November 2012 Grocery Challenge

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evening all

went out for lunch and shopping with DM today and paid just under £30 altogether for a lovely meal out - this includes the £4 tip we left as the waiters were SO helpful and polite and really quick service, etc. couldnt have asked for a better time out!

doubtful that we will come anywhere near budget with 3 weeks to go still, but time will tell I suppose!

nannygladys

Small spend today, £3.21 on garlic, herbs, milk, marg and deod. will update sig. was hoping for NSD but have DGD tonight and tomorrow night so needed the milk and marg
Jxx

tattycath

OH went out and got:
Bread
2 lots of milk
mayonnaise
from local shop. He thinks it was approx £5
Total £60.61

mossy

Bare with me because this is grocery challenge related, well life related!!

I'm reading a great diet book at the moment but it's seems so much more than that as it's about understanding why you do certain things (overeat, overspend etc). It's called The Mouth Trap: the butt stops here (Low Carb edition) just in case anyones interested. She's also written a book about getting out of debt...anyway I digress.

Here's a brilliant quote that I just read from it, 'Discipline is remembering what you REALLY want!' I thought I'd share that with you, I hope it will pop in to my mind everytime I find myself wandering off my targets and am tempted to overspend on something that I don't really need!! I hope you all keep within your budgets this month!

adelight

I needed to get milk and some veg today but couldn't find my bank card and couldn't remember the pin on my emergency one! doh!! Had an absolute flap when I got home searching for it then found it in my pocket
I won't have chance to go the shops tomorrow so god knows what concoctions I'll be eating until wednesday night.

Billie-jo

Another NSD here and have been using things up. Lunch was some bacon and sliced up 3 mushrooms that were in and also 3 left over potatoes, had this with toast.
Then for tea we had Russian roulette pie :rotfl: from out of the freezer. Wasnt sure what it was as label had fell off and was thinking it was either chicken & mushroom, meat & potato or apple pie - turns out it was turkey & veg

angelatgraceland

Just popping in now as I have been AWOL due to my husbands illness.
Sadly he passed away on the 24th October and I now feel I have to start being organised again! DD left home last year so my family of 5 is now a family of 3 and I now need to readjust. Not going to worry about tallying up the years spending as it is impossible. Just back to keeping note of grocery spends as I have major adjustments to make financially.
Glad I did the challenge the last couple of years though as I am now well equiped to manage my finances better.

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angelatgraceland wrote: »

Just popping in now as I have been AWOL due to my husbands illness.
Sadly he passed away on the 24th October and I now feel I have to start being organised again! DD left home last year so my family of 5 is now a family of 3 and I now need to readjust. Not going to worry about tallying up the years spending as it is impossible. Just back to keeping note of grocery spends as I have major adjustments to make financially.
Glad I did the challenge the last couple of years though as I am now well equiped to manage my finances better.

Sorry to hear your sad news angel. My Dad passed away end of August and it was a big readjustment to organise and take care of all his finances. Me and DM are only just starting to get back on track with everything but we are nearly out of the woods.

I hope you have people to rally around you and a close family, we are unfortunate in the fact we have had hardly any help at all (non financially speaking) and have to get on with it, and I find most of the work has been left to me to do.

{{{hugs}}}

Coxy11

angelatgraceland wrote: »

Just popping in now as I have been AWOL due to my husbands illness.
Sadly he passed away on the 24th October and I now feel I have to start being organised again! DD left home last year so my family of 5 is now a family of 3 and I now need to readjust. Not going to worry about tallying up the years spending as it is impossible. Just back to keeping note of grocery spends as I have major adjustments to make financially.
Glad I did the challenge the last couple of years though as I am now well equiped to manage my finances better.

So sorry to hear about your DH. Sending you (((hugs))) and just wanted to say we are all here for you.

Take care,
Coxy

XSpender

So sorry to hear of your loss angelatgraceland.

Thanks for the tips on GF bread in the bread maker GreenFairy. I haven't made it yet but will be giving it a go on my day off later in the week.

NSD for me today and after a late shift at work I'm another one who had beans and chips for tea.

Making sausage casserole in the morning to go in the slow cooker for tomorrow nights tea with mash.