October 2019 Grocery Challenge

tessie_bear

quin twins hope u feel better soon...i went into lidl yesterday and spent £30 but i did get a turkey crown frozen that was £15 we have been having lidl or aldi turkey crown each christmas for about 10 years they are fine for us.I might eat this one and get another i will see how i go sent about a tenner today so ideally thats it for this week but its early doors and might need a couple of bits by the weekend

take care x

Suffolk_lass

Sorry to hear you have been unwell quintwins - I also fell into a trap with my shopping yesterday and came home having spent £31.70 on stuff I planned to spend and £47.77 on stuff I didn't. I was hungry when I went and just bought a load of snacky naughty stuff for the store-cupboard. It won't stay there long as we will pig it...

MandM90

- 9.95 at Holland and Barrett - veggie mince X3 (on offer), vital wheat gluten (to make cheaper seitan veggie sausages/roasts) and Engevita yeast flakes to flavour the seitan
- 0.60 at corner shop - milk for tradespeople - oven fitters didn't have any tea so remained unopened by the date is the 14th and carpet fitters coming this week too woohoo!

Total spent so far is £44.97
Total remaining is £145.03

I do need to pop out at lunch and get some soya milk. That should be all wee need until the weekend.

susan946

A £2.73 spend at our local greengrocer this morning on bananas, garlic and shallots. I have some leftover pumpkin in the fridge so I'll make some pumpkin, shallot and garlic soup. Gorgeous autumn comfort food!!!!.

joedenise

This month's budget is disappearing fast! Another shop today of £25.61 - more than half of which weren't on my list for today but will be needed this month, which means we're already over half way through the budget but only a week into the month.

DH has also ordered some meat from the butchers which I need to pick up on Thursday and won't know how much it is until I get there!

Really must use up some of the stuff in the freezer and stop buying more, unnecessary, food!

Vanlady

£59.40/£210 4/16 NSD
Hope your feeling better quintwins.
£8.70 spent yesterday in Mr m's; totally unintentional but I noticed own brand sardines in olive oil were on offer so I bought 10.....yes 10!!....I really like them:rotfl: Great for lunch with salad.
Plus I bought some black treacle in preparation for making my annual outing of gingerbread to take along to a bonfire party.
Reporting back on Jamies leek carbonara: Mr van made it and he really enjoyed it. It was only OK for me. I think next time I would be tempted to add an extra egg to give more silky sauce....and there will be a next time (sigh) as the leek mix made loads so half stored away in the freezer.
As mr van made it, and followed the recipe to the nth degree;), the green bits of the leeks were left over, so I made leek and potato soup with them which has skewed my meal plan a bit, but it means nothing was wasted plus some very cheap meals turned out of a few big leeks:money:

joedenise

Better than wasting the green bits of the leek. Love leek and potato soup.

Saver-upper

I have been alot better budgeting this month than I was last :j.
Have really just been doing tiny top-up shops.On Sunday I walked to the local shops and bought milk (£3.00).
Today I fancied making a vegetable tangine for tea.Went to three different supermarkets before I found butternut squash:eek:.Bought two butternut squash,and some milk: £4.12 total.
When i got home and realised I didn't have cinnamon,I went out and bought that too (£1.00).
Total spent so far this month:£40.47/250

Crowdpleaser

A gluten free stuff top up shop in mr t of 17 and then a quick whizz to mr s of 10 this week plus an emergency 4 Pinter of milk from corner shop puts the total at
212/325.

Not panicking yet. Friday is halfway through for me but I have some meals in freezer so shouldn't be as big a shop as the last one.

Have some sad parsnips to use so will do a soup tomorrow.

shopaholicnumber1

Quick update

So far I've spent £85.91/£225 so have £139.09 left but shouldn't need much except bread and milk for the next couple of weeks (fingers crossed!)