November 2016 Grocery Challenge

Suffolk_lass

meg72 wrote: »

I haven`t done this challenge for such a log time but would like to rejoin, if I may please.
I have done a full inventory, freezers and pantry and have decided to use up as much as possible this month and only buy fresh fruit and veggies. Hoping to spend just £10 per week so £40 for me please

:hello: meg72,

Good to see you back on the thread!

SL

AccyAlly

Hello all, please count me in this month for £350, the freezer will need a re-stock by the end of the month and know that I have a few meals out planned. I am vowing to do better this month at meal planning and batch cooking. God loves a trier....:rotfl:

Franalamadingdong

I'd like to join. I've been skulking about for a few weeks and I'd like to reign in my grocery spending. It's been getting out of hand! I'm starting slow and would like to set myself a budget of £200 covering 4 weeks from 31st October... We might even try to make it to the last day of November. It covers cleaning supplies, toiletries etc too. I spent £23.60 on Monday.

We have been making use of the pumpkin I bought from my son's school garden, which he helped to grow and roasted some off which was added to tonight's winter veg curry (enough left over for a lunch or two too), and cooked some more off to make a pumpkin and feta pie tomorrow and there's more left! Mum told me of 10p pumpkins in Tesco, but I imagine that they won't be tasty and lovingly grown. I made parkin today too! Yum. I'm from Yorkshire, but live in Dorset now and I can't get it here, so I made it instead.

CloughiesBrewerArmy

thriftwizard wrote: »

Absolutely yes, Caterina - not that I'm any authority! - I have a £50 "entertainments" budget for each month, which sometimes includes things that might be perceived as groceries - beer, cider, popping corn and/or crisps for games or film nights, cinema tickets (a cinema in the town my mother lives in charges a very reasonable £2.50 on weekday evenings) a very occasional take-away - but I decided long ago that I needed a separate "purse" for these things, as I do for fuel; they're a darn sight more optional than groceries! But something I've always felt it was worth actually having a budget for, so that I did have a target to stick to. Strikes me that church-related things would come under a similar arrangement, though DS3 was forever raiding our everyday supplies for things to take to church picnics, BBQs or camps when he was working as the church intern.

Would you put toiletries in with your groceries or is that a separate purse for you?

I spend a fair amount on deodorant and aftershave (people say I over-do it, but I have OCD when it comes to personal hygeine and I need to smell good) and I currently don't put it in with my grocery spend.

blubella

£15.71 spent on various bits..have a 1kg tub of peanut butter which will probably last me the whole year...a few more cans of plum tomatoes to add to the store..can't resist at 4 for £1!

mrs.mcd

Hello all,

I'd like to join in again this month please. I did start Octobers challenge but sort of stopped keeping track half way through 😳 so not sure how much I actually spent in the end, although will sit down this weekend and try and work it out from my bank statement (I hardly ever use cash these days, so it should be pretty close to the total!). This month, I'll definitely report back here more often to keep track!

I'm going to go with £350 this month for all supermarket spending, eating and drinks outs etc. This is a lot less than my £600 target for last month, but hubby and I are on holiday for 5 days next week so food and drinks then will come out of our holiday budget rather than standard food budget, so I've reduced it to account for that and also to challenge myself a bit more.

Have a lovely day everyone

t14cy_t

nsd yesterday. hoping to hold out until at least the weekend. x

meg72

Suffolk_lass wrote: »

:hello: meg72,

Good to see you back on the thread!

SL

Thank you, its nice to be back, I love reading the posts and seeing how everyone is doing.

Slowly57

Found an excellent local butchers and did a freezer shop of £18 for 3lbs of dry cured best back bacon, 1lb pork sausage, 1lb Italian sausage, 1lb cumberland sausage (all HM + low fat) and a box of 6 eggs! Packed it up for the freezer - will make fritatta with the eggs.

Fresh bread and a load of YS meat (turkey, minced steak, pies - meat and plate fruit, peppers) - plus offer on proper-sized steak + kidney suet puds (work out @75p each) from Booves - again, all packed up for the freezer.

I reckon I'll get about 18 breakfast or lunches, 4 portions of fritatta, 4 deserts, 15 meat options for mains, 3 veg options for mains, bread to last 4-5 days for a total spend of £40.00. Happy days!

Nothing bought for the hoarding cupboard! Freezers full but not rammed!
So proud of myself :T

Franalamadingdong

NSD yesterday and today. I spent on Tuesday because I have a sinus infection and rhinositis (which everyone finds most amusing) and I needed more ibuprofen, but this comes out of my discretionary fund, not grocery, so it's a grocery nsd.

I kinda realised I was meal planning all wrong. I was planning things we'd like to have that week, and hoarding food like we were going to be trapped for months. I did a proper cupboard/fridge/freezer inventory the other week and I've been crossing out what's being used up and I've planned meals based on what's in the house. My DS is pretty awesome and eats almost anything, which makes planning so easy. The lovely local bread I get sometimes usually goes stale before we've finished it and I've chucked some of it in the freezer in the past for breadcrumbs, BUT mum and dad are coming for Sunday dinner, which means a pudding us needed (mum hates parkin) stale bread to the rescue for a family favourite of bread and butter pudding! I have sultanas in the cupboard and a lemon in the fruit bowl (I think) we've got sugar and eggs so I'll just need to pick up enough milk. I also have a carton of custard in the cupboard from when the local Mr T was rearranging the store and reduced to clear loads if store cupboard stuff. And I have some nice wine I was given as a gift. The free range chicken is in the freezer and I found a pumpkin and swede crumble recipe, which should use up the rest of the pumpkin and the stray half a swede in the fridge.

Shopping list written for next week, I think I'll pick it up on Saturday after taking the boy on a day trip. Day trip is coming out of discretionary fund. He's been so good while I've been poorly.