November 2012 Grocery Challenge

nicknack

I am going for a budget of £200 again this month please Coxy. I've had this target for a good while now but it seems to be working for me and I don't think I can shave much off that at the minute so will stick with it for now.

Anyway, I've already spent over £50 worth of this month's budget in Aldee, B&M and Lid! but have stocked up on pack up stuff, toiletries and cleaning products, so the next few weeks should just be fresh food. I've got my meal plan sorted for the month with quite a few veggie meals in there, so hopefully this will keep the budget down a bit.

We were away in London over the last weekend and I'm so pleased we had saved up for it as our spending money didn't seem to go very far :eek: Every time we bought some food or drinks I was thinking what it would buy in terms of my grocery budget - this GC challenge must really be getting to me!:rotfl:

tatabubbly

Two small spends : €4.98 and €1.79 in both tesc** and local store... Delighted I've found the cheapest place locally for milk.. I've been overpaying my nearly 0.70c every time :O

XSpender

I was planning a trip to ald1 after work but DH rang to say he had picked up a vomiting DS from nursery this afternoon so I came straight home. Went to Mr S as it is nearest to home later on and spent £30.23 but £7.50 was on jarmas for DS as he is growing out of all of his current ones and they had 25% off. I will deduct this from my GC total. £10 of this was on booze but this does come out of my GC.

£16.83 also spent on a small organic veg box and 4L of organic skimmed milk.

Apart from some cream cheese, fruit, oven chips, hot dogs, jacket pots and a small pork or chicken ready to roast joint I am going to try and not buy anything else until next Friday. I am working funny shifts next week so will either need to put something in the slow cooker before I go to work or have something planned and with clear instructions for DH:rotfl: oh yes DH will probably want some more beer.

My Mr T vouchers came today. Only £18.50 this year. I am certainly using them less:D. I am going to use the £15 to double up on frozen food. The freezer in the garage was accidentally defrosted when we went on holiday so it could do with restocking. They have also sent me a £12 off £90 spend which expires the last week of this months Gc:mad: I need to check out if I can use the double up and the £12 at the same time. If so it will be worth doing:D

What a rambling post:eek:

mummybearx

November already? :eek:

Budget for this month.... Erm, can I put zero? Just done the budget for this month, after being overdrawn last month, I literally have about £6 before I go into the overdraft again this month

In the middle of doing a full stock of the food we have, only got the fridge freezer and the stores in my shed to go x

emmita

First shop of the month, £42.98 from @sda. Got the cats stuff - have a tin of Felix to try my ultra fussy cat on as well as his normal Felix AGAIL. Did the price check and £2.23 due back plus a £5 off a £40 spend. Hope everyone does the price checks. £42.98 / £280

mrs-moneypenny

i havent totalled up my october spends yet but im in again for £400 for november please

will try harder this month;)

quintwins

Been shopping tonight, i got loads of stuff spent £36.30 but now have a fully stocked freezer and fridge, still need a few bits of monday but nothing major.

Suffolk_lass

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

OH just came in in a rage because he got ID'd buying beer at Mr M by the wee old lady behind the till - he's nearly 29, six foot four with broad shoulders, hair that's starting to grey and hasn't been ID'd since he was 14 :rotfl: so he's not best pleased! I know they need to be careful now but honestly, you'd have to be such a numpty to think he's 17, he's the youngest of his friends but looks the oldest :rotfl: (but is very handsome with it of course! ) That would be one way to be money saving but he's gone back out with his passport lol, I think his pride is a bit shot!

He should be so lucky - I dream of being ID'd!! :rotfl:

[Deleted User]

Spent £8.41 over T's and A's, had a bit of a couponing day

Also spent £4.73 when I went out for drinks with some people from work - which is a odd amount I know, but we bought a bottle of wine split three ways and some crisps, and the change was shoved in my direction....not complaining!!!

Also spent money getting pet food, travel, and having my hair done - but thats all separate entirely from our food budget!

Suffolk_lass

Two shops to report - that admittedly exceeded my planned spending. I visited the butcher and bought 4 things instead of the three on my list - £12.97 and I planned and printed my list from Azbos on Mysm but boosted it with some Xmas luxuries to ensure I exceeded £40 as I had a £5 coupon burning a hole. When I got there the extra special yogurts looked and sounded so nice that I bought loads more than planned - they are yummy though (and 15p off).

I also found the Kelloggs biscuit things I had freebie coupons for. There has been discussion on other threads about which coupons Azbos won't accept but I checked first with CS and it was fine. Three packs at £1.98 each for free (wouldn't have them otherwise). So £11 odd off in coupons. I'm happy but will be more frugal now.

Have a good weekend everyone and don't buy it if you don't need it...
SL