November 2017 Grocery Challenge

BrassicWoman

£150 again for me please this month Thank you!

debtfreeforlife

Not quite started the new month for me yet, but I'm aiming for £200 this month as well

armchairexpert

Hiya! Can I be down for $AU1000 please. That includes shopping for my girls' birthday party, and I've already spent $189/1000 even though I'm simultaneously still on the October thread.

Grannymolly

Spent £53 for November so far, just stocked up on some cat food that was on offer but will last 2 weeks and some squash and meat etc too

butterfly2507

Please put me down for 200 € this month! I might make it to "only" 150 since we don't go shopping next week but we'll see

RedFraggle

Newbie to this thread but been working hard over the last year to reduce our household shopping bills.
Target for November is £400 starting from yesterday as I shop Saturdays so that's 5 shops.
2 adults, on a limited diet due to allergies (soya ,peanuts, alliums, shellfish), one cat, 4 rats and a hamster! To inlcude all food plus household cleaning stuff, toiletries etc.
Supermarket shop yesterday was £96.14 but we had toothbrush heads and coffee to buy.

JIL

PennyGrabber wrote: »

Evening all,

I've just made a delish dinner, trying to follow the ethos of Jamie Oliver and only using 5 ingredients. Was well impressed with it. I used onions, chorizo, tinned toms, chilli flakes and spaghetti. Of course, it was served with grated cheese on top, which doesn't count as an ingredient, because, well, it's cheese!! I must hang my head in shame - it's the first time I'd ever cooked with chorizo!

This leads me on to a question... The chorizo is best before/use by (forget which) 2nd Nov. can I freeze it in chunks to use in the future? Think it might need to be a staple now - I only used about 25p worth!

PG x

I freeze it all the time. A little goes a long way and always a good addition for flavour. I add some to homemade meatballs, rice dishes and even cheese sauce. Just needs to be chopped differently

PennyGrabber

Morning everyone!

I didn't enter the GC in October because I had two parties that ended up feeding us for a while afterwards, and I knew it would be a crazily busy month anyway, and I was right!! I'm doing the weekly shop today, but as it's still October, I'm not counting it in November as my month goes by the calendar. I don't need too much, as I'm trying desperately to use up some stocks - if I dont, we won't have anywhere to sit for xmas dinner!!!

Today's food plan is brioche/pain au chocolat for breakfast, stuff on toast for lunch and roast dinner pie for dinner. Which reminds me, I must make the pastry for that soon!

Hope everyone has a good day. The only place I'm going is aldililly, so I hope to have minimal spends (less than £20).

PG x

PennyGrabber

JIL wrote: »

I freeze it all the time. A little goes a long way and always a good addition for flavour.

Thank you! I assumed it could be, but wasn't 100% sure... I'll chop it up into chunks for freezing now! X

NewShadow

PennyGrabber wrote: »

Thank you! I assumed it could be, but wasn't 100% sure... I'll chop it up into chunks for freezing now! X

It's a little messy on the fingers but if you are using it as a base for something like Bolognese or risotto then you can grate it while still frozen then pop it right back into the freezer - zero waste

NewShadow wrote: »

Can you please put me down for £150?

Just did the last shop for October and declared £181.33 - which I'm happy with because it includes a meat delivery for November.

The shop today should mean no need to spend until next weekend - getting my budget off to a good start. I work 4 days a week so the plan for the week ahead is:

Breakfast - porridge or overnight oats (depending on the weather and if I remember to prep the night before) with raspberries, bananas and/or apple.

Lunch - Couscous salad with diced bacon bits x 2, pea and ham soup x 2

Dinner - Tuna pasta bake, vegi lasagne, poached salmon (and side salads)