November 2011 - Grocery Challenge

freakyogre

£5.18 spent today in Tesco on a pineapple, grapes, loaf of bread and 2 x spread.

TheThriftyScrumpers

Hiya

Meal Plan

Sun Liver and Bacon
Mon Paella
Tues Beef Stew and Dumplings
Wed LO Stew
Thurs Freezer Surprise

I did a list of all freezer food on Sunday. It's good to see at a glance what I have. DH solved the mystery of the strange smell coming from his car. On investigation of the boot he found a packet of chicken that going by the bb date had been languishing there for a month The packet must have fallen out of the shopping bag. The extra annoying part is that I had planned to make a curry this week with the chicken

I managed to get about £28 of food for £7 on Sunday. I estimated about 14 meals worth (pizza, fish, fish cakes, chicken, curry etc) so this makes up for the wasted chicken.

Night x

tigerfeet2006

Just a quick post as I need to get to sleep, will catch up on everyones post's tomorrow.

Spent a fortune in town today, will count up how much tomorrow, but had to get trousers and tshirts x2 for nativity costumes, stuff for SIL's baby shower, teddys and chocolates x3 for mufti day and birthday presents/cards/paper for for DC3 who is going to birthday parties this weekend and next. I still have a birthday pressie for my nephew for 2 weeks time as well.

Have an A$da delivery coming tomorrow, at the moment that stands at £59, will see what it ends up as tomorrow. That should take me to the end of the month with maybe the odd top up of milk, bread etc.

Meals for the next 9 days in no particular order are

Falafel burgers, flatbread and veg
Savory Sausage bake
Chilli Con Carne (sc) snd rice
Macaroni cheese
HM lemon and thyme burgers and HM vegatable chips
Cauliflower, egg and potato curry
Hubble bubble pumpkin pot
Sausage and pumpkin roast
Plus a pot luck HM meal from the freezer day if we need to, though we quite often have Sunday lunch at FIL's or we may have one of the above 2 days running if the kids fancy it. They love LO Chilli in a pyrex dish with nachos on top and then grated cheese on top and then chucked in the oven for ten mins or so.

So some very cheap meals there to end the month. Will post recipes as I cook the meals if anyone is interested.

Night all xx

[Deleted User]

well my month is going quite well as I am sticking to the 'only buy essentials and shop from freezer if at all possible.With 6 birthdays before Christmas plus just having booked next years holidays the food streeeetching is in full operation at Chez Jackie's this month.Basically staying away from the shops as much as possible and with only 8 more days to go I can see me coming in at around half what I expected to be ,fingers crossed.Mind you I have had some odd meals as I have found stuff in the freezer that had been unlabelled so it really was 'freezer roulette' but the food mountain is slowly reducing by the week.
Soon be December chums and we start all over again :)

tessie_bear

hi....got a few baking tasks to get on with today...chocolate sponge to start with and then some chocolate crispies....i am making a corned beef hash for tea so need to do a bit of peeling and chopping for that...not planning any spends today

have a nice day tess

LittleMissHappy_2

I need to get a few bits and bobs from Mr T so it will be spendy for me today. I'll update my total when I know the damage

quintwins

morning all, todays the twins birthday so were off to mil for a free tea and she bought the cake aswell so no food spends, i need to nip to argos for an extension lead tho so not quite a nsd

oh and thanks to whoever said about sholer i'm not gonna buy any til next month tho sure it's on offer everywhere in dec and i'm already over budget

PennyGrabber

Morning all,

I'm still off today - stomach feels like an alien is trying to escape! Maybe it's not really a tummy bug - maybe it's sympathy pains as two friends have had babies on the last three days!!

NSD today as far as gc goes. I'm going out to the cinema tonight if i'm better (i WILL be better!) to see breaking dawn. I was gutted that I didn't go to see it on the first day it came out, which i've done with all the others. But children come first, and i was not going to get a babysitter for friday when the children are at their dad's tonight, and I can go then. Still, Taylor Lautner, you would!!! Yummy!

When i organised the meals for this week, i forgot that i'm having kfc (in theory if i'm ok) tonight, which means there'll be no lo chilli for tom. Ho hum - i'll have SCS instead. (Store Cupboard Surprise)

I realised when I woke up that it's payday tomorrow, so once I've paid my bills i'll be able to see what's left for next month's gc and the rest of the Christmas presents. I'm getting a lush (cheap) chutney recipe from my friend, which will be some people's presents as I'm stony broke at the mo.

Have a good day all,

PG x

GreenSaints

Hi all,

Well, I did my last shop for the month of November last week...............£36.87! I don't know how I did it! I decided that I would take soup into work (of which I have STACKS in the cupboard) so obviously my homemade salads aren't as cheap as I thought!

So my week totals have been:

Week 1 - £39/£40
Week 2 - £42.55/£40
Week 3 - £40.55/£40 (what's with the 55p?!)
Week 4 - £36.87/£40
Total - £158.97/£160!

Thank you to this fabulous thread! I look forward to starting the December challenge next week!

[Deleted User]

Well I went to the bank and stuck my head around Sainsbobs door as I had a £2.00 voucher to use up by Friday so my shopping came to£2.21 minus the voucher. 21p spent today and I got some
1 x lb SR.Flour
three bananas
4 carrots
a packet of value shortbread fingers (for the boys when they come out of school)
some long life single cream
and a t.v. choice magazine so 21p well spent I think and no more odds and ends to get this week hopefully :)
I like that kind of shopping