October 2011 Grocery Challenge

freakyogre

£6.00 spent yesterday.

£5.00 at Sainsburys on potatoes, a pineapples, pears, bread rolls and satsumas (reduced to 40p).
£1.00 at Coop on milk as I forgot it when I was in Sainsburys!

supersally01

Need to update,
£9 in mr a's,
£36 in mr T's
£10 in hb,
£7 on take away,
Going to mr T's tomorrow for the penny clothes, but don't need any food. Net going to marks for the dine in deal this week either (mum has staff discount) so hoping to save something. Going to eat out of freezer this week.
Spent £65 on clothes for dd13, so hoping to shave that off my budget (clothes not included in GC)

Sue14

Spent £3.25 in i*eland today and £9.58 in HB. We have loads of food in, so I'm going to see how long we can live on just what we've got in now, as we are getting close to our budget already and we're only halfway through the month!

recovering_spendaholic

supersally01 wrote: »

Need to update,
£9 in mr a's,
£36 in mr T's
£10 in hb,
£7 on take away,
Going to mr T's tomorrow for the penny clothes, but don't need any food. Net going to marks for the dine in deal this week either (mum has staff discount) so hoping to save something. Going to eat out of freezer this week.
Spent £65 on clothes for dd13, so hoping to shave that off my budget (clothes not included in GC)

Penny clothes - what's this????

XSpender

Massively over budget but still recording every single spend.

Had words with DH last night as I had made the effort to make a HM qu0rn pie (i'm veggie and he is not) and he kicked off that he was forced to eat veggie. Been together 8 years and we eat veggie at least 50% of the time so don't know what was going on there. So I made one for me and froze the other and he had nowt while sulking:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Spent £7.10 in boots on hair stuff for DH, lasts months, a can of pop and a treat for me and £21.83 in M&S on booze, crispbakes, sponge puddings, milk and a bag for life. The total includes a half price tin of mini gingerbread men for DS for Christmas that I need to take off. Had my eye on these for ages for him, was just waiting for a decent offer.

I have been spending far too much in the canteen at work as I am currently based at our site with the lovely canteen. I worked out that if I ate breakfast (porridge), lunch (pizza and salad), two cups of tea and a pudding/cake there each day I would spend about £6:eek:

I got given 2 lovely recipes for beef burgers and meatballs from my colleague and was looking forward to trying them but as OH turned his nose up at my qu0rn pie, which he has enjoyed in the past may I add, I am a bit dubious about making the effort to make them. He did rather fancy the sausage meatball pasta on the philly advert tonight so that might be worth a try as I think I might have just about everything in to make it.:)

MissOrganised1972

Been a very busy month so far, kept up with reading the posts until a few days ago but not had time to post! Have had loads of spends & am sad to say that I am over budget!! Have had to spend some of our 'spending' money! I knew I had overspent but had not actually got round to the deed of adding it up! (think it's the wine that's boosted the spend)!

We've pretty much got all of the ingredients for the dinner's meal plan until the end of the month. Lunches I will use the rest of the sandwich fillers we have (only 3 more days of packed lunches before half term :j) & then we can have the likes of scrambled egg or baked beans etc in the holidays. I have enough flour to make my own bread (or can live on Value pittas at only 19p a pack). Enough cereal to last the month & the milk is from the milkman (& has it's own little budget meaning I don't have to use grocery money).

The kids have just made a batch of cookies (1/2 for the harvest festival, 1/2 for us) which will do for treats. We can make something else in the holidays using store cupboard items. I can recommend this recipe for cookies. We came across it because I was looking for a recipe without butter (because we'd run out). http://www.cookiemadness.net/2009/04/one-bowl-no-mixer-chocolate-chip-cookies-made-with-olive-oil/ To me they taste like bought cookies. Slight changes to recipe - I have been using sunflower oil, we omit the nuts & instead of chocolate chips, I buy 2-3 bars of value plain chocolate each month for use in cooking (39p for 100g, I think). My kids take great pleasure in 'whacking' the chocolate in it's packet with a rolling pin to make chocolate pieces!

Every 2-3 days I have been popping into Morrisons on the way home from work to see what's in the reduced fruit & veg section. None of the supermarkets by us seem to reduce significantly except for this fruit & veg section in Morrisons. I don't go if we have enough but do seem to run low on fruit quite frequently. I am really good and only get what I think we will need or what I think I will have time to cook & freeze. Most items are 19p or 29p. In the last week this has included 6 tomatoes, a bag of 7 apples, a box of Porcini mushrooms, 2 bags of parsnips (which I honey roasted & froze & I hope I can 'crispy back up' when we eat them).

Sorry to waffle on! Off to bed now to catch up on the posts from the last few days.

Night all

Doom_and_Gloom

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

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

Lakeland - £1.19
Health store - £12.95
H&B - £4.47
Co-op - £4.25
M&S - £0.50 :rotfl:
Pet store - £2
Total - £25.36

Did quite well really .
Tofu, smoked tofu, spring roll wrappers, rice cakes, 400g rice noodles, 1L rice milk, soya shakes, 'chicken' style pieces, licorice, throat and chest sweets, cola, diet cola, 2 pint milk, 1kg parsnips, vegetable spring rolls, bread (partner wants to do cheese toasties again - rolls eyes), 500g japanese rice crackers, 1kg dates, doves yeast.
Also got chinchilla sand but the store was out of chinchilla food :eek:. Really need to get chinchilla food now ekk!

Budget - £100
Spent - £52.66
Left - £47.34

dreamingofmoney

Good Morning all, I am half way through my challenge and doing quite well, am shopping today for the week so totals will look wrong but will even out by end of next week.

Am on the look out for some bargains and for all you rice lovers i am gonna pick up another 5kg bag of Tilda Rice for £2.50 from A$DA, absolute bargain. We will be having rice with everything haha.

Good Luck to all

Dreamer

tessie_bear

hi....made a list of meals for next week last night then remembered that there are some bits in the fridge that need to ne used....so back to the drawing board with that....blast

also dh asked for trifle so need to pop out and get the bits for that.....ds said he would llike to eat some xmas oudding so will get a small one.....also need some milk...better write a list as will forget some essential item....namely what i went out to buy

have a nice day
tess

sproggi

Had a couple of days of spends totalling £105.62:eek:
That does include 30 kilos of washing powder for £30 from ebay, so at least we will have clean clothes even if we can't afford to eat:rotfl:

Have treated dd1 to a few bits and pieces to cheer her up, she had to come home early from work on Monday due to health and safety and it is driving her mad, she loves her job and hates not being able to go in, but cannot go back until her condition is under control again:(

Hoping for a NSD today, but will not record it until later just in case.

Sproggi