October 2020 Grocery Challenge

mumtoomany

Well another £1.28, two x two litres of milk, OH taking DD3 to work, so he picked it up. £365.83/£200.
Suffolk lass, have done very little with the pomegranates, had some in fruit salad and have eaten some, so have two of the grandchildren. I did discover that they freeze quite well, so the rest have been frozen this morning. 
Will need milk, I think, now until at least next month. Trying not to go shopping as now in lockdown for seventeen days here in Wales. Mumtoomany.

goldfinches

Commiserations to all in lockdown and may your stays there be short. 
I had to spend £14.99 on another sodastream cylinder so I'm down to £42.63 to last the rest of the month.
That makes an average spend of £5.90 per day to date and  £7.10 per day left which makes it seem feasible to get there under budget.
Calculating it per day really brings how much I'm spending home to me and makes the need to economise starkly clear especially as we're approaching the coldest part of the year.
I think that next month I'm going to set a budget of no more than £4 per day and I'll investigate getting a veg box delivery to see if that would work out cheaper than buying as and when.
I'll also try getting back on my bicycle and making the trip to Lidl and Aldi rather than shopping within walking distance of home. Okay, that's a plan. Night all, goldfinches.

elsiepac

Guys I'm SO SORRY, I didn't realise the date!!! Here's November, I'm sorry it's a bit late!

Doom_and_Gloom

£28.73 spent since last post.

Our hob broke so we've had to change some of our meals for now as we aren't sure when it will be changed for a new one. 

OH dinner - beef stew and mashed potatoes. 
My dinner - vegetable stew and mashed potatoes. 

£215.05/180 (£215 nope still over this and it will likely get worse).
£35.05 over budget. 

joedenise

Been shopping this morning and spent rather more than intended and now only have £15.36 left for shopping on Thursday which will be the last shop of the month.  Will definitely try to come in under that but don't think it's very likely!

Finstickle

Haven't updated for the last week. 
More smaller shops than I'd like and one big shop.

£533.02/£650 - 85%
£18.43 - love to keep it here as lowest since Mar!!! 
Freezer is still fairly full as I've been ill and OH has made do with jacket potatoes. Might need a couple of bits but get paid on Friday 😀😀

Really pleased to see my totals coming down, especially as this included a meat order at the beginning of the month 😁😁😁

mumtoomany

Sent OH for milk, nappies and ham; while he was taking DD3 to work. Total now £373.89/£200. £223 if I don't count the pig money. Still over! Onwards and downwards. mumtoomany.

Suffolk_lass

I have only shopped once so far this month but I do need some fresh fruit and more veg and I want (but don't actually need) some beef mince as I have been fancying chilli. I could make a frozen veg chilli to postpone the dreaded shop, especially as it has gone 8 o'clock and I prefer to avoid others. I really want to avoid for a number of reasons - not least my annual stores has overspent wildly this year. Instead of £400 I have spent £567. If I could manage until Monday (November's) I would only be £9.47 ahead of where I should be. I might squeeze it a bit longer and use my Co-op dividend cheque (£5) in the local to eke it out a bit longer

wishus

One shop too many! Went bust by £35 with a trip to Aldi. Worth it though. Bought some lovely steak for my hard-working man. Yes, that was a relief - he got a job! Shouldn't go 'cray cray' on the spend spend, though. I know, I know...
However, I went to do my ablutions before bed last night and noticed something untoward in the mirror, something going on under my chin...

...a jowl. A flipping jowl! Not just a fatty bun bun jowl face. No! A lopsided fatty bun bun jowl face! I have uneven jowls! Oh well, suppose it goes with my post-surgery lopsided belly sag. 

Serendipity and fortuity! Got the MSE newsletter this morning, and there is a free month of Weight Watchers. I'm doing Green, so will be entering November on a mission to subsist on as much low calorie and low cost fruit and veg as possible. And waste nothing!

joedenise

@wishus you can eat really cheaply on low cost fruit and veg.  If you incorporate lots of pulses too you'll get lots of cheap protein.  I assume Green mean a veggie diet for the month - is that right?  If it is might be worth looking at Jack Monroe's website for lots of cheap veggie and vegan meals (www.cookingonabootstrap.com).  One of my favourites is her mixed bean goulash (she uses a tin of baked beans and a tin of kidney beans but because there is just the 2 of us I just use a tin of mixed beans).