October 2013 Grocery Challenge

candygirl

Just been to Farmfoods n got loads of bargains.Hovis bread 2 for £1.60, 2 packs frozen mushrooms for £1, and tons more:p

cattysmum

Evening, thought I would pop and and declare my total for October of £220, £20 over budget but not too concerned as I have been buying christmassy bits and pieces along the way. No more spends now till payday Friday. Off now to November (waves).:)

craigywv

hi all instead of declaring a total for the month I am declaring an empty freezer!!!!!! 1 DOWN 2 TO GO!!!I am delighted I can now defrost the iceberg xxx minimal spends this month just on f and v and milk. well happy

want2Bfrugal

Thank you sachatith and Billie-jo

I have totalled up my spend and my effort has paid off - I'm coming in on budget. :j

The biggest delight is the reduction in my frozen pasta mountain. I made a lot of Tuna pasta bake and hubby has been having it for lunch.

I've only got a couple of more days until the end of the month and I think that I'll try £265 again for November. Getting all excited and revv'd up.

lovefullshelves

£20.02 in aldilly..rolls, meat and cornflakes amongst other things!!
Thats all my spending done for October:) so I'm calling £179.88 as my total and I'm nipping off to November!! Thankyou all for keeping me on the straight and narrow! xx

Nicky_Noo_Na

Very cheap weekly shop achieved! £12.48 in Mr A, £3.77 in Mr S and even enough money left for meatballs from ikea! :j Coming in a couple of pounds under budget, hurrah! :j

See you on the November thread....

K9sandFelines

Oh dear, another spend of £9.30 -- £5.52 was reduced bread in C*-*p in various forms, and the rest in Mr M on two punnets of bogof plums, YS bakewell and some YS breakfast bread muffins and a pizza. Tried to print the Chicago Town MOC but it wouldn't work, and i had promised the girls it for tea.

Have updated sig.

lynnejk

LisaJane wrote: »

Oh guys, I just can't seem to keep up with this challenge...spending always seems to get out of control. Going to employ some new strategies for November to try and do this properly!

You'll be surprised what a difference a few little changes will make. Read all the tips on these posts and decide which will best work for you. Maybe make a menu, do a stocktake etc.

When I was in real financial problems I worked out how much I could spend a week, made a list, stuck to the list and only shopped once a week. If you run out - you run out. Just adjust the following week but NEVER go over your weekly budget.

Try to stay out of major SMs. Use pound shops, Al*i, Li*l, F/Foods and Icel*nd and any other cheap shops you have. If you can, grow your own and NEVER throw anything away except real rubbish. Freeze all left overs and use them to make soups. Freeze bread when you buy and defrost as you need.

Once you get into the habit you can then adjust how, and when you shop and start adding in bulk buys. GOOD LUCK

Florenceem wrote: »

Popped into Mr A - (on way home from Dentist - 3 injections + 2 fillings) - got 3 lovely cauliflowers - whoops - 24p each.

What can you do with a glut of cauli's ??

NSD for me today
L.

mam_of_five

well my first month and i failed miserably, but its been an eye opener to the children where all our money goes, as they seem to think our money grows on trees, i wont give up and will try again for next month .x

CountingPennies

I'm leaving for this month. Spent a lot of time in hospital and have no idea what has been spent. Will try again next month. Sorry

CP xx