November 2015 Grocery Challenge

Coxy11

Forgot to say Hi to Winchelsea
Good to see you back with us
Coxy

Billie-jo

Have just added up this months spends and to date they are £43.07
Got a couple of things for Christmas lunch in this - stuffing, savoury crackers, sausage meat which has been frozen and some long life cream.

Winchelsea

Thanks for your welcome back Coxy!

Doing quite well so far this month - have only spent £15.27. I only include food in the challenge, and so far have used a few things out of the cupboards, fridge and freezer.
Like a lot of you I'm sure, I often cook double quantities of a meal, and freeze half. So on those days when I'm tired or not feeling up to much, I can just grab my HM ready meal and heat it up.
This originally came about when my late DH went into a nursing home. I found cooking for one very hard at first, so by default would mostly end up with a meal big enough for two. I've been a widow for nearly four years now, but still find myself doing the same. But, it's a good thing to do - would'nt give commercial ready meals house room, as in my experience they don't taste of much, compared with good honest home-cooked food!

Wysiwyg49

Ouch expensive week this week, not quite sure why. Big shop in Sainsb at the weekend and bits and pieces ever since...

Have found meat stall in market doing huge packs of chicken breast fillets for £5/kg so might get one of those for the rest of the month, as we eat lots of them. Definitely back to A1di for fruit / veg / cheese / deli meat etc. I got their fishfingers for the kids a couple of weeks ago and they couldn't tell the difference from the normal brand (BirdsEye).

HM chilli with mince in freezer tonight I think.

KeepOnKnitting

Is it too late to join in for November? I've been keeping track of my food spending this month, but I think I'd like some company.

selloptape

KeepOnKnitting wrote: »

Is it too late to join in for November? I've been keeping track of my food spending this month, but I think I'd like some company.

It's never too late to join in




NSD for me, normally pop to the supermarket on a thus for a bottle of wine and a treat dinner but resisted today and threw together a cupboard meal instead x

lynnejk

Evening all and a warm welcome to new peoples and returners :hello:


Had another NSD today.


Will have a small order from Mr T tomorrow.


My freezer should finally be arriving on Saturday (I have been promised a phone call the morrow to confirm) - but again I'm not holding my breath.


Hope you all have a fabulous Friday
Lx

candygirl

A quick heads up, mr ms are doing chopped toms, chick peas, kidney beans, butter beans all for 4 for a £1!I made the most of it today:j

KeepOnKnitting

Ooh, thanks for the heads up candygirl. Perfect timing.

Like Lynne I'm due a new (to me) freezer, which I will hopefully pick up tonight. My housemate and I have been getting fed up with the lack of space in our tiny little freezer, but the world of batch cooking and buying cheap yellow stickers will soon open out before us!

I'm currently working on a weekly shopping budget. Last week was £30, and I spent £27.57. This week I'm working on £25 as I want £5 to go to the pub with! So far I have spent £5.85, but I plan on heading to Lidl today for some bits.

I'm still trying to work out all my budgets and what needs to go where to make sense to me.

SandeC

Ooh I'd love to join in, is it too late for this month? I have a pretty good idea of how much I spend a month - and I'd love to shave some off of it! Some great tips on here - I'm new to the site and need all the tips I can get at the moment haha!