November 2019 Grocery Challenge

StripeyTightsSpottySocks

£163.77/£150

£26.24 spend was £14.47 cat food and the rest on reduced items / essential ingredients .I will keep posting it is a good learning curve.

I am setting the same target for December - no need to cook on the day and we'll just have same sort of meals at home like we usually do.

Next month i will track all cat food spending - I won't reduce their budget but i do need to be aware how much we're spending.

Having been ill this weekend i have leftover & gifted leeks, potatoes, carrots and celery that really need using - any suggestions please? I don't want to do soup really so looking for other options? Thanks in advance.

Thank you all for posting too.

Doom_and_Gloom

We have spent £12.12 since last post.

OH is having chicken and bacon tortelloni with cheese sauce for dinner.
I'm having vegan sausage casserole, served along with carrots, peas and sweetcorn for dinner.

£176.08/£210.
£33.42 left.

Doom_and_Gloom

StripeyTightsSpottySocks wrote: »

Having been ill this weekend i have leftover & gifted leeks, potatoes, carrots and celery that really need using - any suggestions please? I don't want to do soup really so looking for other options? Thanks in advance.

Thank you all for posting too.

Rostis
Braised celery
Roasted carrots and leeks
Celery and carrot sticks with houmous
Vegetable pie with mash/jacket potato
Shepherds pie using leeks instead of onion
Leek lasagne
Vegetable stew

Suffolk_lass

StripeyTightsSpottySocks wrote: »

Having been ill this weekend i have leftover & gifted leeks, potatoes, carrots and celery that really need using - any suggestions please? I don't want to do soup really so looking for other options? Thanks in advance.

Last night we had veg roasted in olive oil with salt, pepper and chilli flakes, then just as the corners went brown I made a cheese sauce and poured it over and baked it again - DH maintains almost-burnt on crunchy bits are the other main food group. Just as well - it was rather yummy.

PipneyJane

Afternoon All.

I am so relieved! After 3 days when I could not log into MSE at work - it blocked the work URL - I'm now allowed back in and can spend my lunchtimes browsing the boards again. Yay!

I have one spend to declare from the weekend - £4.08 spent on lunch/sandwich stuff at MrT's. I will have another spend to declare later - we're going to a concert tomorrow night, so my DH popped into A$da on his way home to get more sandwich fillings (salad, discounted meat) and some mushrooms - but I don't know the total so will have to add it in later. At present, our GC spend for November is £95.12/£120, leaving £24.88 for the remainder of the month.

- Pip

franby64

Doing OK but tomorrow I'm going to make a meal plan for the rest of the month based on emptying the freezer.
But I might also treat myself to a veg box...I think if it's all planned for I can just about justify it!

thriftwizard

I've added £12.31 spent today on various fresh things, replacing what the girls used up whist we were away. Also green tea, which is apparently essential to the continuation of life as we know it!

I'm already stressing about December; I think I could cut down on the "normal" monthly spend quite easily. BUT December isn't a normal month... I've been saving up all year towards the festivities, and the resulting fund will cover food & drink as well as presents, but of course I tend to buy a lot of items at the same time & in the same places as our normal food. I shall have to be absolutely on top of keeping receipts and sorting out what belongs in which budget!

Suffolk_lass

I know what you mean thriftwizard, stressing about December. My numbers for Christmas are very fluid and we currently have 12 confirmed for Christmas day with another 2 possibles (waifs and strays, friends of our DS who have fallen out with their families or cannot be with them for other reasons). I already have a 5.6k frozen F/R turkey in my freezer and a second turkey crown - and to be honest, the rest is just a growable roast dinner but it is all the other bits and pieces - nibbles to go with drinks when people arrive, fiddle-arsing (official expression) with the furniture to fit in tree and other decs, and so many chairs, tables, crockery and cutlery.

And then there is the massive tidy and clean-job. Oh well, at least it gets done properly at Christmas and New Year (I am hosting that too, and Boxing Day... - I will think about that tomorrow - to quote Scarlet O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)

wishus

Declaring a spend in Mozza's this morning of £9.17. Quite a lot of YS good stuff in there.
Farmhouse loaf -34p
3 x crumpet packs - 15p ea
wonky carrots 45p
2 packs portabello mushrooms 30p ea,
chopped melon 10p
baby leaf salad 45p
herb salad 5p
cabbage 8p


Have to be very quick with the super bargains, grabbing them off the cleardown trolley and going through self-service as they're from the day before. :shhh:

tessie_bear

hope everyone is keeping warm its gone cold here in the mids well my bit..wanted to share the joys of rocky road with everyone now i know the concept of leftover chocolate is an odd one but we sometimes find ourselves with say a penguin type biscuit that went to school and came home broken or a kitkat at the bottom of the swimming bag that was overlooked when the vending machine was spotted...the end of a packet of biscuits maybe broken...an overlooked easter egg yes we still have about 5...the least fav bar in a selection box....right get a bar of 30p chocolate melt stir in the above and maybe a few marshmellows/nuts/raisins press into a foil tray and set on setting cut up and enjoy its the sweet version of a quiche for using up bits and bobs

im off shopping tomorrow so will report back x