November 2018 Grocery Challenge

CRANKY40

Glad to see you back thriftwizard. I was wondering earlier today when we'd hear from you. My house troll is also an expert on avoiding fruit and veg. He's a bit sensory so strawberries have too many pips, raspberries are too hairy and so on.... He eats carrots though. His favourite food used to be smart price noodles on their own. Just a bowl of mildly chicken flavoured noodles. We've moved on a bit since then though. His only saving grace is that he doesn't like sweets and chocolate either.

Take it easy and only go out on Friday if you're absolutely sure you'll be ok. Hopefully there's someone to go with you?

Herbyme

K9sandFelines wrote: »

... stock up on Pyrex

I find charity shops are great for Pyrex.

Generally if I'm wondering who's got what on offer/in stock I use mysupermarket.com which is really handy, don't know if it includes things that aren't obviously part of a weekly shop though

K9sandFelines

£2.70 to add back on for kitchen roll handed back to driver. Forgotten it was on two for £4; but they refunded me £2 anyway, so it still worked out at £2 for one. 70p was for bag refund which were Ocados, but they run off the same warehouse, so are pretty much identical.

Need to do some serious mealplanning now. Only got about four or five meals in the pipeline

NeverendingDMP

I'm at 290 spent out of 433 so far. This includes my delivery today. I overspent by 18 altogether in the first two weeks but tea coffee sugar bulky stuff is now bought. Have had food bought for us as well from mil who came to stay a few days so no excuses for not getting in on budget this month. I must try to do this X 17 days and 143 pounds to go. Big shop arriving today that should mainly cover this week.

medsdemon

Yesterday and today NSD’s for me .

Will need to top up on milk and a few other bits tomorrow I think, but shouldn’t come to much.

We’ll be out all day on Saterday ( come on Scotland ( rugby internationals begin ) !)and all afternoon/evening on Sunday but any food drink spends ( mostly drink )won’t come out of my shopping budget.

Today I am making a mushroom lasagne with basil and cream , and roasted squash with thyme ( have everything in) both from Nigel Slaters Kitchen Diaries. I made his Dahl and Pumpkin soup yesterday for lunches to use up some of my huge pumpkin. I’m trying to cook more from my big pile of recipe books, and his ingredient lists are not usually huge and ridiculous.

Glad your op went well @thriftwizard and hope your recovery does too.

Regarding YS markdowns, Morris*ns near us is great but very random.

Herbyme

Does anyone else find it slightly scary to see so much of the monthly budget spent so early in the month? :eek: I know it's cos of doing a big shop with lots of things that will last the month (I hope!) but it makes me doubt I can spend so little in the last 3 weeks if I've spent so much in the first week... I'm out of the habit of estimating quantities for 2 weeks as well, (trying to plan meals/shop iin 2 weekly chunks) so I underestimated things like cheese which just vanishes in my house.

£104 on A$da online shop so far, plus about £50 on meat etc at farm shop. DS's obsession with protein for body building is costing a lot of money

pamsdish

£12.67 in Aldi just some fresh veg, eggs and butter.

Nellbell21

£263 spent out of £600 budget. Hubby came home last night, ate a pack of ham, loads kids Halloween snacks and half a litres of milk (after a large dinner). He’s gone till tomorrow but there is no feeding him. Doing ok though, lots of meals and I can avoid shops till Saturday I think x

Mrs_Cheshire

Quick shop tonight, should mostly see us over the weekend, will need to get bread but otherwise should be fine till Monday. Spent £27.05

Doom_and_Gloom

NSD today.
OH was busy with crafts most the day and although he needs butter he sais it could wait for tomorrow and I didn't need anything. I will also need a few bits tomorrow such as bananas, easy peelers and pears are what I know I need.

£60.93/£200.
£139.07 left