October 2013 Grocery Challenge

K9sandFelines

meg72 wrote: »

So So pleased for you I would love to give the jobcentre bully who made you cry a good smack :mad:

Thanks Meg. They don't relaise what an impact they can have on your well being at all sometimes and I just felt at the end if my tether with it all.

K9sandFelines

icontinuetodream wrote: »

:j:j:jBig congrats K9!!:j:j:j Good luck with the new job

On to report that I have failed miserably!!:o Entire grocery budget for the month has gone (and then some!!:eek:)....dh not well at the moment with man-flu so have spent a great deal of it on meds, then had two take-outs this week as couldn't be bothered to cook, haven't took lunch to work so have spent cash every day on that, bought sweets and c**p to pig out on while at my desk and generally been a total idiot financially for the entire week!!!

I'm putting it down to a pre-unemployment wobble as will be getting my official redundancy notice at the end of this month....well, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Oh gosh it feels like as one door opens (as in my situation) another closes ( as in yours).pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start again next week re GC. Hope you find work again soon.

Billie-jo

Well done K9 - hope you enjoy it.

Morri$ons this morning for fruit & veg and as soon as had set foot outside the store I remembered I needed carrots so a quick turn around to get some. Spent £9.99 in total.

Nelly11

Hello all, I'm late getting on here this time, generally my months run from 25th to 24th so at the moment I have 12 days in October where I have as little as £10 to see me through to the 25th, quite scary! I had a spell of illness over 5 months which means my income has dropped by half and I missed one payment on my mortgage which I would like to catch up on.
So my aim for the next 12 days is to spend as little as possible on food. I have two freezer, one large one that needs defrosting, its full of ice and chicken portions, I want to empty this one and sell it, just keeping the small freezer. There are just the two of us at home, son3 gets free school meals and my other children pop in to be fed occasionally.
Today I have had store cupboard porridge for breakfast, 2 potoao waffles with scrambled egg and son3 had the last bits of oven chips with pop corn chicken and chippy gravy for lunch. Tonight will be chicken curry and rice all store cupboard.
Have a great weekend everyone x:D

meg72

Just a small spend on bread today, two Warbutens 800g toasties for 30p each, that's toast for the next couple of months for me.

Nelly11

I've updated my signature.
Quite pleased the today has been a NSD, made cookies and Curry, feeling smuggy smug smug

marris

hi
i would like to join the thread.not sure what to do my monthly budjet will run fro 1 to 31. will start on Monday as half a month.my budget is £100 per month. so £50 for half.

kayester

NSD for me so far. im ill though..

craigywv

well done k9 great news.

joedenise

A smallish spend today of just over £13 - a couple of pounds more than it should have been because I took DH with me! He picked up a couple of pies to eat in the car on the way home.

Denise