October 2014 Grocery Challenge

lynnejk

Happygreen wrote: »

All went well so instead of hitting any shops I went for a small lunch with a friend :T. Not exactly a NSD but near enough!.

Glad it all went well for you HG


Another NSD for me and had a lovely meal of freezer shepherd's pie with lo mixed veg followed by berries and yoghurt.


Am bit concerned that so far over the budget for still half the month to go but I do have quite a lot in stock and still trying to use stuff from freezers. Some meals might be a bit weird for the last week :rotfl:


Hope you all have a thrifty Thursday
Lx

CH27

I'm hoping for another NSD. I need to take my MIL shopping but I think i'll sit in the car to avoid temptation

MandM90

Should be a NSD today, but I do need to buy yeast. Spent about £35 in LIDL last night (will update sig later) which should last the week. That includes a HUGE sack of potatoes, cat food, some treats and enough bread flour/bread mixes to make 10 or so loaves of bread!

craigywv

2 nsd in a row yayyyyyy! wont be going too far today going to go while boy is in school and plunder about to see what I have gathered up for Christmas presents for him and everyone else, should just be needing the sweets which I cant bring into the house or I will eat them, think I will have a small spend on milk tomorrow that's what im aiming for , have a lovely day all xxx

dingdongsaving

Just made my list for the end of week shop and hardly need anything.

Glimpsed to the last week on our meal plan too & we only need 3 meal plan items (buns 4 burgers, spuds & sausages) plus milk/bread & any other freshies we might need by then.

Really hoping to be £40-50 under - would be great to have that to pop into the Christmas pot. :snow_grin Just heard on tv that it's 10 weeks today until Christmas day too! Crazy! :xmastree:

joedenise

Popped into Mr Ts to do this week's main shop and spent £26.52, no idea why it's so high as I didn't buy very much - not even any meat or treats in that just basics like bread, butter, cheese, teabags.

I also bought some bananas from the farm shop which cost £1.06. Total so far for month now stands at just under £140/£250 with just over a week to pay day so looking good.

Denise

Solstice_3

Another NSD today (16/10)

I was browsing pinterest last night and came across this blog - while I know most of you will find this information old news I thought it might be helpful for those of us (me included) who are new to this Old School thingymabob so without further ado the link:

http://goingreno.com/be/31-days/ (not sure why it stops at 15 days as I haven't read it all, yet.

Plus a lovely recipe I can't wait to try (the week after next)

http://goingreno.com/2014/08/29/whole-chicken-two-ways-plus-broth/

Have a good day everyone x

bmma

Spends today £4.02, brings spending to date of £15.00p/£20.00p

XSpender

Solstice_3 wrote: »

Another NSD today (16/10)

I was browsing pinterest last night and came across this blog - while I know most of you will find this information old news I thought it might be helpful for those of us (me included) who are new to this Old School thingymabob so without further ado the link:

http://goingreno.com/be/31-days/ (not sure why it stops at 15 days as I haven't read it all, yet.

Plus a lovely recipe I can't wait to try (the week after next)

http://goingreno.com/2014/08/29/whole-chicken-two-ways-plus-broth/

Have a good day everyone x

Thanks for the link to this blog, it looks really interesting. I think I may have just lost the rest of my evening:rotfl:


NSD today on groceries for me, the first in ages:o

smiling_saver

So pleased with myself as I'm managing rather well to keep grocery spending down to one day a week. OK for once in my life I'm actually at home enough to know what's in the cupboards, fridge and our new freezer, but still really pleased.

This week we are going to try something a little different. I think we are going to take out $100 cash, then allocate $80 to this week's groceries. The other $20 is going to be used to build up supplies.

Fiance just didn't have anything here when i arrived and i struggled each week as I was buying the store cupboard basics as well as main ingredients.