November 2017 Grocery Challenge

BrassicWoman

about £15 this week bwteeen B&M and M&S - former sodas and cinema sweets, latter YS bakery and one realllly nice meal after a rough day.

I still have avocados left, and some jus rolls pastries as treats for the week

Still on track; off to get the weeks fruit and a couple of ready meals; think I could do with rolls for the freezer too. Alid and my aim is under £15... Next weekend will be a bigger M&S shop as I have vouchers but they're not good til the 15th.

BrassicWoman

iammumtoone wrote: »

Two big fails today

Had a bad morning so it was a full fried breakfast at work £1.50 then dinner chicken curry £2 and I had a latte and mocha 25p each = total £4 must try harder tomorrow no coffees and a smaller breakfast. Will update spend at the end of the week.

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Some people spend that on just a coffee; once in a while it's fine I donlt think it is a "big fail", more of a small treat.

caronc

£41 this week so well over budget. The overspend though was on bits for Christmas that were on SO. Total so far £62/£120

BrassicWoman

£10:48 and my week includes squash chilli soup, leek and potato soup, quorn fajitas, avocado rolls, a big red wine and veg casserole, maybe with seitan.

iammumtoone

Mrs_Cheshire wrote: »

Does anyone have any other ideas for pumpkin?

Roast the seeds.

I do mine similar to this http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/2171/roasted-pumpkin-seeds.aspx I recommend you use butter not oil.

Merlin's_Beard

Sounds like lots of people are struggling this month... think I'll be joining you all by the end.

Horrendous month with work draining all my energy, with nothing leftover to plan meals, or cook them, or anything. Only moneysaver was the day I didn't even have time to eat the sandwich I ordered for lunch so skipped that meal and kept it for the next day!

£31.23/£100 so far.. the best I can say is that the emotional food splurge was on fancy cat food instead of human food, so a) it comes out a different budget and b) at least one thing in this household is happy with life!

iammumtoone

Merlin's_Beard wrote: »

Horrendous month with work draining all my energy, with nothing leftover to plan meals, or cook them, or anything.

I am finding the meal planing helps with this. I will write it today (non work day) and go shopping tomorrow. I like that I don't have to think when I get home what are we eating and everything is in ready for that nights meal.

Can you try batch cooking at the weekend so you have something ready to chuck in the oven/freezer. I try to do our meal plan so some are easy meals some take a bit more cooking that way I have the option to swap if I've had a bad day at work and want an easier meal that night.

RedFraggle

RedFraggle wrote: »

2nd shop: Spend today £53.20

Total so far £150.84 we're on target
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Weekend update

3rd shop: Spend today £54.57
During the week I bought a bar of fruit and nut £1, two bottles of Shiraz £11, and I forgot to add on the cost of our milk delivery which is £3.80 per week so another £7.60 to go on.

Total so far £225.01 which is 56% on the budget I set of £400 and I'm 60% of the way through my 3 shops. On target :j

iammumtoone

Managed to save 5.80 out of this weeks work spend budget. I am pleased with that but hopeing to beat it next week. I have done really well sticking to my dried milk tea, better for my waistline as well as not so many lattes consumed

The saving is going in my sealed pot.

chocoholic_chick

Spends of £12.57 in Lidl yesterday and £6.50 today in Sainsburys (admittedly the spend today was completely unnecessary and a bit of a splurge) so total for the month is at £88.51. Away from tomorrow for a week so no more spends until we're back