October 2019 Grocery Challenge

Crowdpleaser

160 spent in alds and another 23 in sainsbobs. Cupboards were bare so this will last I hope.

Total 183/325

quintwins

I didn't make it out over the weekend as I was so unwell. went to to homebargains today as I needed a birthday gift for one of my sons friend and I picked up a few wee bits from there totalling £6.97. Then off to lidl and I spent £27.76 so my total today is £35.73. that should be me pretty much sorted for the month now and just on to wee top up shops.

Total spent £113.88/£200

Scrimps

I'd like to join again please. We're doing £50 each Friday. There are 4 between sept and Oct payday so £200 for this month

2 adults and 2 children under 2, including nappies and just a little formula for one child, toiletries and cleaning but alcohol and any takeaways (few times a year) comes out of personal spends

Saver-upper

Thank you for running the thread again Elsiepac.
I am absolutely shocked at how much I spent in September.Am still to post about today's spend on the old thread .It has been a few years since I did this chsllenge,and Sept was an unusual month for us (two birthdays,I was away for a weekend,so stocked up on easy-to-prepare stuff for family to live on.Then in the last week I decided to try a vegetarian diet,so that was a couple more shops :eek:.
So I am all settled now.
With very well-stocked cupboards,fridge and freezer,I am going to aim again for £250.00Family of 6,inc two teens (nearly three!:rotfl:)

I mentioned yesterday, on September's thread,that if anyone has suggestions of recipe sites,blogs,money-saving tips,forums etc,your favourite recipes,etc,for vegetarian eating,I would love to hear about them.

PipneyJane

Morning All

Well, much to my shock, I when I added up what was left in the Grocery Challenge purse from September, it turned out to be £5.10! Therefore, Elsiepac please amend my budget for October to £125.10.

Many thanks.

— Pip

Suffolk_lass

Saver-upper wrote: »

I mentioned yesterday, on September's thread,that if anyone has suggestions of recipe sites,blogs,money-saving tips,forums etc,your favourite recipes,etc,for vegetarian eating,I would love to hear about them.

I like the Chowhound blog and they posted a link to ten other good sites here.

MandM90

Went completely rogue last month...£276!!!

Going to try and stick to the usual £190 this month.

Tonight:

- Freezer inventory
- Meal plan
- Shopping list

Tonight will be beans on toast/soup after seeing the Downton film. I'll pop to Lidl tomorrow evening.

joedenise

First spends for October. £11.02 at Mr Ts and £16.00 at the land of Ice, total of £27.02. Used a £5 off £20 spend in Icel*and so was actually £21:money:. I don't usually use vouchers as they usually run out before I get round to using them so this is an improvement for me! It ran out today!

Denise

XSpender

XSpender wrote: »

Please may I join in again? My budget for October, which is a 5 week month for us, is £500. This is no where near what I want our spending to be at but is a significant decrease to what we spent weekly in September!

After a mess up with my salary/car tax I am £600 down so please may I change my target to a tighter-than-a-tight thing £220 to run 1st to 31st of October.

This is less than half of what we spent last month but I am up for the challenge and am eating out of the freezer where I can but we don't have a lot of meat in there and DH likes meat with most evening meals.

This includes all human food, laundry, toiletries and cleaning and dog food. Thank goodness we are doing Stoptober this month so no booze to pay for.

Not planning on shopping until Friday at the latest. I have a work meal allowance to use this week which will cover a few non perishables.

joedenise

XSpender there are a lot of vegetarian meals you can make that really don't need meat to be satisfying. DH is very much a meat man but he'll happily eat veggie curry, veggie chilli or a mixed bean goulash (I use the Jack Monroe recipe for that).

Good luck.

Denise