November 2011 - Grocery Challenge

hamish222

Have tried this challenge loads of times and always fail. But will not be beaten. Will start my month from 28th Oct - 27th Nov. And going for £300. This for me, dh and 2 cats. Going to reduce my waste which is shocking and cook from scratch (have at least a 100 cookbooks) and stop takeaways. Going for a meal on Sat night but this was planned so not worrying about this. Also have 2 groupon vouchers for nice meals out so no need to hit takeaway shops as lots of little treats this month. Going to go and lift £300 out bank and put it in a purse and buy out of this as am terrible for forgetting what I have spent.

LuluGranis

i just stumbled to this thread and i think this is a great challenge! im going to start in NOvember. its just goig to be me and my 2 dogs! i think 200 would be enough?

eveie189

Hi,

Could someone please put me down for £500 for this month please. It's a 5 week month for the 5 of us this month. After last months success I am actually confident I can make it even though I have already spent £120.

Eveie

rising_from_the_ashes

cleggie wrote: »

Have you thought about buying a whole bag, then dicing/cutting and bagging and freezing them yourself (if you use lots regulaly i mean)? I used to do that, as i only ever used 1 at a time. NOw i am just lazy and buy a big bag of frozen diced onions from asda!!:D

I've just done this for the first time (I don't use a huge amount of onions and invariably waste some:( as I don't get through them before they go bad) and have a wee tip for anyone trying it ..... put the bags into a tub with a lid on - it's amazing how much smell the onions still give off even once frozen!:)

sls1365 wrote: »

Quick question: I stop smoking tomorrow.

Good luck SLS - hope it's going OK on your first day:)

westlothianlass

Good morning lovely peeps
Thanks again to the fab ladies who keep this going:D.
Good luck all, I'm going to try for £400 again this month as have my dad's retirement and 2 other birthdays plus the C :xmassmileword is creeping ever closer.
Cheers
x

rosieben

I've reported LuluGranis's post as :spam:

tessie_bear

hi....after frantic kitchen activity yesterday i plan to do a bit of planning for christmas today...sorry to bring that up ...also need to make some dumplings to go with stew we are having for tea....we are also eating from the freezer this month and trying to keep food spend to the minimum so i can use the money to pay for the afore mentioned plans

made a nice carrot cake yesterday...the recipe is on weezils website....its great and really easy

have a nice day
tess

quintwins

tessiebear my sons wavings at my laptop and sayings bye bye to your sig it's very cute lol

i spent £7 on the bogof cocktail sausages and 3 bags of sweets thinge morning, the sausages are a good deal as we can get 2 dinners from one bag or they'll be fab for lunches or mini toad in the holes and it's a fab price, sweets we're for forementioned son 3 bags of strawberry laces for £1 will do all 3 kids over the weekend, i have lots of cleaning 2 do so i'm off hopeing for lots of nsd over the next week

Islandmaid

Hi all,

Got a sneaking feeling i,ve come in under budget for October :j:j:j but will tot up later as I need to buy bread for school lunches next week.

I will stick to £400 for November as I want to get some foodie bits in for Christmas:D

Good luck all, and thanks for the support, its finally sinking in :rotfl::rotfl:

Elisheba

Well, we got the monthly meal plan done last night. We both ran out of inspiration pretty quickly, so its not the most varied plan! Think we will look at recipes cards for next month!