November 2015 Grocery Challenge

joedenise

A small top up shop of £6.92 giving me a total of £114.47/£250. Should have a decent amount to go towards next month's holiday spends. Today will be another NSD. Will update signature now.

Denise

CountingPennies

I've totally lost track of where I'm at this month. I should probably bow out but I'll keep plodding along. Think I spend around £50 last week so will add that and try to be careful for the rest of the month before I well and truly blow it.

CP xx

mrs-moneypenny

Need to add last weekend shopping to my sig but got to take out what I did for mil first so got to play with the receipts a bit first.
Just remembered I've got a stamp card for Morries so will do a Dec shop there to save a bit.

VfM4meplse

Have done quite a bit of spending over the past week or so, some of it unplanned

Here goes:
- 78p on YS bread at Sainsbos (went in the freezer)
- 88p on fruit at Co-op (went straight into me )
- £16.22 at Lidl on Sat (that includes over £10 on crisps for entertaining next month, which I also share with famiily and friends).
- £7.80 on a supermarket deli lunch for a friend that was unwell at the weekend

....a sum of £25.68. That makes my total so far £63.92/£70. Am dangling perilously close to the edge, but on the plus side have a fridge and freezer full of food. Can I make it to next Tuesday?

DuranGirl

VfM4meplse wrote: »

. That makes my total so far £63.92/£70. Am dangling perilously close to the edge, but on the plus side have a fridge and freezer full of food. Can I make it to next Tuesday?

If the fridge and freezer are full, I reckon you can! :T
NSD today! I have £6.56 left, and on a ferret through my freezer, I found enough hash browns for Saturday breakfast so I won't need to buy any from this month's budget.:jThat means I just need to get mushrooms and a tomato (just the one!), so should have enough for a cheeky bottle of red while still staying within the £200. I'll be so chuffed if I can do it! I've actually hidden the hash browns at the back of the freezer under the meat, so my vegetarian DS/food hoover will focus on other frozen potato products that I have more stock of. Shhhh!!!!:rotfl:I'm going to leave my December budget at £300 for Christmas food and drink (I'm hosting), but January will start a gradual reduction of around £20 per month to get it as low as I can.

XSpender

Went to MR T for some mushy peas for tea, chopped toms for all the batch cooking I am doing and some RTC (still in date) fun size fudge fell into my basket. Love these and the mini ones are not too many calories

Total now at £329.70. I should be under budget but need to come up with a good plan to bring this down significantly over the next few months as we save up to move house.

CountingPennies

£2 today on pepsi and margarine... Need to get back in the habit of logging every little spend!

CP xx

lynnejk

Evening all :hello:


I don't know if it will help but I've noticed that quite a few people lose or forget receipts.


I always put them in my purse when I pay and then, once I've scanned them, put them under my laptop mouse to enter on here. Then they go on a big paperclip in the desk drawer for end of the month accounts. It gets to be a habit after a time


Tesco delivery today was £26.01. I bulked it out with some 'C' drinks to make it up to £60 so I got £9 off with voucher, £2.50 with offers and a brand match of 44p :money:


That leaves me with a bit over £30 for the weekend for weeklies such as milk,bread, fruit and veg. Should make it fingers xd


Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday
Lx

chocolatelover93

Hi everyone
Not really been "on it" this month, haven't been keeping receipts or anything so no idea what I've spent
We were away at the beginning of the month and only just got out of holiday mode!! I will be better next month!!

XSpender

NSD today

I have spent the last 2.5 hours making a big batch of veggie chilli, a chicken curry and some chorizo pasta sauce. All SW friendly and, apart from 2 tinned toms bought yesterday and a bag of alddee peppers bough in last weeks shop I used everything from stores.

I am often away overnight with work and we were using the SW meals from Iceland for DH to have as lunches and dinners when I was away and to keep him on plan as he doesn't cook.

Today's meals plus the bolognaise I made earlier in the week have made 20 portions and would have cost us £60 in Iceland!

I've somehow got to squeeze them into the freezer now :eek: as have pasta bake from a jar with leftover gammon for tea as fuelling up for a long run tomorrow as I am still on hols this week.