November 2011 - Grocery Challenge

LittleMissHappy_2

Hi :wave:

Another £16.95 in Mr T on the BOG2F or BOGOF....no beans in stock today though..so I've spent £28.95/£200

dreamingofmoney

Ugh, Spent £14.97 on extra things, and a bit annoyed with myself, although they are things that will get eaten up, so in theory will save money later in the month, they just weren't needed now, and i did want to run my freezer down ready for this christmaa not next. Ho Hum, will have a blooming good go at it for rest of month, and should in theory not need really to visit SM again, can get topping up bits from local farm shop (v cheap).

Take care all,
Dreamer

Ceirdwyn

Well I've just been to collect my new slow cooker, it's huge. I did indeed only pay £13 and the till printed a £10 voucher:D It's valid from the 10 of Nov to 8 of Dec, but the lady who served me said if there is nothing I want, I can use it to buy a gift card, which will extend the life of it, so I got it for £3 really :j
I called into te$co while I was out, I got a 5kg of spuds for £1.50, two packs of cathedral city cheese, BOGOF, so £3.99 and a free bottle of Alchoholic ginger beer, that I got a voucher for from FB, so £11 some pence worth of shopping for £5.50:D

meg72

SallyHat wrote: »

Popped to Morr*sons after work (about everyone else's lunch hour). Often do this to grab whatever reduced fruit & veg they have. Am usually very good. However not sure what came over me! Decided I was fed up of us not eating fish & beef because of the cost! So, bought rainbow trout & a beef joint! Put both in the freezer but ended up spending about £9 instead of £1!

I'll update my signature in next day or so (receipts are in my 'food purse')!

I think it is important to treat yourself now and again as you can get really fed up of eating the same, boring stuff because its cheaper. So do enjoy your fish and beef and dont think about the cost,just think I deserve thisfor being so frugal in other ways.

LetThereBeCupcakes

Hi all - my first grocery shop came in at £19.35 - really chuffed with that! Took mum with me, she's a really savvy shopper and spotted a few bargains for me. I've always bought the "value" version of bananas, assuming they'd be cheaper. They're aren't. Seems a bit odd, but never mind - I got the cheapest deal in the end!

recovering_spendaholic

Ceirdwyn wrote: »

Well I've just been to collect my new slow cooker, it's huge. I did indeed only pay £13 and the till printed a £10 voucher:D It's valid from the 10 of Nov to 8 of Dec, but the lady who served me said if there is nothing I want, I can use it to buy a gift card, which will extend the life of it, so I got it for £3 really :j
I called into te$co while I was out, I got a 5kg of spuds for £1.50, two packs of cathedral city cheese, BOGOF, so £3.99 and a free bottle of Alchoholic ginger beer, that I got a voucher for from FB, so £11 some pence worth of shopping for £5.50:D

Thanks for the tip Ceirdwyn! I have looked online and will probably get one, but I am still humming and haaing about whether or not I will use it!!

Feel a bit iffy today - DD2 was sick in the night, but she looked fine this morning so I mad eher go into school and now I feel like I might have got some kind of stomach bug! I was probably a bit harsh making her go into school but she is a madam for "crying wolf".

Have got a sausage casserole in the oven for later, and have two pans of soup on the stove - one mushroom (with the addition of some of my 20p bag of poorcini mushrooms, and one leek and potato. I wasn't going to make soup as I have alot in the freezer but I think it is probably best as the leeks were on the way past their best and I do know that I will use the soup.

Need to go to Mr T later for spread, B1G2F Branston beans and NOTHING else!! Might also go into Aldi to see what they have - they have Butternut squash on their supersix at the moment and the other day I got the biggest one you have ever seen!!! We all like stuffed BNS so I might get another while they are cheap, as I think the supersix ends on sunday and they keep for ages.

I am thinking of making Christmas cakes as gifts and wondered if anyone has ever used the Tesco Value dried mixed fruit? It is soooo much cheaper but I don't want to get it if it might be false economy.

quintwins

nsd today but last night we went for a drive with fil and stopped in kfc for ice-cream so £6 then on the way home we stopped for desil and when i wnet into pay they had spelga yogurt 6 packs for £1 i love these and was quite good only getting 1 pack, dinner tonight is pasta bake with 8p value pasta (running low on this now) and a jar of sauce from dtd days i'll throw in some frozen sweetcorn and the leftover gammon from last night so nice cheap tea using stuff up, lunch for the kids is sausage and beans left from yesterday and undecided i might have some soup or cheese and toast


oh and i spent £1 on coke in poundworld aswell

pipersky

Eeeeep! I haven't been on in ages - sorry everyone - hope you are all doing well with your challenges

I'm going to set myself a difficult one this month - £150 for me, my OH and 3 daughters (4, 2 and 3 mths). I have stores and am meal planning so should be OK. Include nappies etc in this but not takeouts Next month will be well easy cos I have three full stamp books from Mr T :):)

Good luck all x

SavingJane

Hi can you put me down for £125 please, I hope to get close to 100 as i can, we had VERY expensive month last month with going away so money is EXTRA tight this month, will be lot's of cheap meals

Hope everyone is doing ok

NSD for me today, I'm going to keep track of this for this month and see how I do

freakyogre

£1.99 spent in Tesco on cider and creme fraiche for dinner tomorrow. I'll update my signature later as a bit tricky to do on my phone!