October 2012 Grocery Challenge

sweetpea26

finishing off the month with a reasonable stock of tinned foods and a total of £309.76

See you all over in November :)

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Well October was a (big) disaster. All was going well until this weekend when DH came shopping with me. We had some friends round for dinner and needed to get alcohol, some of which will be for Christmas, but even so......

I am still going to be checking in until 31st October as I know some of you may wish to post your budgets for November here. I have however started my November GC now as DH has been paid

Hope you have better luck than me in keeping those purses shut

Coxy

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Hello everyone, hope your all doing well. I have gone over budget by about £30, which is really quite a lot (50% of my budget), but i do think i have to rethink the alcohol thing (include - not include). I would like to declare October at £90 see you all over on November thread. Thanks to everyone who takes the time to do these threads.

NickJW

Right - few more updates:

£1.70 in the corner shop
£2.78 in Mr W
£2.69 in m+s

£7.17 in total

One more spend will be needed tomorrow then I'll be ready to declare and start Novembers thread.

Billie-jo

Will NOT be spending any more tomorrow so am going to declare October at £291.45 a huge overspend of £51.45 :eek::eek:
Am shocked at how much have gone over this month but looking back I can see that about half of the overspends has been on ready made meals - pizza, curry etc which is most unusual for us and just goes to prove that home made is cheaper. At least I know where I have gone wrong and can work towards putting it right.
Good luck to all those finishing off their October challenges.

she_who_can_not_cook

Save_Dosh wrote: »

Thanks to everyone who takes the time to do these threads.

here here i agree

NickJW

Spent £4.20 in Mr S today on veg

Having pie, mash and broccoli tonight, and having chicken with honey+parsnips w/broccoli tomorrow.

Lunch is just HM tuna salad.

So - I'm therefore declaring a disappointing £151.06/£135

Well done everyone and see you over in November...

poohbear59

I was a subscriber here for many years then thought I knew it all and went it alone. Today I realised that my food spending has been getting out of hand. I am going to rejoin you for November please. My month starts on 24th when we are paid so I have already started collecting my receipts and meal planning. Meal planning is one area that I have kept up for years now and I do a month ahead. Last month we spent £248 plus bread and milk at £8 per week plus £40 on extra fruit and vegetables.=£320 for four adults, 2 of whom are manual workers.
I used to pride myself on feeding the family for £120 per month!! I need to get back on track as we can't afford £320 a month.

In case we are snowed in again I also need to stock up my store room.

I would like to aim for a spend of £200 for November please.

Make-it-3

Hi, Happy Halloween all GCers.

Last few receipts to add up and I'm declaring for October at £219/£200 so about 10% over. But there was the Halloween party to cater for.

I'm making OH eyeball pasta tonight - always do something silly for halloween http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/12856/eyeball-pasta

See you in November

GreenFairy

Another almost €20 on some dinner/cooked breakfast bits (having friends stay over), compostable bin bags, milk and a few halloween treats.

Declaring at €221.47/€250 which is handy as I'll be putting in an order with ecoverdirect tomorrow for about 6 months worth of dishwasher tablets