October 2011 Grocery Challenge

freakyogre

£5.34 in Tesco today - mayonnaise, ketchup, an onion and a meal deal for lunch (pasta salad, drink and crisps).

WelshWoofer

Been to Mr T's to do a big shop (big for me anyway!) and spent £49.50. I now have full cupboards, lots of nice fresh stuff in the fridge, plenty in the freezer and enough laundry and household stuff to last a few weeks.

I try to spend £30 a week but this big shop takes me up to £103 for 3 weeks - £13 over budget. But I won't need much next week so hopefully it will even out, famous last words!

Twiceblessed

£3.99 for a pink hot water bottle for my DD :j

Islandmaid

Woo-hoo another NSD:D

Been a good girl and stopped myself from spending by not going to the wholesalers on the way home

Need some basics, but £5 off a £25 spend voucher dosn,t kick in till Monday, so will wait till then, how restrained am I :rotfl:

Am going to have a look round town tomorrow, but will not take cash cards, so will window shop only

Have a good one all xx

quintwins

just been to sainburys and 2 tesco's stocked up on toothpaste, reduced doughtnuts, reduced veg, reduced sausages some crisps and biccys some soup spents just under £20 then got chinese aswell tho so not soo good

Keith

I've completely lost track, we've done really well as we somehow had 12 people round last weekend for drink and buffet for our daughters baptism. I was hating the purchasing as the bills kept coming, I think it came to about £180 :eek: then the gazebo I'd borrowed was blown away and damaged! I think about £60 of our food budget paid towards it as MIL paid £90 and we had £30 child benefit left.

Luckily my boss doesn't want the gazebo replacing and we all had a lovely afternoon.

Need to have 3 more cheap weeks, then we are away for our summer hols which means £130 in kennel fees for our dog :eek:

And once we're back, more cheap weeks to pay for xmas!

Ches

Small treat spend today of £1.56 on 3 donuts for me, OH and a friend to have with a cuppa. Silly really as I had just made 60 small iced cakes for a charity do. OH is away on Sunday for the week so I am eating out of the freezer while he is away and hopefully I won't need much shopping for the rest of the month.

barneydee_2

Hi
how this thread has grown since I last posted ,well not doing to bad .I have done two biggish shops since I was last on and a couple of small ones all in all spent £134.75 which brings me upto £167.76 and I have £57.24 left:eek: so is going to be hard to stay in budget:mad:
But looking at my recipts I can see where I can make savings, i.e.some of the small shops were where I had not made a pack up for my lunch or had forgotten to take something out of the freezer:mad: I have got to keep with this as I need the money that will be freed up for buying christmas presents.


Dee

MissOrganised1972

slbhill wrote: »

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

This time I used Tesco value plain flour yes. The recipe says they don't spread. Mine do! I only put 6-8 on a Swiss roll tin. Hope you enjoy them

iwanttogoonholiday

ive got an asda shop coming today and then im pretty much up to my total ( ive already counted it in my sig) so im gonna have to try and make my meals stretch a bit!