November 2013 Grocery Challenge

LisaJane

£400

For two of us please! I know it's a lot but gonna really try and keep a good track this month, then try to get it down for December! But December will be such a strange month with Christmas etc, but anyway, will deal with November first!

Faete

LisaJane wrote: »

£400

For two of us please! I know it's a lot but gonna really try and keep a good track this month, then try to get it down for December!

I can easily spend that on two of us as well!

This is my first month of actually keeping track of my grocery shopping - I have a full freezer and enough tinned and dried supplies to keep the whole street going (I've got seige mentality).

I dropped in at Homebase for building stuff this morning and found myself near Aldi so I got in the wine for the weekends - they have some really nice reds for under £4. :beer:

Fae xx

cocoloco

£200

Hi! I'm new to this challenge, can I be put down for £200 this month- 2 adults + 1 teenage2 + 1 dog.

We have lots of outgoings this months (work on house) and need to tighten the purse strings even more.

We have a fulll chest freezer and already at least 50% of our food is yellow stickered finds - we eat really well for the amount of money I spend! Looking forward to challenge, good luck to everybody!

XSpender

NickJW wrote: »

Saturday (I'll cook) - Balsamic and garlic chicken breasts with mushrooms - served with mash

Hi NickJW please could you share your recipe for the chicken as it sounds delicious:)

I must come in on budget this month as all our spare pennies are allocated to pay for work that is getting done on the house over the next couple of weeks.

I have a Mr T delivery coming tonight, will have one next Friday and will move the 3rd to the following Tuesday to take advantage of a £20 voucher that I will have available then. It does mean that next week's order will have to cover 2 weekends but I am stuck in the house with the fitters for one day so will batch cook using up odds and ends and bake for the following week.

Amended meal plan for the next week is:

F - Sausage and mash with peas and gravy for DH and beans for me
Sa - Fakeaway curry and sides
Su- Chicken and leek gratin with frozen veg
M - Cottage pie with different frozen veg than yesterday
T - Sausage and bean casserole with rice done in SC as bonner neet as we say in the NE
W - Cheese omelette, beans and HM wedges
Th - Macaroni cheese not sure what with
F - Either HM veggie pasties, chips and mushy peas or HM chicken kiev, chips, carrots and green beans (depends on time)
Sa - Spicy bacon pasta and cheesy garlic bread
Su - Mum's for lunch

Have a lovely weekend everyone:)

physicsgirl

Eeeek, 8 pages already! Gives me lots of interesting reading though I'd like to aim for £220 this month (for 2 adults, to include all groceries, cleaning and household stuff and meals and drinks out)

sachatith

Hi all - I have another Mr T shop being delivered, tried to cancel my tesco delivery as wasn't happy with some of the attitude I got whilst my road was closed (even though in the notes section I specifically gave directions as to which roads they could now use to get to my house!) and they have given me an extra month of deliveries free so until end of November, which, although I now only do one delivery a month, I had a £5 off voucher for this week so used it today, and then my next month starts 28th November - just in time ;p

Shop tonight should come to about £41 after the £5 off, which is great as includes dog food and lots of big bulky stock items. Meal planned (vaguely) so I knew what to get, and took advantage on their baking items 3 for 2 so got 4.5kg of flour for £1.30. Should do me!

Also had a call from my Dad as we are taking him and Mum to the airport Sunday, they are giving petrol money and because it is in the middle of the day they are paying for lunch too. Plus I tried to give him money (including hiding it in his house!) for the hunk of gammon and beef he gave me and he wouldn't take it. Would have been about a tenner so thats a couple of roasts and a few meals after for free

Have a good weekend all x

Shortie

Hi all, I've ambled over now from the October thread, am still part way through my month

Today didn't go quite according to plan lol... went to Mums and took the opportunity to pop to her local butchers. Picked up 3 lovely pork hocks for £7.06 and ended up in Mr T too... picked up a few odds and sods for no other reason that I was feeling restless, sigh.... spent £8.04 in there... off to update sig xx

2childmum

November starts tomorrow and it's a 5 week month so I'm thinking about how much to budget.

I do have quite a bit in the freezers including several ready make home make meals, but I am on jury service for a fortnight later in the month so I'll need those then, plus shopping around will be more difficult .

My original plan when i started the challenge at the beginning of October was to get my spending down to what I actually planned on spending rather than go over every month, so I think I will budget for
£550 for November, which is a lot, but it's what I would have pretended to budget for for a 5 week month, and I plan to buy lots of Christmas stuff out of that rather than out of the Christmas budget. If i can keep to my 'usual' budget until the end of the year, then I will try reducing it gradually over the next year.

Cheapskate

I'm trying shopping deliveries for the first time, got the £15 three month unlimited offer from A$da, got order coming Sunday morning, just over £40, mainly toiletries,washing powder, etc., and spent just over £20 in s@insb today. Just need a few things tomorrow, then we should be ok until later in the week. Going to a family party tomorrow tea time, so no main meal to plan, and will do some soup in the SC for Sunday to use up various bits.

I have about a stone of apples to peel and cook, will freeze most of them and make a crumble for Sunday, so there will be plenty of pudding bases in the freezer for November AND December!

A xo

WantToBeSE

My 1st shop of November done today in Lidl, and spent £40.13.
I only shopped in Lidl because there was one in the town i was working in today.
I am not impressed with this Lidl at all! I couldnt get much that was on my list so will have to go to tesco as well to finish the shopping.

Back to my normal Aldi next time!