November 2007 Grocery Challenge

JAMIEDODGER

hello all.

after a nightmare october, i am back to start the november grocery challenge.

month is 5th nov - 2 dec for me. 4 weeks. aiming to keep it under £280, that is for all food, pet food, toiletries and cleaning stuff.

i have a lot to pay out for this month and nothing much left to ebay/amazon:( so i will have to be really careful with the grocery spending.

total spend so far:

tesco - 52.33
riverford - 15.63

will have to do a sainsbury shop maybe next week or this week if i have time to get ds3 freefrom food.

fingers crossed for me

JD x

patentgirl

Just going to update my total spent £23.97 in nettos got alot of items though and 49p in poundstretcher on box of cat biscuits will definately struggle as total left is going down rapidly I have got quite alot in freezer and store cupboards
thanks for inspiration Mrs Mcawber and Jacks hope your cat is feeling better, my cat has hated all the fireworks around at the moment he has become virtually housebound!

meanmarie

Afternoon all,

Thought that I was being very clever when I bought 2 punnets of fresh apricots BOGOF in Dunnes to-day...to discover when I was unpacking that the punnet cost €4.99(!!!)Still, I love fresh apricots and have just eaten one juicy delicious one...another thing is that they are Australian...so much for my food miles effort.

Shopped in Lidl and Dunnes today and managed to spend a total of €78.54, having used two coupons a kind MSE friend sent me. Additionally, €10.96 was from garden budget so total GC challenge spend was €67.58, leaving my running total at €112.58 ...not bad as cupboards and freezers are full

Welcome to newbies and good luck to all

Marie

belfastgirl23

Just coming on here because I'm really pleased with myself for finally getting back on the OS horse Made a pile of pizza dough on saturday - we were down to the last two sad looking little pizza balls and now back up to about 40. Yesterday we fed 6 people on pizza with potato and FIL's excellent apples roasted up for dessert - reckon it cost about £13 all in (well plus probably the same again in wine!). While the oven was getting to hot enough pizza temperature I also made a two sponge cakes to use up leftover eggs and marg which will do for the Xmas trifle and a veg moussaka for tonight and tomorrow night and a couple of freezer portions. Oh and I also made a huge pot of soup for my lunch this week.

It is a very good feeling being OS again :T :j :T :j

Hope everyone else is doing okay too

tattycath

Hi there everyone.
Thank you very much MRSMCAWBER for the recipes. I have never tried lentil soup so I shall be getting some lentils when I next go to the supermarket, sounds great!

Thanks for showing me what will happen when I have some of the hobnobs, I thought it was hilarious!!! lol

I can see that i am going to end up with a file entitled:

MRS MCAWBERS TASTY RECIPES
EAT WELL WITHOUT BREAKING THE BANK!!!

thanks again.

MRSMCAWBER

Evening all

Just got back from the supermarket and still didn't spend 1cent of my November budget :j ...spend so far... nil, zero, nought, zilch :rotfl:

Just got some more goodies for my xmas pressie hampers... got 5 bottles of beer and a lovely free glass for roughly £3.00... got 2 different kinds - doing 1 brother a beer hamper... so both glasses and 1 of each kind will go in... want to get him lots of different kinds... not bad for 60p a bottle and i got a bottle of organic cherry wine for another hamper for £1.50 :T ..any way all this xmas "shopping" is stopping me from having the urge to shop for "normal" stuff :T

Shortie

patentgirl wrote: »

my cat has hated all the fireworks around at the moment he has become virtually housebound!

Oh doh! I hadn't twigged that's why my two cats are being my shadow and won't leave my lap alone... maybe I'll be a bit more patient and let them both stay there for now :rolleyes:

TheBees

Just had the Sainsburys van deliver our first big shop for November. Came in at £123.67 but should be enough to last us for 11 days and includes toiletries and other stuff. Quite a few BOGOF's and the garage freezer is full. Also Hubby got 2 doz free range eggs at a local farm on the way home from work for £3.00.

redmel1621

Total Grocery spend today was £54.60, quite pleased with that.

Mel x

kbl

Have been HORRENDOUSLY awful at this! Sunday we all went to watch my eldest daughter in a gaelic final, on way there bought snacks and on way home went to chipvan, then had to do a mini shop for OH lunch in local shop. Today have bought 10 tins dogfood at 1.50 each (our pooch only has a specific brand that we get from vet, on plus side we just mix half a tin per day with his middle feed of dry food, which I have over a month's supply of). Also bought food in two shops (one was Aldi at least) and started my sister in laws baby present (OH wanted to buy them a buggy @350, I'm filling a baby bath with essentials for about 60 - 80, still expensive, but a vast improvement! This has all come out of the grocery money, cos I hadn't budgeted for anything else this week.
Baby stuff = 23.56
Aldi 13.48
Centra 37.65
Dog food
Chipvan 12.50
Snacks 8.35
Total 110.54