November 2021 Grocery Challenge

goldfinches

@JingsMyBucket - I'm another one who buys those dark, sweet cherries only mine come from Sains and I also eat them with g.s. yoghurt for breakfast.
@joedenise and @Blackcats - I've also got a box of the Simply Cook introductory offer sitting in the kitchen that hasn't yet been used and I've completely forgotten what I chose as well as having cancelled the subscription immediately on the grounds that until I'd tried the pots I didn't know whether they were worth repeating. I'm saving mine for when I need some inspiration as I'm cooking one dish a week from Ottolenghi's Flavour cookbook at the moment.

I spent £3.49 at M*rks on radishes, carrots and coriander on Weds and £8.45 there on milk, yoghurt, cheese and mushrooms yesterday which makes my monthly total £19.82/£120 and my average daily spend £3.30.

I also broke into my Christmas fund for a tin of salt and black pepper cashews at M*rks which I promptly hid at the back of my wardrobe next to the sloe gin. That makes my Christmas fund total £5/£150.

I'll leave anyone who's still reading this photo of Twink's hobnobs that I made on Monday using dark soft brown sugar as that was what I had in. I took them to my Wednesday walking group and they were a great success.

joedenise

Haven't made Twinks hobnobs for ages.  They look lovely.

boultdj

A Lidl shop done, picked up a few yellow sticker item's, fish and chicken, freezer is full again, and £71.93 spent.

Doom_and_Gloom

Small shop of £5.72 at Mr S. 

It's chilli non carne on baked potato for my dinner today. Looking forward to that.
Not sure what the OH will be having but looking at what he has it is likely to be an omelette sandwich with oxtail or tomato soup.

£76.78/£240.
£163.22 left.

Smoosh

£5.92 today in coop on 4l of fizzy drink and then I had a weak moment and got lots of YS goodies including 2 boxes of mini pizza bites, coronation chicken sandwich filler, clotted cream, a yoghurt and a chocolate dessert.

I've also spent £35.78 on the month's cat food and litter.

£122.89/£200.

jozbo

Bit spendy this weekend.
£1.42 fultons foods 2 GF pastas - usually £1.59 each so happy with that
£56 on range of shin beef diced beef oxtail bones etc from a local organic farm. Will go in chest freezer and last several months. Comes out of Xmas budget now have £19 remaining.
£53.62 remaining of grocery shopping budget. 

Visited w8rose just before closing today to see if any YS bargains . I go there very rarely and found few bargains and everything very overpriced. Not tempted by anything fortunately. 

Plan to visit l1dl tomorrow for the weeks shop and use £2 voucher and some of the coupons on my plus card app. 

Herbyme

@goldfinches I’m hugely impressed by how shiny and clean your baking trays are 😂. Oh and the biscuits look great too!

suzybloo

Week 1 of November done and dusted, and we are sitting at £63.57 spent out of the monthly budget. Mainly living out of the cupboards this coming week to allow me to get them cleaned out and organised. Will do a bigger shop on Friday as I start a new job on the 16th and want to have a proper meal plan in place and make sure I have everything sorted.
Baking tins out today to fill the cake tins for the week - some lovely banana loaves and scones - simple but filling, and also had a large pan of thick lentil soup made for lunches over the next couple of days. Only fresh food needed in the next few days - bread and milk, and some veg so looking well within the budget this coming week again ! 

diminua

Just realized made an error last time – it should have been £25.35 in total. 

In addition to that in the last week I’ve spent another £6.35 on coffee, bread and milk (I haven’t used the JS voucher yet), £27.29 on a veg box delivery with cheese, butter and meat (I now have way too many carrots and will need to make soup or something) and £16.05 on drinks out – both the pub with Dad and a couple of coffees while I was tramping about North London this weekend. I also had my first mince pie this year – much too early really but I had it anyway.

£124.96 left

Pixiehouse55

Hi Everyone 
@elsiepac can you please put me down for £300 please?
.It shouldn't be that much, not sure when we can next get to any shops on the canal. I did go in Sainsbys on Thursday and spent £60  on chicken breasts.  Chicken Gougons. Mince made in to 2 portions. Chicken kievs. Sausages pack of 12 put in to 3 packs of 4. Pack of bacon in to 2 packs of 4. 1 pizza. 1 rump steak cut in to 2. Tinned vegs and tins of b.beans and spaghetti  hoops. Potatoes. Mushrooms. Brocoli carrots and Parsnip. Milk orange juice apple juice.  SR Flour. Cheese. 3 tins of tuna fish. Porridge. Granola and gf cereal for me.We've got a container full of white rice. We have bread. Jams, chocolate spread. Rice cakes. Tea bags and today a carrier bag full of cooking apples. 
We have a fridge with smal freezer bit in fridge. Not much cupboard space on our Narrowboat but we are doing OK. From Thursday we are heading down towards Bristol. Not sure if we will make it for Christmas. We could be stuck on the canal somewhere 🤣😂
We will see  how it goes. X