October 2015 Grocery Challenge

DuranGirl

£1.20 yesterday on new-laid free-range eggs from a colleague's chickens. They're lovely. £2.00 on breakfast deal in works canteen to be sociable (but that's from my eating-out budget). £8.20 on a prescription today . Purse staying closed tomorrow and Sunday I hope. Bit down about lack of NSDs.

Just have to share this - my fella (typical single man) appears to be a bit of a tinned/dried food hoarder. As we want to move in together, I'm trying to get him to whittle down his three cupboards and one worktop full of food, before he moves up. So last night at his, we used a tin of chilli, two packs of microwaveable rice and half a pack of Ryvita thins (and half a bottle of wine lol). The rice pudding from 2007 :eek: was not good at all so consigned to the bin. I've now set a challenge that, when he visits every other weekend, he has to bring up some tins/jars so I can turn them into "proper" meals for him to take back again! I brought some lasagne sauces and tinned toms back for next weekend. Should I set myself a destash target for his tins and stuff instead of my craft gear? I forgot to count them last night... :rotfl:

candygirl

Another NSD here for me, and it's my birthday, so no need to cook tonight as we're off out for an indian:j:j:beer:

chocolatelover93

Hoping for a NSD today
Spent another £14 yesterday in Mr £1!!

Dizzy_Imp

DuranGirl wrote: »

I've now set a challenge that, when he visits every other weekend, he has to bring up some tins/jars so I can turn them into "proper" meals for him to take back again! I brought some lasagne sauces and tinned toms back for next weekend. Should I set myself a destash target for his tins and stuff instead of my craft gear? I forgot to count them last night... :rotfl:

I LOVE this idea! I mean, why get rid of stashed craft items if you don't have to...

XSpender

DH locked me out this evening so I did the weekly shop while I waited for him to get home. It meant all my bags were in the house so I bought 3 bags for life as well! I would put some in my car but I cleared it out thinking my new company car would be ready this week but it wasn't.

£44.92 spent in Mr S but this included £5 on some beer for DH which I will budget for separately. This should do us until nest weekend. Mainly bought F&V, ham and cheese triangles as DH is on SW and doing really well (13lb in 5 weeks:)).

Also bought loo roll, gravy and stock cubes. Gravy and stock cubes were both on offer so bought 1 of each. Being GF there are a limited number of brands I can use so I thought it was worthwhile buying a spare of each. I did get a mini packs of bics and ys mini sausage rolls for DS for post walk picnic (in the car probably) on Sunday as a treat and to keep him walking:rotfl:

I have been away with work the beginning of this week and came home to all the meat we bought at the weekend been frozen all together in the tray! I hope I can chip off 2 chicken breasts at a time off the tray of 15.:eek: DH also froze 2 gammon joints which I had heard doesn't defrost very well. I hope it will be ok. Bless him, he was only trying to help.:A

VfM4meplse

Passed the grocer and bought a bowl of cherry tomatoes for £1. Then popped into Sainsbos for some YS bread, simply because I fancied some toast and didn't have the foresight to take bread out of the freezer earlier. Did I eat it? Did I heck! The loaf was split and added to my freezer hoard.

Total spend £1.89.

Itsa_Longshot

I went to a different supermarket than usual last weekend, and spent £40.15 against my weekly target of £27.00. Oops! £25.76 this morning, so at £65.91 for the month. I'm well stocked now though, so will hopefully keep things down for the remaining three shops this month to meet the target.

DuranGirl

Dizzy_Imp wrote: »

I LOVE this idea! I mean, why get rid of stashed craft items if you don't have to...

Well, I don't really have to get rid of the stashed craft items, but I feel I should whittle them down before I start buying for new projects.


I'm just thinking now about having to unpack those cupboards to count how many tins, jars and packets there are.... :eek: I'm not sure I'm emotionally ready for that...

DuranGirl

Oh I do love Ocado. Delivery within five minutes of the start of my delivery slot, they bring it all through, they're polite and I don't have to cope with checkouts or carry any of the heavy stuff. I've also found out that they refund against any carrier bags you return on the spot - they deduct it using their little devices before the payment is taken from my account. I'm impressed.

selloptape

Hi everyone,

Had a cheap couple of days as my son has been with his dad; made a ratatouille and had it for three diff main meals (with salmon and cous cous, with cous cous and mozzarella, with pasta and cheese). Not very seasonal but still doesn't feel like Autumn has hit us here yet.

Hoping when the cold weather kicks in will motivate me to get the slow cooker out again

Updated my sig and then checked my spend per day compared to target spend per day (£52.24 over ten days = £5.22 per day, £220 over 31 days = £7.09 per day). So looks good right now but meal planning and shopping for the week later will push that up a lot. Does anyone else do this or have I finally lost it?

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend x