November 2021 Grocery Challenge

DanielleNic87

I didn’t realise how low on toilet rolls we were so popped to Mr T after my night shift. 

£10.61 spent on toilet rolls, beansprouts for tonight’s tea and red kidney beans for tomorrow’s chilli. 

I admit I spent £2 unnecessarily on 2 packs of the new raspberry and white chocolate Soreen bars for the kids 😬

Doom_and_Gloom

£52.52 spent since last post between L!do and Mr S.
We are not getting an A&C or O~box delivery next week.

£186.00/£240.
£54.00 left.
This could be hard to stay in budget but we will try. 

Smoosh

Another 80p today on a premade panini, premade fajita, mozzarella sticks and a mozzarella and pesto mix. All YS and saved us from cooking dinner at least. 

£151.30/£200.

jozbo

NSD yesterday . Think about the 4th of the month; I should start keeping track properly.

Today £39.40 at L1dl which is all of the grocery money gone for the month. Oh dear, it’s not even half way! This month is our third GC and the only explanation is that we used up a lot of stocks last month due to COVID. Then we spent on Mr T food deliveries. So this month it’s a combination of restocking, buying extras for guests visiting next weekend and having to now make packed lunches that has tipped us over.

Got lots of batch cooking to do this weekend -
SC beef shin stew and mash, 8 portions or so to feed us tomorrow dinner and guests next weekend
- GF cake of which type I haven’t decided yet but have some ginger in syrup, tons of dried fruit and GF flour, eggs, butter etc
Need some large freezer containers, Pyrex would be ideal but pricey. Think I will have the car tomorrow so might check Home B’s as sometimes they have good ones and cheap. Expensive online.

Due to the spendy month we’ve just got the £10 L1dl voucher so will spend that next Friday and have to borrow from another starling pot. 

DanielleNic87

I had to pop to Mr T before work as I forgot to pick up a few things at the shop. I needed cat food, kitchen roll, crisps for packed lunches. £20.99 spent at Mr T.

mumtoomany

Two bottles of milk and some sweets. £2.04, so total to date is £2571.84/£2750. OH is going to pick up some lard, for the pastry for the chicken pie for tea, and maybe some beer, he says it's on offer at Morrisons. Will update with that later. Don't need anything else for a few days, I don't think. Mumtoomany.

pamsdish

£14.99 on a bottle of whisky and a loaf, also added in another £14, ( more whisky) I  think slipped the net.

Suffolk_lass

LadyWithAPlan said:

carolinerunner said:

I can’t now remember who mentioned it but my Tetrapak hummus arrived today and it’s DELICIOUS!! So thank you, whoever it was!Also made flatbreads with yoghurt and flour, super easy and MS, went well with curry and chilli (harlequin freezer-dive dinner)
My most-run-out-of-things are bread, yoghurt, cheese, baked beans and cat food so I try to double up on those in order to stay out of the shops

Think you are very wise to double up on those things you run out of, the moment I walk into a supermarket money just flies out my purse.  I guess they are world class marketers. 
So I will borrow this idea, I run out of the things that are heavy (DF milks)  or fragile (eggs, Df yogurts) so I am almost need to try an early monthly shop just for  these items

That flatbread sounds delicious, may have a try,. I have homemade moong dal, cooked brown rice and a YS chicken curry I pulled out my freezer for Friday evening food so flatbread sounds fun. Will add some linseed to see if that helps bulk it 

My DH makes really simple flatbreads (half the quantity that Jamie O's recipe suggests) and I can vouch for the dough freezing well too. 

I think the list of stuff you run out of is exactly why I have milk and eggs delivered - the milkman does all sorts of dairy free options. It is more expensive but worth it as I know what I'm like!

@jozbo you could look in Dunelm if you have one - we have a QD Stores near us who are consistently cheaper and do the pyrex range with plastic lids. I freeze in plastic snap top boxes in preference or in a pyrex dish with a plastic bag in that then gets removed and then I know it fits in X dish when I want to defrost it (and it takes up fewer dishes and space)

PipneyJane

Good morning All

I'm 127 posts behind, so apologies if I've missed anything momentous.

It's been a quiet two weeks for us on the shopping front.  That's partially because we'd stocked up on veg prior to the end of October and partially because we needed to use up some of the freezer contents. I couldn't shoe-horn in anything else.  Seriously, I'm still mourning my old fridge-freezer - replaced 3 years ago when it died -  because this one is so much smaller on the inside and despite claiming to be frost free, everything gets frosty.  

Anyway, with the exception of onions and garlic, we finally ran out of fresh veg on Thursday.  After work from home yesterday, DH and I walked down to L!dl and got lucky.  Most of the time, if I go there after work, they have very little fresh veg.  This time, they had plenty of carrots, their family packs of onions (2kg for £1), broccoli and mushrooms.   They also had treats, like Chocolate Florentines. In the end, I had to remind DH that we'd walked down and had to lug everything back, which stopped him going totally wild.  (Our local branch is 1.5 miles away.) 

In the end, we spent £29.40.  Some of that was on treats: Florentines (£4.99), Creme Brulee (£1.49) and breaded camembert (£2.49 for a pack of 4 starter-sized ones), which pricks my conscious.  Fortunately, for us this month, money isn't tight.  If it had been, then that would be £10 of unnecessary spending.

Our other spend was £9 at the C0-0p on Wednesday.  They have an offer on of "Spend £10 get £1 off your shop" (expires Sunday).   They also had the large Yeo Valley Yoghurts at the discounted price of £1.25 each (usually £1.50 in MrT's and Sainsbugs).  DH spotted the price when he visited the branch near his office and bought 8.  They're all dated for the last week of November, but will easily keep for a couple of weeks after that (not that they'll survive that long).

Both of the above spends bring our November GC spend to £38.40/£159, leaving £120.60 for the rest of the month.

- Pip

diminua

Up to 93.06 spent.

Groceries are mostly the usual suspects this week – coffee, tea, milk, bread, salad veg, pasta, tuna, etc. One bottle of fancy ginger beer and a sodastream orangeade syrup (which was only available in Currys. Very odd).

A pain au chocolat and a slice of pizza when I went into work on Wednesday.