October 2013 Grocery Challenge

Cwtchie

New to this but please can I try......£280, 2 adults, 2 grown up teenagers, a 10 yr old, 2 dogs and a cat! Loving this forum Month starts today! Mum having Mrt delivery so I tagged on and spent £25 ish and have done a meal plan and food in freezer list, definitely ok for a week ....I hope made apple pie today, not enough filling for two pies so froze the rest of the pastry, quite proud!

Rachel021967

£7 spent on sweets, bread and soft drinks. I must leave earlier so I will not feel obliged to buy sweets on the way home from school.

zafiro1984

Month starts today for me and I've managed to stay away from the shops. Must meal plan and just buy the bits and bobs missing to make up the meals. That's the plan!!

lynnejk

sefilby wrote: »

what's ideal party food for 2-6yr olds? we've got cucumber&carrot sticks, sausage rolls, HM mini pizzas, animal shaped sandwiches (don't ask!) is there anything I can put out that isn't cake or ful of sugar?

How about either cold, crispy toast fingers or baguettes sliced diagonally really thin - add marmite; different pastes; cream cheese. Also small cut up pieces of cheese; pineapple; tomato. Mine used to love seedless grapes and HM crisps. Hope it helps

Cwtchie wrote: »

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Welcome - sounds like you made a good start

Good start for me with a NSD and had MShop with free food/tea all day. :j DH had shepherd's pie - HM from freezer and he managed the microwave all by himself :rotfl:

Good luck everyone for the month
L.

Nicki_Sue

Off the blocks with my first spend - £19.99 on AF with £5 friend ref bonus taken off and £1 credit I had on there.

joedenise

My month started Monday and have spent £32.51 so far. No more spends until Thursday.

Denise

CH27

I need to buy some fruit & veg today but intend to the local farm shop for it so I can't be tempted by other things I don't need or really even want.

Cheapskate

Morning everyone

Please can I go down for £450 for October? Small overspend for September, not as bad as previous, but as I now don't work, I need to really concentrate on every penny!

Going to the top of the thread to catch up now, happy Wednesday people!

A xo

mrs-moneypenny

yesterday was an almost NSD
biked into next town to take advantage of a free 6in sub offer the local paper had been doing gave DS2 the sub and 75p for a drink (that was all the change i'd got in my pocket. he nip in the cheap shop for a can got his sub and we biked home.
busy last night with school meetings and then had to nip out to pick something up so made a quick pan of mushroom soup for tea/supper.

todays plan is
scrambled egg for dinner
leek and potato soup for tea

XSpender

NSD yesterday and another planned for today.

Planned to make spicy bacon pasta bake last night and ended up with cheese and bacon omlettes, HM spicy wedges and mixed veg!

I am going to spend some of my remaining budget on a few jars of sauces to stick in the cupboard for those nights I come home from work cream crackered and don't have the energy to make a new recipe from scratch which is what happened with last nights pasta bake.

In reality it would not have taken long to make but I felt a bit outfaced by it. Tonight I am making chicken and leek gratin from scratch which I have made several times before and kind of know what's involved and how long it will take. I will also start it as soon as I get in so I dont get swayed into making something else/getting a takeaway.