November 2016 Grocery Challenge

t14cy_t

bought £48 of goodies from waitrose and spent £23 as used voucher/coupons. got peeled quails eggs for 55p insted of £3.99!!!! ys fancy rye bread and lots of nice bits. only occasionally go to waitrose as i dont have one locally and tbh i find it too expensive for what i need. xxx

elsiepac

elsiepac wrote: »

No more grocery spend days needed this week AT LEAST!

When I ran out of loo roll this morning I realised that the above was not true :eek::(:mad:

pinkypig

Hi everyone. £38.65 in Aldi including a veg top up. I'm going to need fruit mid week so hitting my budget is looking highly unlikely with two weeks to go. I'm not sure why it's worked out like this as I've had no waste or unnecessary spends. I think it might be that we've had extended family round for meals twice and the freezer and stocks have been run down in previous months.
On the bright side, the challenge has kept me focused which has prevented things from spiralling

Hope everyone else is doing ok.
PP d

meg72

Was really pleased I waited till yesterday to look at the YS in Asbo was really lucky got 27 items for £3.67, this included three packs of salmon parcels which I don't really need but would have been daft not to get it.
It also included things like asparagus broad beans and red cabbage which I wouldn't normally have bought, two loaves and two packs of kiwi fruit.

Spent a further 2.98 on sausage, lemons and Yorkshire puds.

So a total of £6.65, £3.35 under budget. Delighted.

The plan is to do the same next week if possible.

meg72

Whilst having a look round Asbo yesterday I noticed that a lot of the smartprice items were missing off the shelves, I know this is normal just before Christmas but was really shocked to see they are no longer stocking KTC Customer service were not able to tell me if this is to be permanent, hoping not.

Caterina

£44.95 spent today, sadly no YS or special offers available, but enough food to see our cat till end of the month, mini-stock up of loose tea (500g) and other bits and pieces, including 2 packs of buckwheat pasta, which will do us at least 5 meals for 2, expensive for what it is but well worth it. Will make it last to end of the month.

Must find a cheaper source of avocado, the ones in Marks are a quid a piece!

Before you shout me down (why do you shop in Marks for food, you fool? LOL and with good reason!), I have to say that I do so because this is nominal money, it is money paid in advance on a gift card and it is 8% discounted. But I count it as the full amount because I am trying to assess how much DH and I spend in a month eating fairly frugally but still well. So if this month I go over, hey ho, but at least it will focus me on what I need to find cheaper and what I can cut down or altogether out.

I treated us to 2 packets of oat cookies (gluten free) those are a fairly expensive treat, works out at 30p per serving and there are 4 servings in the packet. Identified that I need to find a nice and easy gluten free oat cookies recipe, any ideas or even tried and tested recipes would be gratefully received.

Some of the shopping was in sainsbobs, also with a discounted (5%) gift card, got eggs, some veg (the ones I cannot grow on the allotment), olives (large jar, should last us to the end of the month) ah and another Marks purchase, which actually WAS a YS but still very expensive for what it is, a gluten free cheese and onion quiche. Total luxury because I can make crustless quiche in a few minutes but decided to treat myself to a couple of no-cook dinners, as it makes 4 portions, works out at 60p a portion.

Meanwhile this is the list of today's meals:
Breakfast: onion omelette courtesy of Saint DH! :-)
Lunch: he: tinned sardines, me tinned spicy tomato mackerel, both with salad from allotment and avocado, finished up with tea and a pouch of ginger oat bikkies each. Treat!
Dinner: will be soya mince bolognese sauce on buckwheat pasta, and probably apple compote with cinnamon, as we have been given a big bag of lovely eating apples, but a few have a hole and need to be chopped soon so they don't go bad.

If it takes my fancy I might make a cashew nut cream to go on the apple compote, but only if I can be bovver'd fiddling with the Vitamix. I have a cold and after coming back from looking after the boys I babysit I might probably be too tired to do much other than a sauce and pasta!

Have a good day.

LesP50

4.80 in MandS so 33.29/150

pamsdish

£25 over the weekend shopping top ups for my family visit, got to fill up car tomorrow, done nearly 400 miles, need choc so will pop into tosco shop too, £80 spent on kennel fees for my dog was a bargain, after all the fireworks this weekend will do it again next year too.

Slowly57

elsiepac wrote: »

Kohlrabi is great! Just cut the root off the bottom and cut the sprouty things off the top. Peel the whole thing.

Basically it tastes like broccoli but obviously the texture is very different. It's good grated into salads or slaw raw, or cubed/chipped and roasted! Easy peasy!

Thanks elsiepac I'm going to roast the kohlrabi with the remaining half of the amazing-looking but frankly, tasteless Romenescu cauli for tomorrow night's veg ....

Florence_J

£1 on milk today. £8.30 in the red so far.