November 2012 Grocery Challenge

meg72

Another week to go for me. I havent had to spend much this week as still using up whoopsies from October.I did buy a few tins of the heinz
chopped tomatos and bread flour for store cupboard . but otherwise it was mainly fruit and veg

Am undecided whether to start using my Asda gift card in December or wait until January. I think I will wait,I have 300 on the cards which would be 3 months at the 20.00 budget but I am liking the idea of just seeing how long I can stretch it for.

Hurdler

I am down to 3 portions of homemade carrot and ginger soup, and really want to try and only have soup at lunchtimes when I am working from home - so I will be dipping into my weekly cash allowance and getting some carrots, so when I get back from tennis this evening, I can batch up Cabbage, Potato & Carrot soup... At least I was NSD on Monday... sigh. I really need to get my head around how to plan the soups in now that I am getting used to having them pretty much every week day...

Friday I will probably do the Thai sweet potato and courgette batch while the veggies are in their first week, and then next week I can thrash through my Tinned tomatoes.

Right now I am trying to get the motivation to walk in the rain to the parade of shops to get the carrots instead of driving to Mr S after tennis. Driving is winning at the moment !

Edited: This is ridinkidonk. I have stuff to do two soups in the house - so I am NOT going to dip into my cash allowance when I don't need to.
Also saves in the additional diesel to drive DOWN the road after tennis and then back home.

Right - tomato soup to be made this evening after tennis, so I can have a bowl tomorrow (off to a HIDEOUSLY expensive thai restaurant tomorrow, so need to make sure I am very calorie lite tomorrow to stay within 1200 net).
Later this week I'll do the other one so at least I have a bit of variety ...

Off to my mother's this weekend, and there is a Mr T (I usually help her with some shopping when I am there) so easy enough for me to pick up a gazillion carrots on the Clubcard Savings account for the following week.

I used to be indecisive... but now I'm not so sure ...:rotfl:

Make-it-3

Bread, milk & dishwasher tablets purchased yesterday - used a brand match voucher (no idea why I get these as I don't buy brands - but thank you MrS anyway) so total spend was just £3.81.

£154.89/£200. That's not looking too bad - ten days and just shy of £50 left. Do-able if I'm careful.

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Had to go to Sains last night to get some bits for work - they only text the list through in the late afternoon which is annoying when I've already been sm shopping :mad:

Managed to pick up a ys prawn mayo sw (49p) and a loaf of low cal bread for 19p so that was lunch sorted plus bread for the freezer for a few weeks! Work's shopping gave me a 12p price match voucher so I used this for my bits giving a total to add of 56p :j (I must add that I had a £4.50 off a £30 shop coupon which I used for work so I don't feel at all bad about accepting the 12p :rotfl:)

Have a good day everyone
Coxy

GreenFairy

Trip to Ald1 on the way home. Mostly veg and fruit, plus tissues. Also picked up two packs of salted tortilla chips to add to the Christmas pantry. €15.45 added to total. Will need milk and more veg by the end of the week, no doubt

DanielleNic87

Reporting a spend of £4.50 yesterday on bananas and eggs.

Total spend this month so far is £10.85 :j

Think i have finally got DH on board too.

RevolvingDoor

I got my Mr T delivery today and got a bit excited and online ordered my stuff for next week. I ordered lots of value range things so I hope we don't mind the difference in taste. I didn't have any Mr T vouchers for that week so I think I did quite well considering I'm new to this.

First week of Nov - Grocery bill was around £125.
Second week Nov - £100.
Third week - £90.
Fourth week will be £80.

:T

(I only started budgeting in the 3rd week I should add!)

liz-paul

Ooops I spent £15 today so now I only have £75 for the rest of the month..... It's going to be tight, not sure how I will afford booze for the party but I'll think of something. Might have to insist that it's bring a bottle or possibly raid the petrol budget as that will be under this month....

Taranaman

Just added a few small spends. Hoping to get to next week without a big shop. Fridge looking full, freezer ditto and a collection of the weird and wonderful in the can cupboard if it comes to the worst and I don't crumble.

Billie-jo

A massive spend of £0.55 today on a lt milk. Only brought the one cause it was 6p more than when I go to A!di on Thursday:rotfl:

10 days left and still have £136.28 left in the pot - happy how this month is going so far.

Have a tub of plain cottage cheese in fridge and dont know what to do with it, brought it to do a 4 cheese souffle with but then decided against it - any ideas welcome please - dont like it in jkt pot really, would it work in a quiche if I mixed it with 2-3 beaten eggs and some sauteed leeks with perhaps some ham or bacon bits then poured it into a quiche case ? Its two days out of date but dont think this would hurt would it, will do a sniff test first.