November 2015 Grocery Challenge

mothershipton

Not sure whats happened here spending has shot up to £229. Oh I know, husband is back from his holiday! Also I have a book of vouchers for morris*ns and it means I have to spend £40 in there to get extra points. I didnt think I had much so last week put a bottle of baileys in and this week two bottles of wine. For christmas of course!

MissOrganised1972

Hi All. It's AGES since I posted but I had to share my bargains from tonight! I popped to Sainsburys for tomatoes and a bag of rocket. Those 2 cost me £1.65. I thought I'd have a quick look at the reduced sections & for an extra £8.29 I managed to get:

• 500g sprouts
• A swede portion
• 200g fine green beans
• 20 cocktail sausages
• A large duck breast
• 2 Sea Bass fillets
• 2 pieces of cod loin
• A swordfish steak

The original price of that lot was £21.88 - a nice saving of 62%. Pretty pleased with that. All the fish & meat in the freezer and obviously veg keeps well past it's date. :j

CountingPennies

Been to shops tonight to save me going tomorrow (hopefully).

Spends of £29.32 but this did include a few toiletries too.

CP xx

lynnejk

Evening all :hello:

MissOrganised1972 wrote: »

The original price of that lot was £21.88 - a nice saving of 62%. Pretty pleased with that. All the fish & meat in the freezer and obviously veg keeps well past it's date. :j

Well done on the savings - a good haul there


Freyasmum - I have added your recipe under 'sausages' in the recipes at the top. Thanks for that


Still waiting for my new freezer to arrive. It appears they gave my telephone number incorrectly to the suppliers ? Oh well, I'll see if I get a call the morrow but not holding my breath.


Last two days were NSD and hopefully next two as well


Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday
Lx

joedenise

Didn't manage to get to Lid! yesterday afternoon so £9.66 for spends yesterday now added. Total so far £34.55/£250, so looking good for now.

Trying not to spend too much at the moment as want to clear out my outside freezer to turn it off when we go away next month. May end up having to give some of the food away so I turn it off but not worth keeping it on if it isn't full. I've already given my DD2 some steak, chops & a huge turkey leg, which I suggested she turns into a curry as it's been in the freezer for several months now.

It'll be another NSD today so now up to 7/20 but won't update until later in case DH spends anything on his way home from work.

Denise

DuranGirl

£2.50 top up shop at Mr T today - just milk and juice. Still loads of food in cupboards and freezer. Oh, and £216.26 to fix my car :eek:which still isn't fixed :mad: Off to lie down in a darkened room... On the plus side, without the GC I wouldn't have a bit of a financial cushion for times like this.

Crowdpleaser

Annoyingly 2.38 at m and s for cheese today. Now n again we do toasties at work and we all bring a bit for it. Was mh turn for the cheese as I had lots in fridge. You guessed it. I forgot it. So had to nip in marks and buy some on way in. Oh well. My toastie was delish! Lol x

wishus

Now up to £79.02, but I should only need bread and cat food for a while. I will get clever, watch me!

Latest spends -35p 2 donuts, 75p milk (it grieves me this is so cheap), YS broccoli 19p, YS peppers 49p, 1kg YS onions 29p, 2 x YS red delicious apples 25p, YS sprouts 26p, 2 packs sliced meat - pork tongue and cajun chicken, bot YS 50p.

Dizzy_Imp

My online order arrived this morning (20 mins early) with a couple of substitutions worth £4 in my favour and a total spend of £91, taking my running total to £257.66. This leaves me with just shy of £100 for the rest of the month. Hmmm...might need to get creative. As we hosted a bonfire party at the weekend, I feel we can rein in with regards to feeding guests or entertaining for the rest of the month. My HM chilli con carne hit the spot, so I was very pleased

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Budgets updated to here

We are still on track this month. I have been making weekly trips to Aldi with a list of our meal plan. It's working really well, and I don't feel that we ever run out of anything anymore. I even tried their diet cola and it wasn't too bad..... Will be going again tomorrow after work and again next Thursday.

Small top up of milk, pots and veg today at Sainsbobs. They are advertising for Christmas temps but when you go online there's nothing for that store. I went in with DS (16) who is at college 3 days a week and desperate for a job. Was told that two positions would be online from tomorrow, so will need to be quick off the mark. It's just so difficult to even get an interview these days with so many people looking for work (

lynnejk - sorry to hear about your freezer - so frustrating.

Dinner tonight is gammon steaks from Aldi, slimming world chips, carrots and stringless beans.

Have a good evening all.
Coxy