November 2021 Grocery Challenge

Smoosh

£200

For us again this month. Just about made it in October. November will be trickier because it'll be 5 weeks of shopping, but I'll give it a go. That's 2 adults, including toiletries and cleaning products, a dog and a kitten. 

I need to work on having less takeaways and less impulse buying YS food. 

goldfinches

Thankyou @elsiepac for the new thread and for the tidying up of the recipes and so on too.

Please put me down for £120 for one adult vegetarian to cover all food, household items and basic toiletries. 

Please could you also add my baking budget of £5 per week and my treats for Christmas and the New Year fund of £150 which is to cover all alcohol and special ingredients for treat meals etc. which I'm starting now so that I can make mincemeat, puddings and so on.

Thanks very much for that, goldfinches.

suzybloo

After major changes in our circumstances I have to really concentrate on budgeting, Can you put me down for £375 please for the month of November, This is for 2 adults and my grandson who stays with us approx 2 days per week.  Within that will be £10 per week used to purchase Christmas incidentals to be frozen or put into my christmas box. 

newroadahead

Thank you for the new month of the challenge 

Will stick with £300 again this month please 

NRA

lushlifesaver

Hi all, 

I'm back (again) and on a major mission from now on.

£200 please

this is for 2 adults, 2 children (7y and 8months) and is to include all day to day food but not toiletries as we bulk buy many items at Costco (formula, nappies, toilet roll, meat though we often have to top this up in between) so that will be a separate budget (saving £20 per month towards this) 

PipneyJane

Count me "in" @elsiepac.  I think we've done our last shop for October, with £19 left in the GC purse, so will stick my neck out and say please put me down for 

£159

for November.  That's for all groceries for 2 adults.  My month runs from 1st to 30th.

Many thanks for the new thread.

- Pip.

MissRikkiC

Here for November please with a budget of £250 again 

New plans for this month - deliveries! 

This may not seem very MS however I have found a few little trips to the cooop and popping to grab bits have meant we have spent quite a lot more than budgeted in previous months and also become bored of the same food. This also drives (mostly my husband) to want the tescow pizza deal for £10 once a week plus the usual weekend take away so we are instead taking a new approach. 

Mabel and Vole will deliver our veg and keep us topped up with diary, shmashda will provide household and fruit items, the local butcheroo for any meal items (although the veg box helps me plan less meat into the diet!) and zero waste shops (where I can’t buy anything other than what I need because I’ll take the correct number of containers!) for bulk items of beans, pulses etc. 

This may seem more expensive (and for some items is) but I’m not adjusting the budget, will skip a delivery if it’s not needed or we can’t afford and means that we will hopefully enjoy our food much more by having things different to normal! 

Wish us luck

Mrs_Cheshire

Hi all, 

Could you put me down for £300, please? 

That's for 2 adults, 3 kids ( all meals except weekday lunches for the kids, toiletries, household). We have plenty of freezer and storecupboard stocks. we utilise our local community grocery and oli0. Will be back on the 1st as we run by calendar month. 

chirpycheap

Please could I join in with a budget of £300 for November.

This is for two adults and will include 1) Grocery shopping 2) eating out 3) toiletries and cleaning products.
I would like the total monthly spend to be closer to £250 but I am planning to stock up on Christmas food stuff before Christmas as I'd like to spread out the cost.

I am catering for 8 on Christmas day and 15 for a family buffet a few days after Christmas. My husband and myself stopped giving each other Christmas presents a couple of years ago but instead have a shared food hamper with some treats in. I'd like to start putting some food and drink aside for those little extras and in the new year I'll hopefully be able to reduce our spend even further.

I was planning to 'cheat' (myself) and do a huge online shop with Tesco before next month's challenge but fate intervened and due to the Tesco hacking problem at the weekend I couldn't update my basket so only half of my normal shop arrived! I've decided not to rush out and buy more groceries but to manage with what we've got and see if I can pick anything up with Olio.

Thank you to the organisers of this thread.

sarahj1986

Hello all

can I put my name down for this please?

we’ve done it in the past and I really enjoy it. I’d like to do it again. This winter is going to be another tough one financially 

I live in Spain (for those who May remember me hiya)

budget for November €280 maximum. The lower the better though