November 2011 - Grocery Challenge

kixxie

Hi, could you please put me down for £400? Thanks! I'm going to need all the help I can get. There are 6 of us (me, OH, DD9, DD3, DS1, DD3months plus 1 dog and 1 cat). This must include all food, household supplies, pet care, nappies, ect. and I can only shop locally. To be honest, I am terrified to the point of losing sleep. If I don't pull this off then we don't make rent! :eek:

boultdj

Made a start to this month's spending £17.86

JulieGeorgiana

Can I have £200 (28th October - 24th November)

I seem to be a little over this month, I am really struggling to stay in budget, but not to worry it's only a few pence here and there... Week 2 is budgeting at nearly £2 over which is an issue!


Totals so far:

Big Monthly Bulk Shop £100.31/£100 :doh:
Week 1 £25.65/£25 :doh:
Week 2 £0/£25
Week 3 £0/£25
Week 4 £0/£25


Total £125.96/£200 (28th October - 24th November)


NB. Confirmation Budget £10.32/£10 :doh:

cattysmum

Hello, a fresh new month and I'm going to bite the bullet and drop my Budget down to £300 this month/ I am really into this now and I think about every thing I spend, and not just groceries. Im going to have a look now for pumpkin soup recipe, after buying my reduced pumpkin for tonight and I will freeze soup and use it next week when on nights

Big_Alf

Absolutely disasterous start to the challenge. Woke up late for work and had to blow 2 quid on a taxi rather than 4p on the bus. In addition free lunch today was pretty much inedible (school dinners )

On the upside I have only smoked three cigarettes and have a big pile of yummy leftovers to turn into a ragu using some Ikea pasta sauce I picked up over the weekend.

SpikyHedgehog

sls1365 wrote: »

Hello all

First of all, I wanted to say today was my first NSD!!! Yahoo!! :T

Yesterday, I spent £47.96 in Aldi and £5.57 on a pumpkin, bread, milk, and two danish pastries (I couldn't help it!!).

I have enough from the Aldi shop to feed us for the week and to top up the freezer. I also bought some fabric conditioner in Aldi - it's an experiement, cos my little one has dodgy skin. If she breaks out in excema, I might have to go back to the pricey stuff

I've found the best thing for fabric softener for DS1's eczema is diluted vinegar - I use an empty fabric softener bottle & put 1/3 vinegar & 2/3s water with a few drops of essential oils to make it smell lovely. Added bonus is that his stinky school shirts come up non-sweaty ;-)

DS2 & I had a lift to school from our lovely vicar & his wife, which puts me very early for the bus to work (once an hour), but gives me a chance to work out how much change I need from the bank for bus fares ;-) I get off the bus outside the bank so I'll be straight in there so I don't have to post more emergency ' bus fare change' spends.

quintwins

big alf thats one cheap bus

i don't use any fabric condition, when i do i only use comfort as my youngest has very bad exzema i still have 1 bottle left from dtd as i rarely use it sometimes my mil will buy me a big bottle from makro but she hasn't for ages now

nsd for me trying to decide what to make for tea, i cooked up some chicken breats last night i had defrosted on fri as i'm funny about chicken and really didn't want to leave it any longer hubby had some hot in a sandwich but now i have loads left to do something with, i was thinking pie but i don't fancy pie and there prob enough for 3 pies and not enough room for them in the freezer, or chicken casarole and freezze some for a pie later in the week/month, breakfast was cheerio's and lunch will be pasta i'm still keeping my own eatings to a minium to see how i go so i'm havings toast now and a cupasoup for lunch if i'm ok i'll have a small dinner

njk1012

I managed to come in well under budget for my first grocery challenge in October so I want to reduce my budget this month, however with the big C coming up soon and November being a 5 week month for us I will be cautious with the reduction.

In light of the above can you put me down for £320 for November please. This is for 2 adults, 2 kids, giant dog, parrot and aquarium. Including everything household toiletries, cleaning and food running from the 1st to the 30th.

Good luck everyone!

ChasingButterflies

Hi everyone, just popped over from the October challenge.

I have been umming and ahhing about target for this month. As I only just managed last month, and given that I have 2 birthday's this month (so extra mouths to feed) I am going for £430. I have given myself a mini challenge though, I need to use up as much as I possibly can from the freezers/larder as we are due to move in the 3rd week of January :eek: I also have some serious decluttering to do but I guess that is another thread!

Thanks to everyone taking the time to get the thread up and running

helen_jelly

Morning

Budgets done to here

Need to update ny siggy with some more spends - Oven Pride for Ovens is £3 in MrT but Oven Pride for BBQ's is reduced to 75p - I checked the ingredients and they look exactly the same so I bought 4 - will give it a go some time this week, if its ok I'm going to get some more

LosingPatience - Congratulations on your forthcoming Wedding, if it was me I'd do the spends on lovely stuff and NOT include it in my Grocery money, hope you both have a lovely, lovely wedding and honeymoon

Helen x