November 2012 Grocery Challenge

meg72

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

Small spends to report - £3.22 on orange juice, potato scones, lorne sausage and a beef tomato by OH in preparation for a fry-up today, and £1.02 by me on a tine of baked beans, a YS pear (19p) and YS fresh coriander (9p). Really annoyed as the coriander was to bung in last night's veg fajitas and I forgot and left it out, so probably will get wasted

If you really don't want to waste the coriander it will freeze. I buy it when reduced sometimes then freeze it to use in carrot and coriander soup, or just chuck it in a stew.

Sabrina237

Found it Meg, thank you!! Am new to this, so am hoping to only spend a maximum of £10 until the end of the month as we are lucky to have a freezer full at the moment so only need to get a few saladey bits

happy_chick_3

oh no I'm cutting it fine again! £173.97 of a £175 budget already gone and theres still a week to go! I'm spending much less than I was a few months ago but do need to get this under control.

Have planned a weeks worth of meals using only the ingredients I've got. I'm a sucker for a treat though and, after watching Jamies 15 minute meals this morning, nearly bought a few more things to make one of his recipes. Checked myself at the supermarker door though becuase, although I've got most of the ingredients, I was looking at a spend of £5 plus to complete the recipe. Theres enough food in the cupboards that this would have been a waste. I'll plan to cook a his delicious looking Laksa soup next month instead!

Suffolk_lass

I've slightly exceeded my November total already - spent 7.80 at the market veg stall, £7.67 in the C0-0p and £16.54 in the butchers ao I'm £10+ over for the month but I'm not too unhappy - this was my first month with £100 knocked off my normal total.

I've just got to stick on this total for the week until Friday (pay-day). I've got a chilli in the slow oven that is for later in the week and I'm about to make a roast pork dinner as DS is coming over. Been out picking up bramleys from the grass to make apple sauce and either baked apples or apple crumble (I know he would prefer crumble but baked apple is better for the waistline!).

Our mealplan is:

Sun - Roast pork with apple sauce, roast veg, broccoli, carrots and gravy, then apple pudding
Mon - Baked Potato with beans and cheese
Tue - Chilli and Rice
Wed - beef stew with shin of beef, shallots, potatoes, sweet potato and carrots, served with cabbage
Thu - eating out (and live music concert)
Fri - chicken jalfrezi curry with plain rice and butternut squash and onion gujarat masala accompaniment.

Keep it going everyone and remember, only buy it if you need it and it's for a recipe this week!
Best wishes
SL

DanielleNic87

Spent £7 at C*op yesterday. I was only stocking up on toilet roll on offer as we had double discount as well. Forgot to get milk, so will have to get some tomorrow.

Sig already updated.

minicooper272

I think I'm as well giving the update today- I've come in at £125.91, so £25 over budget, though I will round that up to £30 over, in case I buy a chocolate bar or two at work during the week...

Next month will be a funny one, I need to run down the cupboards but retain enough for January, and also need to pay my way for the Christmas period (parents need the money as much as the rest of us!), which I always round up by a few quid. No idea how to budget for it, or account for it, but I have til Friday to decide! Does anyone have the link to the new forum?

lemmings1986

minicooper- heres the link
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4295813

GreenFairy

Stop off on way home from visiting to pick up a sack of spuds, parsnips, limes, ginger root and a turnip. €9.80 total.

Cleaned out my handbag and found a couple of sneaky receipts so have added those to the total now as well.

In a bit of fab news, got an early Christmas prezzie from MIL - a supermarket voucher. She's been saving stamps all year for us as I'm a student as hubs is just out of college and job hunting. €100 for groceries. Am ridiculously happy with it.

jumblejack

Hi guys

Sorry I've been AWOL.

Life gets in the way but I have kept within budget. :A

We had whoopsied pork mince (40p from £4) for dinner which was fried with onions and fresh sage with the last oft cooking apples grated in. I made a gravy with crab apple jelly and we had this with my last potatoes which were roasted and carrots m green beans (both whoopsied n frozen).

I saved some of the mince n gravy for a leftover pie filling tomorrow.

I haven't been on for ages but have recently discovered the shabby chic thread and have caught the bug! Thought I'd pop in and say hi whilst I'm on the Old Style Board.

Hope everyone is OK? It's nice to see some of the old names still posting

jumblejack

Forgot to say, picked up 10k of onions today from Lidl which were 99p for a 5K bag!! :j