October 2012 Grocery Challenge

meanmarie

First shop of October and it cost €94.97! Will need nothing for at least a week, maybe 2 and we will be having some strange meals out of freezer and cupboards to use up stuff that is out of date or nearly so.

Marie

Make-it-3

Not one, but three trips to MrS today. Its the usual scenario when we are having people over for dinner - I buy the ingredients, OH complains we haven't got enough wine/snacks etc and then there will inevitably be a key ingredient we discover we don't have while cooking. So totalling up today's spends its £38.15 and that's just for tonight and rest of weekend. I'll be doing the weekly shop on Monday.

We're now at £57.84/£200.

Christi

Two small shops for me today in A!di and L!dl to get some meat and special offers - £5.10 in A!di and £8.28 in L!dl.

Went round A!di by myself so just got 6 tins of mushy peas, a small chicken, some fruit and fibre and a punnet of half price strawberries hence the fairly low spend.

Wanted some of the half prices sausages in L!dl so picked them up and some gammon but by then my OH had arrived. Into the basket went a bottle of beer and 2 peri peri Nando's sauces. £4.24 I didn't want to spend but he deserves a treat every so often and I like Nando's too.

Don't think we'll need anything in the week apart from bread and milk. Hoping for some NSDs as well or I'm not going to make the challenge without being really frugal.

mrs-moneypenny

ive put my morrys and fruit and veg spends on my sig

hm pizza in the bm for tonights tea

smashedsanny

daft question on frrzing bananan do you freeze them in the skin or what :beer:

she_who_can_not_cook

WantToBeSE wrote: »

she_who_can_not_cook wrote: »

oh darn it, i dont have an aldi anywhere near me! Oh well, i will just hve to make do with rolled up towels as usual :rotfl:
Thanks though.

lol thats the frugal way:T

she_who_can_not_cook

mummyyof5 wrote: »

Some great YS items in my MrTs tonight...Almost £60 of meat for £18..sausages were £5.00:eek::eek: a pack for 50p...£3.00 pizzas for 30p...£8.00 joint of pork for £1.60 and lots more besides...got lots of reduced veg too:T:T:T

Freezer is a bit fuller now:)

Along with a few full price items spends today were £28..off to add to sig xxxx

wow envy lots of it

SuzieY_2

I know it's a little late, but can I be put down for £130 this month. August and September were a complete write of as I has horrible morning sickness and was eating what i could keep down as and when.
I'm feeling better now so need to try hard in Oct. I've also got a goal of about 5 months (assuming i'm up to it) until i'm off on mat leave and will have a lot less money to work with.

she_who_can_not_cook

smashedsanny wrote: »

Thanks for getting back to me about the second purse thing, I just think I would get too confused to do it lol.
Can I ask if anyone gose to the shops everyday just to see what YS things are there, and if good deals pick them up, or do most just look for YS as and when they need them, Thanks

me i am walking for weight loss (any excuse to shop ) but when i finish work i see the same faces of a night .. tesco has been vv poor for me lots of meat reduced by about a quid lol
iceland does half price and i found some reduced before closing

she_who_can_not_cook

smashedsanny wrote: »

daft question on frrzing bananan do you freeze them in the skin or what :beer:

i do and use in baking