October 2021 Grocery Challenge

Purple_kitten

Spends

£29 Farm Foods

£56,48 Costco

£164.52 of 250 left

Hettyhound

JingsMyBucket said:

@Hettyhound thanks for mentioning cherry loaf. I’ve never heard of it and searching for it led me to this lovely sounding Nigella Lawson recipe that looks right up my alley. https://www.nigella.com/recipes/cherry-almond-loaf-cake

I’ve added it to my recipes and I’m planning to make it in a few weeks. 

I’ve made that one before.  I have Domestic Goddess, although I can’t claim to actually be one!  Chocolate and chestnut cake (improvised) currently in the oven as had some pre cooked chestnuts left from a soup recipe.

nannygladys

Not spent anything and should be as alright for the next few days. I went to the lottie over the weekend so having to plan around what I bought back for dinners. Some days I would just like pizza and chips, but cabbage it is!!!
Nannyg

joedenise

Another spend to declare and now have £198.89 left for the rest of the month.  Need to do a shop tomorrow but a lot is from the bulk fund, just a few things needed from Lid* and want to go to A*da to get some split wholemeal rolls which we use when we have burgers and which are good for Slimming World plan as HEB.

Smoosh

Few shops done today. 

£3.99 in B&M on caramel syrup for coffee (need to start using this less).

Main food shop, costing £24.12 in aldi on 9 toilet rolls, a big kitchen roll, 4 litres fizzy drink, apple juice, Quorn sausages, 6 pints of milk, pancetta, 3 dairylea dunkers, salt, ready meal, Thai curry kit, sushi, broccoli, gnocchi, mushrooms, mini croissants, dry noodles, noodle pot, 16 bags of crisps, cheese sauce.

Still no coconut milk in aldi so on to coop where I spent £1.29 on the coconut milk and 4 YS cookies.

Dinners:
1. Cheesy gnocchi with broccoli and peas. Added pancetta and mushrooms for OH.
2. Pie for me, lamb shank for OH. With mash, broccoli and peas.
3. Quorn cottage pie. 
4. Stroganoff with veggie sausages and spaghetti.
5. Thai Red curry with Quorn chicken, onion, broccoli, carrot (plus mushrooms for OH) with noodles.
6. I'm out, OH is having chicken korma with rice.
7. We're both out. 

Breakfasts will be porridge, croissants and/or bananas.

For lunches OH will have chicken wraps, quiche or the ready meal. For lunches I've got leftovers (usually don't finish dinner), noodle pot, vegetable rice, dairylea dunkers or sushi.

Snacks are biscuits, crisps, dates, mini cheese.

£159.74/£200.

1 more shop to go! 

JingsMyBucket

Evening all, a couple spends to declare from Saturday and today. On Saturday we went into the high street for lunch and the town market was on. We bought two raspberry frangipane tarts from a vendor for £5.00. Afterward we stopped into M & S and spent £14.92 on YS strawberries, yoghurt, and oranges and a bottle of red wine for OH's boar stew he was making. We also got a free container of hummus based on our Sparks rewards. 

Today I did another quick shop at M & S before closing but I couldn't resist the YS buys. 3 YS packs of 24 beef meatballs that were marked down to £1.70/1.78 from £4 each. Those went directly into the freezer along with the YS 4-cheese sauce I got for 74p. The rest of the shop was milk, butter, olive oil, hummus, Yorkshire Tea, and 3x 65p avocados. The total came to £18.00 even. 

Total spent: £37.92
£4.12/£70 remaining until Thursday evening which is doable I think. 

On that note, I realized this weekend that we'll be away from the 21st of October to November 3rd. We have some stocking up to do so I think I'm going to use that portion of the budget to do some "bulk" buying. We need toilet paper! Definitely don't want to come home from our trip with 4 squares left in the house.

The 11 days for October we'll be away come to about £112. The aim is to keep this to about £85 spread over Tesco, Aldi (toilet paper!), and Holland & Barrett so there can be some buffer just in case. Off to make a Tesco order just now and to catch up on the thread. 

goldfinches

@nannygladys - I know exactly what you mean about the cabbage, some days just the very thought of whatever you'd planned to eat makes your heart sink. 

I got very cross in M*rks this morning as I'd planned to buy the fresh ingredients for a special salad having carefully noted that I already had the more expensive bits like nigella seeds and cashews in the larder and then they didn't have either red onions or curry powder. I put back the cucumber and tomatoes I'd already chosen and just bought 4 x organic milk, frozen sweetcorn and 4 x radishes which came to £5.45.
Then I needed some more eczema cream for my hands at Boots so I spent £10 and then I spent £4.65 in Sainsby's on y/s day and night cream for my face.
That makes my new total spend £41.48/£124 and my average daily spend is now £3.77 which isn't bad but could be better.

Money_Choices

Hi

On 8 October I spent £23.65 at L1dl this makes my total spends ££48.29/£84.00.

Money Choices

diminua

More spends - 95p for a pain au chocolat on the way into work yesterday to have at my desk. £3.84 on milk, tinned tuna, tomatoes and stilton - that was Morries, very reasonable but unfortunately I only pass one on the (relatively rare now) days I go to the office. On the plus side I've saved a lot of money in fares. 

I've made a rough meal plan for the rest of the week - venison steak and veg tonight, tuna pasta tomorrow (using up what's left in the fridge), veg curry Thursday (which will be finished for lunch next day) and egg and home-made oven chips on Friday. That leaves me with half a tin of coconut milk - so possibly coconut pancakes on Saturday. I'm out Thursday evening though, and I'm dog sitting at my cousin's all weekend, so this may change around a bit. 

Off to amend my signature. 

MissRikkiC

A mad dash to the cooop for milk this morning for breakfast at £1.50 (you really do pay for the convenience!) plus £4.20 in Lidlll on oats, crackers, YS pork fillet and Ricotta cheese. The last 2 items I didn’t need but the pork will do well for curry (we haven’t any curry ‘meat’ in the freezer really and the ricotta will be nice tonight in lasagna and save me faffing about with a white sauce! 

I’ve just quickly russled up some lemon and chili hummus for snacking on with crackers … only problem is I can literally eat the entire portion I made! Anyone else?! 🤪