December 2013 Grocery Challenge

craigywv

Soworried wrote: »

It has me worried as well Meg. I have another Aldi voucher and I think I'll use it today. We were hit last night and were without power. It has really left me thinking.
Today I am going to buy some charcoal so that we can cook on the bbq if need be.

I am also going to buy more tinned foods that can be eaten cold or heated in the cans. I'm struggling to think what to buy though, hotdogs are my first buy but what else?II am also going to buy more candles. We really couldn't have done without them last night.

hop over to the shtf thread plenty of advice on there

craigywv

nsd again as its cleaning day here. but tomorrow is wipe out the presents day! only small things to go with rest of presents. but its the niggly bits . anyway tonights dinner is from freezer ,will make creamy mushroom and ham shank pasta bake and hm garlic bread. jam sponge and custard. am tempted to make cubes in chip pan and put sweet chilli sauce over them but that would be greedy........................im greedy they are being made xxx

russetred

Does anyone know if Aldi will be doing a £5 off 40 anytime soon. I missed the last one. Cheers now I really must catch up and update my siggy. Have a good day.

russetred

Oh dear just caught up looks like it was yesterday.

just_the_two_of_us

Morning - hope everyone is OK? - just had to brave the wind and cold (and I have a cold too) as had no bread or anything in for my lunch!!! So decided to get what we needed for the next week at the same time - plus a treat box of nice soft tissues!!

Small spend today £15.28 in Al*i and Home Bags includes card posted to USA and small Xmas present. Also paid window cleaner £7 on Wednesday - waste of time as looks worse now after the storm!

Signature updated - doesn't look much left but have main meals in for next two weeks and all Xmas bits and booze - just need Xmas meat and veggies. Hope to come in under budget but if we don't we'll have had a great time!!! Also calculated that £15.37 of total spend is really from other budgets so if necessary will use that.

Having chicken, mushrooms sauce and rice for tea - yummy.

tessie_bear

hello...hope everyone is safe and well we have had a mini shop in iceland/coop and farm foods...icy have all £2 party food on sale over the weekend for a quid i got 2 packs as that was all i thought the family would like....then went to coop for a ysticker fest...got lovely indian party food selection for 35p...then went to farmfoods to spend a fiver gift card i had

have chicken bits marinading for tea and planning a roast lamb dinner for tea tomorrow
take care tessa

mrs-moneypenny

whoops being forgetting to do my sig

total for Nov £468.32

got loads extra in for christmas so dec should be light

going to say £400 for Dec

thank you everyone in the thread

i hope everyone is ok after last night storm damage, hugs to all who suffered in it

poppycracker

small spend in Asda today - not sure where my wages went yesterday, but they didn't go anywhere near my purse! £20.28 on cat food and litter and some cheap and easy things to make meals around for as long as possible.

meg72

tessie_bear wrote: »

hello...hope everyone is safe and well we have had a mini shop in iceland/coop and farm foods...icy have all £2 party food on sale over the weekend for a quid i got 2 packs as that was all i thought the family would like....then went to coop for a ysticker fest...got lovely indian party food selection for 35p...then went to farmfoods to spend a fiver gift card i had

have chicken bits marinading for tea and planning a roast lamb dinner for tea tomorrow
take care tessa

I was quite disappointed with some of the Iceland party options so not surprised you only bought 2 . I have bought several of these, and have found the ones featuring prawns quite good., but the chicken spears were rubbish, chicken pastry swirls not bad, but could do much better and cheaper .

Well done on the YS.

Sequeena

£13.77 spent today on dog food and a millionaire's cheesecake.