October 2011 Grocery Challenge

quintwins

xspender do you know if the gingerbreadmen is a proper offer or just your store? and how much were they my twins love gingerbreadmen lol

kids are still sick so no trip to tesco yet it's ok we'll cope altho my milks dated the 10th it still smells and tastes ok not sure wat i'll be eating today depends how i get on with the kids and how short of time i am but looks like a nsd

recovering_spendaholic

enforced NSD for me today as STILL no fee cheque:mad:

I was messing around with the meal plan last night and decided that, rather than do a day by day plan, I would make a list of 14 breakfasts, lunches and dinners which can be made with what I have in, and then just tick them off when we have eaten them. That way I can still have a choice every day as I really don't like the regimented meal plan thing. It is now on the notice board!

Today it was porridge for breakfast, lunch is sandwich for DD2 (packed lunch) with a bit of l/o quiche and some fruit - DD1 is coming home for lunch and will have heated up cheesy bake from last night, I don't know what I will have because I am still really really full from the porridge and can't think about eating when I am like this. Dinner is "chickeny rice" - I just soften some onions and mushrooms and then stir in a large mug of rice and two and a half mugs of water. I throw in two knorr chicken cubes (bought LOADS from AF on the 49p case offer) and some mixed herbs. I simmer it for about 20 minutes and then throw in some cubed l/o roast chicken, frozen peas and sweetcorn and cook until all the liquid has absorbed. Then I stir in a knob of butter (or Clover as butter is now too expensive) and serve! DD's love it

ixia

Been away since Monday but have been recording my spends while on hols

various shops for bits and pieces £14.97 will deduct from totals later. i think I am going to go to Mr T's for weekly shop so will update when I get back.

XSpender

quintwins wrote: »

xspender do you know if the gingerbreadmen is a proper offer or just your store? and how much were they my twins love gingerbreadmen lol

I am not sure if it is all stores as mine is just a food only one but they had lots of chocs and bics on a half price offer so I expect it might be all stores. They were £4 instead of £8 and in a red gingerbread man shaped tin with a gingerbread man on the top:)

emmad5689

Been and done my shopping, spent £5.92 in HB on pet bedding which will last the rest of the month and £26.29 in Mr A, got 3 lots of meat for £10 so that was a big chunk of it, got loads of walkers crinkle crisps reduced from £1 for 6 to £0.50 for 6 as the bags were ripped, all still contain 6 bags and we love them in our house so that was great, so chuffed cause i never get bargains!!

Hope everyone is doing well - we are getting a cat tomorrow so I have to factor cat food into the budget but we are nearly half way through the month and I have loads in so I am not too worried - YET

medsdemon

medsdemon wrote: »

£84.32/£100 main shop
Week 1 £18.14/£25
week 2 £33.07/£25
Week 3 £21.20/£25
Week 4 £0/£25

Just popped in to update my spends. Spent £21.20 at S*insburys because I needed milk and had a friend of DD's staying over...wish I hadn't bothered as they went out and had a chinese:mad:. Did get 2 "free" pizzas with the vouchers and took the 2 for £4.50 deal money off my bill too. Have since had 2 NSD's, and planning more over the weekend as we're away next weekend for a week and will try and use up what's in, although am thinking since we're in a cottage may make a couple of meals like veggie shepherds pie and lasagne to take with us to just heat up when we've been out all day. Will try and stay in budget- have sorted out the T*sco vouchers so we can get a couple of meals out with much cost, have already paid for train tickets for one of the days out and planned free activities to do. We shall see.

Tonight I think we'll have sausages with something, not sure yet...

Doom_and_Gloom

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

Really need to get chinchilla food now ekk!

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

Partner went to the pet store and they had chinchilla food :j. Would not have been good if they didn't as they had the last of what we did have left last night :eek::o.
So 1.5kg of chinchilla food was £3.18 (enough for around 40 days of food for them).

Budget - £100
Spent - £55.84
Left - £44.16

slbhill

SallyHat wrote: »

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
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Thanks for this - looks nice, might try it. Do you use plain flour when it says "white whole wheat flour"?

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

Dinner is "chickeny rice" - I just soften some onions and mushrooms...

Ooo, got "easy risotto" on my plan for Sunday, might try this too! Thanks :T

Just updated my spend after last night's big shop - looks bad for this point in the month but I'm actually quite happy. Got £20-ish left to spend, and I'm only expecting to buy milk, bread & maybe a bit of fruit next week. the following Thursday (Thursday is groceries day) we'll be driving down the M6 for a long weekend, so won't be spending then either. Food for the weekend comes out of the holiday budget instead! So I think I'm on track, maybe, I hope!

adelight

My tesco shop came to £35.80 and included 16 tins of tuna, 5 tins chick peas & 8 tins of tomatoes which will last well into november.
I don't pass any sizeable supermarkets on my way home anymore so actually going and buying food requires real effort. I still refuse to use corners shops so I've had 12 NSDs so far this month. Even if i walk a longer route home it's an awkward time for whoopsies about an hour before everything goes to ~75% off at asda and they reduce any bakery items, but then the f/v which is worth paying half price for has already been snapped up!

mandco

still doing well this month total spends of approx £185 so far when normally i'd be close to or even over budget by now.

getting better at only buying what i need which is making a huge difference. today i popped into mr t to see if they had any of the £1 nappies & clothing came out with........... nappies, a couple of pairs of jeans all at £1 each and 3 bananas costing 21p nothing else.
total spends today £4.21 in mr t & 60p in sains on 6 ice lollies(reduced to 10p each)as a treat for the kids as I said they couldnt have ice-cream from the van.

dont really need anything over the weekend so hoping for a couple of nsd