December 2013 Grocery Challenge

lushlifesaver

£5 today on wraps, milk, natural yogurt and a 6 pack of pombear crisps at the Sainsburys local down from the house - we came back from a weekend away but needed some fresh milk and lunch bits.

Will need some sandwich fillers and wraps for next week too and still have he Christmas snacks to buy but will try and get those out of what is remaining for this month even though the new month starts Friday for our budget!

NickJW

marris wrote: »

spent £6,41 today (but mostly non food - kitchen roll, bin bags....) got a jar of cranberry sauce in lidl for my recipe for tomorrow
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2265/braised-beef-with-red-wine-and-cranberry

This is such a lovely recipe...used to do this a lot. Thanks for refreshing my memory

NickJW

Few spends to report:

7/12 - £3 in the fish and chip shop
11/12 - £1.10 in Mr S
12/12 - £3.70 in Mr S
13/12 - £2.45 in Mr S
14/12 - £0.89 in Mr M
15/12 - £11.50 in Mr T

Total £22.64. Will update signature shortly and also need to add £10 onto last months declaration which I forgot to declare.

Hope everyone's well.

Florenceem

NSD here again.
Still in pain with bad back - easy meal here.
No photo.
We had HM fish pie + mushy peas + baked beans for dinner.

lynnejk

just_the_two_of_us wrote: »

Morning all - just had a small spend yesterday as needed frozen chips - must try doing SW chips again in the New Year but never had much success with them before - any tips anyone please?

Please can someone tell me what SW chips are ?


Bit the bullet and went shopping today. DH said he would come along to help :eek: - yes about double what I would have spent on my own. He meant well and did carry the bags :kisses3:


So - Morrys was £9.01
and Mr T was £6.49
and Al*i was £22.62 - *star buys of 7x pkts Schwar*z Hollandaise sauce at 35p each :j (very yummy) and a large jar of morello cherries reduced to 49p !


so grand total of £38.12


Today's dinner was pork loin (freezer) with dauphinoise pots and steamed carrot and parsnip batons and asparagus.


Hope you all have a magnificent Monday
Lx

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Florenceem wrote: »

NSD here again.
Still in pain with bad back - easy meal here.
No photo.
We had HM fish pie + mushy peas + baked beans for dinner.

Sorry to hear about your bad back. I hope it eases off soon.

joedenise

lynnejk wrote: »

Please can someone tell me what SW chips are ?Lx

SW = Slimming World. These are HM chips which are par boiled and then sprayed with F*rylight and baked in the oven. These chips don't have loads of oil on them like ready made oven chips do. HTH.

Will be a NSD for me today as no car again! Will be a small spend tomorrow as will need to run DH into work so that I can get to the market for some fruit of veg which is desperately needed - only have one banana left!!!!

Denise

mooomin

Spent £23 :eek: on a takeaway last night because it was my birthday and I couldn't be faffed cooking It was really lovely though, and all the tastier because I can't remember the last time we had one.

My online banking shows that I have £64.80 left of my £270 budget, so I'm very pleased with that as I get paid on Wednesday. I will need to get milk, bread and fruit today, but that should be all, so I will end the month with £50 left at least :j

shiningfaery

Having went a bit off the beaten track last week I have updated my signature now and will be paying a bit closer attention this week.

Such a horrible time I had last week so I have completely blown my treats budget as we ended up having alot of takewaways and wine.

Some 'scumbag' ran over my cat and left her for dead, she is currently fighting her corner at the vets but still may not make it as she could be paralysed its a waiting game to see.

But onwards and upwards, got some meal planning to get done and cooking. We will be having sausage plait, mash and veg tonight already defrosting.

mooomin

I hope your cat pulls through ♥