November 2011 - Grocery Challenge

jpscloud

I've been extremely naughty, not OS, not MSE and certainly not healthy! Well to be fair, I'm a lot more MSE than I used to be every time I shop now, it's sort of second nature already. However, I have bought oven chips, and too many treats, blah blah. I did resist buying parkin though!

Anyhow, declaring my spend at £45 this week, so not too bad.

rising_from_the_ashes

Flat_Eric wrote: »

I don't fancy the steak I had proposed for tea so not sure what tea will be yet. On a Friday, I never feel like cooking. What does everyone else do ?

I never feel like cooking on a Friday too:o guess it's the end of a long week thing ... (I always used to have a take-a-way).

I try to have something on Thursday that will result in LOs - tonight it's Chicken & Leek Risotto.

poppy-glos wrote: »

I have been trying hard to use up my stores and empty the fridge, but the urge to hoard is too strong.

I've this problem too Poppy - freezers are stuffed but I still buy stuff:(.

I'm trying meal-planning (which I've never done) but finding it really hard - I've got Crohn's so this often dictates what I can eat (rather than what I want to eat) which makes it really hard to stick to a set plan.

notsogrumpymum

evening all, just been to Mr A & L*dle. Spent £4.98 in L*dle on two blocks of mature cheese & milk no 29p carrots left. Then popped over to Mr A & spent £54.67. Wanted more stuff but an awful lot of shelves hadnt been restocked. the yellow stickered items were still to expensive & i didnt go as late as i wanted to. I think i wll stick to Mr T in future, really wasnt happy with Mr A tonight, though i will check my receipt in the morning to see if its worth going back next week. will try & update signature now. total spend £59.65.

Cat501

jpscloud wrote: »

..... too many treats

Repeat after me - THERE IS NO SUCH THING:D:D

hollieinbloom

very lucky today as my OH's brother has got us a takeaway as he's stopping with us the night!
so i'm going to chill with a cup of tea, and a free takeaway!!
Had a NSD!!!
except £1 on a dvd from Zavvi with a £2 off voucher. but thats not food!!

debbiedeejay

Evening need to declare weekly trip to Mr Mozzies & local garden centre for veg.

£6.04 - GC for veg,local eggs & milk
£26.94 - mr mozzies - but no hot dog buns so need to try and get some tomorrow.

used £1 voucher off air wick candle - nice mulled wine,cinnamon smell brought it down to 50p - put away for Xmas.

Plan for family round for supper tommow eve, and having veggie hot dogs &burgers plus H/M burgers and lincoln sausages for rest and maybe jacket spuds too. Oh and one of the parkin cakes bought during week - ate the other one when visited DD1 last night!

Off to update signature.

TTFN

rosieben

Have you checked your mrt account for unused vouchers? After a reminder on here I finally got around to checking mine and today I've used £21 off my next shop - a couple of these were due to run out next month so I was cutting it fine. I'm sure I've lost loads of them in the past but I'll be checking regularly from now on.

Need2bthrifty

I’ve been away from the computer for a few days and my goodness the posts have been coming in thick and fast, so lots of reading for me.

OK I’m determined to do much better this month after falling so drastically off the GC wagon last month and going almost £25 over my budget buying soooooo many bargain which will no doubt come around again – even today I noticed L!d! was selling Daz 42 washes at £3.99 – a penny cheaper than I paid at @sda a couple of weeks ago. Aaaah - look what I’ve turned into – but they do say about looking after the pennies!!

This week managed to keep spending down to £14.90 at L!d! buying yet more washing powder, chicken breasts, enough fruit & veg to keep me going for a couple of weeks, along with some dried fruit etc for making mini Christmas cakes for singleton friends. The only thing I should need to get next week is some fruit juice, milk, potatoes and of course some booze for the cakes, so loads of NSD’s coming up (rubs hands in miserly fashion)

Whilst rummaging around for material I found some craft materials lurking at the back of a cupboard which have been there for years so now that I have almost finished winter proofing the house I will set myself to making some Christmas cards and festive decorations - ho ho ho - that should keep me away from the shops.

My target for November is £50 so here's hoping.

PennyGrabber

Flat Eric - I also cook extra on a Thursday so we can have a leftover meal on a Friday. Today it was fish pie, which was delish, even second time round! It beats take aways, which I can't afford, and ready meals, which I almost can't afford!! Plus, I can just about manage to bung something in the oven or the microwave on a Friday night...

It was a spend day today. Only £9.19, but considering my budget is so low, that's quite a hit. I did, however, hit the yellow stickers at just the right time. The shelves were full, and the items had already been reduced twice, but there were two men there reducing for a third time! I got £12.82 worth of stuff for £4.29! This included three pies (poss friday dinners?!?!), some nibbly bits, chorizo (been meaning to get for ages - never used), some garlic and herb tear-and-share bread, and I can't remember the rest. So, total spent is now up to £11.06/£100, which is 11% of budget gone versus 13% of month gone. Hoping not to shop again til tues, by which time we'll need more fruit for lunchboxes - may try the cycling to a1di thing.

Night all

PG x

rej-c

Blimey - it's taken me 2 hours to catch up on about 2.5 days' worth of posts!

2 x NSDs [on Weds and Thurs], and £1.61 spent today on yellow-stickered chestnut mushrooms and 3-for-2 packs of crumble mix at Mr T.

I'm going to do a spot of virtual shopping to help me decide whether to do an £30-£40ish online order + tiny top-ups or keep it all pretty small this month. The cupboards and freezer are still pretty full, so I'm leaning toward keeping it small...

I'm loving the idea of the deliberate leftovers on Thursday to have for Friday night nosh - it's especially relevant for me to be reading about it this evening, when, with Him Indoors out for a change, I've had, erm, a tub of vegan ice cream for my dinner. Not good - like, 75 syns-worth of not good, for any SW fans out there...

Anyway, I've got in the habit of cooking enough for meal + leftovers [when I can be bothered to cook; been a bit lazy lately], but usually take the spare to work for lunch the next day. It shouldn't take too much of a planning mindset-shift to organise myself to do similar for the Friday evening. Thanks for the prompt :beer: