £2.69 from Mr T instead of 1 for £1.29, but also had to buy my cereal for work which was £3.99.
Total spend for lunch was £6.68, but if I forget my lunch another 3 times I have backup pasty in the freezer at work.
On the upside I do now have another £2 coin for my pot.