October 2011 Grocery Challenge

agiaga

I spent more than planned during weekly shop last weekend but stock up on few items for next few months.
Altogether £42.55 gone from my grocery budget.
No more shopping till Saturday for me!

quintwins

afternoon all, had a really hard night with sicky kids i'm dead on my feet , lifted out some chicken casarole for tonights tea and went to the farm shop for a bag of spuds so £5 down but they'll last us 3 weeks, and they've went down in price

CompBunny

ChasingButterflies wrote: »

Hi - I hope you don't mind me butting in... .

Hiya,

Not at all :P

Yes I had seen SallyHat's post about the pots, they sound really good! Thankyou for reminding me, I think i'll suggest we invest in something similar next month. Thanks for your ideas about keeping meat seperate etc..I think it probably will take being a mother for me to feel slightly OK with it!! In the end we settled for tinned tuna as "meat" and, sadly, some chicken slices...I don't have a problem with my OH eating meat as its his choice (just like its my choice not to), I just feel insanely guilty for being party to its purchase!

Also reporting a £21.76 spend on food for yesterday and expecting a £6-ish spend tomorrow as well for more bread and some baking ingredients. The only naughty spend was 2 x 27p packs of shortbread!

For my own records, spent £44.51 on Diesel. Expecting that to only last a week as I'm now driving 60miles a day on country roads to/from my partners new job. Bleh!

I'm so glad to be part of this community:iloveyou::iloveyou:, as I feel so lonely without my partner - so glad he has found work, but I got used to having him around!

Hope you are all having a nice thrifty start to the week!

ChasingButterflies

angelatgraceland wrote: »

look for user cp near your name. click on it, look for edit signature on the left panel-when you find that its as easy as posting.

Thank you - I can't belive it was that easy

Orange van has been - the good news if that everything that I ordered turned up! (well had to send a couple of subsitutions back) but on the whole I am a happy bunny this week.

£91.20 spent including delivery charge but I stocked up on some toiletries on special offer and needed some more plasters etc... I will need to do a small top up in a couple of days for salad.

XSpender - don't be too hard on yourself - I feel really nervous about going over £100 because from there it is a slippery slope... even though I have a freezer full of meals and the larder is reasonably stocked.

gtg collect the big kids - it has just started chucking down again, actually it is blowing a gale too - better get a towel for DS to sit on after rugby :rotfl:

I hope everyone else has glorious sunshine!

helen_jelly

Afternoon everyone

Welcome and Hi to all the new people joining us - please check out the posts on page 1 and look at the recipes that Rosieben does for us, ask any questions as there are lots of helpful people on here who will come to your aid

Targets updated to here.

TrixieB - thanks for the info on how to bookmark an individual post - there have been many posts I've wanted to do that to and never knew you could so a huge thanks from me

Happy no shopping everyone

Helen x

kahunababy

Hi All,

Can I please be put down for £350 this month - thanks you.

This is a rise off £100 against last months budget but, well I blew last months so I am hoping I will stay within budget this time. My DH & I have both joined slimming world so our fruit and veg bill has risen dramatically (it was already sky high) so I have taken that into account.

Fingers crossed, this will be the month I will do it! Good luck to all x

franby64

Afternoon

I'm behind with the reading but my total is already a rather alarming £59.34.

£22.24 of this is last month's overspend which I don't want to dump in my 'other' budget as it's suffering from last month's overspend as well.

I spent £14.83 today including two boxes of Co*p Fairtrade T-bags and two lots of Cadbury's drinking chocolate both of which go off offer tomorrow. Should last a while.
I'm not helping matters by getting a small As*a delivery tomorrow and a Sainsb*ry delivery on Weds to take advantage of a £12/£60 voucher. Will try and last a while after that.

(And plan )
Have a good week .

TrixieB

helen_jelly wrote: »

TrixieB - thanks for the info on how to bookmark an individual post - there have been many posts I've wanted to do that to and never knew you could so a huge thanks from me



Helen x

only found that out by fluke as I noticed it was blue and what it would do if I clicked it, so I did....and waited for the forum to crash or something pmsl!

ixia

£3.57 in spends the last couple of days taking me up to £79.14, I will need to go to shops tomorrow but will only buy what I need!

76rosie

2.34 saturday, 17p sunday. so total 2.51/50.00. was going to get yoghurts but glitch seems to have finished, so nsd for me. cleared out sisters fridge before she chucked out good food and trying to eat out of cupboards too, plenty of shreddies, soup and pasta sauce around so won't go hungry!!