November 2013 Grocery Challenge

XSpender

I have already spent a huge amount of November's budget and have 25 days left! I should not need to spend a thing until my Mr T delivery on Friday. My big spends include a years worth of toothpast and toothbrush heads, stocking up on some GF items and 2 takeaways:eek:

I managed to pick up 16 YS GF rolls in Mr S when we popped in for a couple of things I had forgotten off the last Mr T order. These should cover lunches for the rest of the month for me either filled or with some HM soup.

I have done a meal plan until the end of the month (20th) and I have almost everything I need in for main meals but will need lunch stuff, bread, milk and lots of fruit, oh and beer and wine:o

This month is really tight for us and I have no option but to come in on budget as our other money is committed elsewhere.

DH is out for a meal tonight with work so I am going to have omelette for tea and make 2 portions of soup and a chicken and leek pie filling to use up 3 leeks and a coffee cake for lunches.

I have a lot of sausages in as we bought a load at a food fair then even more on the M&S 3 for 2 but I need to double check how much chicken I have left as I may need to buy another 2kg tray (£10).

I am going to stick with the Mr T deliveries this month but make sure I get everything I need in this shop as it is the pop in shops afterwards for forgotten items that double and triple my spend for the week.

Meal plan for the rest of this week:

M - Omelette, wedges and beans
T - Courgette pasta bake (using up 3 courgettes, chorizo and 2 mozarella balls)
W - Chicken and leek gratin (made Mon to use up leeks)
Th - Carbonarra and garlic bread
F - Posh sausages, mash and frozen veg
Sa - HM Indian Fakeaway
Su - Mums for lunch, Jacket pots for tea

MrsCautious

Hello everyone and thank you for new thread, support, ideas and inspiration. I'd like to set a budget for £200for November please, I'd love to be able to stick to that, I have a separate budget for Christmas though

Bluegreen143

Got my first load of shopping for November at the weekend (eeek - where has the year gone??!) and am now standing at £33.44 / £175.

Easy week foodwise:

Sun 27 - steak, chips (for OH) and salad with a peppercorn sauce (made by OH)
Mon 28 - salmon, rice and stir-fried veg
Tues 29 - OH working so I’ll probably make some kind of pasta
Wed 30 – beef pasta with salad (from freezer)
Thurs 31 - squash and ricotta canneloni with salad (from freezer)
Fri 1 - pizza with salad (dough from freezer)
Sat 2 – veggie chilli with rice

Really annoyed with Mr A as I ordered two sirloin steaks and one of the ones they sent was a rib-eye steak! It was the same price but nowhere near as nice to my mind - I would know as I let OH have the sirloin

Debating whether they will do anything about it if I complain seeing as how I ate it anyway (didn't notice until opening the packet and the receipt says 2x sirloins so didn't notice when the delivery came). It's actually the first time I have ever bought and cooked myself steak (normally make for OH and have a veggie meal or fish myself) so doubly annoyed as it was supposed to be a treat and it's not exactly often we spend £7 on meat for one meal!!

meg72

Bluegreen143 wrote: »

Got my first load of shopping for November at the weekend (eeek - where has the year gone??!) and am now standing at £33.44 / £175.

Easy week foodwise:

Sun 27 - steak, chips (for OH) and salad with a peppercorn sauce (made by OH)
Mon 28 - salmon, rice and stir-fried veg
Tues 29 - OH working so I’ll probably make some kind of pasta
Wed 30 – beef pasta with salad (from freezer)
Thurs 31 - squash and ricotta canneloni with salad (from freezer)
Fri 1 - pizza with salad (dough from freezer)
Sat 2 – veggie chilli with rice

Really annoyed with Mr A as I ordered two sirloin steaks and one of the ones they sent was a rib-eye steak! It was the same price but nowhere near as nice to my mind - I would know as I let OH have the sirloin

Debating whether they will do anything about it if I complain seeing as how I ate it anyway (didn't notice until opening the packet and the receipt says 2x sirloins so didn't notice when the delivery came). It's actually the first time I have ever bought and cooked myself steak (normally make for OH and have a veggie meal or fish myself) so doubly annoyed as it was supposed to be a treat and it's not exactly often we spend £7 on meat for one meal!!

I would email them and complain, saying how disapointed you were and point out that they did not point out this was substituted therefore you did not have the option to return.

craigywv

hi all starting today,not giving a total as STILL eating out of freezers,can proudly claim to be the owner of an empty freezer, 1 down 2 to go. its to be defrosted now and refilled with ys stuff only! other freezer is half filled with meat so it be longer going thru that 1. and third is a nightmare its the bits freezer.........bits of this , bits of that. only 2 fish when theres 3 of us so someone eats different meal,hate that. so its a lot harder to eat thru. and I know I can eat it for lunches but its all too heavy a meal for lunch iykwim. anyway good luck all xxx:)

AlwaysHappy

Count me in again 300 for the month but I am going to try and get some bits for Christmas included in that

AlwaysHappy

Sorry am on tablet at minute and hadn't realized it was all red . technology and me aren't a good fit.

cattysmum

Hellloooooo November and you could not have come soon enough, get paid this Friday and setting Budget at £200 for me and other half. Will get christmassy food on a weekly basis and hope that it does not send me over budget. Many thanks for new thread Admin, good luck everyone !!!!

flyinggiraffe_2

Had my first November spend today. I forgot to take anything out of the freezer for tonight, and have my big shop being delivered tomorrow.

So I spent £2 on a reduced just eat chicken thing, 3 chocolate bars for the office at £1.20, eggs from the chicken lady in work and clotted cream from the dairy farmers wife in work.signature updated to show.

I'm still in shock at how little my grocery spend was last month, but it wasn't typical as it was down to having no money left in the account. Have received work expenses back and have all my meetings booked in,so hopefully won't be spending £300 on work travel this month.

Pandora_2

Hi everyone,
First day of the November Challenge for me has started well with a NSD!
Tomorrow I will be doing full inventories and attempting meal plans - don't know why but I just find meal planning sooooooooo difficult!!
Going to have a budget of £70 this month, starting today and ending on Sunday 1st December. It will be a 5 week month so that's £10 per week plus £20 for bulk buys, extra YS stuff and some Xmas stuff.
Here's hoping November goes better than October!!
Good luck everyone, and thanks to the admins who look after us :beer: