November 2022 Grocery Challenge

Soontobeoap

£8.83 Spent this morning on 2 swedes, petit pois, eggs, pot of parsley, 2 Aldi honey  nut cornflakes, apple juice and orange juice.

It has been hard to get hold of their cornflakes when we have been up there recently so they werent on the list! 

SausageDogSandwich

More spends today eek! Went to ald1 for FB items paid for with last months GC leftover money. Whilst there picked up cheese, norpak, apples, garlic bread, eggs, mozzarella and coffee sachets (whoops) £11.58. Then went to Lidl to see if they had any of the ginger bread houses and picked up veg oil and paracetamol £2.57. Really need to reign it in now as have just over two weeks left but apart from sachets everything is needed. 

£92.50/150 spent.

sweetpea26

Hello to everyone

Tesco 
31.49 food ... that's enough keep us going until weekend...bread milk cheese vegetables fruit and other essentials like cereal condiments etc 

6.74 household.  Includes box washing powder this week . 

This brings totals this month so far to.

Food  £120.78

Household £ 19.23

Total £140.01 for 15 days

Spend per day
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Food £8.05 per day

Household £1.28 per day

Total £9.34 per day

I would like this much lower but I am stocking up at present.

There has been quite alot of this has gone into larder stock up and freezer storage.

May need some bits at weekend as one of the ' kids ' may be home for a few days.

London_1

Second shop in November and spent under £12.. Got a fantastic bargain at my local Dobbies this morning, as they had reduced packs of two steaks plus black garlic butter from £5.15 to £1.54 a pack. (Sainsburys has the concession in the food hall part)
On Tuesday mornings they do the reductions, and they are really good value as their fresh delivery arrives at lunchtimes there its not a very big part of the shop, but well worth a look around.

I went to pay the £3.08 at the till for my two packs of steaks and remembered I had a £3.00 voucher from a flyer I had through the post so asked the assistant could I use it and she checked my loyalty card and said yes no problem  so I came out with four steaks for a grand total of 8p One I shall have for dinner tonight, and the other three are in the freezer. Thats got to be the best bargain I have seen in there.
I also went to Aldis and Tescos which are nearby and got my essential shopping and it came to under £12.00 so my food bill is really low this month and we're halfway through the month already. There were around 6 packs there but I was quite happy to get two and left the rest for other people.

JackieO xx

               NSD 2/15.      Total spent this month £11.72 leaving £48.28 in my budget for the rest of the month

diminua

I'm on £95.61 spent. Citrus fruit, pasta, tinned tomatoes, tinned fish (three kinds for the storecupboard), salad veg, broccoli, carrots, marmite, eggs, veg sausages. And my pain au chocolat yesterday, I'm out of cooking oil and just ate the last of the potatoes, but both those things can wait. I will probably treat myself to a coffee on the way up to my brother's on Friday (it's two hours on the train if the connection is good) and next week I'm dogsitting at my cousin's so it's likely she'll have left me pizza and wine or something. 
Which probably means that now I've opened them I need to use up the sausages and salad veg by Friday. 

MissRikkiC

I hope @elsiepac is okay, sending warm and best wishes. 

I can’t even remember if I have added my budget already but allocated less this month before realising it’s almost a 5 week month so feeling the pinch a little this week with £50 less than what is usually available around now. We’re at a grand total of £15 remaining until next Friday so it’s likely to be very tight! The freezer and cupboards all look very bare so will need a good stock up before Christmas is here for sure. 

However really trying to use stuff up that we do have and make do rather then buy! 

cinnamon123

Echoing MissRikkiC - @elsiepac I hope you are doing okay.

Editing to add...JackieO what a fabulous shopping trip! Well done and the black garlic butter sounds delish!

London_1

cinnamon123 said:

 

Editing to add...JackieO what a fabulous shopping trip! Well done and the black garlic butter sounds delish!

The steak was delicious for dinner last night ,all the more so enhanced by the fact it cost me 2p Definitely my 'bargain of the year' and the other three tucked into my freezer.
I felt quite decadent eating steak for dinner on a Tuesday night  

JackieO xx

mumtoomany

Another here who is worried about @elsiepac, she doesn't appear to have been on MSE since October. Hope she's ok. 

Spent £3.40 on two x four pints of milk. Still trying to stick to the £2640 for the year. It's getting very close. Total spent to date £2555.32/£2640 We've swapped to a cheaper to run car, and are trying to wait until December to tax it. This means I can't get to town to shop, milk bought locally. Trying to hold out and not need to go.

Hugs to all, mumtoomany.xxx

EssexHebridean

Adding to the good vibes flowing in the direction of @elsiepac here too. Always concerning when regular posters go missing, although thankfully as a rule it's usually easily explained!