October 2015 Grocery Challenge

cw18

I'm in again.

Official budget is £253.10, but I'm (again) hoping to not go over £200 - and again aiming to keep to spending no more than £105 in shops, though I think that might be more of a challenge this month.

theblackrose

Had our second shop of the month delivered on 29th September. Came to £55.67. A bigger shop this time as we were stocking up on cat food & litter but luckily got £10 off. So total spend so far is £85.26. We won't need to do a shop next week as we've got enough & will be away for 3 days. Doing well so far! Just hope it continues.

lynnejk

Afternoon all :hello:


Well our summer here seems to have finished as it's back to grey, cold and windy


Shopping yesterday was Mr T = £ 10 and A*di = £ 19.64 so a total of £ 29.64 to add to total for the month. Today is an NSD :j


Seem pretty well stocked atm. I have done meal plan for the month and looks like we will only need weekly fresh stuff such as milk, bread F & V etc.

Dawning wrote: »

So thinking about going out to shop, we have a decent butcher in the next village and there's a greengrocer there too that I've never tried.....

Aldi is about 10 miles away, Lidl a bit further....

Could also make extra roasties but I'm not sure how well they freeze?

I've got 3 huge garlic bulbs that I bought last week, no idea why I bought them (the box they were in was pretty !) and no idea how I'll use them up.

You are lucky to have a butcher and greengrocer so close these days. Our butcher is 12 miles away and I haven't found a greengrocer. That said I buy my F & V from A*di and find it fine so long as you're careful.


With your A*di so far away you will have to get into the habit of making a list. I have a basic list of weekly things, and often-bought things, that I double check with each week and I also write down things as they start to get low.


I do extra roasties every week as DH likes them cut up and re-fried for a couple of minutes on Monday or Tuesday with almost anything :rotfl:


As for the garlic - have you tried soup. There's loads of recipes if you G**gle it and because it's cooked for a long time it's not strong but lovely and silky. Just the thing for the cough and cold season heading our way


Hope you all have a money-saving Monday
Lx

karenccs67

#2 NSD today :j

debbiedodge1737

I made a nice Gammon roast today in the slow cooker. I originally bought the tiny tiny piece to make a soup with this week but asda substituted with a much larger one :T .... so I made a roast and still have loads left to make soup tomorrow . Thankyou asda another days dinner for free almost.

dreamingofmoney

Spent another £3.85 over the last two days topping up on bread and milk etc. just going to update sig.
Take care

mashedavocado

Hi! I'm in this month

Looking at our spending last month we spent £258 on groceries (inc cleaning products and toiletries).

I'd like to try and reduce that by 10% so I'll give an official total of £232.20. That's for me and OH; we have a baby as well but she's breastfed and we use cloth nappies & wipes so no cost there really!

We do seem to be terrible at planning meals and wasting food lately. Needs to stop asap!

Dawning

Yesterday was a NSD as planned.

However today isn't a NSD as I've just had to buy a blender, my old one wouldn't work at all today. I ended up trying to mash my celeriac soup! :rotfl:
I do count kitchen equipment with my grocery budget so I'm another £19.99 down. :mad:

miss_try_to_save

£83.00 /£250 but this should last 2 weeks besides fresh fruit and veg milk and bread leaving £167 for the month we will see

DuranGirl

Well, as I've just come back from holiday I've just done some tiny shops to help me over the weekend. I think this evening's task is to do a freezer and store cupboard stock take and then menu plan. It's quite hard to plan round a student who's in and out all over the place (and eats quorn (other meat substitutes are available:p) when I'm a carnivore!). So if anyone has any tips on that score, I'd be very grateful.


I think the bomb is going to drop at the end of March 2016 - I'm expecting my hours to be slashed in half at work, so I'm battening down the hatches in anticipation, and saving as much money as I can. I'm leaving this month's GC target at £400 though, so I don't feel hideous if I don't make it on my first attempt.