October 2014 Grocery Challenge

K9sandFelines

£14.51 spent yesterday at Asd* and L*dl, and today £4.10 in the C*-*p.

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13.63 spent today. NSDs since last Wednesday:beer::j

dingdongsaving

YAY! Just checked to see if we need dog or cat food when I shop this weekend and we don't! There was a bag of dog food lurking in the garage! Hooray! :T I thought there might be as I got one thinking we didn't need it when we were having our building work and kitchen done and we simply couldn't get in the garage for builders tools and units!
The fab finance of that is a saving of £25 next week ...great as I have a thank you gift to get, and my son has 2 birthday parties to go to requiring little pressies.

Caterina

NSD today, updated my challenge figures in the sig. Food going really well but tomorrow might be a market day for onions and tomatoes. On the other hand I could try to stretch it to another NSD. I have a letter that needs posting recorded delivery but it can wait till Weds, depending on how the rest of the day goes.

CountingPennies

£3.70 on 12 pints of milk and 2 chocolate bars.... lets try for these NSD's!

CP xx

lynnejk

meg72 wrote: »

I have started to rundown freezers in the hope of having space for Christmas reductions, got some real bargains last year on xmas eve. Was doing nicely and almost a free shelf but our local meat warehouse had Chicken breast on offer at 5kg for £15, these are lovely big breasts, worked out 20 in the pack, One is enough for 2 or even 3 meals for me. I halved the pack with DIL. They also had gammon joints at 4 for £5 so got those as well, these weigh 900 grams each split them with DIL as well. So a £10 spend but loads of meals in for November.

Hey Meg - you did really well there with your chicken and gammon. My favourite meats actually but nice gammon is expensive here. Think I might get one for a treat at end of month
You still going for run-down for C* reductions :huh:

craigywv wrote: »

hi all been awol for a while still eating from freezers managed to completely empty one ..............2 to go! been saving quite a bit by doing this so have it put away for restocking, plan on trying ys only in them. and meat! keep seeing the prices creeping up in sm getting scary! good luck all with your challenge xxx

Hiya craigy - good to hear from you.
Re prices in sms - do you have a Morrys near you as the word is they are going head-to-head with the discounters !! This should be interesting eh. Can only be good for us consumers :rotfl:

CountingPennies wrote: »

I've decided, i'm gonna run to shops now and buy a load of milk, then i'm gonna aim for 3 NSD's in a row. I simply NEED to do it. Should have enough bread to last 3 days.
CP xx

Good luck CP. Think you should leave OH and sprogs at home - give them a task - and go shopping yourself. Probably be much cheaper and stress-freer :rotfl:


Managed another NSD today.


I had a lovely salad today. Morrys are doing a really tasty bag of Bistro Salad(with beetroot) for 99p, plenty lo, and I added chopped tomato and onion, grated some carrot and added shredded lo chicken from yesterday. Then made a dressing with fat-free yoghurt, lemon juice, chopped mint, touch of chilli and grind of black pepper. It was super. Followed with fresh pineapple, blueberries, raspberries and some more yoghurt. I was stuffed


Hope you all have a terrific Tuesday
Lx

franby64

Morning

Just bought a bag of fruit on Sat and a few bits and pieces yesterday.
I bought some biscuits and crisps on Sunday but I don't count these as food anymore so they come out of my general budget!
And I don't intend to buy much junk anymore so this isn't a sneaky ruse to pad out my grocery budget!

I've got a Sains delivery for Thurs night which I'm going to pare to the bone. They will not get me to spend that extra 50p! (How were they going to do that - sneak stuff into people's baskets? Harangue us at the till?

Anyway, so far so good. I'm still adjusting to cooking for 3 rather than 4. Some meals just aren't worth it any more. My mum said the other day she cooked for 4 for a long time after me and my brother had left home! So I'm not the only one.

Have a good week!

Happygreen

franby64 wrote: »

Morning

I'm still adjusting to cooking for 3 rather than 4. Some meals just aren't worth it any more. My mum said the other day she cooked for 4 for a long time after me and my brother had left home! So I'm not the only one.

Have a good week!

I'm with you, you are not the only one, DD1 has left for Uni (I must have mentioned before, I sometimes feel I'm not talking about anything else...). I am lucky as DD2 is a savoury girl and she does like the odd leftover for breakfast, sometimes I have it for lunch. Some recipes are easier to adjust for 3 people but I most days I cook too much. Trouble is that I also want to loose weight so cooking for 4 and eating for 2 here is not an option! :rotfl:

merzal

I've had a couple of mystery shops to do which means I haven't been able to keep out of the shops and this has pushed my total up a bit… Oh well, treated my OH to some goodies as he's trying to quit smoking and has cut down loads so trying to keep him occupied in the evenings. Although it means I'm spending more on food it means we are spending less on tobacco so can't really complain! I can tackle his sweet tooth another time!

MandM90

£4 yesterday on bread and binbags.