November 2022 Grocery Challenge

Elisheba

Afternoon all,

I bought a loaf of bread from Lidl (as I couldn't be bothered putting the breadmaker on  ), I bought some tooth paste, and there was a a pizza I bought on pay day (I got 1/3 off it) that I forgot to add to my total, so I've now spent £64.51/£100.

thriftwizard

A little local top-up of £19.75 has put me up to £118.11 but there's a bit more to add, when I find my L!dls receipt - IIRC that was somewhere around £43 but I can't be sure. Even then, that was basically just 4 x halloumi, 2 x grated mozarella, 2 packs of Gold filter coffee, 12 x chopped tinned tomatoes & a £1.50 veg box - that seems a LOT? 

ETA: found receipt, in a different bag... it was actually £27.13, which is much more reasonable, and I'd forgotten a pack of tuna (much loved by OH & DD2) and some paracetamol. So off to adjust my total to £145.24.

Gettingmyshiztogether

Hello, just popping back in to share with you what I got in my TGTG mag!c b@gs today.

Starbs was quite disappointing, an under cooked stale croissant, two stale slices of banana and walnut loaf and a cookie. This was £4 or £1 an item. Bit disappointed as I know I could have made a batch of cookies and banana loaf for less than that and it would have been fresh not stale 🙈🤣

Second box from the shop that begins with M and ends in sons. I paid £3.09 and got LOADS! I am so impressed. Here I got a 200g of c@dburys chocolate, an 18 pk of white baps, a granary loaf, a white loaf, a gluten free loaf, a packet of brown tortillas, a fajita pack, a packet of parsley, mushrooms, a thyme plant, a packet of mange tout, four salted crispy corn kernels, and some organic celery. Wow!

The bread was available at dinner time, I had a lasagne that just needed warming through so we all had some bread with it which was nice. Then I chopped the mushrooms and parsley put those into the freezer. The bread all went in the freezer after dinner. The chocolate hidden away for the weekend when I bake. The celery looks good for another few weeks to me 🙈😅 so that's in the fridge ready to be used in my batch cooking this weekend.

So my first experience of TGTG and I don't think I'll do Starbs again but M and sons is a definite weekly visit! Thank you for the recommendation!! 

Ooh I plan to repot my thyme plant tomorrow in the hopes it will grow and stay alive!

joedenise

The last couple of TGTG bags I've had from M*sons have been all fruit and veg and have been brilliant - we don't eat much bread but when they first started doing them they were mainly bakery items.  Finding it harder and harder to actually get the bags now as they go as soon as they are listed!  Thought I'd got one last week and because my signal was so poor by the time the payment was going through the bag was gone!  Really frustrating!

Gettingmyshiztogether

joedenise said:

The last couple of TGTG bags I've had from M*sons have been all fruit and veg and have been brilliant - we don't eat much bread but when they first started doing them they were mainly bakery items.  Finding it harder and harder to actually get the bags now as they go as soon as they are listed!  Thought I'd got one last week and because my signal was so poor by the time the payment was going through the bag was gone!  Really frustrating!

Oh how frustrating indeed! I was hoping for more fruit and veggies myself as we don't tend to eat a lot of bread either. I am GF as it really affects me every month without going into too much details, so I avoid it for us all, having two DD 💗 I don't want them to suffer the same. 

However it makes a nice change and we can freeze it for now. My girls were excited for white baps tonight 🤣 

happydenial

£51 spent in the supermarket today using an £8 off voucher so after tilly tidying bits of change from the account, I now have £332/500 left. 

Going well, managed to get a local bakery TGTG bag for tomorrow, usually good value - on Sunday I got a granary loaf, a cheese and chilli sourdough, 6 white baps, 3 giant granary baps, 4 teacakes and 5 doughnuts for £4. I make 3 packed lunches per day in the week so this really helps. 

Gettingmyshiztogether

I ve managed to bag another TGTG bag from M and Sons for tonight from a different town. I am interested to see how different stores and different days compare. So for now I am paying "idiot tax" until I work it out. I shall report back after I have collected it later. 

£106.68/ £460 spent so far. 

Grumpelstiltskin

Guys Have you seen the Food from Farms have Napolina Chopped Tomatoes with Herbs at £1 for 4 cans.
I got some yesterday there were in the normal Chopped Tomatoes space.

Kerreh

Well I'm now at £86.30 / £200 - had to pop to the shops last night to pick up a click 'n collect parcel (christmas present, out of the crimbo sinking fund) so whilst out got some bread, pretzels (I really like those nutella to go pretzel/nutella packs so instead have a jar of nutella/bag of pretzels and DIY it), clingfilm (trying yet another brand, this non pvc stuff is rubbish), frozen puff pastry (been on the list for a while and never in stock, no doubt even harder to find the closer towards christmas) and some chocolate put away for crimbo

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning

Another £30.75 spent today in MrL.  

I dropped lucky with a worthwhile £1.50 box.  I also found a YS'd family mushroom pack which wasn't totally inky-black mush, so I purchased that.  There was one in the 20p RTC section too, but the contents were a bit too far gone for my preference.  Depressingly the price of the 900g blocks of cheese has finally risen 🙁No doubt, the price has held for a good while, but mild cheddar is now £4.09 and mature £4.19.  Also I noticed that the chopped tomatoes are now 32p - both SEL and till price.  

£105.15/200

Greying X