October 2014 Grocery Challenge

thorsoak

OK : first day of challenge - spend today was £1.15 - milk (£1.45 less my 10% staff discount). Dinner today is sausage & tomato pasta - using h/g tomatoes, chopped onion & garlic with some basil snipped over and reduced price co-op sausages (frozen on s/b date) and Asda pasta. Originally I was thinking about sausage & mash with onion gravy, but that would have meant buying potatoes ...so decided to use store cupboard stuff. Must do this more regularly!

meg72

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

Ready to start tomorrow! I have loads of food in, and have made a meal plan, but I am going to have to sort portion sizes out for while DD1 is at University. I keep making too much! I thawed turkey steaks last night and ended up with a whole fillet slice left, so tonight I battened it really flat and thin, and spread it with some stuffing (just made up Paxo) and rolled it up and wrapped in bacon. I roasted it for 45 minutes and it was really nice. There was plenty for two but Dd2 wouldn't have it and made a frozen pizza (last one and buying no more!!). I will gave the other half on sandwich for lunch tomorrow.

Have to go to the opticians in the morning and it is right opposite B&M, and Home and Bargain, so I will have to resist the urge to go in!
I DO NOT need anything!

Have you seen this for free frozen pizza, Asda have them on offer for 1.50, so buy one go on line and enter the code, get two vouchers, one for 1.50 and one for 1.00, go and get 2 pizza, one free and one for 50p and 2 1,50 vouchers and 2 for 50op, so far I have had 12 free pizzas and have 12 vouchers for £1 off, my DDI is really pleased I don't eat pizza but got these for her to feed my DGS`s

http://www.pizzaristorante.co.uk/weeklyshop/

1of3

Spent 26.43 today only which I was happy with as it included some treats for daughters birthday on Saturday.

It was the first time that I done a proper "stock check" before going and found I had plenty there as it stands.

And yesterday was a NSD!

K9sandFelines

£0.59 p spent on a garlic bulb, and then managed to find the cloves that I'd lost in the freezer.

MrsSave

£15.73 spent on day one, but that included 4 loaves of reduced bread and 3 packs of reduced meat as well as a few bits for going away this weekend (including formula for my son). Pretty happy with that!

CountingPennies

£2.17 on an unexpected chicken spend. So close to a NSD!

apocryphal

Managed a NSD yesterday, although I think OH did an online shop at MrT when I wasn't paying attention, and he want me to bring takeaway home with me this evening, so he might already have thrown my entire budget out the window already for all I know :rotfl:

I did a stock check of the freezer yesterday too. It appears we have enough sausages to get us through a nuclear winter!

Working in town today which means I'll probably end up spending money on food/drink for lunch - but it also means I can go to Aldi to pick up some staples.

franby64

Morning

I had a Sainsbury delivery yesterday morning which came to £51.20. I've planned the first week - though it's already gone pear-shaped as I forgot to take the chicken pieces out of the freezer last night!. Nevermind, adapt and survive!
I also bought no junk in this shop - amazing.
I'll need to get some fruit today but shouldn't need much else until my next delivery next Thursday - DD1 is coming home for a couple of days then so we will probably use that as an excuse to indulge a bit!

Faete

Morning folks!

I've fallen off the wagon with my shopping spending over the last few months I'd like to sort myself out again and try and keep to £300 in October.

Fae xx

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Happygreen

Got groceries for the week yesterday and am hoping for an NSD today and even tomorrow. Leftovers for me for lunch as I got a huge packet of YS fish at M's yesterday, what a difference to the frozen kind....