December 2013 Grocery Challenge

Ladyluck1

Hopefully another NSD here... Just made a liter of chicken noodle soup from yesterday's chicken, carcas made stock, put some chicken in (still have enough left for tonight's curry) plus some of the broken bits of tagliatelle left in the box and some veg

Shortie

Morning all, a £2 on a dozen eggs, will update sig in a mo

Menu plan as follows for next week as of Monday:

Hm lasagne (makes two dinners)
Sausage and hm chips
Hm meat pie and hm chips
Hm chilli from freezer
Hm chicken curry
Hm spag bol


Through batch cooking this week, we'll get the following meals sorted for next week: Lasagne (coves two meals), spag bol, chilli, chicken curry, so 5 meals will get sorted for next week as we go through this one - woo hoo!

Faete

Everything bought for Christmas except fresh veg, cream, bread etc. My Mum will be paying for the Boxing Day joint and BF's Mum is getting the turkey. :cool: £21.20 in Asda and £57.69 in Aldi (includes six bottles of wine.) :beer:

Fae xx

Billie-jo

Spent £17.55 today in Morri$ons this included some lamb (my favourite), bacon and fruit & veg. Didn't get to A!di on Thursday as we decided we didn't need that much.
I even managed to walk around Te$co with mum and not buy anything !!!! :T
Certainly using things up better as don't remember throwing anything away this week apart from cutting about 1/2 inch off a cucumber. A couple of rounds of bread went into the freezer as they were stale but will use up as breadcrumbs later.

chocoholic_chick

Spent a small fortune at the farm shop today, not sure whether we'll get there again before Christmas ( it's in a bit of a remote place so don't want to risk driving there if we get snow ) so decided to stock up. Got 1kg mince, 1kg of stewing steak, a large chicken, some rump steak, 2 different type of sausages ( 12 in total ) that will do us a few meals as they're chunky sausages and sausagemeat for the Turkey at Christmas . Also got a few treats: chocolate cake, chutney, pate, scones and cheese. Spent £60.99 in the end and still have my supermarket shop to do but shouldn't need much meat, if any at all, before Christmas now. Just as well I upped our budget for the month!

Bookworm42

Aaargh!! I seem to have gone a bit mad this week. Here we go:
Tuesday - £7.39 in B &M, £2.97 in B**ts, £8.00 in P**land and £11.96 in Mr T.
Wednesday - £10.05 (includes cakes to take to work for my birthday)
Thursday - NSD
Friday - NSD
Saturday - £6.70 in Mr T (includes Christmas Radio Times), £13.22 in M*S and £2.10 in P*land.
Just going to add all that up. Scary. But on a good note, I've been sent lots of vouchers by Mr S & Mr T. Also I have 2 completed savings stamps cards for Mr T (one completed for us by dear MIL).
Hope everyone affected by bad weather is OK.

Shortie

Hmm.... I was hoping to have some spare from this challenge to get some nice bits in but I realised we needed nappies. Picked up sone chilli and sweet peppers while there so we can make some chilli jam tomorrow ready to yummify christmas leftovers. Another £6.20 spent. Off to update sig (sigh)

Cheapskate

Hello everyone

It's only 7th and I'm already up to £124 out of £300 for the month, so will have to be careful next week! We do have some mince, braising steak and salmon fillets in the freezer, and chicken and sausages in the fridge, so that's plenty for the next two weeks.

I have a load of Nect@r points that will more than cover my food spend for December (and half of January, too!), about £20 in the butchers savings club, so am fairly hopeful that I'll come in on budget, for the first time ever! :rotfl:

A xo

Soworried

Soworried wrote: »

Well I used my other voucher today at Aldi, I stocked up on a lot of tinned items that could be eaten cold if needed. The likes of tinned potatoes, hot dogs, corned beef and minced beef.
I feel safer now
Using 2 vouchers in 2 days has meant that the house is now bursting with food I have around 64 frozen sausages

I have just done a meal plan for the week to try and use some of this in the best way.

Friday- We just had chicken breasts diced in a spicy marinade with hm bombay potatoes and 2 spring rolls each.
Saturday- Will be the rest of the chicken that I chopped the breasts off made in to curry and turmeric rice and some hf prawn crackers.
Sunday- Sausage with onion mash and veg and gravy.
Monday- HM pizza and garlic bread.
Tuesday- Pork chops with roast potatoes and veg.
Wednesday- Chilli and hm egg fried rice.
Thursday- Sausage casserole with yorkshire pudds.

Tomorrow will be a NSD :A

I did have a nsd day today :j

I also stuck to my meal plan

Left over cooked chicken from last night made in to a curry with turmeric rice and a few home fried prawn crackers.

Florenceem

Spend of £1 on milk today.
We had HM Shepherd's Pie + baked beans for dinner.