October 2011 Grocery Challenge

debbiedeejay

Did a mid week shop tonight at mr mozzies,needed to since I didn't do normal shop on Friday.

Spent a total of £17.37.

Got what we needed plus a few whoopsies which were nice treats (spicy bean dip 10p, 2 Yorkshire kippers for 19p,mini cream rolls 69p) ate most of dip and rolls,kippers in freezer.

But I forgot the painkillers and now the headache I was starting with is really annoying!pah, looks like an early night might be the answer.:o

Tea was a very nice piece of fish from freezer with new pots,peas and parsley sauce.

Taken pork pieces out of freezer for tomorrow and a h/m shepherdess pie for veggie DD2.

catch you all later.

cattysmum

:eek:Did a midweek shop today Mr Ts spent £29.67. We're going away for a few days so am taking basics with me and am hoping I don't blow the budget with meals out. Whilst Im away Im going to grab a Pumpkin for Halloween, I have 4 grandchildren coming to mine in their costumes so weather permitting going to scatter a few torches around the garden for spooky effects, have a few games, do a little tea party and then I want a spooky DVD. I dont want to scare them to death though so can anyone suggest a good spooky movie for ages 7 and under? Already got Casper but they have seen it several times. I must also dig out my recipe for pumpkin scones. The were selling them at a school fete last year and were scrummy so I went and spoke to the teacher that made them and she kindly wrote down the recipe, they are lovely warmed and dripping with butter!!:eek::eek::eek::eek:

freakyogre

£3.86 spent in Lidl on Saturday - 2 x bags of Hula Hoops on their half price offer, a bag of carrots and a bag of spinach.

I think i'll make soup with the carrots. Not sure about the spinach yet, but will need to do something with it pretty quickly.

cat_smith

freakyogre wrote: »

Not sure about the spinach yet, but will need to do something with it pretty quickly.

You could try Softstuffs chickpea curry if you don't mind veggie - it's delicious with spinach stirred in about 5mins before the end.

PennyGrabber

cattysmum wrote: »

:eek:Did a midweek shop today Mr Ts spent £29.67. We're going away for a few days so am taking basics with me and am hoping I don't blow the budget with meals out. Whilst Im away Im going to grab a Pumpkin for Halloween, I have 4 grandchildren coming to mine in their costumes so weather permitting going to scatter a few torches around the garden for spooky effects, have a few games, do a little tea party and then I want a spooky DVD. I dont want to scare them to death though so can anyone suggest a good spooky movie for ages 7 and under? Already got Casper but they have seen it several times. I must also dig out my recipe for pumpkin scones. The were selling them at a school fete last year and were scrummy so I went and spoke to the teacher that made them and she kindly wrote down the recipe, they are lovely warmed and dripping with butter!!:eek::eek::eek::eek:

My two children are 5 (today!) and 6, and they love monsters versus aliens the halloween edition. It's about half an hour long, and quite funny. My five year old (boy) gets scared by most things, but he loves this film! HTH

PennyGrabber

Ooh, meant to say. Just been shopping in a$da, and the value pasta and value spaghetti has been rolled back to 18p. I still have some left over from the 8/9/14p days, but might help someone else?!

PG x

sproggi

NSD today, I had already got everything for DS2's birthday tea when I went shopping yesterday and the leftovers will cover lunches and tea tomorrow too.

Sproggi

mandco

cattysmum wrote: »

:eek:Did a midweek shop today Mr Ts spent £29.67. We're going away for a few days so am taking basics with me and am hoping I don't blow the budget with meals out. Whilst Im away Im going to grab a Pumpkin for Halloween, I have 4 grandchildren coming to mine in their costumes so weather permitting going to scatter a few torches around the garden for spooky effects, have a few games, do a little tea party and then I want a spooky DVD. I dont want to scare them to death though so can anyone suggest a good spooky movie for ages 7 and under? Already got Casper but they have seen it several times. I must also dig out my recipe for pumpkin scones. The were selling them at a school fete last year and were scrummy so I went and spoke to the teacher that made them and she kindly wrote down the recipe, they are lovely warmed and dripping with butter!!:eek::eek::eek::eek:

mr a has quite a few kids halloween themed dvds for £3 i picked up one called spooky bats and scaredy cats as its one mine havent seen. also had pumpkins for a £1.

spends of £18.23 today which itsnt too bad considering i managed 2 nsd's over the weekend:j would have been less but picked up some 1/2 price ariel stain remover stuff(the only thing i've found that actually works on getting school shirts passably clean)and a 1/2 price reed diffuser just coz i fancied it lol but it smells lovely.
oh and stocked up on some pots of pear chunks in juice as they were reduced to 20p each so got 20 for lunch boxes fillers

666paw

Hi

Could you please put me down for 225, this is for November and my month runs from 19th to 18th.

This is for 2 adults and 1 old fussy cat and includes all food, toiletries, alcohol, cleaning products and eating out. I know it's quite a lot but we have been spending in excess of this recently and I don't want to cut it too much too soon.

666:)

beckseven

Hello I'm just going to join a little bit late to see how much I spend for the rest of the month as I am back to being a beginner at this shopping budget lark! I've been seriously lax with my grocery shopping and really need to reign it it now so I can start paying off my debts. job for tonight (i'm working nights at home) is to do a bit of cooking and freezing and then will go through my store cupboard to see what i can utilise.