October 2011 Grocery Challenge

beckseven

I went to lidls to get some stuff for a lasagne I'm making tomorrow and spent £5.62 on a bag of onions, fun size apples, 2 fromage frais, tin of chopped toms, 2 x foxes biscuits and lean mince bringing my grocery total to £11.06. have tamarind beef in sc and will use up some of my many packets of half empty rice in the cupboard! Need to meal plan for the week so that i can do an online shop at Mr Ts because I've got a busy week at work.

mrs_mum_3

Just been out to freezer to do a stocktake

I have 67 sausages - various brands :rotfl:

Sausage and mash tomorrow night I think with beans and mushy peas

poppy-glos

whoops - took my eye off the ball! went for a wander round the huge mr a on tuesday, spent a fortune on stuff i couldn't resist (alot was cheaper prices than my local shop and won't be used quickly so will be economy in the end...). Have now overspent, but freezer full, fridge pretty full so no reason we can't stay without going too much over before the end of the month :-)

Islandmaid

Beckseven - Tamarind beef sounds lush - how do you make it?

Thanks

sproggi

Just popping in to report 2 NSD's, still been eating l/o's from DS2's birthday on Tuesday!!

Sproggi

greent

I'm slightly out of date on my receipts but am running on about £330 with not much month left - we go away on Sat and the only thing I may need to buy before then is s pint of milk, depending upon what people choose for breakfasts. We return on the Following Fri and I'll just need to top up bread, milk & f&v - so I should make it in budget. WOn't have time probably to post again

Thanks to the GC team

PennyGrabber

mrs_mum wrote: »

Just been out to freezer to do a stocktake

I have 67 sausages - various brands :rotfl:

Sausage and mash tomorrow night I think with beans and mushy peas

One of my jobs for this evening is to do a freezer inventory - it's amazing how quickly they get out of date when you take stuff out and put stuff in, and forget to update it!!

I have ludicrous amounts of stuff in it, but there is almost enough space for a small tub of icecream in there now as i've been eating things up!!! :rotfl:

I feel I've made a good start to using up the stockpiles. I have condensed the crisps bags into one, there's only one box of teabags (I don't go through many), and there are only 6 blocks of sheese in the fridge. I do need to do an inventory of the cupboard under the stairs soon though, as I'm not entirely sure what's in there besides 3 kg of pasta, 2kg rise, 12 tins toms, 8 tins tuna, 3 bags bread flour and LOADS of tins of soup.

I have bought 2kg of pasta recently, but that's been the only stockpiling activity I've had, and tbh, that's really good for me. We go a kg in about a month or so. I've been getting loads of emails from AP, and I keep going on to look, then leaving again, as I find my willpower! Same with sms, think I'm really making a difference in my attitude towards shopping and stocking.

Sorry for ramble - I'm just feeling quite proud of myself and wanted to share!

PG x

welshlovebiscuit

It's hubbie's pay day...so I'm declaring for the month - £249.87 - target was £240 so I'm quite pleased with that.

We've been eating out of the freezer quite a lot as it desperately needs defrosting but I'm still aiming for £240 again for Oct/Nov month.

Need2bthrifty

Having spent way over budget over the last few weeks I am glad to say that I have managed 4 NSD’s this week so far :j & have only spent £1.39 on a bag of potatoes (sig updated) – I couldn’t manage the thought of Shepherdless Pie without some lovely cheesy mash on top and loads of brown sauce - only one portion of it left in the freezer now and it can stay there till I’m really hard up , won’t be trying that recipe again without making a few adaptations or else searching out a different recipe. I must be getting very OS as a year ago I would have thrown it out, whereas now nothing gets wasted – just OS’d .

supersally01

Spent £76 today on a shop in M&S. Mum had 20% staff discount and a extra 10% too, so stocked up. The 10% is taken off before all other offers, so £120 products for 70 odd quid!!! Freezer is now stocked, and got some excellent xmas stuff 1/2 price too!
will update siggi, and see what i have left. Loads of meals in freezer tho, so will only need milk etc. My month will end on 28th, so should be OK.
Hope all are well and warm!!!