November 2013 Grocery Challenge

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Budgets done to here

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Coxy

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cocoloco wrote: »

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!

Thanks, great idea to calculate daily/weekly etc and then categorise what I am spending it on. Will defo give this a go.

WantToBeSE

Oh Crikey, i am NOT doing well at the moment...yet another £20 trip to tesco, and another load of junk food

K9sandFelines

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.

£10.03 on milk, spreadable butter, YS Mightly light crisps (i buy these anyway when on offer), and fish fillets for DD1's food tech lesson; and also managed to get two packs of YS Quorn sandwich meat ... could have got more, but just picked up the two.

Off to update ...

want2Bfrugal

I've spent £127.93 so far this month. I thought not too bad until my finance program showed that £22.73 was on junk food.

I've got a grocery order coming tomorrow and I've deleted the junk food from it. :T - it was only a choccy bar (35p) but it had to go.

nearlytherenow

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

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

I made this for lunch yesterday and it was delicious! Really easy to make too. I would definitely recommend it.

Florenceem

Spend of £5.94 today - we will need milk tomorrow.
We had HM Salmon Fishcake + HM Wedges + HM Caulifower Cheese + Mushy Peas for dinner.

NickJW

nearlytherenow wrote: »

I made this for lunch yesterday and it was delicious! Really easy to make too. I would definitely recommend it.

Glad you liked it nearlytherenow. It's definitely one of my easy after work dishes now.

£1.09 spent on some coleslaw in Mr S today - had it with L/O Pork from yesterdays roast alongside L/O roast potatoes.

Billie-jo

£7.80 spent today.
DH cooked tea tonight and it was lovely, we had meatballs (these were hm out of freezer) with pasta in a mushroom sauce and a salad.

Sequeena

£19.60 spent in morrisons. Need a tesco shop done too.

Made a massive batch of chicken (stock made using carcass), potato, leek and carrot soup. Whatever isn't eaten will be frozen.