September 2020 Grocery Challenge

korban278

before using any of these recipes please check labels as manufacturers often make changes to ingredients.NB - for Vegetarian recipes check under “You’ve got to be kidding me.”

“HOW DID YOU MAKE THIS??!!”
“You’re going to tell us how you did this, right?”

The DMs pinged into my inbox and I squinted at my screen in confusion. What was all the fuss about?

Over the last week, I’d been cobbling together meals from my pantry and fridge, putting off grocery shopping because we were leaving for vacation.

I’d been hashtagging the experiment #nogrocerychallenge and amusing myself by making homemade croutons out of old hotdog buns and bacon fat I’d saved. I made a Mexican-inspired gazpacho to use up a bunch of vegetables and a cold Vietnamese-ish salad to finally get rid of those rice noodles.

After about 20 DMs politely demanding insight on the topic, I started writing.

And then I wrote some more. And then I wrote a lot more.

Suffolk_lass

We are in good company on here. I was listening to the Radio 5 "Wake up to money" program this morning and the financial expert (Justin) was surprised that he was tempted by the aisle of dreams and came out with a hedge trimmer when he went in for something like milk. It just made me chuckle that he sounded so surprised!

Hettyhound

Hi everyone.  I’m declaring September with £214.56 out of a budget of £200.  I do think my Aldee shop has gone up a bit the last few weeks as normally around 35 but now seems to be nearer 40.  I’m just buying the same stuff although I’m going to review the meal plan now the weather is turning, and I’m getting bored.  Will trawl through my many cookbooks and “budgetise” some recipes.  I think October maybe need a bigger budget as I’ll have to do a bulk pet food order but that will last 6 weeks.  I’m reviewing my budgets anyway as surplus in various “pots” and my remortgage kicks in on 1st November but bills have increased ☹️

PipneyJane

korban278 said:

before using any of these recipes please check labels as manufacturers often make changes to ingredients.NB - for Vegetarian recipes check under “You’ve got to be kidding me.”

“HOW DID YOU MAKE THIS??!!”
“You’re going to tell us how you did this, right?”

The DMs pinged into my inbox and I squinted at my screen in confusion. What was all the fuss about?

Over the last week, I’d been cobbling together meals from my pantry and fridge, putting off grocery shopping because we were leaving for vacation.

I’d been hashtagging the experiment #nogrocerychallenge and amusing myself by making homemade croutons out of old hotdog buns and bacon fat I’d saved. I made a Mexican-inspired gazpacho to use up a bunch of vegetables and a cold Vietnamese-ish salad to finally get rid of those rice noodles.

After about 20 DMs politely demanding insight on the topic, I started writing.

And then I wrote some more. And then I wrote a lot more.

Why does this read to me like an AI?

- PIp

joedenise

I've Reported that post as Spam.  Nothing to do with MSE Grocery Challenge, quite possibly AI @PipneyJane.

PipneyJane

joedenise said:

I've Reported that post as Spam.  Nothing to do with MSE Grocery Challenge, quite possibly AI PipneyJane.

Ditto, @joedenise.

- Pip

Doom_and_Gloom

Spent £4.01 today. 
500g Strawberries, 300g mini portabello mushrooms, 205g brambley apple, an iceberg lettuce and 1L graham's gold milk (one of OHs preferred milks). 

OH dinner - home made meat pizza. 
My dinner - vegetable curry with quinoa. 

£181.69/£180. 
£1.69 over.
Not going to declare quite yet as month finishes Wednesday. 

Competsoph

Hi all, it’s been a crazy week! We got the house!!! Woohoo. Never been happier. 

My challenge goes from payday to payday and that was Friday so finished with a healthy underspend (although being my first month it was a ballpark figure). We’ve been living off biscuits and random concoctions over the past few days. Hoping to move in on Thursday or Friday and then we can get back to normal food wise.

Overall a successful September. See you on the next month!! 😊😊

goldfinches

Suffolk_lass said:

We are in good company on here. I was listening to the Radio 5 "Wake up to money" program this morning and the financial expert (Justin) was surprised that he was tempted by the aisle of dreams and came out with a hedge trimmer when he went in for something like milk. It just made me chuckle that he sounded so surprised!

Thanks for that, I feel a bit better about falling into temptation so often now.
I am going to sit down sometime in the next couple of days and do a bit of number crunching just out of interest and will report back with any interesting findings. In truth I fear the answer will be that the complete avoidance of shops is the best answer to my question and so perhaps online shopping might be better for me even though I would be incurring delivery charges. This will bear further investigation I think? 

PipneyJane

Competsoph said:

Hi all, it’s been a crazy week! We got the house!!! Woohoo. Never been happier. 

My challenge goes from payday to payday and that was Friday so finished with a healthy underspend (although being my first month it was a ballpark figure). We’ve been living off biscuits and random concoctions over the past few days. Hoping to move in on Thursday or Friday and then we can get back to normal food wise.

Overall a successful September. See you on the next month!! 😊😊

Yay!  Good luck with the move.  I hope you are very happy in your new home.

- Pip