October 2011 Grocery Challenge

sproggi

sls1365 wrote: »

I have been mooching around the forum for a couple of hours now. At the beginning of my mooch, I found a FANTASTIC list of recipes - loads of clickable links to some really great things. And now I can't find it anywhere.

How on earth can I find it? There are a gazillion posts on here!

sls1365

Hi sls1365

There is a large list of recipes on the first page of this thread and there is also Rosieben's wonderful 'complete cooking collection' in the Mega Index
here:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=8736367#post8736367

Good luck with the challenge and just remember not to set yourself too low budget at first, it takes time to bring your spending down and if you set it too low to start out with, you are more likely to get disheartened when you find it hard to stick to.

Also, if you do find that you go over budget, it does not mean that you have failed (a lot of people seem to think that:()
You will have succeeded in learning to keep track of your spending, you will have learn't to look at what you buy, whether it is something that you really need and you will have learn't how to make the most of everything that you buy so that it might last longer. So certainly not failed:)

Sproggi

ZoeGirl_3

sls1365 wrote: »

The other real nuisance thing that I do is put leftovers into the freezer, in little plastic boxes, unlabelled. Then of course, I have no idea what they are when I peer into the box!

I totally do this too! Will have to try the masking tape...the other day at work I thought I had beef stroganoff/ mushrooms and rice and I actually had rissoles/ gravy/ and mash! Have tried to find the curry I know is in there but can't seem to identify it :eek:

quintwins

our youngest hurt my neck yesterday afternoon i could hardly move so hubby feed the kids then got us chippy, going by the change it was £9.20 and he bought a loaf of bread and 4 bottles of pepsi so another £5 ofcourse he bought the most expensive bread as i never buy it and he loves it, and when he saw £1 pepsi he thought fab but then bought 2 each (i like normal he likes diet) so really didn't save any money just bought extra

i was gonna go to the farm shop today but think i'll give it a miss, i have enough spuds for the tea (just about) my milks still useable even tho it's out of date, and we have half a loaf left from last night now, also i have some kiwi's to use up so the kids can have those all day til there gone

tessie_bear

hi...just been to asda to get a few bits and it is halloween fever in there...piles of sweets in every corner....off to costco in a bit to see what they have that we need....maybe a few nice cakes as well as sensible stuff

take care tessa

ebayqueen_2

TheThriftyScrumpers wrote: »

PennyGrabber How on earth can you have easter eggs in the house and not eat them!!! Very impressed with your willpower xx

I agree:T

I had Thorntons bought in for Christmas pressie and have now munched the lot of them:o:p

Oh to have will power:p:D

ebayqueen_2

Morning folks

Love reading everyone's posts.

Haven't updated since Friday

over the weekend had to drop DD of a distance away and hit a few shops late in evening for whoopsies and it certainly was worth doing.
£1.07 Mr T's potato salad 7p and some dried cat food.

£8.19 Co0p... lots of meat, salad, even bars and sweets.

£5.55 Spar .... reduced fillets chicken, meat pie and bargain cola lemonade etc.

£16.49 on Monday at Mr T's..included milk reduced pork + chicken, pot noodles value,freezer veg, deli items reduced, smoked ham reduced some Gold coffee £2.19.

All in all a good shop.

will update totals now.

Mr Asda* delivery today so will update later.

take care all we are doing well. Just think what we would have spent if we weren't watching the pennies this month

E

PennyGrabber

I also take yesterday's leftover dinner into work as there's a microwave there. That's especially good in the winter! Couscous is a good lunchy thing and cup a soups are ok.

I went to our new a1di today for the first time. It's much easier to find than our other one, and somewhere I could actually cycle (quite far but great exercise and less option to buy loads!). I will def be keeping my eye out for the super 6, as I am an official convert! Today, I got mushrooms, 2.5kg baking spuds and 2 big leeks, and 69p! Result. Also bought some of their washing liquid to try. It was £2 something, and it said 28 washes, which for me means about 50 washes!!! If it's good, that's a definite result. Some good Christmas present ideas in there too, like wooden toys for £8.99 and sing along cd and books packs for £2.99. And lush big packs of nice ham for 1.79! Can you tell I haven't been to an a1di for a while?!

Off to 'make' lunch - lo pizza from yesterday (one slightly crispier than the other!) and lo bacon, leek and lentil soup. After today, any lo soup will be frozen for use when I get back next week.

Enjoy the rest of the day,

PG x

kippers

Finished this months challenge, only just managed my £300 budget, it gets harder every month to stay in my budget.

Pls put me down for £300 in Nov ..thank you

ebayqueen_2

Losing
Thats a very good idea about using the frozen bread. Have you ever tried freezing sandwiches. Someone else was posting a while back about this. Suppose it would depend on the filling.

sls1365

I just realised - if I didn't smoke (£5.64 per day) I would have had 4 consecutive NSDs this week. I have made an appointment with the stop smoking people for 10.30am tomorrow.....:j

sls