October 2014 Grocery Challenge

meg72

Iceland was absoutely packed today the cans of pop on offer were almost gone but did get 6 packs, although only one of cherry left which is his favourite I bought 2 packs of eggs as the offer is 1.60 instead of £1 each so I pickle some. Spent £8.60 now and that will do for the week as I am away for a couple of days.

MrsSave

I've struggled this month

Going to be around £180 by the end of the month. :mad:

Next month will be better (though it is starting with 2 big packs of nappies, larger, olive oil and wash capsules :eek: ).

dingdongsaving

Spent £9.59 today! Just going to update signature (rounded up to £10 spend). Should be us set until day 31 with a nice chunk for C* or Jan. sale foods.
We've only made it because we didn't need washing powder, toiletries, very much meat or nappies at "normal" prices...but I'll take it. We started October with a good stash of dog food too.

Caterina

I spent just under £9 in sainsbugs but of this £7.00 was treats for DS, DH and myself, chocolate stuff, so I used my saved nectar points, not counting them as money in the GC. Also spent another £1 for some biscuits this morning, so I am declaring a £3 spend god today and will adjust my sig accordingly.

PennyGrabber

Well, I didn't have lentil bolognese for dinner tonight. I opened the fridge and saw some lo cheesy mash, so I pulled two sausages from the freezer and used half a tin of tomatoes. This leaves the other half of the tomatoes for the bolognese tomorrow. Oh, except I'm at bf's for dinner... That'll be Monday then!

I solved the bread and milk problem. I always keep a bread mix in, a nice one such as cheese and onion. That'll do for me as a treat, and I have wraps in for the ch should they need them. I found a litre of uht milk in the kitchen too, which I purposely bought for just such an occasion! I'm so much more organised than I give myself credit for!!

Tomorrow will be weetabix for breakfast and not too sure about lunch... I have plenty in, but unsure what to choose! Maybe soup?

Night all

PG x

DFF

Hi
I've just added up my receipts and my total so far this month is
£110.35/150.
I'm very surprised at this I thought that I had spent more as I've bought a lot of groceries.

On 20 Oct I joined Slimming World as I'm in the right frame of mind to deal with the other sort of pounds. I've had some surprises a lot of the items in my fridge/freezer and pantry are no or low Syns.

DFF

lynnejk

Solstice_3 wrote: »

Morning all, DH went shopping for me yesterday as I was too busy, there are pluses and minuses with DH shopping though +he sticks to the list -he insists on shopping at Sainsburys. I still don't have my receipt (or change) but it's close to the £10 mark for porridge oats, tin of soup, 2 packs of butter and coffee. I have £12 left in my purse until Fri but I have another pot for emergencies.

You're about same as me on budget as that's all I have left. However your DH opposite to mine - he's happy to go to A*di but has problems staying on list, don't know which is worst :rotfl:

DFF wrote: »

Hi
I've just added up my receipts and my total so far this month is
£110.35/150.
I'm very surprised at this I thought that I had spent more as I've bought a lot of groceries.
On 20 Oct I joined Slimming World as I'm in the right frame of mind to deal with the other sort of pounds. I've had some surprises a lot of the items in my fridge/freezer and pantry are no or low Syns.
DFF

Good luck with your SW and hope you get sorted. BTW your declaration doesn't agree with your signature


Managed another NSD as didn't go out :laugh: but need a few bits tomorrow or might haaaang on until Monday :huh:


Hope you all have a super Sunday
Lx

XSpender

£1.45 spent on big bottle of sparkling water and a net of chocolate coins for DS.

Happygreen

just updated Friday's top-up. The next 2 days are planned for food, will only need milk today but maybe OH is going to bet it, lol.

Soworried

I have £13 left to last me until Friday, half of that will go today as I need milk and I am going to stock up on some of the puff pastry that L!dl have on special.
It will be tight but I should make it, we have loads in the freezer and I'm about to do my plan.
Good luck with your budgets in these last few days