October 2011 Grocery Challenge 4 June 2011 at 12:19PM edited 25 September 2011 at 7:11PM in Old Style MoneySaving 1.1K replies 76.1K views

JulieGeorgiana

Just did the shopping for Week 3

Totals so far:

Big Monthly Bulk Shop £99.93/£100 :dance:
Week 1 £24.89/£25 :dance:
Week 2 £25.00/£25 :dance:
Week 3 £24.99/£25 :dance:
Week 4 £2.41/£25

TOTAL £177.22/£200

ButterflyBee

All I bought today at Mr T was, oven chips, sweets, choc spread,corriander, custard creams and gloves. All cost exactly £4.00

Savysaver

This is my 2nd month doing the Grocery Challenge. I really enjoyed doing the last one. I was really surprised how easy it was to spend on silly things, but doing this has been a real wake up call. Bring on October!!!!

TheThriftyScrumpers

Evening All!
Cheeky Takeaway tonight. It was a very long day and I did enjoy it. I will log spends on my signature later. Free veg box arrives tomorrow Yay!
Good Luck everyone :0)

Sue14

£3.60 spent in Mr S, £16.16 in Mr T's and £19.29 in Mr M's.

totallybored

Went a bit over budget this weekend and managed to spend £80.41 instead of the £50 I intended. Went to Aldi, Lidl, Sainsburys and 99p shop though and this included stocking up on shower gels, bubble baths, Doritos (will only eat the chilli ones and can't find an own brand that is as nice) and some pepsis as a treat. It's been quite a while since I was in lidl but I was quite pleasantly surprised with the selection of fresh things. I also found reduced sandwiches in Waitrose on sunday for 25p a pack so bought 4 and me and hubby took these to work for lunch Monday and Tuesday (the eat by date on them was Sunday but they were still fine on Tuesday). Total spend so far this month is £130 / £250 but 3 weekends left to go.

Save_Dosh

Updating spends. £3.83 in morrisons, £5.00 in pound store and £2.90 in co-op. that leaves me 14.96 to get to the end of the month. Really only need salad stuff now and probably some more ham next week. Hopefully I will do it, this month.

Twiceblessed

Further spend £13.99 to get a dynamo torch, part of my winter prep. Never had a power cut but dont know what on earth to do with the fuse box or anything so may come in handy!

Doom_and_Gloom

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

Budget - £100
Spent - £14.35
Left - £85.65

Co-op = £2.96
Mr S = £9.99
Total = £12.95

Budget - £100
Spent - £27.30
Left - £72.70

recovering_spendaholic

Need2bethrifty - I have become just the same about looking for bargains!! I went out to Sainsburys tonight for some "Always" and came out with a half price organic chicken, basics sausages (20p), bag of salad (30p) bag of giant bakery cookies (40p) and BOGOF supersweet pineapple and tangerines. I didn't NEED any of it so I am cross with myself!

Tonight we had one of our Goodfellas pizzas (I managed to get the BOGOF deal at Co-op with my voucher - they were fine about it) with some Sainsburys yakiori chicken skewers so a nice wasy tea!

I made a bacon and egg pie last night and it was absolutely delicious - much nicer than a quiche IMO! I just used defrosted hm shortcrust pastry to line a 7" sandwich cake tin and threw in some l/o chopped up ham, a couple of l/o sausages and then I broke in 6 eggs and seasoned it. I put on a pastry lid and baked for 35 minutes at 180 and let it go cold and it was fab! I will be eating it for lunch until Saturday or Sunday though because kids don't like egg yolks now apparantly......

12 days left in my month so I am hoping to come in under budget!