October 2012 Grocery Challenge

sneakyspender

Thank you Coxy.Going well so far. Spent £16 in butchers (12 sausages, a chicken and a pound of stewing steak). Also £8 in fishmongers for yummy smoked haddock .(Fish pie for tea tonight). So total of £82 this week, bang on budget

Godiva500

First spend of month for me at Approved foods - stock items we use on special, to store. £28.31.

zafiro1984

Can I join in, I know it's late in the year but I need to get my shopping under control. I think £8 per day should be ok especially as my freezers are well stocked with bits and pieces. Therefore it's £248 for October

Does anyone know of a website where you can enter an ingredient and it gives you ideas on how to use it, thanks.
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camNolliesMUMMY

Right I'm on it big style this next month but as my month goes from the 27th till the 28th so il put my costs down now.

Just come back from an Asian market and saved lots of pennies.
I've bought plenty of spices to keep us going till 2014 lol
Plenty of meat in our case chicken we use loads lol and fresh veg which I have chopped and frozen...took me ages lol
Here goes my target £150 for the month
Spend so far £54.32

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zafiro1984 wrote: »

Does anyone know of a website where you can enter an ingredient and it gives you ideas on how to use it, thanks.
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Try Supercook.

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Grocery Challenge Day 1 for me, went to the shops to get a few bits we needed, ended up with:

Sainbobs: 2 x Beef Lasagna + a pack of 4 Cheese and Bacon filled potatoes; all of which are my dinners now I'm back working nights and need something quick to eat when I get in.
Total: £4.10 to pay

Mr T's:
6 pack of Happy Eggs
6 pack Warburtons Crumpets
Broccoli (for our bunnies to munch)
PG tips teabags box of 160
Total to pay £8.00 but I had a 40p coupon for the eggs so £7.60

Also popped into Greggs for a bit of lunch for me and Mum to munch on
2 sausage rolls
chicken bake
bottle diet coke
capri sun orange
4 pack of cookies
Total: £7.45 to pay

Grand total today was £19.15

Mrs_Addicted_to_Spending

DanielleNic87 wrote: »

After a sucessful Sept GC i would like to carry on. Pease can you put me down for another £100. It is going to be avery tight month as Oh is only going to be paid 3 weeks worth of wages as they are changing all the pay days around :mad: Really not sure how we are going to cope.

Have you had a look at the "£7 for the week - menu ideas" thread - it may give you some ideas? I'm not sure how to put in a link - sorry.

zafiro1984 wrote: »

Can I join in, I know it's late in the year but I need to get my shopping under control. I think £8 per day should be ok especially as my freezers are well stocked with bits and pieces. Therefore it's £248 for October

Does anyone know of a website where you can enter an ingredient and it gives you ideas on how to use it, thanks.
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LoveFoodHateWaste is a good website for this - particularly good if you've got odd things to use up .



Well I'm on £80 this week out of £80 and don't need anything else so doing OK so far this month - hope I manage to keep it up .

DanielleNic87

Mrs_Addicted_to_Spending wrote: »

Have you had a look at the "£7 for the week - menu ideas" thread - it may give you some ideas? I'm not sure how to put in a link - sorry.



LoveFoodHateWaste is a good website for this - particularly good if you've got odd things to use up .



Well I'm on £80 this week out of £80 and don't need anything else so doing OK so far this month - hope I manage to keep it up .

Thanks for this. I am off to have a look now.

she_who_can_not_cook

Godiva500 wrote: »

First spend of month for me at Approved foods - stock items we use on special, to store. £28.31.

come on (she says with envy) did you get a lucky box...

MrsCD

zafiro1984 wrote: »

Can I join in, I know it's late in the year but I need to get my shopping under control. I think £8 per day should be ok especially as my freezers are well stocked with bits and pieces. Therefore it's £248 for October

Does anyone know of a website where you can enter an ingredient and it gives you ideas on how to use it, thanks.
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Try www.nhs.uk/Change4Life You can put one ingredient in the search and it will suggest healthy meals including it.