October 2012 Grocery Challenge

maman

WantToBeSE wrote: »

Thanks minicooper and Maman for the recipes, i'll be giving both of those a go within the next week or 2

Am off shopping at Lidl this morning (for those of you who are preparing for winter, they are doing draught excluders for £3.99). I'm pretty sure i'll stay within budget, as i dont need that much.

Sorry to state the bloomin' obvious but I forgot to add seasoning to taste to casserole recipe!:o

WantToBeSE

Just updated my signaure

maman- its ok, i kill everything with salt and pepper, so would have added it anyway :rotfl:

Well, went to Lidl, as planned, did my food shopping, as planned....but forgot to pick up the draught excluders!! What a numpty!

I am in love with their tins of ratatouille (sp??) as well! I can easily polish off a whole tin with a bread roll and roasted chicken drumstick for lunch..yum!!

Sequeena

Spent £15.13 yesterday which brings total spend up to £32.06 so far

Make-it-3

Had to buy milk again (we now do 12 pts a week as opposed to 4 since DD is on the stuff). So £1.74 to add bringing my new total to £19.69/£200 on day 4.

meg72

Am over budget by 3.79 this week because I struck very lucky in Tesco and Asda yesterday

So for my 23.79 I got

Smoked salmon, five packs
Rump steak (will do 6 meals)
Prawns
1kg minced lamb
Pork lion chops 4
Steak and kidney (500g)
Chicken Breasts (3)
Ready meals currry (2)

The salmon alone would have been 23.94

In Asda I got 6 packs of warm chargrilled chicken salad, 20p instead of 2.00 each. 4 x500g prepared carrots at 5p each instead of 50p. Stirfry veg at 5p. and loads of other bits.

I estimate that I have saved over 60.00 on this, I draw my 20.00 again tommorow but am thinking I dont need anything for next week at all.

Right off to prepared all the reduced veg and dehydrate it as no more room in freezer, which seems to have got over its fit earlier in the week.

Duvessa

Had to do a little shop for fruit, bread and milk ect so that takes me to £61/£200

[Deleted User]

I spent about £10 today, less, but rounded it up and got a stack of stuff. Morrisons had their savers mozzarella 2 packs for 50p if anyones interested. I would be doing ok, if it stopped there. But gutsy me could not resist the alcohol bargains in Asda, so i have a big shop making its way to me. I will not be adding all that to this month, as most(!!!) is going to be stored for xmas, i got 2 x absolute peach vodka @ £10 each, they are normally about £18.99 (i think)
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ETA Rejected my Asda Order, as half the booze i ordered was not there, bad substitutes, so budget still intact.


EDIT Becksfaz - thanks v much for the prices, seems v similar
Meg72 - Wow thats a lovely haul
Duvessa - welcome to the thread

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Budgets done to here

Small spend today in Co$tco on a piece of pork belly to cook on Saturday when we have friends over. I also bought some cereal from 2nd purse. Will update totals in a bit.

Coxy

she_who_can_not_cook

WantToBeSE wrote: »

Just updated my signaure



Well, went to Lidl, as planned, did my food shopping, as planned....but forgot to pick up the draught excluders!! What a numpty!

they are in
aldi this sunday 2.79 i hope they are the same i did not see the lidl ones

she_who_can_not_cook

nicknack wrote: »

Just got my Lidl leaflet too - mine's got chicken breasts on offer, Nescafe gold blend at £4.99 for a 200g jar, quorn mince at £1.49 amongst other things and the weekend offers are Utterly Butterly at 90p, sausages at 49p, cherry toms at 50p and 12 bags of mini cheddars for £1.49. Some of those will be making it onto my weekly shopping list.:)

thank you i did not go thur as i should to pick up the leaflet