October 2011 Grocery Challenge

4kids4cats

Quick update on spends for this week. Havent done a 'proper' shop, just bought what I've needed from Lidl and MrT, hoping that hasnt worked out more expensive as sometimes it does.
Have got loads of reduced fruit and bread this week and a reduced rotisserie chicken for £1.08 which fed me and the kids once and the cats twice - not bad!:D
Overall spend since last week,is £38.73 and I think I'll need to spend another fiver tomorrow to last us till Tues when I will finally have some money! Need to keep calm about that thought and not rush out to replenish straight away or I'll be back to no money pretty quick!

iwanttogoonholiday

Im up to £95.36/£150 now...eeekkk will have to plan properly next few weeks!

sproggi

Back from shopping and spent £42.29 which I was happy with. Stocked up on milk,fruit,veg,sandwich meat,squash,juice,butter etc.
I did buy some of the mars bars that were on offer and some cheap rice crispies so that DD2 and I can make some mars bar cakes, but that was still a planned buy.

Liver sausage and hm coleslaw sandwiches for lunch and mini toad in the holes & veg for tea.
Roast chicken and trimmings tomorrow.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Sproggi

quintwins

nsd today just had a fry up and will have a nice quick tea from the freezer

Fiasco55

I had to do an emergency run for a hospital vist last night and provide decent food for the patient. So M & S snadwich 10p, Large prepared fruit tub 50p, banana, humbugs and a mag. £5.10

sistercas

spent £38 in l!dl and £44 in t3sco today still need some bedding for the guinea pigs , then im done for the week

made choc clares chinese chicken the other day , its lovely i make it regularly :T

redkids1972

Hi all hope everyone is keeping a tight reign on the budgets. Im finding it more expensive week on week and have tried to compensate by using MOCs just to keep on track. Today been to mr T and spent £44 and then HB spent another £12.50, this brings my October total to £146.47 with 2 weekends down. Its going to be a tight month but i want to empty my freezer ready for xmas treats so gunna try to stick to a tight meal plan. will check in next week to update signature.

CompBunny

Adding £6.50 to this month and £31.92 to fuel

Bought some milk, bread, 40p on some reduced crisps and... create your own pizza counter pizzas at Asda, 2 for £4...naughty, but a real treat and much cheaper than a pizza hut or dominos! Besides, they were absolutely gorgeous (I had a veggie one with BBQ sauce on the base mmmm) and I don't regret it at all! :rotfl::j:j:T:T:rotfl:

rej-c

Checking in: £9.86 added to total [2 spends on the 5th] and 3 NSDs.

I'm off work next week [thank goodness - it's been so hectic I'm more than ready for a breather], which makes it easier to avoid just popping into shops that I'm passing for a few bits and bobs that turn into a bigger spend; on the other hand, it may be more tempting to order stuff for delivery or eat out. As I'm a bit ahead of schedule for the grocery spends: must resist these temptations

Just me in this evening, so I'm going to try to think of something interesting and tasty to do with the rainbow chard that's taking up half a shelf in the fridge [it'll distract me from the rest of the biscuits, anyway]. I'm thinking some kind of garlicky stir-fried pile-up, and save some leftovers for a colourful bubble and squeak in a day or two...

Keep up the great work, everyone.

Ches

Added another £6.37 to the months spends which leaves me with £89.27 with 2 weeks shopping to go.