October 2013 Grocery Challenge

NickJW

Hello all!

Few NSD's thankfully. Dinners have had everything in for, and lunches have been using random bits of bread/pitta defrosted with ham or tuna mayo to make sandwiches.

Dinners this week have been/will be:

Monday (I cooked): Turkey stir fry using a edamame bean stir fry mix, rice noodles and Chinese stir fry sauce (the usual £3 deal in Mr S). Made it more to my style by adding some five spice, garlic, chilli and a splash of soy
Tuesday (housemate cooked): Breaded fish with garlic new potatoes, broccoli and sweet chilli sauce
Wednesday (I cooked): HM Chicken Biryani
Thursday (housemate cooked):Spaghetti Puttanesca
Friday (I'll cook): Hoisin turkey stir using l/o veg, mangetout, soy beans and rice
Saturday (housemate will cook): Piri piri chicken (ready done by Mr T) served with mash and broccoli
Sunday - going to a show in the evening, so raid the cupboards/fridge/freezer for a random late lunch for myself!

Need to do another Mr T delivery next week for another 2 weeks worth of food.

katholicos

hi all, hope you are all doing better than me. so far i have already spent £135 on groceries. do have to get the offers when we see them though, don't we ..particularly on things we buy and use regularly

dannie

Good morning,

My preferred milk is on offer so have stocked up on this as far too expensive (for me) at normal cost. Hardly ever want to buy anything else at this store so do not expect any other grocery spending for awhile. Nevertheless, starting to miss certain foods which I do not have so thinking of ways around this.

Nicki_Sue

Morning all. £32.57 to add for a L1dl shop.

meg72

Billie-jo wrote: »

Meg72 - have just sent you some idea of how to post picture via photobucket but not sure if I pressed send or delete. If you not got a private message in your box let me know and will have another go unless someone else sent them and believe me their's will be easier to understand than mine :rotfl:

Thank you Billie-Jo I got the PM and can understand it perfectly.
can see now where I was going wrong so will have a go later, I have just been into photobucket and I seem to have deleted the photos wanted, Ah well can put them back on. I also have to install my printer on this machine and am not looking forward to it.
but hey ho its keeping me busy and out of the shops so that's good.

CH27

I need bread, milk, mushrooms, dishwasher tablets & some other bits & bobs.

joedenise

Was waiting in for a new fridge/freezer yesterday so didn't get out to do my usual shopping. Was going to go today but DH wanted the car so he took me after dinner last night. Spent £12.95 in Mr T and 13.09 in Mr M.

Have now spent just over £228 out of my £350 budget (increased by £100 from last month due to losing a load of frozen food when my daughter switched off my freezer when I was on holiday!). Am beginning to wonder if £100 extra will be enough. Am not going to buy any more frozen food but will continue to bulk cook when I can in order to fill up the freezers.

Have updated my signature to show these spends.

Denise

sefilby

Spend in MR T yesterday £45.70

milk £1.00
Frozen sweetcorn £1.00
Frozen peas £0.99
Cheese £2.25
frozen chips £0.82
frozen wedges £0.82
YS £1.5kg mince £2.65
Garlic Baguett x 2 £0.64
apples £1.00
grapes £1.25
bananas £1.15
Ys Mushrooms £1.04
oranges £1.75
chocolate £1.49
cake £2.49
Peanut Butter x2 £1.24
Tampons £2.00
Liquidx2 £2.00
Dettol spray £3.00
harpic £2.00
bold £4.50
nappies £1.41
toilet roll £0.67
YS chives £0.56
Crisps 6 pack x2 £1.58
Fancy crisps £1.59
YS Burger buns x2 £0.20
YS Doughnuts £0.10
YS Hot Dog buns £0.20
TV crisps 12 pack x2 £1.32
Snacks £1.00

Meals for the next week
chinese (courtesy of our neighbours as we paid last time)Hot dogsRoast Pork Tuna & Sweetcorn pastaSauage & Mash Chicken & mushroom pieHam & cheese toasties

sachatith

£30.92 this week bit over what I wanted but bought a bigger pack of flea stuff for the mutt so that will do us for 6 months now instead of 3 and cost £9 instead of £13 so saving ££ too.

Also went to the fridge and OH had forgotten to tell me he is out of cheese which I need for making his HM pizza tomorrow! Our local Mr T has started doing a value salami which is perfect for his pizza and for lunch. Fab.

Off to make AGCJ kidney bean burgers for lunch then another batch of soup for lunches this week. We have a big slab of pork in the freezer left over from the other week so will have a nice roast Sunday.

Only about £50 left off the budget but only 2.5 weeks left and everything is still full so should be able to do it hopefully!

kayester

meg72 wrote: »

This made me laugh but think I will pass on the Calpol soup I am dopey enough:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

lol ;P


morrisons shop today £110 had some xmas bits on there though and got my first week for £40 off at xmas.
not going shoping next week hoping this will last 2 weeks with a few little bread top ups ect. still not took the 40 off sig that was refunded by asda.
im getting there....i would have spend a lot more than this before. watch out a lot of NSDs to come!