November 2013 Grocery Challenge

First_Trouble

This weekend will be doing a stock take of all fridge/freezer/cupboards in preparation for my first GC shop on the 1st.
Have printed off a load of recipes above for inspiration.
Feeling motivated!:D

Good luck everyone.

chocoholic_chick

Could I be put down for £200 this month please. Slightly less than last month as we still have a fair bit in the freezer and we're both travelling with work a bit this month so meals will be included for these trips.

First shop will be tomorrow so need to come up with a meal plan and a shopping list

Good luck with the challenge everyone!!

lynnejk

meg72 wrote: »

Again aiming to spend as little as possible and use up as much as possible.
Really want to start the new year with an empty freezer, trouble is with batch cooking I take something out and put back 3 or 4 meals.

I totally agree meg72. This is where I am also :rotfl:

just_the_two_of_us wrote: »

Well, here goes - our first monthly challenge!!
Please put us down for £250 for myself and DH as trying to put treats etc away for Christmas. Wish us luck please!!!

Good Luck and I'm sure you'll do well. Everyone on here so supportive

First_Trouble wrote: »

This weekend will be doing a stock take of all fridge/freezer/cupboards in preparation for my first GC shop on the 1st.
Have printed off a load of recipes above for inspiration.
Feeling motivated!:D Good luck everyone.

Welcome and sounds like you getting well organised.

I'm still on October so not updated signature for Nov.

Good luck everyone
L.

kayester

not been doing so well so far, and its the run unto christmas and ide like to put my budgets for weekly food and christmas food/alcohol together so please put me down for £450

Nelly11

It looks like I only need to buy some disposable razors and some boy spray this week.
I want to try to get two pressies off my Christmas list too
Hopefully I shall only spend a couple of pounds out of this weeks budget and the rest can go off the mortgage:j:j

chocoholic_chick

First shop of Novembers challenge done this morning so £33.87 spent in Aldi. Meal plan for this week is :-

Saturday - Out for a meal
Sunday - Beef Goulash
Monday - Chilli ( from freezer )
Tuesday - Italian Meatballs ( from freezer )
Wednesday - Toad in the hole with veg
Thursday - Poached eggs on toast
Friday - Chicken Fajitas

Using up some of the meals in the freezer this week. Bought a big pack of chicken breasts today so will have 3 chicken breasts to use in the following weeks meal plan as well

Also bought some sweets for halloween today so will have to hide them away so DH doesn't eat them!

Can't believe how much I've got my weekly spends down to now, it's gone from an average of £70 a week to £40 a week. Really making the most of leftovers now which is helping. I can now get 5 portions out of 1 pack of mince, 2 chicken breasts generally can make 4 meals and weigh out things like rice and pasta so I don't have loads of waste. Quite sad how excited about it all I get

meg72

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Billie-jo

Thanks to everyone who keeps this thread going.

Will try November £220 please.
Good luck to everyone and hope you all do well. Will join you all over here on the first of the month.

SilverBird_2

GC budget for November is £250.

lushlifesaver

Been out for the day will dad so stocked up on things like rice, pasta etc. These things will last us four-eight weeks. Went to Aldi for the first time in ages so got about £10 of stuff from there and my dad saw a router (as in for woodwork) which is something he's wanted for a while so I picked one up for his Christmas box, that's him almost done!
Nipped in to the giant ASDA next door to get some bits Aldi didn't stock plus a few fresh bits, squash (2 bottle last us about 6/8weeks), cherry Pepsi for bf and some Saturday night treats and that was another £20, also spent £4 in Iceland (2 packs of mini malt loaves and two jars of Dolmio).

All in all £34 of the budget spent but sorted for a minimum two weeks apart from a small loaf of bread :-) meal plan to be finalised tonight whoop.