November 2011 - Grocery Challenge

XSpender

Nipped in to Tesc0 on the way back from college tonight as I had run out of skimmed milk for the adults and needed a lemon and brandy for the last christmas cake I am making in the morning. Will need to be up early if I am going to leave for work at 10.30am!:eek:

Ended up spending £40.47 as bought nappies, 2 x shower gel on offer, face wash, kitchen roll, some beer for DH and a bottle of sherry on offer. All stuff we needed.

The brandy and sherry will do for next christmas as well and the brandy is for the cakes I am making as gifts but it is too complicated to split it so I am including it all in December's budget.

I am allowing £96/week mon to sun and am at £76.49 so far this week (eek!) and do not need any more food. We are away to my Mum's this weekend so will be getting fed but will get a couple of bottles of Aldi red to take with us so another £7-8 there.

We will be having lunch out on saturday and our annual christmas treat of a gingerbead latte in c0sta but this comes out of the christmas budget.:D:j

If we have any money left in this week's budget we will be having a chinese takeaway on Sunday night as we will be late in and too worn out with all the christmas shopping and a long drive home to start cooking.:o

pipersky

tigerfeet2006 wrote: »

Tonights dinner was Hubble Bubble Pumpkin Pot.

Sounds yum - have had a butternut squash languishing in my cupboard for ages... this sounds like just the thing

rej-c

I've added 9.87 for yesterday and today [mostly yesterday], on veg, some dairy stuff for Him Indoors, bread and some whoopsied fresh raspberries. He's properly getting into his SW plan - especially since he's lost 9lb in his first week :T - and starting to take closer interest in what ingredients we have in stock, and even getting experimental in the kitchen and looking at recipes - quite a change in MO, and could get expensive if I don't keep a close eye on things [not that I'm complaining, you understand - just a bit fiscally wary ]

I meant to have a small Mr S order delivered today, but our broadband was so useless last night I wasn't able to complete the order process. So it's all sitting there in my basket waiting for me to have another go. I'll think see how much longer I can leave it before I place it - maybe even into next week, if I try hard.

I'm still on this GC to the end of the calendar month, but thinking about Christmas, and how SW-friendly I can make it. I think the first thing is, to stop adding to the 'naughty foods' stash I'd been gathering, and acknowledge that we don't need nearly as much extra or 'special' food as I tend to get in.

The second thing is, to work out what to do with the stack of cheap Mr T choc-chip cookie and muffin mixes I've got in my stash - Him Indoors isn't going to want them now... [need a shrugging smiley]

mooomin

My list for tomorrow is as follows:

• Bananas
• Apples (the ones I got from Aldi are tiny and too sharp for my taste )
• Milk (small one as Mr F is away so we're not drinking a gallon of tea a day!)

And that's it!! I was going to buy salad for sandwiches but if the salad I have left goes brown then I will have soup for lunch instead which is lower in Fat Club points anyway.

I'm going to aim to spend less than £5 on food tomorrow - sometimes there's a good whoopsie at our Morrisons when I go so I like to allow for that!

mooomin

rej-c wrote: »

I'm still on this GC to the end of the calendar month, but thinking about Christmas, and how SW-friendly I can make it. I think the first thing is, to stop adding to the 'naughty foods' stash I'd been gathering, and acknowledge that we don't need nearly as much extra or 'special' food as I tend to get in.

We'll be having turkey/chicken for dinner which is low points (I do WW) and I won't have potatoes with mine but will have extra veg instead which has no points.

I'm saving any Christmas blowout for cheesecake which I adore and have had once in the last six months! I'm not going to eat loads, but Christmas and Boxing Day will be my days off from tracking my food and being on my diet then it will be back on the wagon for me!

tessie_bear

hi...just finished making a stew and cooking some blackberries (not in the same pot) for tea....also going to make a chicken pie
its amazing what u find at the back of the cupboards when u are trying not to spend....we have a lot of yogurt in the fridge and i was trying to think of something to have with it....suddenly occured to me we have got blackberries i picked in the freezer so we can have them and nothing spent...splendid

have a nice day tess

rachbc

just done a small ocado order to use the 25% of voucher they sent me - its primarily stuff for next month so will take it out of rth at budget! With a combination of the voucher and offers I got £83 worth of shopping for £54 inc delivery - lots of chicken thighs and mince for the freezer!

meg72

Declaring now slightly over but well stocked so very pleased.Going to go for my usual budget of £100 for December please.

TheThriftyScrumpers

Hello!
NSD today, made even better as my lovely Mum has made us a shepherds pie for tea!! Hope everyone is ok xx

nannygladys

Just come back from Aldi and spent total of £2.42 on leeks 3xbananas, couscous, plain yogurt and marg, so really pleased with that, mind you I only have 1.82 to last until 2/12 so may be using Mr T vouchers. Made Leek & Pot soup for lunch and having freezer surprise for tea.