October 2013 Grocery Challenge

Bookworm42

Trip to Mr M today armed with a list and I'm very pleased that I only bought one extra thing not on there.:)
Total spend of £10.50 added to my signature.

K9sandFelines

dramarama wrote: »

Has the thanks button been removed?! Good afternoon everyone. I thought I was doing well and then bam we ran out of cereal so ended up at Mr T's for cereal, milk, fabric conditioner and a few other bits...£9.46 spent.
Takes me nearer to £40 spent so far...:eek:anyone know of a fabric conditioner that smells like L*nor?! I buy my washing powder from Aldeee but have not found a fabric conditioner I like.

OH was a bit upset about repetitive food, despite there being LOADS of food in. Grrr .

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downshifted

Hmm - first spends of the month are quite big ones - £47.55 in Aldi, £25.48 in Sains and £12 at the butchers, a total of £85.03/250. However, I had coupons, have stocked up on washing powder, cleaning stuffs, tinfoil etc as well as food - and I bought the Lurpak dish too!

I analysed my spends for last month and am pleased with the range and amount of veg we ate - but surprised at how much cream we have had - partly because of visitors but partly because it is only 85p from Aldi and therefore feels like more of a staple and less of a treat - I shall be cutting down for the sake of our cholesterol. Sugar was high, but I made jam, baked for the builders and have a sweet toothed visitor. Keepting and reviewing receipts really does help to keep an eye on these things

Should only be buying green groceries and dairy for the next few weeks :-)

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Budgets updated to here

Nice to know someone is checking the list studentmidwife - did you not know newbies to the challenge have to make do with only £2 budget :rotfl:

Welcome/welcome back to:
Bookworm42, mam_of_five, vodkawitch1, mrs motivated, MummyBobble, sneakyspender and Charlie-Brown

Coxy

Cambs85

Two shops today, sains (£10.89) and waitrose (£2.29). Total = £13.18. That should be it for this week until Saturday's market purchases.

K9sandFelines

Today's spend was £2.05 in the Co-*p on YS parsnips, YS cauli (which I will turn into cauliflower cheese soup) and milk. Unfortunately the first milk I dropped, and instead of bouncing when it hit the floor, it exploded all over the aisle .... I offered to pa, but they let me off.

Just made a fig and blue cheese tart using my YS pastry I took out of the freezer last night - first time I have tried fresh figs and also blue cheese.... omg, the combination along with the flaky pastry was out of this world. Still have half left so may eat for dinner tomorrow. Has anybody any other recipes using either of these ingredients please?

Off to update sig ...

RomanyLass

£5.39 on bread, dog food and salt

Having curried leftovers and rice for dinner.

malamay

NSD here. I started my month yesterday, not Friday. I was a bit overly hopeful for payday! We were over by £30 last month, so hopefully will learn from that this month.

We have so much meat in I'm going to have to borrow freezer space from the in laws' We had a delivery, and I found chicken reduced and on multibuy at Mr. T. Plus, I've been making soups for Hubbs' lunches..

candygirl

Can I join in for Oct?I'm hoping for a target of £200 for me, OH, n 2 dogs, n 2 grandkids.That's for all food, dog food , toiletries etc!!

medsdemon

1 NSD for me today. Yesterday OH spent 77p on YS yoghurt at As*a and £1.20ish (lost receipt!!) on a pineapple and winegums at Al*i. On the plus side the Glutafin rep was at his work today so he got 2 GF loaves and 3 packs of biccies from him.