November 2012 Grocery Challenge

icontinuetodream

I have joined the NOvember challenge so need to reduce my budget to £130 ... sorry to be a pain

tattycath

Ok so it's the first of November and I've already spent some of my budget for the month.
£29.07/£300

Make-it-3

Happy November everyone. First day of the month and first weekly shop. Pretty impressed with just £23.80 spent. I think I should be ok bar milk/bread top-ups till mid-week next, but then I always do ....

tattycath

Just to give a bit of an insight into some of the stuff I buy-when I don't strictly follow the list :
4 cartons fruit juice
18pk of mcCoys - reduced
6pk c&o crisps - reduced
Shreddies - reduced
Kitchen roll
cheddars - reduced
butter - reduced
capri sun (10 pk)
sugar
tea bags
2 loaves bread
2 cartons milk (8pints in total)
icing sugar - reduced
tin Rice pudding - reduced
margarine (large tub)
tinned pineapple - reduced
Mr Mash - reduced
Minced beef
Mushrooms
15 eggs
Total £29.07

LannyLee

Grrrrrr, my NSD has gone now as realised I didn't have any mushrooms for tonight's dinner & since my DH almost divorced me last time I made curry with no mushrooms in I nipped to Mr.T to get some, so just a small spend today 97p

peony40

Hello,

Well, I have had my delivery for November and it came to £126.96 so this leaves me with £23.04 until the 27th November.

My freezers and store cupboards are groaning so in theory I should be able to come in on budget, the key for me is to menu plan.

So to help me achieve my first successful grocery challenge I will wander over to both the fiscal fast and meal plan threads and give them both a go.

rosieben

icontinuetodream, I've added your Braised Cabbage with Red Beans & Rice to the recipe index :beer:

elfina_2

Went shopping today to buy reduced pumpkins after halloween to make Pumpkin soup. Looked everywhere, supermarkets, grocers and market and there were none! Where have they all gone? Does anyone from the supermarket world know? Do they ship them all out to a soup making factory or something? I am puzzled and would love to know

tattycath

Don't know where the pumpkins go but I still have one that I haven't carved
Kids have done theirs and OH has done one but I never got round to it. So I still have one in my pantry.

XSpender

Spent £5.19 on some fruit and my contribution to the work buffet today. Did quite well as my lovely colleagues had brought some GF cakes in which I got to take home, about £6 worth. Very nice of them:T

Not sure what's for tea:o Our meals are all over the place this week with trying to get the loft sorted and I have managed to defrost and waste 2 chicken breasts:mad: DH will be in shortly, and raiding the fridge like a plague of locusts so I better rustle up some pasta sharpish.