November 2016 Grocery Challenge

JAMIEDODGER

Last shop of the month today. Went to Tesco and spent £12.10 milk, bread, bananas, mushrooms, red cabbage, eggs, puff pastry, evaporated milk and butter. Will be staying out of the shops until December, and having two more NSD's for tomorrow and Wednesday, so am declaring now for November:) £50.53 under budget:beer:

Very pleased with how this month has gone. Have managed to reduce freezer enough to fill back up with some xmas bits:)

Spends for November:

1st - Tesco - £44.18
2nd - Lidl - £35.45
3rd - Sainsburys - £8.70 Tesco - £51.67
4th - NSD
5th - NSD
6th - Lidl - £17.97 Sainsburys - £7.94
7th - NSD
8th - One Stop - £1.00 One Stop - £1.30
9th - NSD
10th - Lidl - £20.83 Tesco - £5.68
11th - NSD
12th - NSD
13th - Lidl - £11.58
14th - NSD
15th - NSD
16th - Lidl - £26.05 Tesco - £17.51
17th - NSD
18th - NSD
19th - NSD
20th - NSD
21st - Tesco - £13.98
22nd - Lidl - £61.51 Morrisons - £0.75
23rd - NSD
24th - Tesco - £11.27
25th - NSD
26th - NSD
27th - NSD
28th - Tesco - £12.10
29th - NSD
30th - NSD


So total spend so far : £349.47/£400 (£50.53 underspend) and 18 NSD's:T

t14cy_t

nsd yesterday. yippee!!xx

ab_saver

I thought I was done but spent £6.92 in Mr S on Saturday.

I'll be back in for another £75 for December

kkffoo

Great to read how everyone has done this month, I've really enjoyed participating in this thread.
Weekend shopping;

Moreishons £11.00
Áldi £9.25

Now on £291.04/£350

I have an extra £46.67 in the budget, as a pro-rata extension until the 4th Dec to take us into the new 4 week system, where we will always end a 'month' on a Sunday. I've earmarked £40 of that money to pay for the unbudgeted new pressure cooker (which wound up half price buying in amazon warehouse on bf sale, I'm very pleased with it too)
So even if we spend more than usual at the weekend, we've still got our fish and chip treat money and bit left over. :T Phew!

Hubby is pleased too. We are planning to tap down our budget a little at a time. Next month is likely to be confusing, so we will just do our best. I sorted out our change pot and made up £19 in small coins in bank bags, so hopefully that'll be a festive takeaway sorted no matter what. (won't take bank bags to takeaway lol!) Both hubby and son have christmas bonus vouchers and my plan is for all Christmassy food to come out of those, and ordinary budget to cover everything else.

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Hi Chums have come in under budget this month as well, and the left over cash goes into a seperate account towards our family holiday next August.

Keeping focussed on hanging on to the pennies soon makes a difference with the holiday savings.

Went into the Poundsaver shop with my friend after our freebie lunch (via a voucher ) and she bought some wool, and I virtuously steered clear of buying anything :) right up until I got to the check-out, and there was a dozen small mixed size eggs reduced to 50p so I bought them as the expiry date is 1st December, and they will go into making some sponge cakes for my DGS

So my actual left over cash in my food purse is £19.02 which I am more than happy about Tomorrow I have to host a coffee morning at Dobbies for U3A and my voucher will pay for my coffee and Wednesday I shan't be near a shop as my sis-in-law is coming to visit for coffee and cake as she is off to mexico for three months to visit my niece. Then Thursday is the start of a new month :):)

Caterina

Another NSD for me today, but DH bought himself a newspaper. Nothing to do with me so will update my sig.

Having thought that the last spend of November had come and gone, I was wrong, having forgotten 2 vouchers for £1 off £5 with the c00p that expire 30 November. That's 20% off, not letting it escape! But it will go towards stocking up for the future as I have all I need now, it will be my opportunity to try the 99 tea.

Have a good evening.

Franalamadingdong

Well done everyone. I had a NSD today, although it is due to a tummy bug so couldn't leave the house.

thriftwizard

Bother, bother, BOTHER! Budget bust again... £20 spent yesterday, thanks partly to no market butcher on Friday and partly to someone "borrowing" a pack of frozen chicken to take to a BBQ. (Also, the cockatiels had eaten all the lettuce!) I should have been able to coast until tomorrow, but a combination of unexpected guests and lack of time meant a trip to the supermarket, and there were no YS bargains to be had at the time that I was able to go. So, yet another fail here...

In other news, two days to go until the Big Move... at that point we go down to being a household of relatively normal proportions again (OH, myself, and the two DDs) and after a month or two I will be able to adjust our expected spends downwards. We have no idea whether DS3 is planning to return home after completing his MA, but if he does, he will have to adapt his lifestyle to suit our budget, rather than expecting us to keep him in the style he'd like to become accustomed to! Not having a big brother still at home egging him on will make that much easier. Come to think of it, they'll have a spare bedroom, if he doesn't like our style...

t14cy_t

nsd yesterday. yippee!!xx

pamsdish

Going to sign off on Nov, probably a few pounds over as calling into Morries 4 nights a week, getting loads of ys, and some bulk buys, freezers full so into a lean spends spell,
Worked out I am way out on Nov, but freezers full, loads of bulk buys made and petrol tank full.