November 2020 Grocery Challenge

Pixiehouse55

Hi elsiepac could you please put me down for £325 this month. my pay dates are October 22nd to November 17th.  i normally say £300 but our elderly man is on certain foods at the moment so im spending a little bit more. this is for food plus all toiletries. Dog food is separate which is roughly £90 a month plus meds of £11.99 a month. I do have subscriptions from Amizon will check how much later. thank you  

off_the_wagon

Another £16.75 spent - this time stockpiling dishwashing tablets.  Having spent some time looking around comparing prices and decided to take the plunge and subscribe to Amazon to have them delivered every three months (from second delivery onwards price is 15% less)- works out about the 1p more tablet to tablet for my favourite brand but they get delivered so no more searching for when it's on offer, and from beg feb will be cheaper.
Grocery challenge £66.69/£800 - and it is not even November yet - need to up my game!

Competsoph

Hi all,

Back at it this month thought Mr Compet is proving hard to pin down (not literally!  ) Now we have Asda on the doorstep he likes to conveniently 'pop' there to the reduced section but returns with a bag load of stuff, and you guessed it, ANOTHER bag for life! (which may be the end of my life, or his, if he continues!!) 

Anyway, i'm sticking with our £150 budget for this month please. As for the past few months we run payday to payday so already a week in. 

Thanks for keeping this going, its absolutely brilliant!! Good luck and stay safe all

Suffolk_lass

Going to eke it through to Monday with a voucher and £1.27 in co-op on top of my one and only October SM shop. £86.71 out of my £200 average means I am only £22.14 ahead of where I should be if every month was an average. £647.84 left for the rest of the year

thriftwizard

£98 out of £400 gone already, and we're not actually in November yet! But it is payday today, then not again until 30th. £55 was spent at the market, buying us 2 chickens (one will be frozen if no guests this weekend) fish, mince, cheese, scones (will be frozen against friends dropping in) and veg. £43 was spent on a 10Kg sack of dried cat food; this will last us at least 4 months and is far from the cheapest, but needed for our Oldest Feline Inhabitant's optimum health. I will need to buy some cat litter soon, but shouldn't need any poultry or cockatiel food until well into December. 

In the meantime, our new freezer has arrived & I'm stocking that one up as we go along, and running the old one down, so we'll be eating up what's left in that for a fair bit of this month, which hopefully will keep costs down. It will then become a grain store, with the plug cut off; oats & flour for us, mixed corn & layer's mash for the birds, will all be safe from vermin in there.

ancientmum

Hello, thank you elsiepac for continuing to run the thread.  I still have one more October shop to do tomorrow, but I know I've blown my annual budget two months early.  I will keep it as is and see how far over I go to give me a guide for next year.  I did not anticipate DS3 being home for so long, nor feeding his girlfriend most weekends over the summer, but life and family is not all about penny pinching and I enjoyed their company.  He did contribute and cook now and then.
I'm lucky that I can afford to have some leeway in my budget (but not much).

off_the_wagon

Another day another shop - this time stocking up on cat food for my elderly cat who it turns out is anaemic - so it was off to stock up on food containing more red meat and offal and therefore iron. Mr T for Felix pouches (packs of 12) for £3.49, normally I go to Farm Foods for Whiskas (3 boxes of 40 for £22) or B and M (Felix 40 pouches for 9.49) but I needed the red meat ones specifically. Of course the "if you're popping in can you get" then started so spend came to £53.49.
November Grocery Challenge =£120/£800

peb

Morning all, many thanks to Elsiepac. Just finalised October spending, 38 p over budget. It's interesting as it's the first month I've actually noted everything I spend yet I was about spot on budget.

 Like a lot of folk I bought shopping in October which will mainly be used in November.  However with a new job starting  in a week's time and it means being in an office for the first time since January I'm going to stick with £125 - I'm not going to put any more pressure on me.

£125 please

IntoTheForest

£3.29 has been spent this morning on bread, eggs and frankfurters. Having seen the news of a second impending lockdown I am going to have to stick to the £200 budget. I am one of the newly self-employed who has fallen through the gaps so I we will be living partly off savings again. It does give me more time to cook and bake so we shall be eating far more healthily than when I am busy working. 

Money_Choices

Hi
Please can you put me down for £120 this month.
Money Choices