October 2013 Grocery Challenge

meg72

Declaring done for Oct at £40, this has just been fruit and veg and YS as using up freezer stocks

I did buy 16 packs of reduced pastry 50p instead of 1,50 and should get money back on promotion .

I bought it with DGD`s Christmas fair in mind but am now told that the dinner ladies are doing all the baking, so looks like I have several months of pastry to use up.

Also have decided to use up my emergency stash of tinned stuff as I have far too much.

joedenise

I too have finished for this month. I've gone £18.21 over budget but not too disappointed as I needed to refill my freezer following an accidental defrost! This also included 2 pairs of PJs for me and a new frying pan so if I take those off I am under budget:D.

I spent £28.36 in Mr Ts and £32.72 in Mr Ms yesterday which gives me a total of £368.21 for the month.

Not sure what I am going to aim for next month as I need to do an inventory of my freezers and cupboards and do a meal plan before I can see what I am likely to need as don't want to end up with too much stuff as would like to turn off one of my freezers in December as we are going away just before Christmas until New Year.

Denise

sefilby

After beginning this month with DS turning 4 & DD turning 2 and catering a party for 16 under 6year olds. :eek:I am pleased to declare I actual managed to come under budget!!! :j
£198.68 spent over 5weeks, I was aiming for £40per week @ £10per head.

milk £1.00
sugar £1.74
garlic sauce £0.92
nappies £1.41
bbq sauce £1.29
cucumber £0.65
cheese £2.50
oranges £1.12 Jaffas BOGOF so 1/2 allocated to next week
chips £0.82
bananas £1.15
celeryx2 £0.80
bread £1.00
pork pies £1.05
savoury eggs £0.83
hot chocolate £2.00
chocolate bar 4pack x2 £2.00
mat £2.00 RTC - one of those love live laugh type ones

Meals for the coming week
Fry up
25th
Meal Out
26th
Chicken & mushroom pie
27th
tune pasta bake
28th
Shepards pie
29th
faijitas
30th
Ham & cheese toasties
31st


And I think thats me done for this month:D, see you all in November! x

Soworried

I managed another nsd yesterday :j 6 days left and I am trying to get through on as little as possible.
I have a quiche cooling in the kitchen for lunches that used up a piece of sorry ham. I have a chicken and some stuffing defrosting for dinner tonight. I will do some mash and yorkshire puddings with it and use up some frozen carrots and cauliflower as well.

Bluegreen143

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

Put my total on the blog last night as £168.04 but remember today that I've also bought YS bread (75p) and Oh has bought 'loo bloo' type things at £1, so I'm currently at £169.79 / £170. Talk about squeaking in under target :rotfl:

Since I haven't bought anything since then... I am so pleased to declare at £169.79 / £170. Really chuffed as I suspected I might go over. Woohoo :D :j:j

Well done to everyone else who all seem to be doing quite well

dramarama

Afternoon All,
I hope you are all well. I'm declaring the end of the month at £119.34/£140.00! Yay! :j A lot of this is down to people taking pity on me and buying bits and pieces!! Also I've been going to the supermarkets at reduction times and buying a lot of YS goodies. I've been buying a lot of meat, fruit and veg at massive reductions and cooking from scratch.

Have a good rest of the month everyone, it's been fab being along for the ride this month.

joedenise

I so wish I could get to the shops at reduction times and pick up YS stuff really cheap but unfortunately I've got nearly 20 mile round trip and don't really like driving at all so avoid it unless absolutely necessary!

Denise

Sequeena

£5.70 in morrisons on greek yoghurt, a loaf of bread, bananas, wotsits, cheese and philadelphia.

physicsgirl

The OH's parents and brother are coming down this weekend, and we realised last night we didn't have enough pillows!! So had to go out to T*sco's to buy some along with other things they eat (because they don't eat non-branded stuff...) :mad:

I made the mistake of bringing the OH along:
- I wanted to go for £2 smartprice pillows but he insisted they needed "decent" ones so we ended up spending £29 on 4 pillows :eek: plus I've just seen on the Tesco website that I could've gotten a vac pac free, and some of the pillows were on 2 packs for £20
- he wanted blueberries (£2.20 cf £1.39 in Ald!)
- he wanted apples (£1.65 for 5 cf 99p for 4 in Ald! although I think I saw a click snap offer for apples on TCB so hopefully that's some of the money back)
- he insisted on Tropicana (£2.28 cf £1.35 in Ald!)
- he turned his nose up at £1 milk rather than the £1.39 stuff, but I wasn't having that!
- he insisted they would want Special K Oats and Honey (£2.69 for a TINY box, it must have gold flakes in it...)
- he wanted a particular bottle of BBQ sauce, which was £1.69 for a small bottle

Definitely the last time I take him shopping, he's so good to me most of the time I just can't say no But £65.16 is just ridiculous (and apparently we saved 24p by shopping at Tesco, I think not!).

Also need to add £2 for filler (to fill a hole in the wall, not the hole in my budget unfortunately)

We're eating out tonight and tomorrow, but hopefully they're paying, fingers crossed anyway.

Feeling quite down about how much was spent, with nothing much in the way of food to show for it

Florenceem

Just got home this afternoon so haven't seen receipts for what Mr F spent while I was away for the week. I know he got YS carrots - 41 for 10p!