November 2013 Grocery Challenge

Soworried

A spend of £1.40 today on milk and a bottle of pop.
Dinner tonight was the bpith Flo and it was a big hit. Thankyou x :j
I am going to make it again in a couple weeks.

I have been freezer diving all month and survived, you can do it. Maybe just tie yourself to the handle as a precaution :rotfl:

I will update my spends now.

marris

spent £2,58 yesterday
NSD today

beth2242

Yesterday I had another one of those silly moment as I call it! Had a bad day at the office and managed to pop in the Co*op and spend £8.30 on a wrap for my lunch and crisps and chocolates for us all in the office! Silly Me!!

AlwaysHappy

My month has finished today and I can declare at £298.79/£300 so at least its under!! Will stick to same next month

she_who_can_not_cook

cocoloco wrote: »

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As another shortie, that's why I prefer drawer freezers to chest freezers. It provides much better access.

:rotfl:Who are you calling 'shortie'?!? Didn't you know I'm 5 feet 2 inches TALL.... (yes, i do have Napoleon / small dog complex) :rotfl:[/QUOTE]

Lol I used to say I am 5 foot 2 And a half

Florenceem

Spend today - waiting for receipt from Mr F.
Just me here for dinner so had a using up LOs meal.
I had some LO roast potatoes - cut up and warmed in oven + piece of HM Quiche from freezer. Served with a yummy poached egg.

lynnejk

tessie_bear wrote: »

love all this freezer diving talk...i ask 6ft 2 dh to manfully do stuff like that....jelly in a rabbit mould sounded great i remember seeing it as a child....going to try and buy a bunny mould and introduce that to my kids

Trying to make me feel old eh?:D mine was my gran's and a metal one with lift out 'legs' to stand upright.

meg72 wrote: »

Never seen a plastic one the one I inherited was glass which was why it broke when dropped, my dear Mum had a metal one but it was hit and miss turning it out, manys the time heard her swear when running under hot water tap resulted in jelly going down the sink.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Yes - remember the feeling. Used to stand in a bowl of hot water and then kind of wobble it until loose all round the edges. Don't seem to get the same kind of fun nowadays :rotfl:

AlwaysHappy wrote: »

My month has finished today and I can declare at £298.79/£300 so at least its under!! Will stick to same next month

Well done coming in under budget :A

Another NSD for me but don't think will last long as NSD arrived today for a wee holiday from Ibiza :eek:

Lx

JulieGeorgiana

Oh, final figures to be agreed, but do do think we managed withing a few £££ of the £260 goal I set this month (4 week period ending Friday)

Although with the baby being born, we've had to expenses from the savings which were food related:

£10 on frozen pizza for DH, children and in-laws while I was in hospital (snack food for me was included too)

£25 on McDonalds because I just could not be bothered to cook, and we've not had it in 4 years (DD1 has never experienced it!)

But last night I cooked cottage pie, my meal plan is now rejigged and I have my next '4 weekly' big shops arriving tonight

So time to roll up my sleeves and make sure anymore slips are just bread and 'if it' with no more take-aways.

Nelly11

I'm feeling quite proud, I had 7 people here for dinner last night, eveything came from freezer and stores, 3 different curries, one left for me a DS to eat tonight. Cinnamon and cardoman rice, home made olive and spinich pitta breads and rice pud to follow, everything came from stores and the freezer. Ive started to defrost the freezer now which still has one frozen drawer, and *luxury* I spy some potato cakes in there. Once its defrosted it will go on FB sales as my DS has given me a small freezer which is easily enough for the two of us. The money will come off my mortgage. All I've this week so far is milk.

Nelly11

71.94 spent so far out of 125, my month ends on 25th Nov, so still a little in the kitty, next month may be more expensive as I now need to empty the small freezer.