November 2013 Grocery Challenge

Bluegreen143

NickJW - have added your garlic, mushroom and balsamic chicken to the index

xmillyx

My total is now at £60.73.... Fingers crossed I'll make it! Out to OH's for dinner tonight

shiningfaery

Just been to Mr A to exchange some clothes and thought I would have a wee browse of the reduced section seeing as I have never really browsed or bought from there before....my thrill for the day I got 6 breaded chicken steaks and 2 packs of 5 sausage rolls for £4.96 was rather impressed...sausage rolls will do lunches for my lil girl and chicken in freezer for meals or lunches.

Soworried

K9sandFelines wrote: »

This sounds delicious, do you have a recipe please?

I've just had Mr T order delivered. Total after Christmas bits took off (potential presents), substitutions and offers etc is £47.88. I will need 1% milk and spreadable butter from Mr M/C*-*p later, as cheaper there. Later in the week will get the offers that weren't available in Tesc*s too

Off to add total to sig.

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/index.jsp?bmUID=1384175191031

The chicken comes already done, I just need to add the pasta and a sauce

K9sandFelines

Soworried wrote: »

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/index.jsp?bmUID=1384175191031

The chicken comes already done, I just need to add the pasta and a sauce

Cheers, i'll see if i can adapt; as i was intending on using Quorn chicken.

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Been thinking how to best keep track of my spending. I have a wee A6 notebook that I am going to 'surgically' attach to my purse (with an elastic band or bobble). I will use this to keep track of spending when out and about in shops and also when I order anything online. It will take a bit of practice to get into the habit of remembering to do it but I think it will be worth it.

First_Trouble

mooomin wrote: »

£1.66 spent this morning on the ingredients for minestrone soup which will do my lunches for the whole week.

I don't particularly want to use all the celery I've bought for the soup, but can't stand the stuff raw. Does anyone have any suggestions for how I could use it?

You could try celery soup.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/celerysoup_85016

I can't stand raw celery but I quite like it in soup.

Shortie

Hmm.... so I've not been keeping on top of updating this at all have I?Whoops - I've not been very well focussed for some reason

But, looking at what we have left in the purse, we've got £15 plus someshrapnel So I'll update the sig according to this. That's a super low amount bearingin mind the next grocery budget starts on 18th of this month but I'm going toremain optimistic as we have a packed to the rafters freezer, and plenty ofstore cupboard bits for this week. We have fruit in too, plus some fresh veg(and frozen), milk and bread in the freezer too.

I recon we still have plenty of meat for next week too, and at a push mightjust need to buy in fresh fruit, veg and milk, and maybe some pasta and rice.Oh , and some PJ pants next week for one of my LOs

cocoloco

tessie_bear wrote: »

hi its raining today i think winter has arrived...im quite pleased with myself as i had roast lamb planned for tea...normally when it goes cold i have just got a massive amount of salad...will roast the lamb for tea today and make a mousaka tomorrow

might make a steamed pudding as well if anyone can fot it in....i have made a menu plan for the week and i got 6 punpkins (huge) when they were 10p in sainsbugs...gave one to my mum made a vat of soup with one and have 4 left so planning some more soup later

have a nice day
tessa

If you get bored with pupkin soup they also nice drizzeled with honey and roasted in the oven- a healthy snack that will work for sweet tooth.

cocoloco

[Deleted User] wrote:

Been thinking how to best keep track of my spending. I have a wee A6 notebook that I am going to 'surgically' attach to my purse (with an elastic band or bobble). I will use this to keep track of spending when out and about in shops and also when I order anything online. It will take a bit of practice to get into the habit of remembering to do it but I think it will be worth it.

I been keeping a spending diary since March this year- best thing ever to keep on top of your spending (food and others) and see if you can make savings. I keep all my receits and writte it in the diary each evening and then callculate it by day / week on how much I spent and on what?
This helped me to cut down drastically on eating out / going out and take-aways. Good luck with your diary, once you get use to it you will never look back!