November 2015 Grocery Challenge

KeepOnKnitting

Week two done, and I spent £19.84 from £25.
This coming week I have agreed to take a dish to a thanksgiving dinner, and I also have friends coming over for a pre-christmas do at the weekend. I am going to budget £45 to include mulled wine and some extra stashing for the new freezer. The plan will be to come in under budget.

selloptape

Been away for the weekend and got back late so no chance to meal plan or shop yet - also no food in when I got home and milk was turning into cheese :bleurgh: so had to pop to expensive local shop...

On plus side I'm halfway through the month and on target!

Have a lovely week everyone x

VfM4meplse

I've had a couple of ideological U-turns today. Spent the day as sick as a dog with a vomiting virus and could barely move, let alone eat anything. Thank goodness for fizzy soft drinks, I have them in the fridge to offer guests but have at last found a good use for the fizz and sugar, it settled my stomach for an hour and gave me the energy to crawl to the local Co-Op this evening. For all my ranting against evil supermarkets, I today find myself so grateful for these local stores, everything else shuts at 5pm on a Sunday.

£2.98 spent this evening on milk should I want tea, satsumas as I fancied something sharp, and a YS sandwich in case I make a miraculous recovery and get the midnight munchies!

£38.24 / £70 spent so far, much of it in goodies for others. I think I'll come in below budget even though I intend to have a spend-up at Lidl on Sat.

joedenise

A spend of £12.33 on Saturday bringing my total so far to £77.31/£250 so still well within target.

Yesterday was another NSD so now standing at 9/20. Don't think I'm going to make my target for NSDs but I'll keep trying!

Denise

wishus

£16.99 spent in Waitrose on Saturday :eek:
£10.26 in Asda and Heron Foods yesterday. Forgot toothpaste!

Less than £20 of my budget left to month end, but we do have a full cupboard, fridge and freezer. Will I make it?

DuranGirl

Got a request for a couple of quorn additions to the Mr A online shop for my daughter today, taking that spend to £56.32. Ho hum. Can't have her wasting away. At least now she has got a couple of hours per week as a paid musician to supplement the student loan. Hopefully more will follow.

Crowdpleaser

Happy Monday everyone!

11.99 spent this morning at Mr L. Milk, fruit n veg and cheese. That should be it for the week as I have everything in mealwise.

Total is 218.36. Am still confident I can do it as I only have another week after this one so all will be good!

vikki_louise

Hi, someone suggested I ask here for advice.

I'm planning on making and freezing some things so I can just defrost, roll and bake nearer Christmas.

I'm doing mince pie pastry (the receipe from here with trex in), gingerbread dough and sugar cookie dough.

I also plan to make Oreos dipped in candy melts, how long do you think they would last in a biscuit tin?

Thank you, hope everyone's Christmas prep is going well :tree:

Wysiwyg49

Only £79.57 over the weekend, including a big pack of 11 chicken fillets for £12 and a basics shop at Aldi. Well, not just basics, mostly veg, fruit, cheese and some snacky things we like from there.

Following another post about wartime rations I had a look at what they were :eek: kids (and I) were amazed that people could get by on so little meat. We probably use the weeks meat ration in 1 meal...I'm sure we could cut that down by almost half and hardly notice. So its a HM chicken casserole with dumplings tonight as an experiment.

Also took some leftover buns from HM soup/sandwich lunch and bought soup at work for less than £1. Good compromise between buying lunch and taking it - I get bored if I know everything I'm going to eat from 9am!

joedenise

Popped into the farm shop yesterday as needed to buy some onions and salad stuff. Spent £2.55 so not bad at all. Total spend to date is £79.86/£200.

Should be NSDs today and tomorrow as no plans to go out anywhere at all, never mind near shops!

Denise