October 2015 Grocery Challenge

chocolatelover93

Got a shop yesterday
£30 in Mr T and £20 in the butchers (can't belive how much meat I got for £20!! and much better quality than the supermarket too!! and will last longer )

t14cy_t

nsd today hoping to last until Tuesday when I will do a YS run!

Wysiwyg49

First shop split between A1di and Sainsb - £60.99. Roughly even in both shops but interesting to note far more basic foods are from A1di (meat, veg, most cheese, deli items, tinned tuna) with Sainsb for favourite items and brands (fruit juice, biscuits, gruyere cheese which a1di doesn't seem to do). Plus DD has developed an expensive liking for "snack fruit" - the pricey ones with no added sugar!!

Will probably need some topups but pleased so far. Before the GC I would easily have had a bill of £120+ and still topped up! :eek:

The other really satisfying thing is that I love cooking, so thinking about it more has got me making bread, pizza/garlic bread dough, quiches (great for leftover bits and pieces!)

uncreative

karenccs67 wrote: »

Eeek I've spent almost all of my budget. I meal planned for the month so I've bought everything we need including milk & bread which I freeze anyway. All I will need is fruit & yoghurts.

:eek:One shopping visit? thats got to be some trip. We seem to be visiting the shops constantly.

Our total is £67.27 so far - we went a bit overboard on the branded expensive kids stuff so not off to the best start but still plenty of time to get it back on track.

karenccs67

uncreative wrote: »

:eek:One shopping visit? thats got to be some trip. We seem to be visiting the shops constantly..

We've been to Tesco, Home Bargains, Aldi, Iceland, Sainsburys, Asda & Iceland, a lot of planning, my poor hubby lol.

SpikyHedgehog

Big monthly shop at Sains. today and 3 fiddly and frivolous shops at T.Express leaves me £145 for the rest of the month out of £300 again.

DS2 watched the eat well programme with me the other day and said he thought we did a good job already, which was sweet of him, so I quickly got him to help with the meal planning and managed to convince him that we should use pasta and noodles that we already have rather than his first choice of different pasta and couscous.

Have put the new flour in the freezer for 48 hours before storing in secure tubs.

misty6

Well I spent £5.83 in the butchers on Friday and £28.84 in sainos yesterday so £34.67 so far this month. NSD today. I will have to go back to sainos either tomorrow or Monday as I only have one washing tab left.


I actually cooked myself a roast dinner last night - the first I've cooked this year!! I was having meals on wheels up to August this year when I cancelled them as they weren't very mse. I need to do more cooking from scratch as I've been buying a lot of ready meals since then. This challenge will definitely help me with that

XSpender

£165.36 spent out of our £370 budget so far!

£9 on fruit, £2 on potatoes, £20 on 2 gammon joints, a turkey breast joint, which might end up being Christmas dinner and 9 pork loin steaks. £34 on a massive tub of protein powder, £13 on 15 chicken breasts and £21 on SW ready meals and ham for DH this week when I am away. The total also includes £4 on a couple of toiletries, 48 litres of bottled water, 24 bottles of c0ke and a few other bits.

As I am away from Monday to Thursday and DH wont shop on his own we wont spend anything else until next weekend.

I cooked a huge gammon joint last night in the slow cooker which we had for tea with wedges and veg. We will have some with jacket potatoes and beans/cheese for lunch and I will use the rest to make a chicken and ham pie for tea. As DH is on SW and I am GF I am going to try topping the pie with some diced potato instead of pastry. We will have this with broccoli, carrots and sweetcorn. Pudding will be Eton Mess made with fat free yogurt instead of cream

Cheapskate

Morning everyone - September was rubbish, went over an already-generous budget, so back on the wagon again! Please can I go down for £500 for October? Thanks!

Will tot up my spends for the first few days, but not looking too bad at the moment - lots of use-it-up, leftovers and freezer teas to come this month, proper lunch box meals, instead of ready-made things, baking/batch cooking/meal planning, etc. I've really slipped into some bad habits, feeling cross as I always used to bake/batch cook/meal plan and so on, the rot has to stop now, though!

In that spirit, we're having jacket potatoes, bacon and beans for tea, am going to bake for packed lunches/snacks/suppers today, and start as I mean to go on.

Catch up soon, looking forward to playing properly this month! :rotfl:

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selloptape

Hope everyone has had a good start to October?

I've realised lots of expensive householdy things will run out this month, topped up on loo rolls last night at F Foods and will get laundry powder today but I bulk buy so should be okay for a few months then. Hopefully I can still make budget.

I've meal planned for the week so just need to stick to that and to make work for lunch every day as I'm including all my work lunches in the budget this month. No more cheeky lunch take aways

Good luck all x