November 2017 Grocery Challenge

NewShadow

First shop placed for Monday - The metro has a £5 off £30 spend (HALLOWEEN) for Iceland.

I spent £36 to get the free delivery and stocked up on tins and UHT milk that would otherwise be very bulky to carry home from the shop - plus bought a couple of huge bars of Galaxy at £2 each.

I don't like galaxy chocolate so no danger I'll eat them before giving them away for christmas and they make nice gifts for people at work who have been helpful throughout the year :cool:

I worked out my budget of £150 is roughly £37 a week - as this shop is being delivered on Monday afterwork but paid for now I'm going to count it as this weeks spend so no shopping on Saturday for fresh bits and bobs.

Total spend so far = £36.13/£150

a_silver_lining

£200 please for me and OH. We spent almost £500 when we had no oven and were eating microwave meals and takeaway. I haven’t put any weight on but the finances sure took a beating! We used to spend under £100 each so will try again. Going shopping tonight but omlette from left over eggs for dinner tonight and making a storecupboard curry tomorrow for dinner. Healthy and cheap snacks are always our downfall and we have been eating junk every day for a while now!

PipneyJane

Evening all. Put me down for £155.69, please for November. (It should really be £120 but I’m rolling forward an underspend.)

zafiro1984

baibelle wrote: »

£200 please for me and OH. We spent almost £500 when we had no oven and were eating microwave meals and takeaway. I haven’t put any weight on but the finances sure took a beating! We used to spend under £100 each so will try again. Going shopping tonight but omlette from left over eggs for dinner tonight and making a storecupboard curry tomorrow for dinner. Healthy and cheap snacks are always our downfall and we have been eating junk every day for a while now!

Gosh 'no oven' - that brought back memories. Back in 1982 we bought and moved into a dilapidated old house, no running water, electric or main drains etc. The water came from a well. We bought a generator so we had electric. To get upstairs you had to climb a ladder.

The kitchen had long gone so I made do with old door propped on some breeze blocks as a worktop. We rigged up a shower outside in an old bath (it was summertime). I cooked using a slow cooker, electric frying pan and microwave - two children, and we both worked full time. It was the best part of six months before we had the beginnings of a kitchen and over 10 years to get the house sorted as we did a lot of it ourselves. The mortgage wasn't cheap either an eye watering £1400 per month which was an awful lot in those days.

Over 30 years later I have to say we are somewhat more civilized but we must have passed our 'stupid genes' onto our son as he has just done a similar thing.

donnajt

1st Shop: scrapping bottom of purse shop before payday :eek:
£15.84

1x Value Savoury Rice
1x Frozen Pizza
2x Strawberries
1x Melon
1x Baby Spinach
1x Tomatoes
1x Pink Slaw
1x Value Sweetcorn
1x Bag carrots
3x Crabsticks
1x Salad dressing
2x Mango Chutney
= Total to date £15.84

taka

First food spend of the "month" yesterday was a small top up shop to get me through to the end of the week. I'm finding it surprisingly hard not to pop into the shops next to where I change buses everyday. It seems to have become a far more of a habit than I realised to pop in for 1 or 2 things every day (then spend loads on nothing in particular). That'll be why my food budget has been horrific for the last while then... :eek: :rotfl:

£4.90/£150

Chrystal

Please put me down for £300 for November

And can I say thanks to all for the hard work that goes into keeping this thread going :A X

Islandmaid

Hi all,

Did my first shop,of the month today, and including everything it came to £44.67 - I will round up to £45 in my signature.

The shop included 15 bars of their value dark chocolate which cost £3.60 which I use a lot for baking, and 6 bottles of Ales for Hubby, which was £7.66 - that was over £10 I could have saved, but it is still a lot better than the £70-100 normal spend so I am happy

trifle-wist

Waitrose have released their annual Food and Drink Report today and I found it a really interesting read - would love to hear fellow OS-ers thoughts, particularly on the 'as and when' shopping trend they say they've identified of people shopping almost every day. I find I do this, but not because I'm making last minute decisions about dinner. Rather, I live in a big city (so fewer large stores in close proximity), commute on bike (meaning I'm limited to filling my rucksack), and shop around for the best prices. I imagine the latter is what most of us do.

Anyway, if you give it a quick google I thought it could be an interesting read for others. I should probably add that I have no working relationship with Waitrose, just came across it from a news article based on the report. And apologies if this is not appropriate / relevant here.

I went to Sainsbury's yesterday but the receipt's at home so will have to update my total tomorrow.

XSpender

After such a good month last month I appear to have lost the plot with the first week of Novembers budget and will now be working hard to come under budget for the month.

I don't even think we have bought a lot. We did cater for a Halloween party for 7 but even that wasn't too bad.

Total is £168.12/£360

Week 1 £168.12/£90

I will spend my dinner allowance and tomorrows lunch allowance in sains tonight which will get me a few bits for the rest of this week.

Week 2 starts on Friday and the plan is to keep this well under £40.