October 2012 Grocery Challenge

Billie-jo

Weekly shop today in A!di then a trip to local Chinese wholesalers and have now spent £128.27 out of £240 I will need some fruit & veg on Saturday and have also ordered some skirt beef from local butchers which will also be on Saturday.

In the Chinese there were large bags of bok choi /pak choi for about £2.50 (probably 10-12 heads of it) I don’t think I would actually use all of it before it went off so was wondering if any of you knew if it could be frozen, failing that could I use it instead of cabbage in bubble and squeak and freeze it that way? I have in the past used it in soups, stir fry’s and also as a vegetable dish along with mushrooms and onions.

mummyyof5

Popped to MrTs today and spent £9.00...used DDs Healthy Start vouchers for 12 pints of milk,also got satsumas,ham,eggs,2 bread,cereal coleslaw and cat food..DD has started working 16 hours a week so dont think she will be entitled to the vouchers any more???..will need some more milk and squash tomorrow...shopping daily buying only what we really need this week as finances are really tight.

Toddlers tomorrow...will be taking a cup a soup and some bread for me and bits for DGD from fridge so no spends there.

meg72

Well had 17.00 left of my budget but decided I would go shopping today
as do not feel well and might not be able to go for a few days.

Spent it all on stocking up fruit and veg for next week, and got whoopsied ham, prawns and yogurt

So pleased I did as feel awful now and have a nasty ear infection which has made it too painful to eat the steak I planned for dinner, so meal saved and I get to draw my 20.00 again tommorow and see if I can do the same again next week.

katholicos

Spent nothing today, neither on food nor anything else.

Still haven't received the bulk of my foodbargains order, but after shooting off emails all yeasterday evening and through-ought today, tonight i finally got a reply. They say it will be sorted by 11am tomorrow morning.

Better be grrrr...

katholicos

Oh, forgot to say, i took two mystery portions of food from the freezer....for some reason i convinced myself 1 would be vegetarian for my daughter and myself and the other carnivorous for my son. As it turned out, they were both meat meals so my son got a massive plateful for tea and i had to rustle up something for myself and daughter. Thank goodness for Quorn!

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doing well at the moment by only buying stuff on my 'needs' shopping list.Spent £7.55 yesterday taking my outlay this month so far to 18.07.Only milk to buy at the weekend so it looks like I shall be within budget this month

Barbeduk

Morning! Just popping in to update as found an earlier receipt which was higher (of course!) than I guesstimated. Also bought ingredients to make a cheesecake to take to dinner at a friend's tomorrow, also ingredients for a fruit cake made with mincemeat which I've re-found the recipe for! If only I didn't enjoy baking so much I'd save £s and lbs!:p

So am on £111.99 now for month, updated in sig. Really hope not to have to shop at weekend as can't cope with the crowds so have a good one everybody.:D

jedi82

Morning, off to L!dl and MrM today for the weekly shop. Am taking a list and am so going to try and stick to it. I can do it! Will update later. Also had a sneaky bottle of wine last night so got to add that as well......

Jedi x

digging

So we are still at £99.61 for this month (for 2 adults). I'm now at the stage where I would normally nip and get a few bits (prob £20/30 worth), however I am now eating out of the cupboards (so to say) in a bid to try holding off on the 'few extra bits' a bit longer. The closer I can hold out to payday (end of month) the better and less money we will spend. I have plenty stocked up....some of the meals will be strange and foods put together that I wouldn't normally but my OH eats anything so that's a good start.

I know I will have to get milk and bread at some point when my freezer reserves run out.

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Barbeduk wrote: »

Morning! Just also ingredients for a fruit cake made with mincemeat which I've re-found the recipe for! If only I didn't enjoy baking so much I'd save £s and lbs!:p

Any chance of the recipe for the fruit cake with the mincemeat ingrediants as I have a jar in the cupboard to use up