October 2015 Grocery Challenge

t14cy_t

nsd yesterday. hoping to wait until tomorrow nights YS run!

joedenise

Back from a weekend away and managed 2 NSDs (Fri & Sun) and a small spend of £8.70 which included some locally made cider from the place we were staying. Now spent a total of £37.47/£250.

Denise

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Just on to update the budgets list

Welcome/welcome back to:
complimentschemistry, Dawning, dreamingofmoney, misty6, Wysiwyg49, chocolatelover93, VfM4meplse, The Cheerleader, Auldbint and scon1234

Good luck all.

We are still on track after weekly visits to Aldi. Thank you lynnejk for the Aldi info re. credit cards. Am sticking to cash this month, but good to know if I get stuck!! One more weekly shop to go, £80 budgetted. Our current total is £293.13/£420, so I am hoping for an underspend this month. Spag bol for tea tonight - nommy

Coxy

Wysiwyg49

Sainsb this week so spent a bit more - £96.95 to add (have updated signature).

Included some nice cordials in an attempt to cut the (separate) wine budget!

Debating between spag bol and cottage pie tonight. Everyone eats spag bol so I end up making it almost every week!

Dizzy_Imp

Two recent shops totalling £59.74 for me to report bringing me to £227.10/£340 so far this month. Quietly confident for the next week as meal planning done and no entertaining planned.

Got HM frozen lasagne out just now for dinner later...nom nom...

CountingPennies

Spend this weekend of £19.43 then today £3.64. Will update total. Hopefully tomorrow and Wednesday will be NDS.

CP xx

DuranGirl

£10.10 from grocery budget today, plus 89p on toiletries. The food I bought was mostly to stretch out the big shop ingredients (potatoes, rice, frozen veg). Still not sure whether I'll bring it in under £200 this month, but I'm definitely confident about under £300, which is still a lot lower than my £400 estimate! :j I may be a tad bored with tuna by the end of the month - it was on offer through Ocado - will have to check out interesting ways to dress it up for packed lunches. One bottle of wine in my rack - definitely can't buy more within a £200 budget. Haven't broken it to my fella yet. This is what he'll look like: :eek:. He may have to visit bearing gifts from now on!:rotfl:

alja

I think I'll join you guys properly for next month. Might challenge myself to not spend any more than £40 on food for the rest of this month in the meantime.


About to go through my cupboards and write down what I have. I'm sure I have more than I realise!


Two days a week I pop over to my parents' home for dinner on each day and breakfast on one morning so that helps a little bit. I also use the Boots £1 meal deal offer on my priority app on Mondays.


Fingers crossed I can keep this challenge in my mind whilst shopping

lynnejk

Evening all :hello:


Had another NSD today.


We had French cheese omelettes with avocado and salad. DH had re-fried l/o roasties from yesterday.


I have pulled four chicken breasts out of the freezer to cook the morrow. Undecided whether to make a curry for Wednesday or something else - will see how I feel in the morning


Hope you all have a terrific Tuesday
Lx

selloptape

Hi everyone,

Bit annoyed with myself for buying lunch in town today. Had all the packed lunch stuff in but just too tired to sort it this morning definitely a harder budget now I've added in my work lunches but at least it will motivate me to stop buying them and save money

Also a more expensive week as my son is really fed up of Jacket P's

Hope everyone is doing well x