November 2020 Grocery Challenge

goldfinches

Mrs_Cheshire said:

Hi all, 
Could you put me down for £400 please, really need to have a couple of cheaper months. Going to visit our local wholesale meat place this week to see if I can get a bulk buy of chicken and anything else that takes my fancy. 

I'm wanting some more recipes that I can either make in the slow cooker and/or batch cook and freeze. 
Need to avoid too many with gravy (kids don't eat it much) 
I already do pulled pork, a full chicken, and some stews. 
Any ideas??

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/cheap-slow-cooker-recipes
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/slow-cooker-recipes
are a good start and will give you prices for the shopping list of ingredients for specific supermarkets in the shopping tool at the top left of each individual recipe page.
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/food/recipes/g538754/best-slow-cooker/ 
this page is a good start too and includes all sorts of links to other more detailed lists for slow cooker recipes by specific ingredient or dietary requirement etc.
I can also unreservedly recommend the CookNation series of Skinny Slow Cooker cook books which are all available on Kindle Unlimited or Kindle Prime if you have either of those subscriptions. There are a huge number of books available on Kindle and I've also borrowed cookbooks for slow cookers from my county library both in hard copy and as e-books so you could have a look there too. 

Caroby

First shop of the month today in Lidls, was gonna wait till later in the week but thought there might not be any loo rolls. Needn't have worried, plenty there, bought our usual amount. Spent £25.10 on fruit, veg, tinned toms/pulses, biscuits, dark choc, sunflower spread, veg sausages, frozen peas, bread, tissues, loo rolls, hot cross buns, bin liners.

L1cklePickle

Hi - I would like to aim for £165 for 1 adult, 1 child and a cat - do you think this is doable?! I generally spend £120 on a big Tesco shop that is delivered (I dont have a car and usually bulk buy cat litter, cupboards and frozen).  Then I plan to spend £15 on fresh goods, including child's packed lunch - I put a tenner on his school account each week for breakfast and snacks so technically its £205 a month I guess......I had my LBM yesterday and I need to do everything possible to get out of debt.

try_harder

Please could i join in this month with a target of £60 a week ..This is a very tight budget for us ,i would normally spend £100 plus but i am constantly trying to cut back whilst trying to eat as healthily as possible at the same time ..Thank you

try_harder

First shop of the month £44 ..Total £44 so far..Note to myself £16 left until the weekend

off_the_wagon

Whole weeks shop this morning for only £77.71 - the first time I have been under £100 for a whole weeks worth this year!  Morries was fairly packed this morning but with the more mature shoppers IFYSWIM. Managed to get some of "The Best" sausages with yellow stickers (normally £2.65 now 80p) so bought 3 packs for the freezer.  Also got a takeaway bag for 2 for this evening should have been £5 now £1.  Get the feeling they were still there for me to snag since they were all spicy kind of foods.  Own brand sausage rolls have changed recipe by the looks so it remains to be seen how my autistic offspring like them (or not).  Likewise trying Morrisons own brand of crinkle cut oven chips for 85p rather than McCain for nearly £3. 
Saw the toilet roll mountain that some were trying to build - got my delivered last month from "Who Gives a Cr*p!" online - no plastic, delivered to your home and the rolls have more sheets than the supermarket ones so sheet for sheet it is cheaper, just beware of the large initial outlay.

November Grocery Challenge £197.71/£800

joedenise

Have done the first shop of the month and bought nearly everything I need for my month's meal plan, although still need to go back to butchers to get low fat sausages as he hadn't made any today but was planning to make some tomorrow but I'm not desperate for them yet so can probably wait until next week.  Only things I'm likely to need to buy are fruit & veg and will need some dishwasher tablets in a couple of weeks time.

£192.06 left for rest of month.

IntoTheForest

I managed to get another wonky veg box from Morrisons yesterday and I have a few bits in the freezer that I want to use. I am now at £31.61 of the £200 budget. 

Mrs_Cheshire

goldfinches said:

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/cheap-slow-cooker-recipes
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/slow-cooker-recipes
are a good start and will give you prices for the shopping list of ingredients for specific supermarkets in the shopping tool at the top left of each individual recipe page.
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/food/recipes/g538754/best-slow-cooker/ 
this page is a good start too and includes all sorts of links to other more detailed lists for slow cooker recipes by specific ingredient or dietary requirement etc.
I can also unreservedly recommend the CookNation series of Skinny Slow Cooker cook books which are all available on Kindle Unlimited or Kindle Prime if you have either of those subscriptions. There are a huge number of books available on Kindle and I've also borrowed cookbooks for slow cookers from my county library both in hard copy and as e-books so you could have a look there too. 

Thank you so much, I didn't realise those website had specific slow cooking pages. Will based my Nov meal plan around these pages. Thanks again

Finstickle

£22.55 spent very quickly in Tesco 🙄

Feeling very uninspired and hungry,  eended up buying pre-made lasagna and sliced beef - 4slices for £3 😱😱
Neither of which would be my usual thing. Topped up on bread and milk etc which should mean a bit of a gap until the next shop and I will hopefully manage to take some time to do some reverse meal planning.