October 2018 Grocery Challenge

taka

Thanks XSpender... Great, think these may well be tested this week at mine as I think I have everything in! :drool: I'm on the look out for a veggie not very cheesy pastie so these fit the bill perfectly!

Merlin's_Beard

First shop of the month, and lots of store-type things and lots of things that I buy anyway on offer. Very bitty shop - once you add in all the bits and bobs that aren't even food (razors, matches, bin bags etc) of stores stuf (about 6 months of cereal!) and a lot I've managed to spend a lot and come home with exactly one meal (a pizza that'll get frozen for emergencies).

Never mind - I'm set up for a lot of store type stuff for months. £30.30/£100.

smiling_saver

A $48.00 spend today on cat food, drinks and laundry pods that A!di don't stock. Off there tomorrow. I'm making pulled pork in the SC for dinner tomorrow, which is already defrosted in the fridge. Leftover chili for lunch.DH had some for dinner this evening. He wanted more and I had to fend him off with chocolate pudding. (sorted chocolate mug cake mmm). Leaves me $202 for the month.

oldtractor

can I join in please? I normally allow myself £80 for the 2 of us per week. this includes toiletries and cleaning things as well as dog food. So I'm going for £350 for this month and will see if I Can save anything.

stoopy

Hello

Since I've been over last couple of months I want to keep my budget the same please at £475.

I've already done one shop on Monday which should last me till Friday and then there are 4 weekly shops, hoping each £100 or under. First shop £53.43. I thought that was a little high since I bought hardly any meat but we will see.

The ONLY thing is I need to go to Asda for cat food and spices, wooden spoons, pegs, baby bibs. But will try to get enough cat food for the month to stop me having to go back.

PipneyJane

thriftwizard wrote: »

I'm about to buy oats, raisins & cake fruit out of the "bulk-buy" purse, which will hopefully see us through into the New Year, and I can make some mincemeat from our own HG apples. I'll need to order flour as well, but will leave that to next month as stocks aren't that low yet, and I'd prefer to source some sensible-sized storage tins before buying more; we go through 8Kg sacks well-within their BB4 date, so it's large rectangular tins I'm looking for! (ETA: bulk order done, still inside budget with room for flour!)

I buy my flour in 10kg sacks and store it in the largest size of Lock'n'Lock box. I'd recommend them if you're looking for storage containers. One of those easily takes 5kg of flour so we split each sack in 2 and the boxes are airtight, critter-tight and moisture-proof. One sack will last us between 8 months and a year.

What price are you expecting to pay for the flour? I buy Atta/chappatti flour, which is (usually) a light wholemeal bread flour and never pay more than £4 for 10kg. The last sack was £3. Sometimes it's Elephant brand, sometimes MrT's own brand, sometimes Mr T's value brand - they're all the same to me. I've only once had flour that was a poor riser for bread making and I fixed that with an additive I bought at Lakeland "dough improver".

HTH

- Pip (no spends for me yet. We still have to take the October GC money out of the bank)

Doom_and_Gloom

So far we have spent £49.42.

It sounds bad but a little over £9 of that was on a joint of beef OH bought. It was reduced down from £15ish. Will last him a while at least as much of it has gone in the freezer.

£49.42/£200.
£150.58 left.

thriftwizard

Thank you, PipneyJane, that's useful about the Lock'n'Lock boxes, but I think we're going to go for metal bread-bins; mice can (& do) get through plastic! We get our flour from a mill not too far away; we do pay a fair bit more but it's organic, stone-ground stuff, and we don't have a lot of oriental grocers (or large supermarkets with decent "world foods" departments) hereabouts. I shall try Atta flour next time I see it, though, which will probably be next time I visit DS2 over in the next city east.

In the meantime - AAAAARGH! £130 gone this morning on non-perishables at L!dls & the wholesalers; actually it was more, but some of it came out of the Entertainment & Christmas budgets. Again, I'm slightly baffled; a good £30 of that is stuff that needed to be replaced after the Great Cupboard Cleanout, but what cost me £80-odd before the summer now adds up to well over £90. And the rest? I had DD1 with me, a number of things sneaked into the trolley like goat's cheese, flowers and extra baking chocolate. Just what we needed...:o So - care needed for the next 4 weeks, but really we should be able to manage; all the basics are covered as far as I can see.

pamsdish

First spends of October, £4.50 in Tesco 2 loaves and a celeriac, £11.11 in Aldi on veg eggs and some toiletries.

MadamMim2013

£45.20 spent yesterday. Need to make up a good list as lots was easy eat foods..