October 2015 Grocery Challenge

Dizzy_Imp

DuranGirl wrote: »

Hanging on by a thread... £6.19 left on my self-imposed £200 instead of £400. I can't see it myself, as I've promised to take cheese and wine to a dinner party on Hallowe'en (why couldn't it have been on 1 November? But without that, £6.19 would probably be enough for milk and loo rolls (I'm sure my DS eats them!).

Well my puppies actually do :mad: had to clear up four shredded toilet rolls yesterday as DH kindly FORGOT TO SHUT THE SHOWEROOM DOOR. *cough* Sorry. And, I had to do it with a dustpan and brush because they've also chewed through the hoover cable and DH keeps FORGETTING TO MEND IT. :mad:

Rant over

mothershipton

Just totted up spends so far this month, £166. This seems very low! I feel I may have lost a few receipts. There seems to be lots of food, I may just need to fresh fruit and veg. Very pleased

freyasmum

lynnejk wrote: »

Welcome to the Fred and good luck with the challenge

Ta!

I used to post ages ago but then life got in the way and I had no time to post. Probably cos I was spending my lunchtime at the shops :A

Now, I have to confess that I did still go to the shop yesterday, and I DID buy a dress in M&S (3.99) (and a skirt for my daughter - 99p), but all I spent was 4.98 and it should have been £60 :eek:. I'd never have paid £60 for them, but I tried my dress on last night with my gold belt and it'll be awesome for my holiday in summer with a pair of sandals :cool:

Anyway, I digress. All fed and watered and no pennies spent yesterday.

I went through the cupboards and the amount of stuff that I have is mental, but sometimes I just draw such a mental blank when it comes to putting it all together - even though I'm a good cook. It's made a bit more difficult due to the fact that I'm still following ww so need to be careful what I'm having every day.

Spent 33p on a bottle of orange squash to help kick my pepsi habit (that I developed when trying to lose weight, cos it filled my belly ). Daughter has her packed lunch and snack with her, and I have my soup again. Dinner will be leftovers tonight, so no cooking either.

00.33 / 15.00

chocolatelover93

Had a look through the recipes on the first few posts on this thread and had a bit of a mad cooking sesh. yesterday afternoon
I made:
Banana muffins
Fish pie (to freeze)
Wedges (for dinner)
BBQ marinade (SOOOO yummy!!) for my gammon steaks
I do love cooking so was nice to make yummy things from bits I had in stock and it's nice to have something different rather than the same old things!!

XSpender

I am away until Friday and DH is concerned about sticking to his SW plan so have nipped into Iceland to buy 4 of their SW ready meals to keep him going. Also bought some potato waffles for me and DS for quick meals and will be having some for lunch today:) I also spent £11 on dinner, snacks and tomorrows breakfast in Mr T but this comes off expenses (goes on a works CC) so I don't count it even though the odd item gets used outside of work if \I buy a pack of something for instance.

£13.50 to add brings me to £359.88 against a target of £370 for the calendar month. We will go over when I do a shop at the weekend but I am really pleased with the total compared with what we have spent the last few months. This is my first GC in a long while so it shows that extra focus does work:)

DuranGirl

NSD today :j and when I got my winter coat out, I found £1.50 in the pocket! :j Going to visit a friend this evening and wanted to take something. Not really enough spare cash for flowers, so quickly whipped up a batch of chocolate muffins, which means it's still a NSD and I've thought a bit more creatively rather than just popping out and spending! Quite pleased with that. Nice to be getting more OS again; that's the kind of thing I used to do all the time and people really appreciated it.

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Welcome to the thread PJ1 and freyasmum Lovely to have you with us here.

Dizzy - Your post about the loo rolls did make me laugh! and I feel your pain re: vets bills. Our dog was ill a few weeks ago and the bill was just shy of £1,000. Lucky us to have insurance - however - due to his age etc.etc. we are only getting 25% of the bill back. Utter rip off!!!

Our budget is looking remarkably okay. I have shopped weekly in Aldi this month, using cash. I also had a £100 budget for other shop spends on my credit card, so budget currently stands at £420.65/£450. My budget ends tomorrow so a significant underspend - don't think it's ever been that much. The best bit is, I've only spent £57 in Tesco all month - usually spend several hundred. This makes me extremely happy as I loathe Tesco, but my nearest one is 500yds from my front door.

Hope everyone else is going well.
Coxy

lynnejk

Evening all :hello:


We had another NSD here today but have a Mr T order coming the morrow.


We had cheesy jackets with HM beef chilli (freezer) for our dinner today - yummy


Hope you all have a thrifty Thursday
Lx

wannalot

I'm really annoyed tonight. I spent £6.50 on absolute rubbish tonight after work, including chocolate, crisps and sweets, so my budget has taken a hammering, and my diet has been ruined for this week. Oh well, i'll start again tomorrow. I shouldn't need any more GC spends until my new GC month starts on Monday.

I hope you are all doing better than me!

t14cy_t

nsd yesterday