November 2011 - Grocery Challenge

XSpender

Small spend in Mr S on paras, cold sore cream and salad cream this morning. Trying to kill off this cold as I don't get paid when I am off sick:( At least I am not spending money on teas and food in the staff canteen though:rotfl:£4.92 added to the total.

I also need to get better soon to stop DH eating so much meat in one sitting. Last night he made himself a lamb curry using 2 lamb steaks! He followed the recipe on the back of the curry paste jar but it's meant to serve 4 and he ate the lot:eek: Some nice cheap veggie meals coming up when I am well I think;)

bestill

I've spent 59.52 at supermarket and then another 15.05 taking kids to cafe for tea as we don't do halloween. So total spend of 74.57 already. Need a few bits for dd1 birthday at end of week, but otherwise cupboards are really well stocked so next week should be alot lower.

gien

just a few bits here for 21.40€ today - doing a big shop at the end of the week.

quintwins

morning all i need onions and bananas today i'm gonna ask mil to grab it then hopefully she'll pay the kids ahve speech therapy and we're still not feeling great but slowly getting there our youngest said he was too sick for chicken casarole for tea last night but he could eat chicken nuggets and chips, i think he was after a happy meal but i just dug some out of the freezer and he was happy so it's chicken casarole for tea tonight

xxlouisexx56

Going to join today and do my first month!!

My budget is going to be 250 pounds.

There are 4 of us in the house, Me, DP, DD 5 and DD 7months. My budget is to include nappies, milk, and baby food.
DD has gone onto school dinners and her dad pays so i dont include that.

Wish me luck!

I already spent 2.75 this morning on pepsi and lettuce!

tessie_bear

hi...just been down to sainsbugs for my yearly trip to have a look at the reduced halloween bits and pieces...got paper bowls and plates...a huge spider decoration...balloons and best of all loads of cakes all really reduced......every year we have a massive firework party and we put uo extra decs and serve the cakes along with other food....all very money saving

we are having a curry for tea and a few left overs from last night halloween celebrations....bust time of year isnt it ?

take care tessa

cookiemum

Please can you put me down for £300 this month. Meal planned for the week and planning to pop to Lidl tonight.

Good luck everyone and thanks to everybody for organising the thread:)

[Deleted User]

Just done a list of things I need to buy and luckily its very short,but I am determined to go nowhere near the shops until hopefully at least Fri-sat at the latest.I found a nice Barnsley chop for dinner tonight in the freezer and I am having salad and odds and ends for lunch so that's today sorted out.I have some leeks and a few potatoes that I may turn into soup tomorrow and will use some of my frozen pitta bread as crutons to go with it I think .I have some widnfalls that are going to be turned into a crumble as well this week .every penny saved is more in the purse.

greent

Hello all!

Didn't really post in the Oct challenge - think I went over budget by about £20 because I had a£70+ App Foods order when they had free delivery..

This month I'm reducing budget from usual £450 to £375 in the hope it will force me to (start to) use up the (large!) stores I have.... So that's £375 for greent for November, please I'm also allowing myself an additional £50 for any Xmas related GC spends - I don;t think I'll use much, as I've already bought 2 tubs of sweets, & 4 advent calendars and I've no room for any fresh/ frozen stuff!!:o:o

That's for 6 of us (me, DH, DD(almost 14), DS1 (11), DS2 (almost6) and DS3 (2) and 2 guinea pigs (we get another one this week:):)) for food, toiletries, cleaning stuff, newspapers, alcohol and sancks and takeaways....

I also have a spend of £23.19 to declare on day 1 - I went to T's for bread, rolls and cream (all needed) and bought 12 Willow Farm chicken fillets for a total of £12.15 (whoopsied), some peppercorn sauce for DH (to go with all the whoopsied fillet in the freezer!), BOGOF cath city (fave cheese of DS1 & DS2) and 3 teeny choc bears for stockings. Everything except the bread, rolls and cream was on offer/ whoopsied. Still scary how much I spent on 1 carrier bag of shopping though!

If I stay away from the shops I should be ok.... it's the staying away that's the issue:rotfl::rotfl:

Back to catch up now - I'm only on page 4!

ChasingButterflies

Hi,

Food delivery arrived £58.67, then a further £18.41 at the supermarket last night while DD1 was training. On the plus side I picked up some basics cheese, DD3 seemed to like it - imho it was ok - not tried it on the others yet. I just got a small block to start with, I will pick up a big block next time.

Although I am already passed the 1st £100 on the 1st day of my month :eek:.

I am trying really hard to remember to take snacks/juice for DD2 & 3 for when DD1/DS1 are training - so I think I maybe need a NSD challenge... Going to go for 15 - I can deal with failure

Debbie - we don't get any trick or treaters here (and we have been here 6 years!) I hide small sweets/lollies in the kids bedrooms for them to go find. Some of DS1's friends took pity on him (as he is 9 and has never trick or treated!) and he went out with them last night - I started them off with a mix-up at home-time.

Best wishes