October 2012 Grocery Challenge

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MaddyWaddy you could, if you wanted set up a signature, where you keep tally of your spends. I try to update mine every evening, otherwise id forget. You'll soon get the hang of it, it becomes quite addictive.

Today spent £9.88, got loads for that, including 6 cucumbers for £1, 6 packs of goats cheese, reduced to 50p plus a bag of other stuff. Just need potatoes and oven chips and thats me done for the weeks shopping.

EDIT has anyone tried the Tesco 31p cornflakes - are they worth buying ??

tessie_bear

hi....small spend in the coop today but got quite a bit of reduced stuff....also picked up some milk so should keep me from the shops for a few days maybe until the weekend....going to have hm fish and chips for tea and then i am going to make a chicken and ham pie for tea tomorrow to use up a few bits....we are having a sack of spuds delivered on sat which has gone up from £6 to £7.50 so thats a bit of a shock

take care tess

Godiva500

Asda Smartprice back bacon is not good. OH said it was so thin it fell apart as soon as it was touched. Willtry the next level up next time.

camNolliesMUMMY

Please add £1.51 to the total please.
Went and bought some herbs then dropped one.....the pavement now smells of oregano grrrrr damn tesco carrier splitting.
Manage to save the others though.

quintwins

We use value cornflakes i think there fine.i also use value cooking bacon in ...well cooking.

There is a good/bad value items thread on the food shopping forum.

£4.90 spent so far £4 to school for snacks and 90p for milk.

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quintwins thanks for that, i use the bacon myself and lots of value stuff, needs must, recently the value salad cream, which used to be disgusting, its not as good as Heinz but really not too bad. I would love the see that thread, never heard of food shopping forum, will have to have a hunt, thanks v much

PennyGrabber

I've had my first spends today: 54p on a kitkat chunky, 27p on two bananas (forgot to take ch's snacks for school) and £2.07 on three things from the super six - kiwis, carrots and oranges. Well, the carrots weren't super six, I just needed them. Takes my total to £2.88 for the month to date, with one nsd.

I'm off to dinner at a friend's tonight, and I don't need to take anything as we take it in turns to host between the three of us. I've just had a bacon baguette (using up freezer stuff) for lunch, and I'll have the rest of the bacon with some lo cheese sauce and mash tomorrow. Mmm.

PG x

Pearla*Merle

Save_Dosh wrote: »

MaddyWaddy
EDIT has anyone tried the Tesco 31p cornflakes - are they worth buying ??

I've not tried the cornflakes yet but I've had the everday value rice krispies and they are definitely worth buying! 70p for a massive box and they taste exactly the same as the big brand. It made me think that probably the less fussy things ie. simple ingredients, no cheap chocolate etc, would be more likely to taste fine as there's not too much that can go wrong with them? That's my theory, anyway. Think I might give the cornflakes a whirl next time... x

mummygems

Liz-Paul - I use value/basic/smart price chocolate (especially for cooking with) and think its fine.

The value chocolate bars and crisps are also fine. We use a lot of Basic things (from sainsburys) as found some of these things slightly better than say Asda smart price.

I have also spent nearly half of my budget this month but that was for stocking up on tins, packets, cleaning stuff, shower/body stuff, toothpaste etc. The rest I have drawn out in cash and put into envelopes with weekly amounts.

I have had a few NSD but will need tissues tomorrow and me and DS have colds.

xx_Jo_xx

I was hoping for a NSD today but lunchbox items were at a critical level so needs must ...

£4.29 in the Co-Op
£9.68 in L!dl

Got a few bits for lunches inc yogurts etc for little one. But also picked up some cupboard bits and pieces for teas during the week.

£13.97 spent £236.03 left

ETA: Most of my last online shop consisted of Basics...
- Individual cartons of orange and apple juice were 'watery' and little one didnt like them so we wont be having those again.
- long life cartons of apple and orange breakfast juice were nice!
- Digestives were good
- and I tried the Basics mince, which I dont normally do, but it was ok! It cooked well and didnt melt down into a big puddle of fat when I cooked it! Its different from buying normal steak mince, but my budget being what it is, it was definitely a nice surprise.
- Basics sweetcorn (tinned) was the same as what youd get in any other tin, although the tin was smaller (I didnt check properly online)
- Basics prepacked strawberries - were ok and very fresh, but very very small
- Blueberries and grapes were small and bitter, i dont know we would get those again.
- Basics Wheatabix are ok - really quite small, but taste fine. LO has three instead of two and I havent worked out yet the cost per breakfast and if Im actually saving compared to stores own...

HTH someone xx